For Clothes Hanger Patents (Class 206/300)
  • Patent number: 9399539
    Abstract: A packaging wrap for hangers includes a first side and a second side. The first side includes a first bottom panel, a first front panel, a first top panel, and a first rear panel. The first side is folded to define a first closed loop with an opening extending therethrough between the first bottom panel, the first front panel, the first top panel, and the first rear panel. The second side includes a second bottom panel, a second front panel, a second top panel, and a second rear panel. The second side is folded to define a second closed loop with an opening extending therethrough between the second bottom panel, the second front panel, the second top panel, and the first rear panel. The first side is coupled to the second side via a fold line extending along a boundary between the first bottom panel and the second bottom panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Meyer, Timothy M. Magner
  • Patent number: 8898939
    Abstract: A combination gift card holder and message delivery package facilitates the identification of a gift card contained within the package while presenting the recipient with an accompanying message prior to fully revealing the gift card. The package includes first, second and third panels. The first and second panels and the second and third panels are connected with one another along a common edge and are pivotable with respect to each other. The panels have cutouts therein. The gift card is positioned in the package between the second and third panels thereby exposing a portion of a front surface of the gift card through the cutout in the third panel and exposing a portion of a rear surface of the gift card through the cutout in the second panel, thereby partially concealing the gift card while exposing an identification marking thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Hallmark Cards, Incorporated
    Inventors: Sara F. Kibbe, Timothy G. Bodendistel
  • Patent number: 8201685
    Abstract: A hanger packaging system that includes a plurality of hangers having at least one projection extending from their main bodies The hangers are grouped together such that their respective projections are aligned with one another. A shrink-wrap sleeve is applied over the group of hangers. The projections are covered by the shrink-wrap and they act as a catch for trapping the same This prevents the shrink-wrap from retreating and slipping off the hanger. The hangers also have engagement means for temporarily connecting to one another. This allows for hangers to be handled as unitary groups during production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Inventor: Yaffa Licari
  • Patent number: 7828144
    Abstract: A clothes hanger storage device includes a container and a plurality of pillars inside the container for retaining a multitude of variously-sized and -shaped hangers. The plurality of pillars may be arranged as two sets of pillars, or two elongated pillar units, wherein large triangular hangers extend around both sets of pillars or around the two elongated pillar units, and small triangular hangers extend around only one set of pillars or one elongated pillar unit. Non-triangular hangers, such as hangers only comprising two shoulders, may be stored in the container by being trapped between the container wall and the pillars, but not extending around the pillars. The clothes hanger storage device may be adapted to be hung from a door, stored underneath a counter or in a closet, or attached to the door of a cabinet. In an optional embodiment, the container may be fitted with a releasable lid that fits over the top of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Inventors: Renee M. Bentley, Taylor Jenkins
  • Patent number: 7210576
    Abstract: Embodiments of garment hangers retail package comprising a display tag having a substantial display area located on top of the garment hanger supporting arms for illustrating the specialty features of the garment hanger. The display tag is sandwiched in between the first two hangers in a retail package of multiple hangers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Inventor: Peter Ar-Fu Lam
  • Patent number: 6772880
    Abstract: A package comprised of a plurality of clothes hangers bound together by spaced frangible straps encircling their arms and an indicia bearing tag which has an aperture receiving therethrough hooks of at least one or more of the hangers encircling the same and extending downwardly below the main body portions of the hangers between the encircled hangers and an abutting hanger providing indicia thereon identifying the hangers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Inventor: Keith Beverly
  • Patent number: 6334558
    Abstract: A hanger support comprises a base comprising a projection, a horizontal member above the base having a plurality of hanging grooves on the bottom thereof, a vertical member coupled between the horizontal member and the base, a slot at the other end of the horizontal member having a guide and an end recess, and a flexible first protuberance; a pivotal engagement mechanism comprising an outer knob, a body having a first and second pivot ends, a flexible second protuberance, a first dent, and a second dent; a pin for pivotably securing the engagement mechanism to the base; and a pad member on the bottom of the body; wherein the engagement mechanism is rotatable to dispose horizontally for providing a space for inserting a hanger between the pad member and the horizontal member in an unlocked state; and the engagement mechanism is further rotatable to dispose vertically for clamping the hanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Inventor: Yuh Yi Sher
  • Patent number: 5176252
    Abstract: A container for garment hangers comprising a rigid substantially closed container having a horizontal slot in the upper front end adapted to receive garment hangers and a vertical slot in the front end intersecting with the horizontal slot. Garment hangers are inserted into the container and the necks of such hangers extend through the vertical slot outside of the container. Garment hangers inserted into the hanger container are stored in an orderly manner, and such hangers can be easily removed thereafter for use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1993
    Inventor: Eddie R. Davis
  • Patent number: 4722438
    Abstract: A storage container for garment hangers with organizer capabilities to substantially eliminate entangling of the hangers. This storage container has a rear wall and an effective front wall disposed at an angle to the rear wall that substantially conforms to the angle between the arm portions of a hanger and the base portion. Both the rear wall and the front wall have confronting projections that define grooves in the surfaces of these walls. These grooves serve to align hangers as they are deposited therein so as to sufficiently prevent entangling between the hangers such that a single selected hanger can be removed from the container. In the preferred embodiment the two confronting projections join in the base of the container. Furthermore, the rear wall typically is provided with a slot-type aperture to form a carrying handle, and with other apertures to provide for the hanging of the container upon a vertical support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1988
    Inventor: Rexford L. Hicks
  • Patent number: 4711383
    Abstract: A unitary structure open at its upper end to receive a quantity of stacked clothes hangers with the hanger necks protruding through a slotted portion of the carrier front wall. Side walls of the carrier employ stiffening ribs or stiffening channels that impart rigidity; and provide strap receiving channels which confine the carrying strap therein against lateral displacement. The strap is provided with fittings to permit application and removal of the strap from an elevated support. The rear wall, the front wall, with the exception of the hanger opening area, and the adjoining corners of the side walls have outwardly turned flanges or lips that assist in reinforcing the walls, and the transferance of stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1987
    Inventor: James E. Jenkins
  • Patent number: 4693369
    Abstract: A clothes hanging system for shipping pre-hung garments. A hanger is provided with a central hole or aperture. During shipping, a rod passes through opposed walls of the shipping carton and through the holes of the hangers. In this manner, the garments and hangers will not become accidentally dislodged, during shipment, from the horizontal support rod. Upon receipt of the shipping container, the hangers are slid off the rod and the hooks of the hangers placed on the store's clothing racks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1987
    Inventor: Herbert Lagin
  • Patent number: 4089411
    Abstract: A hanger support arrangement for a garment box which includes a positioning pad having cut therefrom a pair of elements which are folded together to form a hanger supporting strut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1978
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Jeffrey M. Gardner
  • Patent number: 4085842
    Abstract: A garment hanger box formed from a unitary sheet of foldable paperboard and comprising a pair of telescoping sections, one of which has a hollow top wall section with an enlarged portion forming a hanger hook receiving pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Robert E. Beck
  • Patent number: 4060169
    Abstract: A foldable container is provided for accommodating a product having a hanger loop associated therewith. The container includes end panels, side panels and a bottom section which cooperate with one another to define an open top compartment in which the product is placed. At least one end panel is provided with an interior wall panel foldably connected thereto and having a slotted section which is disposed inwardly of the end panel and assumes a spaced face to face relation therewith. The slot is adapted to accommodate the product hanger loop. A top section is adapted to overlie and close the compartment open top subsequent to the product being placed within the compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1977
    Assignee: Packaging Corporation of America
    Inventors: Larry R. Hildebrand, Siegfried K. Pausinger
  • Patent number: 3987898
    Abstract: A knock-down racking box for storage of clothes hangers in department and specialty stores. The box features construction innovations enabling shipment and storage of the box as a flat blank, but ready conversion, without special tools such as staple guns, into a configuration sized to receive numerous clothes hangers horizontally disposed and vertically aligned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1976
    Assignee: A & E Allied Plastics
    Inventor: Walton B. Crane
  • Patent number: D403862
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Inventor: Steven L. Jones