Apparel apparatus – Garment hangers – Skirt or trousers
Patent
1985-04-26
1986-09-02
Rimrodt, Louis K.
Apparel apparatus
Garment hangers
Skirt or trousers
24505, 24511, A47G 2548, A41F 100
Patent
active
046091327
ABSTRACT:
A lockable, hinged garment hanger wherein the locking mechanism is gravity actuated and substantially enclosed between spring biased hanger arms, the locking mechanism including a lock actuator arranged between first and second wedging surfaces, each carried by an associated hanger arm and facing the other hanger arm, the configuration of the wedging surfaces and the lock actuator being such that, with the hanger upright and the hanger arms closed, the wedging surfaces retain the lock actuator in a lower position to hold the hanger arms closed, the hanger arms being unlocked and opened under spring action by inverting the hanger and manually squeezing the hanger arms together slightly, enabling the lock actuator to move by gravity from its wedged locking position toward the hinged ends of the hanger arms and release the arms to open. The lock actuator is preferably cylindrical in nature, working against restraining surfaces in intersecting planar arrangement, with the major axis of the lock actuator being generally parallel to the axis of the hinge means joining the hanger arms. The hanger can be either of the hook suspended type, or in the nature of a clothespin.
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Machuga Joseph S.
Rimrodt Louis K.
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