Patents Assigned to Batts, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5137191
    Abstract: A two-piece garment hanger which is fastened to the top section by gluing, snap action, or, preferably, some welding which is so smooth in outside appearance that the entire surface exposed to view readily lends itself to a decorative surface produced by the HydroGrafix wood grain finish decorating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1992
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell O. Blanchard, Robert A. Bredeweg
  • Patent number: 5082153
    Abstract: A garment hanger of the garment clamping type has a pair of jaws, the first one of which is integral with the hanger body and the other is pivotal about the top of the first jaw. A resilient clip slidably seated over the tops of the jaws resiliently holds the jaws in garment clamping position. The front face of the pivoted jaw has an elongated recessed channel to guide the user's finger to engage the clip and slide it into release position. The jaws are so designed that the free end of the pivoted jaw can pass a limited distance through the bottom of the first jaw when no garment is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventors: Everett L. Duester, Russell O. Blanchard, Harley Brower
  • Patent number: 5056248
    Abstract: A brand identification system or label holder for use with a garment hanger or other display device includes first and second panels hingedly connected along upper lateral edges. The panels are movable from an open position to a closed position wherein inner faces of the panels are in opposed relationship. The panels include opposed clamps or hooks which are positioned to snap over the display device when the panels are in the closed position. A living hinge between the panels resiliently biases the panels towards an open position to increase the clamping force generated by the clamp members. A product information card or label may be positioned between the panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventor: Russell O. Blanchard
  • Patent number: 5054666
    Abstract: A hanger for displaying a belt with a garment includes an elongated body and a plurality of loops or straps joined to the body for receiving a belt. The loops simulate the belt loops on a pair of slacks, pants or on a skirt. An attachment arm mounts the hanger onto a garment hanger in the approximate area of the belt loops of the garment. The attachment arm may define a clip which snaps onto the garment hanger or a slot which receives the support hook of the garment hanger. In a further alternative, a pair of clips may be joined to the body to attach the belt display hanger to the garment waistband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventor: Russell O. Blanchard
  • Patent number: 5029739
    Abstract: A drop loop hanger for maintaining two piece garments in a stable and attractive condition for retail customers includes clip means formed either integrally with the drop loop or as a separate member and, by virtue of the inherent resiliency of the clip means and a multi-point support on either side of the vertical shank of the drop loop, stabilizes the drop loop with respect to the hook hanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell O. Blanchard, Judd F. Garrison, Thomas H. Van Langevelde
  • Patent number: 5022571
    Abstract: An internal garment hanger adapted to support a garment from an inner surface of a waistband includes an elongated body defining open ends and longitudinally extending slots. A pair of elongated slides are provided which telescope into the ends of the body. Each slide includes an outer end configured to engage the garment. An elastomeric member or spring has an end fixed to the slide and an end fixed to hanger body. The member or spring resiliently biases the slide out of the open end of the body and into gripping engagement with the garment. Each slide defines a stop which limits outward movement of the slide with respect to the body. In the preferred form, the elastomeric member is molded and bonded to the slide in the manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1991
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventor: Russell O. Blanchard
  • Patent number: 5020705
    Abstract: A molded plastic garment hanger having a pair of hingedly connected jaws is provided with a thin pad of resilient thermoplastic rubber molded to the inner surface of one or both of the garment gripping jaws which pad is formed by injection molding during the molding cycle which forms the hanger body itself with a short dwell period between the injection of the resin forming the hanger body and that forming the pad so that the pad and body become fused together at the boundary between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventor: Judd Garrison
  • Patent number: 4967500
    Abstract: An information display device has a display surface supported on a leg from the lower end of which one or more finger elements extend at a right angle to the display surface to detachably or permanently secure it to one of the jaws of a garment clamping hanger. The finger elements engage the rear jaw of the garment clamp in such a manner that the clamp will remain erect during handling of the hanger and its load and will not interfere with the loading and unloading of the hanger. While the fingers extend the length of the hanger, the display surface is positioned at a right angle thereto so the information of its display surface is visible from the end of the hanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert A. Bredeweg
  • Patent number: 4932571
    Abstract: A molded plastic, folding hanger for displaying garments has a polygonal outer frame shaped to support a garment to which outer frame an inner garment supporting frame is pivotally secured by an integral hinge whereby the inner garment supporting frame can be pivoted from a storage position nested within the outer frame to a garment display position in which it depends from and below the outer frame. The inner frame is so designed that the support hook for the hanger can be pivoted into a storage position within the silhouette of the outer frame when the hanger is not in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventor: Russell O. Blanchard
  • Patent number: 4901894
    Abstract: For a garment hanger having a rigid, elongated body equipped with garment clamps at each end, an accessory garment support bar is provided having a garment holding portion longer than the spacing between the clamps, which bar is detachably connected to the hanger body inward of the clamps which supports the bar rearwardly of the plane assumed by a garment suspended from the clamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1990
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventor: Russell O. Blanchard
  • Patent number: 4892237
    Abstract: A hanger specifically designed for holding and suspending lightweight clothing, particularly delicate fabrics, has a rigid, elongated body terminating at each end in a pair of arms, one on top and one on the bottom of the body forming article receiving slots opening toward the center of the hanger. A third arm creates a downwardly opening slot at the end of the body. The arms are designed to permit limited flexing for seating and removing articles from the slots. The flexing occurs as a hinging action at the point of attachment to the body and at this point the arms are reinforced. The upper of the slots may have a pocket portion for positively securing garment straps and the like and also a finger member spaced from the inner end of the upper arm to form an upwardly opening entry to the slot or it may have a spring-like finger in the pocket which clamps a garment inserted into the pocket area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1990
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventors: Everett L. Duester, Russell O. Blanchard, Robert A. Bredeweg
  • Patent number: 4889265
    Abstract: A molded plastic garment hanger has a pair of parallel bars joined by straps at each end. The bars, in unfolded position, are vertically spaced, permitting a garment to be draped over the lower one of the bars for display and to be clamped between the two bars for transport when the lower one is folded up into a position parallel to the upper bar. Means are provided for latching the bars together when they are folded together to positively clamp a garment between them as for transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1989
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald F. Morgan
  • Patent number: 4886195
    Abstract: A molded plastic garment hanger has a portion of its hook, intermediate the top and bottom thereof, shaped to provide an information panel readable from one end of the hanger and shaped to permit the hangers to be nested together for shipment or storage without interference by the panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventor: Russell O. Blanchard
  • Patent number: 4884727
    Abstract: An article hanger includes a body defining a bottom flange. A pair of adjustable clips are snapped onto the hanger. Each clip includes an article clamp assembly mounted on a bracket. The bracket inclues a top portion defining a channel which is snapped onto the hanger body bottom flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventor: Russell O. Blanchard
  • Patent number: 4881836
    Abstract: An information display means for garment hangers has a tubular body with a web of resilient material extending across the opening through the body. The web has an opening therethrough through which the hanger hook can be passed which opening is of a size and shape which will grip the hook with sufficient force to effectively hold the body against inadvertent rotation about the hook and thus keep the information visible. A single construction is capable of use on hangers having a wire hook and molded plastic hooks of a variety of cross-sectional shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1989
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventor: Russell O. Blanchard
  • Patent number: 4871097
    Abstract: A hanger for displaying lightweight garments has an elongated body at each end of which is a dependent U-shaped garment grip in the central opening of which is a downwardly extending slightly resilient finger, the free end of which is spaced a short distance above the bottom of ther central opening in the U-shaped grip. The outer edge of the outer leg of the garment grip is provided with outwardly extending garment grips. The forward face of the finger is provided with forwardly extending projections to engage a garment which is placed against the front face of the hanger wrapped around the end of the garment grip and its end seated against the rear face of the garment grip and in front of the finger so that the finger will press the projections into the garment to positively clamp is to the hanger and hold it against rhe projections on the outer edge of the garment grip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell O. Blanchard, James G. Hansen
  • Patent number: D307982
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1990
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventor: Everett L. Duester
  • Patent number: D316334
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventor: Everett L. Duester
  • Patent number: D323749
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell O. Blanchard, Michael J. Mankowski
  • Patent number: D328194
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1992
    Assignee: Batts, Inc.
    Inventor: Judd F. Garrison