Apparel apparatus – Garment hangers – Coat or dress
Reexamination Certificate
1999-01-28
2001-02-06
Mohanty, Bibhu (Department: 3741)
Apparel apparatus
Garment hangers
Coat or dress
C223S091000, C223SDIG004
Reexamination Certificate
active
06182870
ABSTRACT:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims priority from German Patent Application No. 298 01 641.9 filed Jan. 31, 1998
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
In practice, for drying hosiery, the wet garments are rolled in towels in order to achieve a certain predrying. Thereupon, the garments have to be laid to dry in such a manner that their high own weight due to their wet state does not cause them to lengthen. That means that it is not allowed to hang a knitted pullover for example on a clothes-hanger onto a line, since experience showed that in such a case, such a pullover is losing shape. This is particularly true with cotton pullovers. That is why such a pullover is often laid flat onto a clothes-horse in order to make sure that the pullover or the knitted jacket is not losing shape. Such a drying procedure for hosiery is very complicated and is not necessarily successful, as it is the case, when for example the sleeves of such a garment are hanging down from the clothes-horse due to its size.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention is therefore to provide a device for holding garments, particularly hosiery, permitting to dry them without the garments losing their shape during the drying process.
The solution of this object is to provide the device with at least one planiform clamping device with two clamping jaws between which the garment may be clamped. Thanks to the clamping of the garment between the two clamping jaws of the planiform clamping device, the garment is not losing shape during the drying procedure.
A particularly advantageous embodiment of such a device is characterized by four planiform clamping devices each comprising two clamping jaws between which the garment is clampingly receivable. The four planiform clamping devices are designed for example as lath and are provided at each end with a cramp-like receiving arrangement permitting to slidably fasten them on a rod. Thus, the garment is held clamped on several places so that it cannot sag too much in the free spaces and that there is still enough free space between the different clamping devices in order for the garment to be able to dry. The clamping devices are advantageously showing a perforation in order to allow air circulation even in the areas of the garment that are clamped in.
In order to guarantee effectively that the garment may be received by the clamping jaws in such a way that it cannot slip out of place, the clamping jaws are given, according to another particular characteristic of the invention, on the surfaces facing each other, an outline, particularly an undulated outline, whereas the undulated outline of the two clamping jaws is such that the clamping jaws are superposed, their outlines coinciding. That means that the clamping jaws are superposed so that the top of the wave of one of the clamping jaws is fitting exactly into the bottom of the wave of the other corresponding clamping jaw.
The clamping jaws, which are removably connectable to one another, are moreover provided with clamping means for their interconnection.
According to a second embodiment, the clamping means are provided with snap-in arrangements permitting to removably connect the clamping jaws to one another. These snap-in arrangements ensure that the clamping force exerted by the two clamping jaws onto the garment they are holding between them is continuous, so that it may be increased continuously. The one clamping means is designed more particularly as a cramp, whereas the other clamping means is like a blade whereas the cramp-like clamping means may take hold of the blade-like clamping means. This clearly shows that the two clamping means are slidable together in a snapped-in state, whereas the blade as well as the clamp are advantageously tapered. A holding element is provided to slide the clamping jaws along the clothes-hanger, said holding element being slidably held by the hanger. That means that the spacing between the different clamping devices with their corresponding clamping jaws may be varied.
The invention is described in more details according to the drawing.
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Mohanty Bibhu
Vigil Thomas R.
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