Abstract: The present invention relates to a hanging device for supporting a hanger on a suspended conveyor, on which articles of clothing may be hung. The hanging device includes a base body; a flap which is pivotally mounted on the base body for pivoting about an axis perpendicular to the direction of transport; the flap having an open position and a closed position; and an arrangement for locating the hook of the clothes hanger on a portion of the base body, resting against the flap, with the flap in its closed position. These and other features of the hanging device provide dependable loading, transport and delivery of the clothes hangers under all circumstances.

Abstract: A rotary looper for a lockstitch sewing machine, which can receive either a coreless thread package or a thread-wound bobbin. An upper bobbin-housing part is provided with two separate thread-tensioning elements and with respective thread-guide slots associated with them. In this way, the thread withdrawn either from a coreless thread package or a looper-thread bobbin passes over an optimally-shaped thread path on its way to the sewing area, and in both cases, a specifically adapted thread-tensioning force is exerted on the thread withdrawn. Preferably, the front part of the thread supply, in the coreless package or bobbin, can be accommodated in front of the movement path of the sewing needle, whereby the bobbin-housing can accommodate an extra-wide thread supply. An upwardly extended shoulder is provided on the lower part of the bobbin housing, so that the axially widened needle thread loop can slide unimpeded over the axially-extended bobbin-housing upper part.