Abstract: A clothes hanger support for a garment bag or other similar item of luggage includes a depending bracket member pivotally supporting a lower jaw member with hanger-supporting features. A closure member and latch handle cooperates with the bracket and jaw members in a closed position to hold the latter in a hanger-retaining position. Alternatively, the closure member latch handle may be pivoted to allow the jaw member to itself pivot to an open position for insertion or removal of hangers on the support. Pivotal return of the closure member latch handle to the closed position also moves the jaw member to its hanger-retaining position by cooperation of a ramp surface and ramp-follower surface of the closure member latch handle and jaw member, respectively. Preferably, the entire hanger support may be made of four unitary components which are formed of injection molded engineering polymer.

Abstract: A back pack type suit bag is disclosed having an incorporated semirigid panel enclosed in a side wall of the bag. The semirigid panel defines the profile of the upper portion of the bag and supports the upper hanger strap from which garments are supported. A conventional and flexible bag wall is provided with the bag opening, typically a zipper, to obtain access to the interior of the bag. On the other side of the semirigid panel from the exterior of the bag "back pack" type shoulder straps are fastened. The back pack shoulder straps are attached about the shoulders of the wearer to impart a slight arcurate bend to the semirigid panel with such bending occuring about an axis parallel to the spine of the bag wearer. Preferably, a waist strap is additionally utilized and similarly tightened to reinforce the arch.

Abstract: A hanging wardrobe garment storage bag is provided with a garment support rod that hangs directly from an overhead clothes rod rather than from the frame of the garment bag. The garment bag has a conventional rigid wire frame with an upper portion formed into a rectangular wire loop. The rigid, rectangular loop is suspended from the overhead clothes rod by a frame hook which extends up through a central opening in the top of a flexible garment cover. A linearly extending wire garment rack rod is located below the wire garment bag frame and extends parallel to the overhead clothes rod. A pair of garment rack hooks are secured to the garment rack rod and extend up through openings in the flexible garment cover to hang directly from the clothes rod. The garment rack thereby hangs directly from the clothes rod so that the weight of garments stored within the bag does not bear on the garment bag frame.

Abstract: A box for storing, transporting, and displaying clothes having front and rear portions, the front portion being divided into left and right portions, a first hanger rod located in the rear portion, and second and third rods located inside the left and right portions of the front portion, where when the left and right portions are fully opened, the first, second and third hanger rods form a substantially continuous hanger rod extending across the combined width of the left, right and rear portions.

Abstract: A garment container apparatus includes a rigid outer structure having hingably connected first and second storage sections with rigid side walls defining opposite sides of the container when closed. The first storage section has at its base, adjacent the hinged connection with the second storage section, a plurality of moveable storage enclosures. The enclosures are hingably connected to the base for swinging movement between a stored position and an open position. The first storage section also includes a garment support structure having two support members attached at a 90.degree. angle to each other. One support member is pivotally connected to opposed margin walls of the first storage section for opening and closing movement. A mounting structure including an inflatable bladder and a cooperating restraint bar is integral to the pivot mounted support member and defines a compression zone therebetween.

Abstract: A container for use by a travelling sales person to transport goods, especially garments, from one retail outlet to another comprises a bag with a display stand secured therein and movable between a collapsed state within the bag for transportation purposes and an erect state projecting from the bag for display purposes.

Abstract: Garment hangers are suspendably and slidably supported on stationary support rails mounted to and below a top plate mounted to an interior top wall of a garment bag. The hangers are locked in position on the stationary rail by either pivoting a track extension from an initial aligned position with the rail to a blocking position transverse to the rail, or by clamping the hangers by a clamp which moves in a rectilinear direction toward and away from the rail.

Abstract: A portable display rack and sample carrying display case is disclosed. The rack comprises a pair of spaced apart telescoping tubes releasably attached to the carrying case and extending vertically upward therefrom. A plurality of elongated planar shelf supports including a tube engaging aperture formed in one end are slidingly distributed along the length of the tubes. A plurality of shelves extend between the supports. The display rack may be disassembled and stored within the cover of the display case and retained therein by a pair of elastic straps fastened at their ends to an inside surface of the cover.

Abstract: A garment container apparatus includes a rigid outer structure having hingably connected first and second storage sections with rigid side walls defining opposite sides of the container when closed. The first storage section has at its base, adjacent the hinged connection with the second storage section, a plurality of moveable storage enclosures. The enclosures are hingably connected to the base for swinging movement between a stored position and an open position. The first storage section also includes a garment support structure having two support members attached at a 90.degree. angle to each other. One support member is pivotally connected to opposed margin walls of the first storage section for opening and closing movement. A mounting structure including an inflatable bladder and a cooperating restraint bar is integral to the pivot mounted support member and defines a compression zone therebetween.