CLOTHES HANGER WITH ANTI-ENTANGLEMENT MECHANISM
A clothes hanger with an anti-entanglement mechanism includes a main body and a hanging hook member that can be on its top side for being hookedly hung on an object. The main body has a substantially horizontal bottom side and inclined sections at left and right sides, and includes a clothes pushing portion and at least one anti-slip portion whose one side has a protruding configuration with respect to the main body and the other side has a sunken configuration with respect to the main body. The hook member has a spacer portion having one side with a protruding configuration with respect to the hook member, and the other side with a sunken configuration with respect to the hook member. As the main body has a plate shape, hanger entanglement can be prevented when a user puts away multiple hangers, facilitating hanger arrangement and storage and enhancing convenience of use.
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This non-provisional application claims priority to and the benefit of, under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a), Taiwan Patent Application No. 112131886, filed Aug. 24, 2023 in Taiwan. The entire content of the above identified application is incorporated herein by reference.
FIELDThe present disclosure is related to a clothes hanger, and more particularly to a clothes hanger having a main body in a plate shape so that entanglement can be prevented when multiple clothes hangers are being stored, and having a plurality of protruding structures to help the clothes to lie against each other tightly and prevent clothes from over-compression.
BACKGROUNDClothes hangers, or hangers for short, are used to hang clothes so that clothes can be stored and accessed with ease. Nowadays, hangers are widely used in homes, shops, hotels, and offices and can be viewed as among those having the highest prevalence and highest frequency of use of all household goods. While the basic form of hangers has been basically unchanged for the past few centuries, the pursuit of improved functionality, durability, and ease of use of hangers has never stopped. Hangers have evolved in material and design from the very first wooden or bamboo-made versions to the plastic, metal, and velvet-covered ones nowadays, in order to adapt to the requirements of different users and use scenarios. For example, velvet-covered hangers are commonly used with delicate clothes to prevent slipping and hanger bumps, and metal-wire hangers are relatively robust, durable, and inexpensive.
As stated above, the main function of hangers is to hang clothes. In addition to facilitating the storage of clothes, hangers help keep the clothes thereon from wrinkling. Therefore, the smoothness and neatness of clothes can be better ensured by hanging on a hanger than by folding and stacking. Moreover, hanging clothes on hangers makes effective use of three-dimensional space, which is particularly important when the storage space is limited. Besides, due to their textural or structural properties, certain clothes such as suits and coats are better protected in terms of shape and service life by hanging on a hanger than otherwise.
Despite the numerous advantages of hangers, however, there are still room for improvement in hanger design. For example, a wire hanger has a simple design and its cost is low, but the relatively small wire diameter leads to insufficient friction. As a result, clothes made of a soft and smooth material (e.g., silk or nylon) tend to slip off a wire hanger when touched or moved. In addition, one notable feature of a wire hanger is the relatively large opening at the center. When a good number of wire hangers are stacked up, therefore, the hanging hook portions and the frame portions of the hangers are often entangled, making it difficult to sort the hangers out, which is disadvantageous to hanger manufacturers when it comes to storage and transportation. To individual users, the entanglement of hangers may cause inconvenience and trouble in a busy morning or at other times when it is desired to remove clothes from hangers rapidly. If a user attempts to separate entangled hangers forcibly, the hangers not only are likely to be deformed and thus rendered useless, but also may break abruptly due of excessive force exertion and thus injure the user.
The aforesaid issues of wire hangers may shorten the service life of such hangers, and if that happens, a wire hanger user would have to discard the damaged or broken hangers sooner than expected, and may end up feeling dissatisfied and frustrated with wire hangers in general. This not only increases the user's expense, but also causes a waste of resources and environmental stress. Accordingly, one of the issues addressed in the present disclosure is to effectively improve hangers with respect to the foregoing inadequacies.
SUMMARYTo stand out in a competitive market, as a result of the research spirit striving for excellence and longtime research and experiment, a clothes hanger with an anti-entanglement mechanism is provided in the present disclosure to provide better use experience to users.
Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a clothes hanger with an anti-entanglement mechanism. The clothes hanger includes a main body and a hanging hook member. The main body is in a shape of a plate, has a substantially horizontal bottom side, and includes a clothes pushing portion and at least one anti-slip portion. Each of a left side and a right side of the main body has an inclined section. The two inclined sections extend away from each other in a downward direction. A first side of the clothes pushing portion has a protruding configuration with respect to the main body, and a second side of the clothes pushing portion has a sunken configuration with respect to the main body. Each of the at least one anti-slip portion is adjacent to one of the inclined sections. A first side of the at least one anti-slip portion has a protruding configuration with respect to the main body, and a second side of the at least one anti-slip portion has a sunken configuration with respect to the main body. The hanging hook member is on a top side of the main body for being hooked to and hung on an object, and has a spacer portion. A first side of the spacer portion has a protruding configuration with respect to the hanging hook member, and a second side of the spacer portion has a sunken configuration with respect to the hanging hook member. Accordingly, as the main body has a plate shape and is therefore different from a conventional wire hanger that has a relatively large opening, hanger entanglement can be prevented when a user puts away multiple hangers, which facilitates hanger arrangement and storage and enhances convenience of use and use experience.
In certain embodiments, the at least one anti-slip portion includes two anti-slip portions, each of the anti-slip portions is adjacent to a corresponding one of the inclined sections, and protruding directions of the anti-slip portions are the same.
In certain embodiments, the hanging hook member is integrally formed with the main body.
In certain embodiments, a distance between the first side of the spacer portion and the main body is greater than at least one of a distance between the first side of the clothes pushing portion and the main body and a distance between the first side of the at least one anti-slip portion and the main body.
In certain embodiments, protruding directions of the spacer portion, the clothes pushing portion and the at least one anti-slip portion are the same.
In certain embodiments, at least one gravity center adjustment portion is located at a central region of the main body and can adjust a center of gravity of the clothes hanger so that the bottom side of the clothes hanger is substantially parallel to the ground when the clothes hanger is hung.
In certain embodiments, the at least one gravity center adjustment portion is a through bore.
In certain embodiments, the height of each of a left portion and a right portion of the clothes hanger that is adjacent to a left end portion or a right end portion of the clothes hanger is greater than the greatest bore diameter of the through bore, so that when a left end portion or a right end portion of another clothes hanger extends into the through bore, a maximum length of a portion of the another clothes hanger that extends through the through bore is substantially one tenth of a length of the clothes hanger in a transverse-axis direction.
In certain embodiments, the main body is provided with at least one magnet.
In certain embodiments, the surface of the magnet does not jut out of the surface of the main body.
These and other aspects of the present disclosure will become apparent from the following description of the embodiment taken in conjunction with the following drawings and their captions, although variations and modifications therein may be affected without departing from the spirit and scope of the novel concepts of the disclosure.
The present disclosure will become more fully understood from the following detailed description and accompanying drawings.
The present disclosure is more particularly described in the following examples that are intended as illustrative only since numerous modifications and variations therein will be apparent to those skilled in the art. Like numbers in the drawings indicate like components throughout the views. As used in the description herein and throughout the claims that follow, unless the context clearly dictates otherwise, the meaning of “a”, “an”, and “the” includes plural reference, and the meaning of “in” includes “in” and “on”. Titles or subtitles can be used herein for the convenience of a reader, which shall have no influence on the scope of the present disclosure.
The accompanying drawings are schematic and may not have been drawn to scale. The terms used herein generally have their ordinary meanings in the art. In the case of conflict, the present document, including any definitions given herein, will prevail. The same thing can be expressed in more than one way. Alternative language and synonyms can be used for any term(s) discussed herein, and no special significance is to be placed upon whether a term is elaborated or discussed herein. A recital of one or more synonyms does not exclude the use of other synonyms. The use of examples anywhere in this specification including examples of any terms is illustrative only, and in no way limits the scope and meaning of the present disclosure or of any exemplified term. Likewise, the present disclosure is not limited to various embodiments given herein. Numbering terms such as “first”, “second” or “third” can be used to describe various components, materials, objects, or the like, which are for distinguishing one component/material/object from another one only, and are not intended to, nor should be construed to impose any substantive limitations on the components, materials, objects, or the like. Directional terms (e.g., “front”, “rear”, “left”, “right”, “upper/top” and/or “lower/bottom”) are explanatory only and are not intended to be restrictive of the scope of the present disclosure.
As used herein, the term “substantially”, “approximately”, etc. refers to, for example, a value, or an average of values, in an acceptable deviation range of a particular value recognized or decided by a person of ordinary skill in the art, taking into account any specific quantity of errors related to the measurement of the value that may resulted from limitations of a measurement system or device. For example, “substantially” may indicate that the value is within, for example, ±5%, ±3%, 1%, ±0.5% or ±0.1%, or one or more standard deviations, of the particular value.
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The foregoing description of the exemplary embodiments of the disclosure has been presented only for the purposes of illustration and description and is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the disclosure to the precise forms disclosed. Many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching.
The embodiments were chosen and described in order to explain the principles of the disclosure and their practical application so as to enable others skilled in the art to utilize the disclosure and various embodiments and with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated. Alternative embodiments will become apparent to those skilled in the art to which the present disclosure pertains without departing from its spirit and scope.
Claims
1. A clothes hanger with an anti-entanglement mechanism, comprising:
- a main body in a shape of a plate, having a substantially horizontal bottom side, and comprising a clothes pushing portion and at least one anti-slip portion, wherein each of a left side and a right side of the main body has an inclined section, the two inclined sections extend away from each other in a downward direction, a first side of the clothes pushing portion has a protruding configuration with respect to the main body, and a second side of the clothes pushing portion has a sunken configuration with respect to the main body, each of the at least one anti-slip portion is adjacent to one of the inclined sections, and a first side of the at least one anti-slip portion has a protruding configuration with respect to the main body, and a second side of the at least one anti-slip portion has a sunken configuration with respect to the main body; and
- a hanging hook member on a top side of the main body for being hooked to and hung on an object, and having a spacer portion, wherein a first side of the spacer portion has a protruding configuration with respect to the hanging hook member, and a second side of the spacer portion has a sunken configuration with respect to the hanging hook member.
2. The clothes hanger according to claim 1, wherein the at least one anti-slip portion includes two anti-slip portions, each of the anti-slip portions is adjacent to a corresponding one of the inclined sections, and protruding directions of the anti-slip portions are the same.
3. The clothes hanger according to claim 1, wherein the hanging hook member is integrally formed with the main body.
4. The clothes hanger according to claim 1, wherein a distance between the first side of the spacer portion and the main body is greater than at least one of a distance between the first side of the clothes pushing portion and the main body and a distance between the first side of the at least one anti-slip portion and the main body.
5. The clothes hanger according to claim 1, wherein protruding directions of the spacer portion, the clothes pushing portion and the at least one anti-slip portion are the same.
6. The clothes hanger according to claim 1, wherein at least one gravity center adjustment portion is located at a central region of the main body and configured to adjust a center of gravity of the clothes hanger so that the bottom side of the clothes hanger is substantially parallel to the ground when the clothes hanger is hung.
7. The clothes hanger according to claim 6, wherein the at least one gravity center adjustment portion is a through bore.
8. The clothes hanger according to claim 7, wherein a height of each of a left portion and a right portion of the clothes hanger that is adjacent to a left end portion or a right end portion of the clothes hanger is greater than a greatest bore diameter of the through bore so that when a left end portion or a right end portion of another clothes hanger extends into the through bore, a maximum length of a portion of the another clothes hanger that extends through the through bore is substantially one tenth of a length of the clothes hanger in a transverse-axis direction.
9. The clothes hanger according to claim 1, wherein the main body is provided with at least one magnet.
10. The clothes hanger according to claim 9, wherein a surface of the magnet does not jut out of a surface of the main body.
Type: Application
Filed: Aug 9, 2024
Publication Date: Feb 27, 2025
Applicant: Soyal Technology Co., Ltd. (New Taipei City)
Inventors: Hung-Kun Shih (New Taipei City), Tien-Yun Shih (New Taipei City)
Application Number: 18/798,818