Supports: racks – Knockdown – Horizontal rod between uprights
Reexamination Certificate
2000-12-22
2002-06-11
Stodola, Daniel P. (Department: 3634)
Supports: racks
Knockdown
Horizontal rod between uprights
Reexamination Certificate
active
06401948
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a hanger for displaying clothing, particularly to one possible to economize packing space and lower transporting cost, and convenient for transporting a whole hanger without need of disconnection.
A conventional hanger for displaying clothing, as shown in
FIG. 6
, consists of a bottom base so, two side support tubes
51
and a hang bar
52
as main components combined together.
The bottom base
50
has two lateral rods
501
provided with casters
502
and a sleeve
503
with a screw hole
504
in one side, and a connecting bar
505
connecting two sleeves
503
.
Further, each side support tube
51
is fitted in the sleeve
503
of the bottom base
50
, and the hang bar
52
has a vertical inner tube
520
fixed at each end to be fitted respective in a side support tube
51
to be able to move up and down for adjustment of the height, as shown in
FIGS. 7
to
10
.
The inner tube
521
is provided orderly from top to bottom with a press button
522
, a stop member
523
, a coiled-spring
524
and friction wheels
526
, all of them connected with a connecting bar
525
provided integral at the lower end with; a support member
528
having an arc-shaped top recess
527
.
In assembling, two side support tubes
51
are respectively fitted In each sleeve
503
of the bottom base
50
, letting them push against each other by means of a screw
511
screwing in the screw hole
504
in one side of the sleeve
503
. Then, two inner tubes
521
of the hang bar
52
are respectively fitted into the side support tube
51
to finish the assembly.
The height of the hang bar
52
can be adjusted by pressing down the press button
522
on the top of the inner tube
520
to let the friction wheels
526
slide down and separate from the support member
528
for facilitating adjustment of the height of the hanger, and when it reaches a needed height, release the press button
522
to let the friction wheels
526
move up by the resilience of the coiled spring
524
to touch the support member
528
, and forced to expand to rest tightly at a proper position in the side support tube
51
so as to fix the hang bar
52
at a certain location.
Evidently, the conventional hanger for displaying clothing mentioned above has the functions of stability and adjustment of the height, but it is still found some defects as follows.
1. The bottom base is made up of a connecting bar and two lateral rods, and the hang bar is fixed with two vertical inner tubes, not convenient for packing, storing or transporting.
2. A screw screwing in the screw hole of the sleeve to push against the side support tube, impossible to be tightly fixed, carries out the combination of the side support tube with the bottom base. Besides, excessively tight screwing may damage the side support tube, reducing its service life.
3. The hang bar is kept positioned only by the friction wheel pushing against the bottom side of the inner tube so that a snap motion of pulling up the hang bar may cause the heavy bottom base fall off, resulting in unnecessary trouble.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The objective of this invention is to offer a hanger for displaying clothing, including two inner tubes respectively fitted in each side support tube, and provided on the top with a vertical sleeve for receiving a hang bar. Then, a connecting bar has a sleeve at each end for a screw under each side support tube to screw through, and at the same time to be fixed with the lateral rod. Such structure is easy to be disassembled for convenience of packing or storing.
The feature of this invention is two side support tubes each having a U-shaped plate with a bolt at bottom center to be fixed with the lateral rod, forming a space between the side support tube and the lateral rod. When the hang bar is pressed downward, the inner tube will also move down to let the friction wheels completely positioned under the side support tube to make the inner tube fixed in place not easy to be pulled out.
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Novosad Jennifer E.
Stodola Daniel P.
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