Apparel apparatus – Garment hangers
Patent
1997-10-29
1999-05-18
Mohanty, Bibhu
Apparel apparatus
Garment hangers
223DIG4, 223 92, A47G25/42;25/32
Patent
active
059042788
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a clothes hanger which is suitable in particular for hanging articles of clothing from the grab handles inside a passenger car. The clothes hanger has a hanger member with two carrier arms, plus a suspension hook which projects upwards in the centre of the hanger member, and a flexible securing element which is located in the opening of the suspension hook so that it reduces the opening of the suspension hook and which can be displaced against a spring force so that it frees the opening of the suspension hook.
In order to have a possibility in a passenger car to hang an article of clothing, e.g. a jacket, on a clothes hanger, it is known to provide special coat hooks on the grab handles present inside the passenger car, from which grab handles the suspension hook of the clothes hanger can be hung. On occasions, the suspension hook of the clothes hanger is also itself hung on the grab handle. In every case the suspension is punctiform, with the result that when the passenger car accelerates and brakes the article of clothing swings and slides to and fro on the hanger member. There is also the danger that the clothes hanger will become detached from the grab handle if the vehicle shakes as a result of uneven stretches of road. If the jacket is hung directly from the coat hook by means of the sewn-in loop, this adversely affects the fit of the jacket.
Clothes hangers in which the suspension hooks are fitted with a securing element as in the case of a karabiner are known from FR-PS 1.400.597 and U.S. Pat. No. 2,483,618.
A suspension hook for clothes hangers which consists of two single hooks laterally spaced apart from each other but connected to each other is known from DE-GM 1 870 146. In this way, the article of clothing is to be secured against rotary, longitudinal and transverse movements, in particular when the clothes hanger is used in vehicles. The outline shape of the single hooks is a square standing on a diagonal with an open side, so that the suspension hook rests on the clothes rail at four points.
A suspension hook comprising two single hooks laterally spaced apart from each other but connected to each other is also known from U.S. Pat. No. 2,494,973. A two-point suspension is achieved through this suspension hook.
The object of the invention is to create a clothes hanger which sits securely at the grab handle inside the passenger car during the journey. The handling of the clothes hanger is to be particularly simple.
According to the invention, this object is achieved in that the two carrier arms each consist of first and second wire pieces running parallel to each other at a distance, the outer ends of the wire pieces being connected to each other, in that the suspension hook is disposed at the inner ends of the respective first wire piece and in that the flexible securing element is formed by a further wire piece which connects the inner ends of the respective second wire pieces to each other.
Because the flexible securing element can be displaced against a spring force, it resumes its original position after the clothes hanger has been suspended, in which position it closes the opening of the suspension hook again to the point where an unintentional detachment of the clothes hanger from the grab handle is prevented.
The suspension hook preferably has a width of ca. 6 cm or is a double hook consisting of two hook elements which run this distance apart. The two free ends of the hook elements are connected by a connection element. The effect of the particular width of the suspension hook is that the clothes hanger can still move only slightly on the grab handle in the longitudinal direction. Furthermore, the suspension hook thereby rests with its lateral edges or with the two hook elements on the grab handle, as a result of which the clothes hanger is largely prevented from swinging to and fro during the journey.
The to-and-fro swinging of the clothes hanger can be further reduced by fitting the suspension hook with a soft coating, e.g. an anti-slip coating such as is kn
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Aigner Josef
Barlow Christopher Paul
Kronauer Karlhans
MAWA Metallwarenfabrik Wagner GmbH
Mohanty Bibhu
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