US2053633A - Garment hanger - Google Patents

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Sept. 8, 1936. A. G. RATERMANN GARMENT HANGER Filed May 17, 1935 Patented Sept. 8, 1936 l f UNITED vsfrA'riss Y y l 2,053,633

PATENT OFFICE l GARMENT HANGER Aloysius G. Ratermann, St. Louis, pMo. Application May 17, 1935, Serial No. 21,990

,'z claims. (c1. 22a-ss) This invention relates to garment hangers, particularly hangers for coats and trousers. The invention has for its principal object to provide a hanger that will properly support the trousers in an upright position. Other objects are to provide for simplicity and cheapness of construction and to permit the trousers to be quickly andV easily mounted on-Y and dismounted from the hanger.v The invention consists in the garment hanger and in the construction, combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

.In the accompanyingdrawing, which forms part of this specication and wherein like symbols refer to like parts wherever they occur,

Fig. lis a side elevation of a garment hanger embodying my invention, showing in dottedV lines a pair of trouserssuspended therefrom,

Fig. 2 is an enlarged .fragmentary View of the end of the hanger having the pivo'ted trousers supporting member,

Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section on the line 3-3 in Fig. ,1,

Fig. 4 is a cross-section on the line 4--4 in Fig. 1,` v

Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on the line 5-5 in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 6-i's a view similar to Fig. 1 illustrating a modified form of garment hanger.

In the accompanying drawing, my invention is shown embodied in a combination coat and trousers hanger, comprising a single piece of wire that is bent into a triangular frame or main body portion including a bottom bar I and upwardly converging coat supporting top bars 2 and 2a twisted together at their upper ends with one of such ends extending above the frame and formed into a hook 3. According to the present invention, the trousers 4 are suspended from the above hanger by means of supporting members 5 and 6 located at the respective lower corners of said hanger.

The trousers supporting member 5 preferably comprises a piece of wire bent into substantially inverted V-shaped form with its closed upper end supported in an opening provided therefor in a clip 'I that is welded or otherwise fixed to the sloping top bar 2 of the hanger. The two branches of the inverted V-shaped member 5 extend downwardly on opposite sides of the bottom bar I through openings provided therefor in a cross-member 8 rigidly secured to said bottom bar and are bent toward the adjacent end of the hanger to form hooks 9.

The trousers supporting member 6 is also made of wire bent into substantially inverted V-shaped form with its closed end pivotally supported in an opening provided therefor in a member IU fixed to the inclined top bar 2a of the hanger. TheV branches of this supporting member extend downwardly on opposite sides of the bottom bar I through elongated openings IIa provided therefor in a member I I slidably mounted on said bottom bar. The lower end portions of said branches are bent towards the adjacent end of the hanger frame to form hooks I2 below the bottom bar I. Sleeved on the bottom bar with one end fixed to the pivoted trousers supporting member 6 and the other end xed to a member I3 xed to said bottom bar near the adjacent corner of the hanger. is a tension spring Mthat tends to swing the pivoted trousers supporting member away from the xed trouserssupporting member 5.

In the use of thev above described. garmentY hangerthe trousers 4 are folded to preserve the creases in the front and rear of the legs and to bring, two belt straps I 5 opposite each other near the front of thek trousers and two belt straps II opposite each other near the rear of said trousers. The hooked lower ends I2 of the vpivoted supporting-member 6 vat one corner of the hanger areA engaged with the'two front belt straps I5; andthetwo hooked lower ends -9 of the sta-- tionarysupporting! member!) and the other corner of said hanger are hooked in the two rear belt straps I6, thereby suspending the trousers from the hanger in an upright position. As shown in the drawing, the supporting member 6 for the front of the trousers is made longer than the rear supporting member so as to allow for the dip in the waist line of the trousers and thus make them hang perfectly straight; and the pull of the tension spring I3 on the pivoted supporting member 6 tends to draw the trousers taut at the waist line despite slight differences in waist measurements.V

In the modied hanger construction shown in Fig. 6, the hooked trousers supporting members l1 are pivoted to the top bars of the hanger close to the corners thereof and extend downwardly through members I8 slidable on the bottom bar of the hanger. In this construction, a helical co-mpression spring I9 is sleeved on the bottom bar I between the two pivoted supporting members I'I, with its middle portion fixed to said bottom bar and with its ends bearing against the slide members I8 so as to yieldably hold them against stops 20 provided therefor on said boteach other by the spring I9 therebetween and thus tend to draw the waist band of the trousers taut. This construction locates the supporting members close to the ends of the hanger and is thus adapted to accommodate trousers having relatively large 4waist measurements.

The invention is not restricted to the type of wire garment hanger shown; and it may be embodied in a skirt hanger as well as in a trousers hanger. g

What I claim ls:

1. A garment hanger comprising a main supporting frame including a bottom rod and members depending from said rod adjacent to the ends thereof and terminating at their lower ends in oppositely disposed outwardly directed garment supporting hooks, means for pivotally securing one of said members for swinging movement on said frame towards and away from the other of said members, and a spring mounted on said frame and cooperating with said pivoted member :for swinging it away from said other member.

2. A garment hanger comprising a main supporting frame including a bottom rod and members depending from said rod adjacent to the ends thereof and terminating at their lower ends in Oppositely disposed outwardly directed garment supporting hooks, means for pivotally securing one of said members for swinging movement on said frame towards and away from the other of said members, and a tension spring mounted on said rod and cooperating with said pivoted member for swinging it away from said other member.

3. A garment hanger comprising a main supporting frame` including a bottom rod and members depending from said rod adjacent to the ends thereof and terminating at their lower ends in oppositely disposed outwardly directed garment Supporting hooks, means for pivotally se- Y curing one of said members for swinging moveends in oppositely disposed outwardly directed hooks, said members being pivotally supported on said frame for swinging movement longitudinally of the bottom rod thereof, said rod having stops thereon for limiting the outward swinging movement of said members, and a helical compression spring mounted on said rod for yieldably holding said members against said stops.

5. A garment hanger comprising a wire frame bent to form a bottom rod and two upwardly converging top rods, a member fixed to one of said top rods and to said bottom rod and terminating ,therebelow in an outwardly directed hook, a member pivoted to the other top rod and terminating below said bottom rod in an outwardly directed hook, and a spring mounted on said bottom rod for swinging said pivoted member away from said xed member.

6. A garment hanger comprising a wire frame bent to form a bottom rod and two upwardly converging top rods, a member xed to one of said top rods and to said bottom rod and terminating therebelow in a. pair of outwardly directed hooks, a member slidable on said bottom rod, a member pivoted to the other top rod and extending downwardly through said slidable member and termihating 'therebelow ina pair of outwardly directed hooks, `and arhelical spring sleeved on said bottom rod ,and cooperating with said slidable member for swinging said pivoted member away from said fixed member.

'7. A garment hanger comprising a wire frame bent to form a bottom rod and two upwardly converging top rods, a member fixed to one of said top rods and to said bottom rod and terminating therebelow in a pair of outwardly directed hooks, a member slidable on said bottom rod, a member pivoted to the other-top rod and extending downwardly through openings provided therefor in said slidable member and terminating therebelow in a pair of outwardly directed hooks, and a helical spring sleeved on said bar and cooperating with said slidable member for swinging said pivoted member away from said xed member, the hooks at the lower end of said pivoted member extending below the hooks at the lower end of saidxed member.

Y ALOYSIUS G. RATERMANN

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