Abstract: A shoulder guard for a garment hanger is erected from an essentially flat sheet of material to include a first panel and a second panel, with at least the first panel following a desired convex contour configuration to complement the garment to be hung on the hanger, the second panel being divided into a pair of sub-panels pulled longitudinally toward one another to bow at least the first panel into the desired convex contour configuration, with the sub-panels locked together by interengaged lateral slits against relative longitudinal movement, the slits defining tabs for confronting the sub-panels to shape and reinforce the sub-panels in a convex contour configuration, and indicia providing a visual indication of the proper confronting relationship between the tabs and the sub-panels.

Abstract: An outfit organizer cover which can protect the shoulder and neckline of garments from dirt and dust, and to house accessories such as neckties, earrings, necklaces, hosiery, scarves, belts, etc. The outfit organizer cover includes a front layer and a rear layer. The front layer has a loop and strap with a snap fastener and a zipper with opposite tabs for closing pockets of the outfit organizer cover. A small opening at the top of the outfit organizer cover is provided for inserting a conventional hanger therethrough. The rear layer has a zipper with a tab for closing a larger pocket thereon.

Abstract: A rotating clothes hanger including a hanger base having an upright coupling portion, a toy doll covered on the hanger base and having a hole for passing the upright coupling portion of the hanger base, a swivel hook rotatably coupled to the upright coupling portion of the hanger base by a ball and socket joint, and a cap mounted around the upright coupling portion to hold down the periphery of the hole on the toy doll.

Abstract: A cover for a garment hanger and comprising opposed first and second arms, which are foldable about an axis. In the folded position, the first and second arms are in a coterminously overlying relationship to minimize the area occupied by the folded cover. In the unfolded position, the top of the cover forms a ridge and the sides of the shoulder guard extend outwardly away from the hanger for supporting the garment draped over the cover in a natural position to reduce hanger marks and creases.

Abstract: A shoulder guard for a wire hanger is erected from a flat blank of card stock and includes a contour configuration complementary to a jacket to be hung on the hanger so that the jacket is draped appropriately over the shoulder guard, and an ornamental device in the form of a simulated bow-tie is placed on the shoulder guard so as to be located between the lapels of the jacket, when the jacket is hung on the hanger and draped over the shoulder guard, to provide an aesthetically pleasing appearance, the relative contour configurations of the simulated bow-tie and the shoulder guard being such that the simulated bow-tie stands out in visible relief from the shoulder guard in response to erection of the shoulder guard.

Abstract: Heat-shrinkable tubes are fitted on a dress hanger or its clips and are then shrunk by heating them until the tubes are tightly secured to the hanger or its clips. The tubes are flocked or are otherwise provided with a constituent exhibiting a non-slip property at locations where the tubes will come into contact with clothes hung on the hanger. The clothes are thus prevented from slipping on the hanger.

Abstract: A hanger having an elongated arcuate body defining two arms and a hook member rigidly attached to its center. Upper and lower supporting straps are provided as well as loops for removably receiving built-in clip members for holding garments. The supporting straps are provided with Velcro.TM. pad terminations and cooperatively mating counterparts rigidly secured to the underside and upperside of the body of the hanger. Aromatic or scented material is contained within a fabric covering the body of the hanger.

Abstract: A clothes rack for use with doll clothing and the like is arranged, wherein spaced side walls mount a hanger supporting rod orthogonally therebetween underlying a roof plate for use in storage of various components of doll accessories. A trio of connecting rods at lower distal ends of the side walls define a shoe-receiving slot for reception of shoes therewithin. The hanger structure of the invention is arranged to optionally include a mounting frame to accommodate elongated doll clothing of various sizes and is formed with magnet members to effect a spacing of the hangers when arranged in adjacency relative to one another by magnets of confronting like polarity. The mounting frames are further provided with fluid reservoirs to direct various scented fluids about an overlying wick structure of the mounting hanger organization.

Abstract: A shoulder guard for placement on a garment hanger so as to lie between the garment hanger and a garment to be hung on the garment hanger includes a sheet manufactured, assembled and folded at the manufacturing site into a flat, collapsed condition and readily unfolded in the field into an erected condition for placement on the garment hanger, without the necessity for any additional assembly operation, to provide an appropriate and improved contour for the support of the garment on the garment hanger, the sheet including first and second legs folded into a generally deep V-shaped configuration, where the legs make an acute angle to one another in a flattened collapsed condition, and unfolded into an erected condition where the legs form a relatively shallow V-shaped configuration in which the legs make an obtuse angle to one another, are aligned longitudinally in the same plane for placement over the garment hanger, and are contoured to provide the appropriate support for the garment.

Abstract: A merchandising assembly for bras or other garments includes (1) a garment having shoulder straps, (2) a hanger including a hook, a transverse bar connected directly to said hook and clips at the ends of the bar for holding the shoulder straps of the garment, and (3) a folded sheet having a front panel and a rear panel, and an opening along the fold of the sheet for receiving the hook of the hanger, so that the front panel of the sheet may extend down within the garment, and the rear panel may extend down outside the rear of the garment to avoid entanglement with adjacent garments when several of the assemblies are closely mounted on a rack. Advertising and product information may be located on the exposed surfaces of said panels.

Abstract: A pad construction for use and securement to each end of a coat hanger, wherein the pad construction includes an elongate flexible deformable pad positionable to accommodate clothing of various configurations, wherein the pad includes band construction to secure the pad to the clothes hanger member. The pad construction may be further formed with longitudinally parallel deformable rods to maintain a desired deformation of the pad relative to the coat hanger construction. Further, the pad is optionally formed with an elongate pocket directed through an upper surface of the pad to receive and secure a sponge-like absorbent member therewithin, wherein the sponge-like member is saturated with various fluids, such as perfume, anti-germicidal fluids, and insect control fluids such as moth repellants and the like.

Abstract: A card stock blank is convertible into a garment hanger shoulder guard which is storable in flat condition with no remaining assembly operations. The blank has base and top edges, a first fold line perpendicular to and extending from the base edge along a transverse line to a hole, and a second fold line extending from the top edge to the hole and making an obtuse angle with the top edge. The top edge is interrupted by a notch which communicates with the hole and has a first edge extending from the top edge to the hole and being a mirror image of the second fold line. The notch further has a second edge confronting the first edge. The blank is foldable into a flat condition with the first edge coinciding with the second fold line and material adjacent the first edge confronting material located between the second fold line and the second edge. The guard is made by affixing the confronting material to itself as by cement.

Abstract: A garment hanger cover in the form of a blank having fold lines, cuts forming cooperating assembly tongues and lip openings, and cuts forming slits to receive accessories such as belts and ties. The cover is flat for packaging but lends itself well to expeditious assembly since nothing additional is required to form it into a broad stable support easily mounted on a conventional hanger for crease and wrinkle free storage.

Abstract: An improved display hanger cover supportable by a clothes hanger to convert the hanger to function as a display hanger for supporting a garment, comprising an elongated body portion having a hollow interior, substantially curvilinearly shaped front and rear walls, and substantially curvilinearly shaped first and second shoulder portions disposable over the side arms of the clothes hanger. A neck portion is supported at the confluence of the first and second shoulder portions with the front and rear walls, and the neck portion has a substantially planar upper surface through which is provided a hook passage slot communicating with the hollow interior. First and second slot portions of the hook passage slot are shaped to respectively pass and selectively retain the hanger neck portion of the clothes hanger, thus permitting angular adjustment of the clothes hanger within the hollow body portion when the display cover hanger is disposed over the clothes hanger.

Abstract: A shoulder-supporting member defining an accessory for a wire garment hanger having a pair of inclined side segments extending downwardly and outwardly from a hook segment. In use, a pair of shoulder-supporting members are removably mounted on the garment hanger, there being a member for each inclined side segment, respectively. Each member has a hole at one end for removably receiving the hook segment of the garment hanger. Each member has a convex outer surface extending substantially along the length of the member. At the outer end of each member, a spherical end part has a pair of spaced, flat elements defining a slot for receiving the outer end of the corresponding inclined side segment to stabilize the member on the garment hanger. A pair of longitudinally spaced projections are integral with the inner surface of each member for frictionally engaging opposite side portions of the respective inclined side segment of the garment hanger.

Abstract: A combined hanger and bag. The hanger is substantially triangular and comprises congruent parallel frame members with snap extensions on one member and corresponding openings on the other member so that the two members may be snapped together. A hook is provided for suspending the hanger by one of the frame members. A bag having a corresponding triangular opening is provided with reinforcements having bag openings which may be engaged by the extensions of the frame member which carries the snap extensions. The reinforcing members are also provided with longitudinal beads which are received in recesses located inwardly of the extension. The lower run of the hanger receives a reinforcement that extends directly upwardly from the bag. The other two reinforcements are folded over the outside of the frame which carries the snap extensions so that the openings engage the snap extensions and the longitudinal reinforcement bead engages the recess inwardly of the snap extensions.

Abstract: This invention relates generally to garment hangers and particularly to a shoulder and trouser support attachment for use with coat hangers of the conventional bent wire type and that is intended as a throw away device along with the wire hanger after the garments have been removed therefrom.

Abstract: The garment hanger construction comprises an attachment for a standard wire garment hanger. A pair of hanger bar attachment elements are secured on the downwardly inclined wire hanger bars and a pants bar attachment is secured on the wire pants bar. The attachments are of substantially greater width than the wire elements to which they are secured.

Abstract: This invention relates generally to various devices used to hang clothes. More specifically, it relates to a clothes hanger adapter for wire hangers which comprises a tube adapted for receiving the lower hanger bar of a conventional wire hanger. Slidably attached to said tube are at least two hanger hook adapted for receiving the tube and adjustable longitudinally thereof such that the hook portions engage clothes draped on said hanger and prevent the same from falling therefrom. Once in place on the hanger, said tube cannot be dislodged but must be removed or installed in a specified manner.

Abstract: This invention relates to covered garment hangers wherein a tightly braided cover is plaited around the periphery of a triangular bar coat hanger providing an improved substantially flat garment supporting surface for protecting the garment supported thereon while reducing creasing and slippage of the garments.

Abstract: A pad attachment for a wire coat hanger includes a tubular collar for receiving the shank of the hook members and the upper portions of the upwardly converging arms of the hanger and an elongated substantially rigid arcuate skirt configured to cover the arms. A pair of spaced apart parallel planar webs within the collar form a guide to prevent the hanger from twisting relative to the pad attachment and a pin passing through the collar and perpendicularly through the webs engages under the apex of the triangular portion of the hanger for capturing the hanger in the attachment.

Abstract: Two ordinary wire clothes hangers are held together to make one better hanger by two plastic parts, one of which stretches over the two hook ends and the other over the two lower bars.