US2205489A - Garment hanger - Google Patents

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June 25, 1940. w. A. NELSON 2,205,489

GARMENT HANGER Filed NOV. 12, 1938 AZZarnegs Patented June 25, 1940- I V Q UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,205,489 GARMENT HANGER WilliamA. Nelson, Minneapolis, Minn. ApplicationNovember 12, 1938, Serial No. 240,064

' 3 claims. (01. 223-95) My invention relates to garment hangers and hanger, I have shown construction arranged in particularly to hangers for trousers. accordance with my invention. The wire from A large number of hangers have been devised which the structure is made includes a portion 8 for accommodating trousers but in most instances extending generally horizontally between the 5 such hangers have not proven to be entirely satlower and outer extremities of the sloping side 5 isfactory. Some hangers are such that trousers portions 1. The generally horizontally extending hung on the same may easily and often do fall lower portion 8 is bent to form near each end therefrom. Also many hangers are of such conthereof a series of upwardly projecting prongs or struction as to produce undesired creases or fingers'fla. The wire is so bent that the upper 10 marks on trousers supported thereby. ends of the prongs 8a are at substantially the 10 An object of my invention is to provide a same level as the unbent parts of the horizontally trousers hanger from which a pair of trousers extending portion 8. Allof the fingers or prongs hung thereon may not readily become acciden- 8a of the respective groups or series thereof are tally disengaged. disposed in a vertical plane common to the Another object is to provide such a hanger unbent parts of the lower portion 8, the sloping 15 which not only does not produce undesired side portions 1, the shank 6 and the hook 5. creases or marks on a pair of trousers supported In Fig. 1, the culfed ends of a pair of trouser thereby but alsotends'to maintain a press in said legs 9 are shown in dotted lines to illustrate the trousers. manner in which a pair of trousers may be Yet another object is to provide such a hanger attached to the hanger for support therefrom. 20 which is capable of supporting a pair of trousers The trousers are disposed in inverted position so by the cuffs thereof and maintaining a tension that the cuffs 9a thereof are uppermost. One on said cufis. of the cuifs 9a is disposed at one side of the A further object is to provide such a hanger hanger and the other side of the cuffs 9a is disof simple, light, compact and inexpensive conposed at the other side of the hanger. Ones of 25 struction and which may be made as a part of a the prongs 8a in the respective groups thereof are structure adapted for use as a coat hanger or inserted at the respective ends of one of the cuffs made as an attachment adapted to be'used in 9a in the space between the outer layer of the conjunction with a conventional coat hanger. cuff andthe portion of the trouser leg 9 under- These and other objects and advantages of the lying this outer layer. For this purpose, such 30 present invention will more fully appear from the ones of -the prongs 8a are selected solely in following description; made in connection with accordance with the length of the cufis to mainthe accompanying drawing, wherein like refer- 'tain the cuif under tension, with the respective ence characters refer to the same or similar parts prongs engaging the inner sides of the creased 36 throughout the various views, and in which, ends of the cuff. The necessary tension is avail- Fig. l is a front view of an embodiment of my able because of the resiliency of the wire from invention constructed as a part of a wire coat which the hanger is made. The remaining one hanger structure; of the cuffs 9a is similarly placed on prongs of Fig. 2 is a front view of an embodiment of my the respective groups thereof adjoining the 4o invention arranged for use as an attachment to prongs on which the first cuff was attached. The 40 and shown in operative relation with an ordinary prongs selected for attachment of the second wire coat hanger; cuff thereto are, of course, both situated in the Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken along the line same direction away from the prongs to which 3-3 of Fig. 2, as indicated by the arrows, and i the first cuff was attached. It should be appar- Fig. 4 is a front view of another embodiment ent that the trousers will depend from the hanger 45 of y invention. with the waist band of the trousers lowermost Referring to the drawing and particularly to and that the hanger will maintain the trouser Fig. 1, an embodiment of my invention incorcuffs under tension to effectively retain the crease porated in the same structure with a wire coat therein. The trouser legs Wil also h ng in such hanger, is shown. The structure includes a hook manner as to tend to retain the creases therein. 5 carried by a shank 5 from which downwardly Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate a form of my trousers and outwardly sloping side portions I extend in hanger adapted to be used as an attachment for accordance with conventional construction of an ordinary wire coat hanger such as the hanger wire coat hangers. In place of the usual hori- Ill. The hanger Ill includes the usual horizonzontal portion found in the conventional coat tally extending lower portion Illa. The embodiment oi my invention shown in Figs. 2 and 3 consists of a preferably rectangular sheet II of material such as, for example, cardboard. The sheet is folded along its longitudinal center line so as to divide the sheet into a pair of registering halves Ha thereof. The sheet I I may be placed in straddling relationv with the portion Ilia of the hanger In so that the respective halves Ha will depend from the portion Hla of the hanger. Adjacent the respective ends thereof, the folded sheet Ii is cut away in both of the halves Ila thereof to form respective series or groups of upwardly projecting prongs or fingers lib. The manner of attachment of a pair of trousers to the prongs lib is similar to the manner of attachment of a pair of trousers to the first described form of my device, with the exception that the sheet ll does not afiord the resiliency which is present in the first described embodiment.

Fig. 4 illustrates an embodiment of my invention adapted solely for support for a pair of trousers thereby. This embodiment is made of resilient wire and includes a hook I! carried by a shank l3 from the lower portion of which respective parts I 4 of the wire extend generally horizontally outwardly. The outwardly projecting portions ll of the wire are bent so as to form a series or group of upwardly projecting fingers or prongs a on each of the wire portions I4.-

Trousers may be attached to the prongs Na in the same manner in which trousers are attached to the prongs 8a of the first described embodiment or my invention. All parts of the device shown in Fig. 4 are disposed substantially in a single vertical plane.

In the respective above described embodiments of my invention, the prongs or fingers of each of the two groups thereof are similar and are disposed in spaced parallel relation with each other. Also the two groups of prongs or fingers are spaced apart and all of the fingers in each embodiment are in the same common plane.

It should be obvious that a pair of trousers supported by my device will be retained in engagement with the prongs of the device by means of the pull of gravity, instead of the pull of gravity tending to disengage the trousers from the device. The construction is such that no unwanted creases or marks will be made on the trousers. The devices of Figs. 1 and 2 are such that a second pair of trousers may be folded and hung over the lower portion of the wire structure.

It is apparent that I have invented a novel, simple, compact and inexpensive type oi trousers hanger which may be made in a structure adapted for use as a coat hanger, also which may be made as an'accessory attachable to a common coat hanger, or may be made as a device solely for use as a trousers hanger.

It will, of course, be understood that various changes may be made in the form, details. arrangement and proportions of the various parts without departing from the scope or the present invention which, generally stated, consists in the matter shown and described and set forth in the appended claims.

What is claimed is:

1. A trousers hanger'including, relatively thin and rigid material bent to form a supporting shank from thelower end of which respective free end portions of said material project oppositely, said projecting portions each being bent alternately upwardly and downwardly to form respective spaced horimntally extending groups of horizontally spaced, upwardly projecting prongs, the centers of said respective groups being spaced apart by a distance corresponding approximately to half the circumference of the average trousers cufi.

2. A trousers hanger comprising, a pair of wires joined and suitably bent to form a supporting shank and having respective free end portions projecting oppositely from the lower end of said shank, said oppositely projecting wire portions each being bent to form a substantially horizontal series of horizontally spaced, upwardly projecting prongs, the centers of said respective series being spaced apart by a distance corresponding approximately to halt the circumference of the average trousers cult.

3. A trousers hanger comprising, wire bent to form a supporting shank with respective free end portions of the wire extending oppositely from the lower end of said shank, said free end portions each being bent downwardly at intervals along its length to form a series of U-shaped depending elements whereby portions of said depending elements constitute prongs projecting upwardly from the level of the lower ends of said elements, the centers of said respective series being spaced apart by a distance corresponding approximately to halt the circumference of the average trousers cuif.

WILLIAM A. NELSON.

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