US20080283707A1

US20080283707A1 - Object hanger

Info

Publication number: US20080283707A1
Application number: US11/854,147
Authority: US
Inventors: Teng-Yao Chang
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2007-05-16
Filing date: 2007-09-12
Publication date: 2008-11-20
Also published as: TWM321075U

Abstract

A hanger for hanging an object includes a flexible belt, a fastener and a ring. The fastener has a first fastening member and a second fastening member, which are respectively mounted on the flexible belt and detachably coupled with each other. The ring is sleeved onto the flexible belt and located between the first fastening member and the second fastening member. The ring defines with the flexible belt a piercing space having a width greater than a thickness of the first fastening member of the fastener and smaller than a combined thickness of the first fastening member and the second fastening member of the fastener. Thus, when the flexible belt is pulled by an external force, the first fastening member and the second fastening member can be maintained engaged with each other without separation by means of the restriction of the piercing space.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to a hanger for hanging an object, and more specifically to a hanger formed of a belt equipped with a fastener and provided with means for preventing looseness of the fastener.
2. Description of the Related Art
FIG. 1 shows a conventional hanger for suspending an object, comprising a flexible belt 1 and a snap fastener including a male disc 2 and a female disc 3 respectively located adjacent to two distal ends of the flexible belt 1. The flexible belt 1 has a middle part connected with a bag 4 or the like. When a user would like to hang the bag 4 on an object 5, the user can take one end of the flexible belt 1 to pass through the object 5, and then couple the male disc 2 and the female disc 3 with each other such that the bag 4 is hanged on the object 5 through the engagement of the male disc 2 and the female disc 3 of the snap fastener.
However, the bag 4 is pendent because of the attraction of the force of gravity. If the bag 4 is too heavy, the engagement of the male disc 2 and the female disc 3 of the snap fastener may not support the bag 4 such that the male disc 2 and the female disc 3 will be probably disengaged, causing the bag 4 to fall to the ground suddenly, as shown in FIG. 3. Further, the engagement of the male disc 2 and the female disc 3 is not firm enough to bear extreme pulling force such that the male disc 2 and the female disc 3 will be easily separated if the flexible belt 1 is pulled by an external force, resulting in that the bag 4 connected with the flexible belt 1 may drop accidentally.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention has been accomplished in view of the above-noted circumstances. It is one objective of the present invention to provide a hanger for suspending an object, which is formed of a belt equipped with a fastener and provided with means for preventing looseness of the fastener.
To achieve this objective of the present invention, the hanger comprises a flexible belt, a fastener and a ring. The fastener has a first fastening member and a second fastening member, which are mounted on the flexible belt and detachably coupled with each other. The ring is sleeved onto the flexible belt and located between the first fastening member and the second fastening member of the fastener. The ring and defines with the flexible belt a piercing space having a width greater than a thickness of the first fastening member of the fastener and smaller than a combined thickness of the first fastening member and the second fastening member of the fastener. As a result, when the flexible belt is pulled by an external force, the first fastening member and the second fastening member can be maintained engaged with each other without separation by means of the restriction of the piercing space.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the fastener is a snap fastener including a male disc acted as the first fastening member and a female disc acted as the second fastening member.
Further scope of applicability of the present invention will become apparent from the detailed description given hereinafter. However, it should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating preferred embodiments of the invention, are given by way of illustration only, since various changes and modifications within the spirit and scope of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from this detailed description.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The present invention will become more fully understood from the detailed description given herein below and the accompanying drawings which are given by way of illustration only, and thus are not limitative of the present invention, and wherein:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a hanger of a prior art;

FIG. 2 is a schematic drawing showing that the male disc and the female disc of the snap fastener are engaged;

FIG. 3 is similar to FIG. 2 but showing that the male disc and the female disc of the snap fastener are separated;

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a hanger according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a sectional view of the hanger according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic drawing showing that the hanger of the first embodiment of the present invention is in use;

FIG. 7 is a schematic drawing showing that the hanger of the first embodiment of the present invention is pulled by an external force, and

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a hanger according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Referring to FIGS. 4-7, a hanger 100 in accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention comprises a flexible belt 10, a ring 20 and a fastener 30.
The flexible belt 10 is made of woven fabrics with a middle part for connecting with a bag (not shown). The flexible belt 10 has an outer surface 11, an inner surface 12.
The fastener 30, which is embodied as but not limited to a snap fastener in this embodiment, includes a first fastening member 31, for example a male disc of the snap fastener, and a second fastening member 32, for example a female disc of the snap fastener. Both of the first fastening member 31 and the second fastening member 32 are mounted on the flexible belt 10 and respectively adjacent to a first end portion 13 and a second end portion 14 of the flexible belt 10.
The ring 20 is a rectangular rigid body that is sleeved onto the flexible belt 10 and located between the first fastening member 31 and the second fastening member 32 of the fastener 30. The first end portion 13 of the flexible belt 10 is folded back and stitched on the outer surface 11 of the belt 10 in such a way that a section of the rectangular ring 20 is pivotally sandwiched between the first end portion 13 and a part of the outer surface 11 of the belt 10 and the other sections of the rectangular ring 20 define with the inner surface 12 of the flexible belt 10 a piercing space 21. In addition, a width of the piercing space 21 is greater than a thickness of the first fastening member 31 and/or the second fastening member 32 of the fastener 30 and smaller than a combined thickness of the first fastening member 31 and the second fastening member 32 of the fastener 30 when the first fastening member 31 and the second fastening member 32 are coupled with each other.
When the hanger 100 is in use, a user can take the first end portion 13 of the flexible belt 10 to pass through an annular object 40, and then take the second end portion 14 of the flexible belt 10 to pierce through the piercing space 21 formed between the ring 20 and the inner surface 12 of the flexible belt 10, and subsequently couple the first fastening member 31 and the second fastening member 32 with each other, as shown in FIG. 6. Thus, the flexible belt 10 can be hanged on the annular object 40 through the engagement of the first fastening member 31 and the second fastening member 32.
By means of the aforesaid design, because the width of the piercing space 21 is smaller than the combined thickness of the first fastening member 31 and the second fastening member 32, only the second end portion 14 of the flexible belt 10 on which the second fastening member 32 is provided can be allowed to pass through the piercing space 21. Accordingly, when the flexible belt 10 is pulled by the force of gravity or an external force, the ring 20 will be biased and compressed against the outer surface 11 of the flexible belt 10, as shown in FIG. 7. Under this circumstance, no matter how the flexible belt 10 is pulled, the first fastening member 31 and the second fastening member 32 can be still securely engaged with each other unless the flexible belt 10 is pulled to break.
Referring to FIG. 8, a hanger 200 in accordance with a second embodiment of the present invention comprises a flexible belt 50, a ring 60 and a fastener 70. The ring 60 is movably sleeved onto the flexible belt 50 and movable between the first fastening member 71 and the second fastening member 72 of the fastener 70. When the flexible belt 50 is pulled by external force, the ring 60 will be moved to a position near the first fastening member 71 and the second fastening member 72. Since the width of the piercing space 61 is smaller than the combined thickness of the first fastening member 71 and the second fastening member 72, the ring 60 still can be compressed against the flexible belt 50 to prevent the first fastening member 71 and the second fastening member 72 from separation.
The invention being thus described, it will be obvious that the same may be varied in many ways. Such variations are not to be regarded as a departure from the spirit and scope of the invention, and all such modifications as would be obvious to one skilled in the art are intended to be included within the scope of the following claims.

Claims

1. A hanger comprising:

a flexible belt;

a fastener having a first fastening member mounted on the flexible belt and a second fastening member mounted on the flexible belt and detachably coupled with the first fastening member; and

a ring sleeved onto the flexible belt and located between the first fastening member and the second fastening member of the fastener and defining with the flexible belt a piercing space having a width greater than a thickness of the first fastening member of the fastener and smaller than a combined thickness of the first fastening member and the second fastening member of the fastener.

2. The hanger as claimed in claim 1, wherein the flexible belt is made of woven fabrics.

3. The hanger as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ring is a rigid body.

4. The hanger as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ring is pivotally mounted on the flexible belt.

5. The hanger as claimed in claim 4, wherein the flexible belt has a distal end portion folded back and stitched on an outer surface thereof such that the ring is pivotally mounted between the distal end portion and the outer surface of the flexible belt.

6. The hanger as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ring is movably sleeved onto the flexible belt and movable between the first fastening member and the second fastening member of the fastener.

7. The hanger as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first fastening member is a male disc of a snap fastener and the second fastening member is a female disc of the snap fastener.