Apparel apparatus – Garment hangers – Sheet material
Reexamination Certificate
2000-08-23
2001-04-24
Mohanty, Bibhu (Department: 3765)
Apparel apparatus
Garment hangers
Sheet material
C223S098000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06220488
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates generally to the field of garment packaging, and more particularly to an improved crush resistant device adapted to surround and reinforce the shoulder and sleeve portion of a garment suspended upon a hanger, the hanger being supported within a packing crate or container for shipment from a place of manufacture to a customer.
In recent years, the amount of clothing sold in the United States of foreign manufacture has escalated dramatically. Such garments are normally transported by land and sea using large containers which are loaded with as many garments as possible, in order to maintain shipping costs as low as practicable. Before loading, the garments are carefully pressed. However, when the garments are loaded in the shipping container, compressive forces transmitted by adjacent garments, particularly in the area of the supporting hangers, often result in the wrinkling of the shoulder and sleeve areas, so that after unloading, the garment must be at least partially repressed before further distribution, requiring additional relatively high cost labor to restore the garment to presentable condition.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Briefly stated, the invention contemplates the provision of means for eliminating or at least substantially ameliorating the above-described problem. To this end, the disclosed embodiment comprises a semi-rigid compression resistant shield preferably formed of fibrous planar material forming an elongated recess enabling the enclosure of a pressed garment supported upon a clothes hanger in the area of the shoulder and sleeve portions to be supported in position by the hanger such that when compressive forces are exerted upon the garment in a plane normal to the lateral axis of the hanger, the shield will distribute such forces in a manner to effectively prevent wrinkling of the garment during the continuation of such forces over an extended period of time. Most conveniently, the device is formed as a die stamping of planar thin-gauged cardboard which is subsequently folded and interconnected to an elongated loop-shaped configuration. The end walls of the device are formed from bendable tabs extending from the side walls, so as to present a multiple thickness of material providing additional resistance to compressive forces. The device may be configured to be used both inside and outside the garment, and may also be used to display a garment as well.
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Krieger Charles A.
Seickel Joseph
Mohanty Bibhu
Temko Charles E.
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