Hook Type Patents (Class 248/215)
  • Patent number: 5149036
    Abstract: A device comprising a bracket having a clamp secured thereto, the bracket portion of the device being attached to a hospital bed or gurney. An IV pole is attached to the device by the clamp portion of the device in a manner such that it is supported above the surface of the hospital floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1992
    Inventor: Gerald F. Sheehan
  • Patent number: 5143335
    Abstract: A support assembly for utilization with generally horizontal handles, bars, shafts and the like for securement of articles thereto. The support assembly includes both a unit which is integrally formed with a handle and a discrete assembly for attachment to handles. The assembly is preferably of integrally molded plastic that comprises at least first and second hook portions adapted for supporting articles such as packages, clothes and purses from strollers, carts and the like. The assembly may also include a receptacle region adapted for the retention of a canned drink, baby bottle, loose articles or the like. The assembly provides a myriad of hook configurations and demountable attachment sections for the securement of loose articles such as purses, sweaters, towels or other infant items. In this manner, strollers, bicycles and the like may be rendered safer and more convenient for the user who must handle loose articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: Kel-Gan Inc.
    Inventor: Gail B. Frankel
  • Patent number: 5127188
    Abstract: A bracket for use with a planter box mountable on a partition, window sill or the like. The bracket includes pivotable and vertically adjustable retaining members to retain a planter box and engaging means for mounting the bracket and planter box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1992
    Assignee: Integrated Plastics Limited
    Inventors: Donald Shaw, Carman Buonito
  • Patent number: 5118074
    Abstract: A device for holding a lever of a gas pump in at least two adjusted, open positions in accordance with a desired rate of flow of fuel from a nozzle thereof, the device including a hook-shaped arm structured to hang over a top surface of the gas pump handle so as to be supportably engaged thereon, and a number of parallel fingers extending outwardly from an elongate portion at spaced intervals from the hook-shaped arm, each of the fingers adapted to supportably receive the lever in one of the adjusted, open positions. The device can be carried on a key ring fitted through an aperture therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1992
    Inventor: Steven I. Weissman
  • Patent number: 5118059
    Abstract: The specification discloses a support apparatus for suspending an article from a longitudinally extending member having at least one flattened side. The support apparatus comprises a support member and a bracket member. The support member substantially surrounds the longitudinally extending member and contains a portion which conforms to the flattened portion. The bracket member comprises two engaging projections and a holding portion. The engaging projections penetrate perforations formed in the support member and contact an underside of the longitudinally extending member. Notches may be formed on the engaging projections to lock the bracket member in to an extended position relative to the longitudinally extending position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1992
    Inventor: George W. Mainer
  • Patent number: 5094414
    Abstract: A suspension hanger for a resealable plastic bag. The bag has upper and lower portions connected by a resealable seam. The suspension hanger comprises first and second matching panels, each panel including a substantially horizontal upper surface having exterior and interior edges. A substantially vertical exterior surface extends downward from the exterior edge of the upper surface. A substantially vertical interior surface extends downward from the interior edge of the upper surface. The interior vertical surface of each panel includes a first indentation lying below and separated from the upper horizontal surface of the panel by an upper portion of the vertical interior surface which projects beyond and overlies the first indentation. The first indentation is adapted for the disposition therein of the upper portion of the plastic bag. The interior vertical surface of each panel further includes a second indentation which is deeper than, continuous with, and lies below the first indentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1992
    Assignee: Protune of Louisiana, Inc.
    Inventor: Allan F. Eddy, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5094417
    Abstract: Improvements in devices for receiving, hanging and supporting purses, handbags and other strap carried containers on the edge of a table, desk or other support; portable hanger devices for purses, handbags and the like able to engage the periphery of a table, desk or other support and receive therewithin the straps of a purse or handbag in such a manner as to support it in at least two optional positions, thus enabling free support of the container, handbag or purse in either crowded or open conditions around the table or desk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1992
    Inventor: Kenny D. Creed
  • Patent number: 5092487
    Abstract: A receptacle comprises an upright container having a rear portion formed with a pair of slides and a cover hingedly operably at the top to open at least rearwardly therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Inventors: Andre Richer, Robert Katz, Jean-Pierre Lefebvre
  • Patent number: 5087007
    Abstract: A shower door caddy and garment hanger in combination in a U-shaped integral device having a pair of legs which can be fitted over top molding of a sliding shower door or the cylindrical rod for a shower curtain having shelf members slantedly positioned on one leg on the inside of the shower for receiving personal care tube products, and spaced hooks on the outside of the other leg on the shower for accommodating towels and articles of clothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Inventor: Franklin Gaderick
  • Patent number: 5074419
    Abstract: Disclosed is an economic easily mounted storage hanger, well suited to the storage of bicycles and ladders.The invention comprises an substantially arcuate load restraining means whose ends are fashioned into load restraining members, whereby the burden of a load is spread horizontally across said load restraining members. A bipedal clamping means whereby the arcuate load restraining means may be mounted to an exposed ceiling joist. A flush surface mounting means to which the said clamping means may be secured.The load restraining means is variously attachable to the clamping means, whereby in either ceiling or wall mounting the load restraining means may be usefully oriented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Inventor: Clive G. Smith
  • Patent number: 5072909
    Abstract: An adjustable cup holder in the car consisting chiefly of a fixing plate, a cover plate, a left arm and a right arm, and a arm bar, of which all the components (members), including spring leaves, are made of heat-resistant plastic with strong tenacity through integral moulding, assembled through direct insertion and pivotal engagement with each other, and quite simple structure; its manufacture and assembly are simple, convenient and quick, the adjustment of opening dimensions of two arms is also quite convenient and rapid, but the friction between the two arms will not lead to malfunction or to the loss of adjustability of these two arms, and a reverse J-shaped metal strip may be provided to the fixing plate in favor of direct hanging the cup holder on the window of car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1991
    Inventor: Tzu-Ping Huang
  • Patent number: 5054735
    Abstract: The active-substance support consists of a rectangular film or sheet (1) of a thermoplastic material which, at its upper end, comprises a T-shaped head piece (2) of which the symmetrically arranged hook-like side arms (3,4) can be bent downwards at a right angle along folding lines (5,6) extending parallel to the longitudinal direction. When needed, the initially flat side arms (3,4) are bent downwards at a right angle and hung on the honeycomb frame so that the active-substance strip (1) is kept centrally suspended in a honeycomb passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Michael Bayer
  • Patent number: 5037051
    Abstract: An article support mountable on a rear view mirror located in the interior of an automobile which provides means for hanging and displaying a plurality of novelties usually hung from the neck of the rear view mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Inventor: Domenico Moriello
  • Patent number: 5037165
    Abstract: A drawer organizer consists of a pair of glides and a tray movable on the glides. The glides are extrusions of low-friction plastic material. Each glide comprises a pair of side walls interconnected by a top wall defining a downwardly open groove and is assembled without tools by pressing the downwardly open groove onto the upper edge of a corresponding drawer side. The glides have generally transverse longitudinal flanges inside the drawer at levels below the tops of the drawer sides and support opposite flanges of a tray for movement within the drawer. At least one of the side walls of the glide is diagonal to enable the downwardly open groove to elastically grip the drawer sides fit to different drawer side thicknesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: Vance Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: William M. Rapp, Joseph A. Gaines
  • Patent number: 5031865
    Abstract: A portable card file capable of being removed from its base such that it may be inserted into another base at a different location. The base is mountable in a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1991
    Inventor: Patrick D. Blattner
  • Patent number: 5020755
    Abstract: A support assembly for utilization with generally horizontal handles, bars, shafts and the like for securement of articles thereto. The support assembly includes both a unit which is integrally formed with a handle and a discrete assembly for attachment to handles. The assembly is preferably of integrally molded plastic that comprises at least first and second hook portions adapted for supporting articles such as packages, clothes and purses from strollers, carts and the like. The assembly may also include a receptacle region adapted for the retention of a canned drink, baby bottle, loose articles or the like. The assembly provides a myriad of hook configurations and demountable attachment sections for the securement of loose articles such as purses, sweaters, towels or other infant items. In this manner, strollers, bicycles and the like may be rendered safer and more convenient for the user who must handle loose articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Kel-Gar, Inc.
    Inventor: Gail B. Frankel
  • Patent number: 5014948
    Abstract: An apparatus including a plate-like support member, including a plurality of spaced "U" shaped hooks arranged for securing the plate overlying a support structure such as a door, curtain rod, and the like. A series of equally spaced "J" shaped hooks are mounted to a forward surface of the support plate, and each includes a transversely and integrally mounted horizontal rod mounting a sphere at each end thereof coaxially of the rod. Modifications of the invention include telescoping rods accommodating various articles, as well as selectively removable coverings for the spheres to enhance engagement with articles mounted thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Inventors: Stanley B. Asaro, Toni J. Asaro
  • Patent number: 4979712
    Abstract: A towel holder for shower enclosures and the like is disclosed, the holder having a handle portion disposed in the interior of the enclosure, a towel holding portion disposed on the exterior of the enclosure, and a connecting shank which engages an upper edge of the shower door rail, curtain rod, or an enclosure wall, such that the handle and towel holder are disposed below the level of engagement of the shank with its support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Inventor: Wilfredo Rios
  • Patent number: 4973021
    Abstract: System for hanging pictures and the like, consisting of a carrier rail (1) to be secured horizontally to a wall, a wire (6) extending vertically, a hook-shaped element (3) at the top end of the wire (6) for connecting the wire (6) to the carrier rail (1) and an identical hook-shaped element (3) for connecting the wire (6) to hanging means at the back of the picture or the like, each hook-shaped element (3) being provided with a through channel (5) for allowing the wire (6) through, and having exclusively essentially the form of a rectangular parallelpiped with a slot (4) crossing perpendicularly the channel (5) for the wire (6) and adapted to cooperate with the carrier rail (1) and with the hanging means at the back of the picture or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1990
    Inventor: Johannes L. B. Schuite
  • Patent number: 4961557
    Abstract: A device designed to stabilize an intravenous solution bag in the vertical position, reducing swinging and bouncing, as the contents of the solution bag are infused into the patient in the pre or post hospital arrival environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1990
    Inventors: Henry M. Garvin, Christopher M. Horsley
  • Patent number: 4958594
    Abstract: A modular tack room which includes at least one wall hanger assembly and one or more hanging components. The wall hanger assembly includes an elongated vertical member which adjustably hooks over and grips the wall of a horse stall or trailer, and which has a plurality of receiving clips spaced along its length. A common mounting for a variety of hanging components includes a vertical mounting plate which fits downward within the receiving clip; two guide members, horizontally extending from the mounting plate, which are laterally separated by a space slightly greater than the width of the vertical tube to embrace the sides of the vertical member; and a lower support member positioned below the mounting plate to provide support against the vertical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignees: Carl E. O'Bryant, Linda K. O'Bryant
    Inventor: Billy H. Swagerty
  • Patent number: 4949924
    Abstract: A fixture adapted for mounting on railings and the like consisting of a pair of mounting brackets, each formed in a generally L-shaped configuration with horizontal and vertical legs. A horizontal projection on the vertical leg which includes a downward-facing vertical lip is adapted to be placed over and from the rear of the railing or similar structure. The horizontal leg also includes at its forward end a vertical lip which facilitates in retaining a horizontally disposed shelf or flower box in position on the support. Adjustment means are also included in both the horizontal and vertical legs to facilitate adaptation of the present support to a number of different environments and to a number of different-sized horizontally disposed objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    Inventor: Burr T. Carmody
  • Patent number: 4944434
    Abstract: An automobile portable hauler comprising means for transporting supplies and equipment by the use of a conventional automobile on the exterior of the vehicle by the uses of brackets that are collapsible, are space savers and are easily assembled and adapted to the vehicle. There are 2 U-shaped members that are adapted to fit over the door when the window of the vehicle is open and in a down position. The U-shaped members are connected to a horizontal main member. Fastened to the main member at each end thereto is a bracket having a means for extending the main member longitudinally, a perpendicular extension in the same plane as the main member and extending forward from the door of the vehicle, and an extension member of said vertical extension to said plane of said vertical extension and parallel to the vertical section of the U-shaped member, whereby a cradle is formed at both ends of the main member to support and carry lengths of lumber, pipes, girders and other such items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Inventor: Kenneth B. Hamilton
  • Patent number: 4928849
    Abstract: A package of disposable shoe covers comprising in combination a dispensing container with a hanger extending therefrom and a series of shoe covers enclosed within the container with the container being made of plastic, cardboard or the like and including at least a front wall, a rear wall, a bottom wall, and an upper wall enclosing the shoe covers; the hanger including at least a first generally vertical portion extending upwardly from the rear wall above the upper wall to an intermediate generally horizontal portion, the intermediate portion extending rearwardly from the first portion at the upper extremity of the first portion, and a second generally vertical portion extending downwardly from the intermediate portion at the rearward edge of the intermediate portion, the intermediate portion extending for a distance of at least the thickness of conventional doors so that the package may be suspended or hung thereby from the upper end of a door and permit the door to open and close without interference betwee
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Inventor: Bahram Khozai
  • Patent number: 4905941
    Abstract: A support for lightpole cables within the hollow upper portion of a lightpole which is adapted for non-slip attachment to an intermediate portion of the light cable assembly and is provided with means for positive anchoring the attachment portion to the upper end of a hollow lightpole cable for positively supporting the cable assembly within the lightpole to isolate the weight of the cable assembly from the electrical connections between the upper cable ends and the lighting fixture supported by the pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Assignee: Lexington Standard Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Feldberg
  • Patent number: 4899970
    Abstract: A paint can hanger having a pair of outwardly extending paint can support arms, each having a top opening slot adjacent the free end thereof for pivotally receiving a bail socket of a paint can. The opposite ends of the support arms include open bottom hook means for placement onto either a step or rung of a ladder. Downwardly extending stabilizer legs engage the next adjacent lower step or rung to prevent downward pivotal movement of the hanger about the step or rung on which it is supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Inventor: James Berzina
  • Patent number: 4893773
    Abstract: An article holder for use in a car door comprises an insertion portion to be inserted in the space between a door glass and an inside door, a lateral holding portion continuing from the insertion member fold at an outside bend line and having a reinforcing member for reinforcing the lateral holding portion, the lateral holding portion having further a support member which can be adjusted by selectively bending at any of the inside fold lines depending on the thickness of the inside door, a tab for fixedly positioning the support member, a longitudinal holding portion continuing from the lateral holding portion, a truncated disc member which is substantially in shape and extends between the lateral holding portion and the longitudinal holding portion, a lateral inside support member provided in the longitudinal holding portion and continuing from the truncated disc member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1990
    Inventor: Takeo Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 4880133
    Abstract: The bud vase has a bulbous lower portion and an elongated neck. The lower portion has a flat bottom. That and the elongated neck adapt it to be held by the bracket which comprises a clamp, a vase clip and a conversion clip. The clamp has a back portion which is a curved, springy strip that clips to the top of the back or end of structure such as a church pew. It has a front portion configured to provide a flat horizontal surface to support the vase by its flat bottom and to provide for attachment of a clip which holds the neck of the vase. The bracket is configured to hold the vase vertically when the bracket is used on structure such as pew backs slanted 15.degree. off of vertical and, when fitted with the conversion clip, holds the vase vertical when the bracket is mounted on vertical structure such as the end of a pew. The bracket is a part molded in the form of a bent-to-shape strip of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1989
    Inventor: Dolores M. Cullinane
  • Patent number: 4872816
    Abstract: A diaphragm pump is mounted on a frame or bracket. The inlet of the diaphragm pump connects with a flexible hose or tubing having a probe designed to fit into a vehicle fluid passage such as the dip stick passage associated with the oil pan of a vehicle. The outlet to the diaphragm pump is connected to one of a pair of based hollow tube members designing part of a bracket for support of the pump. Each hollow tube has a generally S shape configuration and is connected to the other tube by cross braces. One of the hollow tubes has the dual function of acting as a support bracket for the diaphragm pump assembly and as a fluid conduit, which is connected to the diaphragm pump outlet at one end and defines a discharge passage into a container at the opposite end. The bracket assembly may thus be supported on a drum or other container by the bracket members with one of the bracket members serving as the discharge tube into the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: The Aro Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Fetcko
  • Patent number: 4872224
    Abstract: A bathtub apparatus is set forth wherein a portable module positionable overlying an associated bathtub rim includes a pump member for recirculating water through an inlet filtration pipe and selectively heating said water as desired. Included is valving for directing such water selectively through a plurality of water jets positioned in a series along a lower portion of said apparatus. The valving allows selective use of soap compartments to effect a directing of a soap solution under force into the bathtub chamber and further enables selective use of a portable spray head storable when not use within a compartment of the bathtub apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Inventors: Fred D. Grimes, Linda D. Grimes
  • Patent number: 4860984
    Abstract: Conventional retailing display brackets having a single-offset-anchor portion are self-secureable to internally horizontally slotted upright panels. To adapt such brackets for similar self-secureable engagement to latticed panels, the present invention provides a height-extender adapter clip that is securely slideably mountable to the bracket's single-offset-anchor portion. The height-extender adapter is fabricated by strategically joining a laminar front-plate to a hooked rear-plate, and which plates are specially contoured for slideably bearing against selected areas of the bracket's single-offset-anchor portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Inventor: Joel H. Alperson
  • Patent number: 4856744
    Abstract: A support assembly for utilization with handles on strollers and the like for securement of articles thereto. The support assembly includes both a unit which is integrally formed with a handle and a discrete assembly for attachment to handles. The assembly is preferably of integrally molded plastic that comprises at least first and second hook portions adapted for supporting articles such as packages, clothes and purses from strollers, carts and the like. The assembly may also include a beverage container region adapted for the retention of a canned drink, baby bottle or the like. The assembly provides a myriad of hook configurations and demountable attachment sections for the securement of loose articles such as purses, sweaters, towels or other infant items. In this manner, strollers, bicycles and the like may be rendered safer and more convenient for the user who must handle loose articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1989
    Inventor: Gail Frankel
  • Patent number: 4852843
    Abstract: A beverage holder for mounting in an automobile includes a substantially U-shaped jacket having a curved front portion, an open back portion, and a top opening for receiving a conventional beverage container. A pair of hooks or similar fasteners is provided on the free ends of the jacket for demountably securing the holder to the louvers of the air conditioning and heating unit of the automobile. Spacing is provided between the beverage container and the jacket to allow cooled or heated air from the air conditioning and heating unit to circulate around the beverage, thus keeping a cold drink cold during summer or a hot drink hot during winter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Inventor: Daniel E. Chandler
  • Patent number: 4846430
    Abstract: A door back hanging organizer device comprising an upper locating plate, an lower locating plate, belt, and a fixing plate. The upper and lower locating plates are respectively located at the both ends of the belt, each of locating plate having two lines of bending holes for selective bending of the locating plate at either line of the bending holes into an inverted U-shaped configuration for convenient fixation of the locating plate on the top and bottom of a door body. The belt can be adjusted for length and tension. The fixing plate has two slots at upper and lower ends and a hook with a channel at the upper rear end thereof. Two devices can be used together with the fixing plates being arranged respectively at right and left sides of the door installation of a cross hanging rod and a net bag therebetween by way of the channel in two hooks appropriately arranged on the right and left devices. Accessories, such as a hanging ring, can be attached to the device by way of the hooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Inventor: Yeoug-Sh Ke
  • Patent number: 4769015
    Abstract: A mounting assembly for use in the adjustable supporting of various components of a colonic irrigation or flushing apparatus of the type which directs irrigating fluid, by gravity flow, through a flow monitoring device and therefrom through appropriate conduit to an introduction element which is designed to be inserted in the colon entrance for direct delivery of irrigating fluid thereto. The mounting assembly includes an elongated base having a plurality of connecting elements on which various components, such as the supply container and monitoring device are supported and further, wherein the connecting elements are structured for selective movement and placement thereof along the length of the base so as to properly position the supply container, monitoring device and depending conduit and introduction element in a preferred location relative to one another and the user of the apparatus being treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Inventor: Ingrid B. Bloxom, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4759091
    Abstract: A brush assembly having a pair of elongate brushes mounted in a spaced apart manner on a base having an outer wall disposed about the brushes. A hanger engages a bath or shower enclosure member and includes a hook for insertion within an opening in said base. Handles on the base facilitate relocation of the base from a stowed position on the hanger into place on a wall surface. Wall attachment is by suction cups on the rear side of the base with a lever provided for urging the base away from a supporting wall surface and facilitating return of the brush assembly to a stowed position. A double sided adhesive member may be used to permanently secure the base to a wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Inventor: Miklos Kiss
  • Patent number: 4756501
    Abstract: Apparatus for supporting a housing from a support including a bracket member formed of at least two opposed walls and having a post member extending between the walls, one of the walls capable of being positioned on the housing; and a hook member having one end rotatably secured about the post member for selective rotational movement from a first storage position to a second hanging position, the other end of the hook member being configured for engagement with the support, the one end of the hook member and the bracket being configured and dimensioned so that the hook member remains locked in the hanging position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1988
    Assignee: Pfizer Hospital Products Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Riccardo Quercia, Quinton J. Farrar, Frederick A. Everett, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4750697
    Abstract: A separable hook for a hanger (for garments) is pivotably mounted to the hanger about a horizontal axis, so that when the hanger is not in use, the hook may be swiveled about the horizontal axis and folded or collapsed within the frame or main body portion of the hanger, thereby saving space for storage or shipment of the hanger. Additionally, the hook includes a base portion and a hook portion pivotably mounted to each other about a vertical axis. With this arrangement, when the hanger with its garment is in use, that is, attached to the hook and the hook received on a fixed horizontal support, the hanger (with its garment thereon) may be swiveled about the vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1988
    Inventor: Sergio Tontarelli
  • Patent number: 4742982
    Abstract: An improved hanger for a toilet tank dispenser which comprises a relatively straight inner leg member, a generally hook-shaped outer leg member, and an angled connector joining said inner and outer leg members. The clamping force generated by the foregoing arrangement causes the inner leg and the dispenser attached thereto to be biased against the inner toilet tank wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1988
    Assignee: Kiwi Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley Pilch, Elliott Subervi
  • Patent number: 4714166
    Abstract: A supporting rack for suspending heavy cooking utensils is provided. The supporting rack basically includes a bar of predetermined width and length with suspending members including hooks assembled in the bar. The basic bar has outwardly-extending flanges at the ends with the flanges having fastener-receiving openings therein. The bar also has notches in a lower longitudinal edge thereon near each of the ends. The suspending member has a web with end lips extending outwardly and back toward one another to fit over the longitudinal edges of the bar. A shank is connected to one of the lips and a hook extends from the shank for suspending a utensil. The web and lips of the suspending member are dimensioned such that the suspending member can only be assembled with and disassembled from the bar at the notched portions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1987
    Assignee: Commercial Aluminum Cookware Company
    Inventors: William L. Hann, Stanley E. Fuller
  • Patent number: 4657249
    Abstract: The basketball goal support of the present invention need not include the traditional backboard. Rather, this goal support includes a generally U-shaped anchor attachable to a door or similar structure. A hollow cylindrically shaped receptacle is fixed to the anchor for receiving a support tube in close fit within the receptacle. The support tube supports the basketball goal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1987
    Assignee: Rimball, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Offutt
  • Patent number: 4624431
    Abstract: A clip adapted for mounting a hanger arm to a crossbar that comprises a vertical wall, a substantially horizontal lip integral with the vertical wall at its base extending forwardly from the vertical wall a pair of walls integral with said vertical wall extending forwardly along the vertical edges and downwardly from adjacent the top edge of the vertical wall, the pair of walls being shorter in length than the length of the vertical wall, the pair of walls being provided with a first pair of substantially horizontal stop members integral with the pair of walls and extending laterally from the pair of walls, the pair of walls being further provided with a second pair of substantially horizontal stop members integral with the pair of walls and extending laterally adjacent the upper end of the pair of walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1986
    Assignee: Armstrong Store Fixture Corporation
    Inventor: William Pfeifer
  • Patent number: 4535962
    Abstract: A pair of elongated support leg members are configured to engage and hold an object by clamping around a narrow portion of the object, with the ends of the leg members defining inverted hooks which are adapted to engage and be supported by a pair of spaced apart rods or support members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Inventors: David M. F. Chan, Michael L. F. Chan
  • Patent number: 4504992
    Abstract: A first upstanding panel section is provided including inner and outer sides and terminating upwardly in an inwardly and downwardly directed first reversely turned hook portion for engagement over the upper horizontal rail portion of a hospital bedside rail assembly with the inner side of the panel section abuttingly engaging the outer side of the rail assembly at points spaced vertically along the first panel section. The lower end of the first panel section terminates downwardly in an outwardly and upwardly directed second reversely turned panel section spaced slightly outwardly of the outer side of the first panel section. The second panel section terminates upwardly in an out-turned horizontally directed shelf spaced below the upper end of the first panel section and the shelf terminates outwardly in an upturned curb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Inventors: Robert G. Herron, Claudia S. Herron
  • Patent number: 4492388
    Abstract: A shopping cart having a movable frame upon which at least one basket for purchases is mounted via a rod or support structure. The basket is removably fastened to the rod or support structure, which is collapsible on the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1985
    Inventor: Hendrik C. de Wit
  • Patent number: 4449686
    Abstract: A mounting bracket for a hanger arm that is supporting on a hangrod is disclosed. The mounting bracket is positioned on one end of the hanger arm and the bracket is disposed for engaging the hangrod to mount the hanger arm on the hangrod. A pin is moveably positioned in the bracket with one end of the pin extending from the bracket towards the hangrod. Means is provided for biasing the moveable pin towards the hangrod whereby the pin releasably engages the hangrod to maintain the bracket and hanger arm in position on the hangrod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1984
    Assignee: Darling Store Fixtures
    Inventor: Melvin L. Kersey
  • Patent number: 4441583
    Abstract: A cable hanger bracket is provided for hanging a swinging scaffold from a walkway grating comprising vertical parallel side walls, a connected bottom wall and U-type oppositely extending bends for overlapping the grating of a steel grating walkway. A softener member device is secured between the parallel side walls and the connecting bottom wall and is designed to prevent cutting or chafing of a loop of cable about the softener member and between the parallel side walls. The cable hanger has U-bends and downwardly extending walls which overlap the grating and bind thereto in the event of overloading of a platform supported by cables and the hanger bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1984
    Inventor: Ronald R. Vaught
  • Patent number: 4436269
    Abstract: A hanger for supporting an article such as a dispenser for toilet tank chemicals on a vertical wall member such as a toilet tank at a predetermined height adjustably selected by the user. The hanger includes a means for securing its uppermost end to the wall member, a bayonet member, a channel means into which the bayonet member inserts, at least one resiliently deformable projection located along a longitudinal edge of either the bayonet member or the channel means and a multiplicity of spaced, projection receiving means, complementary to the projection, located on a longitudinal edge of the other of either the bayonet member or the channel means and in the same plane as the projection. The projection extends outwardly from the longitudinal edge and is resiliently deformable in the plane of the member to which it is attached. The hanger is manually adjusted by the movement of the resiliently deformable projections between the projection receiving means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert S. Dirksing, Dale E. Barker
  • Patent number: 4432522
    Abstract: A portable telephone support for use by bedridden individuals. The device of the present invention comprises a telephone base support of planar configuration, a bedrail engaging hook secured to the base support which is adapted to releasably engage a bedrail, and a wall mounted bracket to releasably mount the telephone support against the wall when not mounted to the bed. The bedrail engaging hook includes an outwardly inclined lower end adapted to aid the hook in passing the edge of a mattress without interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1984
    Assignee: St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Pontiac
    Inventors: Thomas F. Pruente, Anna Tamargo
  • Patent number: D305299
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Inventor: George V. Freeman