Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Check – label – or tag – Coat hanger-carried indicia
Reexamination Certificate
1998-03-12
2001-04-03
Silbermann, Joanne (Department: 3628)
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Check, label, or tag
Coat hanger-carried indicia
C223S085000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06209241
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to improvements in indicators (or size caps) for garment hangers and, more particularly, to indicators which are removably coupled to a top portion of the garment hangers.
2. Description of Related Art
Various types of garment hangers employing size caps are known. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,322,902 and its Re-examination Certificate disclose an indicator for a garment hanger having a body portion containing indicia where the body portion includes a means for releasably attaching the indicator to a part of the hanger.
The '902 patent also discloses an attaching means having a head shank having two separated portions which are resiliently deformable towards a central cavity to enable the head shank to be inserted into and removed from a slot or other opening formed in a display portion of a hanger.
The '902 patent further discloses an indicating device having a shaped body including a wide base, a narrower top and a cavity having an entrance opening within the wide base for receiving a supporting means. The supporting means includes an enlarged head which is larger in size than an opening in the top of the indicator to enable the indicator to be engaged with the enlarged head.
Unfortunately, the prior art size caps and hangers, such as the hanger of the '902 patent, are substantially complex and difficult and costly to manufacture, such as by injection molding or the like. Consequently, there is a need in the art for a size cap which is releasably coupled to a garment hanger, simple to use and inexpensive to manufacture.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In order to overcome the disadvantages of the prior art, a garment hanger in accordance with the present invention includes a suspension hook adapted to engage a hook support and having an upper portion including at least a partial recess; and an indicator having front, rear, side, top and bottom portions, the front portion including a surface for displacing indicia, the partial recess being adapted to releasably receive at least a portion of the side or bottom portions of the indicator such that the indicator is releasably coupled to the suspension hook.
Other features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following description of the invention which refers to the accompanying drawings.
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Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen, LLP
Silbermann Joanne
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