Abstract: An indicator for a hanger includes a body having side walls and joining end walls, openings at opposing top and bottom ends, and a passage extending through the body and joining the openings. The indicator may be positioned around a hook of the hanger such that the hook extends from the opening at the top end of the body. The indicator may also include an attachment mechanism for securing the indictor to the hanger. Alternatively or in addition, the hanger may include a mechanism for securing the indictor to the hanger. Information may be displayed on one or more of the side walls and end walls of the indicator.

Abstract: A hanger arrangement in accordance with an embodiment of the present application includes a hanger including a hanger body, a hook member and a peripheral rib extending outward from the hanger body and the hook member and an indicator device removably attached on a side of the hanger body at a point where the hanger body and the hook member join, the indicator device including locating means associated with the indicator device operable to attach the indicator device to the peripheral rib of the hanger such that the indicator device is secured at the point where the hanger body and the hook member join. The locating means may include at least one abutment member extending partially into the groove and structured to fit against the hanger body, a stub structured to clip over the peripheral rib of the hanger.

Abstract: A lightweight and sustainable hanger provides for minimum weight and material usage.

Abstract: An end-clip for a garment hanger includes a bar having an end, and a connecting part with a first end and a second end. The connecting part is joined at the first end to and extends from the end of the bar. An arm is joined to the second end of the connecting part so that the arm extends over the bar and forms a space between the arm and the bar. An elongated pressing member is pivotally supported by the arm so that the pressing member is biased towards the bar by the arm and so that a part of the garment is receivable between the pressing member and the bar. The pressing member and the carrier member both have reinforced sections. A stop member is provided on at least one of the connecting part and the arm on a side facing the pressing member. The stop member is located above the pressing member at a distance so that the pressing member contacts the stop member when pivoted by inserting a garment between the pressing member and the bar.

Abstract: An end-clip for a garment hanger includes a bar having an end, and a connecting part with a first end and a second end. The connecting part is joined at the first end to and extends from the end of the bar. An arm is joined to the second end of the connecting part so that the arm extends over the bar and forms a space between the arm and the bar. An elongated pressing member is pivotally supported by the arm so that the pressing member is biased towards the bar by the arm and so that a part of the garment is receivable between the pressing member and the bar. The pressing member and the carrier member both have reinforced sections. A stop member is provided on at least one of the connecting part and the arm on a side facing the pressing member. The stop member is located above the pressing member at a distance so that the pressing member contacts the stop member when pivoted by inserting a garment between the pressing member and the bar.

Abstract: A garment hanger has an elongated body and first and second retaining clips positioned along the body. Each of the retaining clips has a first leg with an upper end and a lower end and a second leg with an upper end and a lower end. The lower ends of the legs have gripping portions. A biasing mechanism is arranged to apply a force near the lower ends of the legs to bias the gripping portions toward one another. At least one soft pad preferably made of a soft elastomeric material having rounded edges is attached to the gripping portions of the legs so that the soft pads face one another.

Abstract: A hanger with a locking mechanism to secure gripping members can be disengaged with a user operated lever. The gripping members engage and securely retain an item such as an article of clothing when the locking mechanism is engaged. A tab located on the gripping members acts as a lever and disengages the locking mechanism with decreased effort by an individual user. With this structure, the item can be easily secured to the hanger by engaging the locking mechanism, and free by easily disengaging the locking mechanism by operation of the tab.

Abstract: A garment hanger an and associated indicator therefor. The garment hanger has a projecting web which includes at least one recess on one side thereof. The indicator includes a body having a pair of side walls, a pair of end walls connecting the side walls, a top wall and an open end arranged so as to define a cavity which is dimensioned to receive the projecting web of the hanger. The indicator further includes an abutment positioned on one side wall of the pair of side walls. The abutment is dimensioned so as to engage the at least one recess of the projecting web of the hanger and is located proximal to the top wall relative to a midpoint of the cavity between the open end and the top wall.

Abstract: A hanger with a locking mechanism to secure gripping members can be disengaged with a user operated lever. The gripping members engage and securely retain an item such as an article of clothing when the locking mechanism is engaged. A tab located on the gripping members acts as a lever and disengages the locking mechanism with decreased effort by an individual user. With this structure, the item can be easily secured to the hanger by engaging the locking mechanism, and free by easily disengaging the locking mechanism by operation of the tab.

Abstract: A hanger with a locking mechanism to secure gripping members can be disengaged with a user operated lever. The gripping members engage and securely retain an item such as an article of clothing when the locking mechanism is engaged. A tab located on the gripping members acts as a lever and disengages the locking mechanism with decreased effort by an individual user. With this structure, the item can be easily secured to the hanger by engaging the locking mechanism, and freed by easily disengaging the locking mechanism by operation of the tab.

Abstract: A multiple garment hanger includes a hook extending in a first direction from an elongated bar. A first and second garment clip arrangement are disposed at respective distal ends of the elongated bar. Each garment clip arrangement includes a plurality of garment clips. The garments clips are tilted with respect to the first direction and with respect to the elongated bar so that a first garment clip overlaps at least a portion of a second garment clip disposed immediately below the first garment clip.

Abstract: A new machine for and method of manufacturing fluted pin fasteners and the pins produces thereby are disclosed which utilize a circular grinding arrangement of a plurality of grinders which grind flutes into a threaded pin. An internally threaded collar threads onto the pin. When the collar engages a surface of a work piece, resistance to further threading increases. When sufficient resistance to threading occurs, the driver deforms the lobes of the collar radially inward toward the axis of the collar. Material of the collar positioned internally from the lobes responds to deformation of the lobes and flows radially inward into the flutes of the pin to lock the collar, pin, and work piece together. The driver then rotates freely, and a joint has been made with a predetermined axial load thereby locking the component parts together.

Abstract: A new machine for and method of manufacturing fluted pin fasteners and the pins produced thereby are disclosed which utilize a circular grinding arrangement of a plurality of grinders which grind flutes into a threaded pin. An internally threaded collar threads onto the pin. When the collar engages a surface of a work piece, resistance to further threading increases. When sufficient resistance to threading occurs, the driver deforms the lobes of the collar radially inward toward the axis of the collar. Material of the collar positioned internally from the lobes responds to deformation of the lobes and flows radially inward into the flutes of the pin to lock the collar, pin, and work piece together. The driver then rotates freely, and a joint has been made with a predetermined axial load thereby locking the component parts together.

Abstract: A new machine for and method of manufacturing fluted pin fasteners and the pins produced thereby are disclosed which utilize a circular grinding arrangement of a plurality of grinders which grind flutes into a threaded pin. An internally threaded collar threads onto the pin. When the collar engages a surface of a work piece, resistance to further threading increases. When sufficient resistance to threading occurs, the driver deforms the lobes of the collar radially inward toward the axis of the collar. Material of the collar positioned internally from the lobes responds to deformation of the lobes and flows radially inward into the flutes of the pin to lock the collar, pin, and work piece together. The driver then rotates freely, and a joint has been made with a predetermined axial load thereby locking the component parts together.

Abstract: A new machine for and method of manufacturing fluted pin fasteners and the pins produced thereby are disclosed which utilize a circular grinding arrangement of a plurality of grinders which grind flutes into a threaded pin. An internally threaded collar threads onto the pin. When the collar engages a surface of a work piece, resistance to further threading increases. When sufficient resistance to threading occurs, the driver deforms the lobes of the collar radially inward toward the axis of the collar. Material of the collar positioned internally from the lobes responds to deformation of the lobes and flows radially inward into the flutes of the pin to lock the collar, pin, and work piece together. The driver then rotates freely, and a joint has been made with a predetermined axial load thereby locking the component parts together.

Abstract: A self-locking internally threaded nut has a deltoid shaped locking section having circumferentially spaced protrusions. The protrusions form a surface adapted to be engaged by a deltoid driver which tightens the nut onto a bolt to a predetermined axial load. At the predetermined load the protrusions are plastically deformed inwardly on the nut so that the driver rotates freely on the nut. When the protrusions are inwardly deformed, the deformed material impinges on the bolt, thereby rotationally locking the nut on the bolt.

Abstract: There is disclosed a driving tool for securing a fastener collar to a threaded pin in which the collar has a plurality of external, axial lobes at equally spaced angular increments. The driving tool has a driver socket with a collar receptacle which is open on at least one end and which fixedly receives a retainer sleeve which supports a plurality of driver balls that are fixedly and non-rotationally carried at spaced apart angular increments. The retainer sleeve is bored to form spherical recesses, each of which receives a driver ball. The inwardly directed faces of the balls protrude into the interior of the collar to form spherical lugs, and the opposite surfaces of the driver balls are ground or flatted to conform to the surrounding wall of the shell of the driving tool.

Abstract: A pneumatic nut installation tool has a plunger assembly which advances from a retracted position near the rear of the tool through a nut pickup station to an extended position extending from the front of the tool. A nut shuttle delivers a nut in front of the plunger assembly before it reaches the nut pickup station and retracts away from the nut pickup station before the plunger assembly moves through that station. The nut is picked up on an assembly that includes a split spring ring which engages the bore of the nut. The spring ring is mounted on a fixed member, which also includes a hexagonal key for preventing rotation of a bolt as the nut is threaded onto it. A rotating nut driver moves over the outside of the nut picked up by the nut pickup assembly for threading the nut onto a bolt.