Coat Or Dress Patents (Class 223/92)
  • Patent number: 11350574
    Abstract: A vegetation hanger includes a hanger portion and a crossbar. The hanger portion includes a first aperture, a stem, and a base. The first aperture is configured for handling of the vegetation hanger. The stem includes a first end portion and a second end portion. The stem extends from the first end portion towards the second end portion and defines a second aperture configured for hanging of the vegetation hanger. The crossbar is coupled to the hanger portion and defines a linear plate having a first edge, a second edge, a first end portion, and a second end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: DriFlower, LLC
    Inventor: Todd Chandler Larkins
  • Patent number: 11311131
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a garment holding device that can be attached to any kind of luggage bag carried by an individual. The device comprises a case having a first portion and a second portion; a first and second fastening means used to attach the first and second portions of the case; a pin, a torsion spring and a carabiner clip that is attachable to a bag strap; a cover that is detachably attachable to the case; a strap that is retractably stored in the case and is movably connected to the cover; a central drum that is supported by first drum support apparatus and second drum support apparatus; a coiled spring that enables the retractive moment of the strap; a lock; a first pin and a second pin, wherein the first pin is located in between a torsion spring, the lock and the second drum support apparatus; a torsion spring attached to the lock; and an adjustment buckle that is used to adjust the length of strap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Inventor: Ryan Vinh Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10687645
    Abstract: A hanger is provided which supports long garments securely and easily in half or less length than the garment would occupy hanging on a conventional hanger. Such a garment hanger comprises: a primary support including a hook and elements arranged to suspend a top portion of a garment; an auxiliary support including a bar for suspending the bottom portion of the garment, shortening a total length of the garment thus supported; and the primary support and the auxiliary support including cooperative, non-locking elements detachably suspending the auxiliary support from the primary support with the bar close to the primary support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Inventor: Jessica Davidoff
  • Patent number: 10111544
    Abstract: A garment hanger with a hook either metal or plastic that moves between a substantially vertical position and a substantially horizontal position. The body of the hanger having mounts that allow for the attachment of an assembly containing a hanger hook which allows hook movement either vertical or horizontal to help in footprint reduction of hanger creating space savings in packaging and transport. A size indicator has been developed to fit over this hook assembly and still allow the folding of the hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SJBee LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Bernstein, Leslie S. Blitz
  • Patent number: 9713398
    Abstract: A clothes hanger (1) having a plurality of hooks (8) located thereon for hanging tank tops or other strapped articles of clothing. The clothes hanger allows a user to hang multiple articles of clothing on the plurality of hooks, thereby conserving storage space in a closet. The positioning of the hooks allows the clothes hanger to remain level by being counterbalanced while hanging in a closet. An optional base (14) allows the hanger to be displayed on a counter, dresser or other flat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Inventor: Ellie MacLaren Xavier da Silva
  • Patent number: 9655466
    Abstract: A hanger with a foldable hook enabling the hanger to have the hook in a folded shipped position to reduce its footprint for reduction of cost of transportation and a rotatable cylindrical member to which the hook is attached, allowing the hook to be rotated from a folded to an upright hanging position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: SJBEE LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Bernstein, Leslie S. Blitz
  • Patent number: 9549630
    Abstract: A hanger including a hanger body, a hook assembly and an attachment assembly. The hanger includes a hanger body and a hook assembly. The hook assembly includes a body and a hook member. The attachment assembly is structurally configured to couple the hook assembly to the hanger body while facilitating relative rotation thereof, and, comprises a first coupling component and a second coupling component. The first coupling component includes a central post having an outer surface and locking tabs at a distal end thereof. The second coupling component has a central bore with a rear annular surface. The central post extends through the central bore, with the locking tabs interfacing with the rear annular surface so as to substantially preclude axial movement of the central post within the central bore, while allowing rotation about an axis that extends through the central post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Hangers Plus, LLC
    Inventors: James Hansen, Russell O. Blanchard
  • Patent number: 9381976
    Abstract: A monopod for mounting to the navigation light power port of a marine vessel, such as a bass boat or speed boat, which provides power for mobile accessories, such as cameras and smart phones. The monopod may be fitted with extendable, bendable arms for mounting additional cameras or for providing additional accessories. An embodiment of the monopod includes an extension arm which may be maneuvered and bent such that it provides a fisherman access to multiple accessories even while the fisherman is located in the fishing chair of a bass boat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Inventor: Christian L. Corley
  • Patent number: 9169959
    Abstract: A universal tablet and smart phone holder includes an enlarged soft core, an upper tip section; an elongate spine element extending at least partially through the soft core and to the tip section. A flexible cover is disposed about the soft core, spine element and tip section. The spine element and tip section are operable to bend and rotate such that when a tablet or smartphone is placed into the novel holder, a bottom edge of the tablet is supported by the soft core, and an upper edge of the media device held by the tip section such that the media device is firmly secured thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignees: David Zito
    Inventors: David Zito, Grant J. Stafford
  • Patent number: 8978663
    Abstract: A charger package apparatus for use with electronic cigarette components, which include truncated components and elongated components that have an electrical coupling connected to a rechargeable power source. The apparatus includes a compact box enclosure with an access opening, and with plural compartments formed indies, which receive electronic cigarette components, and where are least one of the compartment is an elongated compartment. The box also includes a battery compartment with a battery contact for engaging a replaceable battery, and a charge circuit coupled to receive power from the battery contact. A charge contact assembly is coupled to the charge circuit and aligned with the elongated compartment to engage the electrical coupling of an elongated component, which can then transfer power to its rechargeable power source. Also, a lid is selectively engaged with the access opening to close the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Inventor: Kyle D. Newton
  • Patent number: 8770452
    Abstract: An expandable clothes hanger to hang, display, store, or transport an article of clothing with minimal creasing. The expandable clothes hanger has a hook extending upward from a bar element that supports an upper portion of an article of clothing draped thereon. Downward extending elements extend downward from the bar element and cross each other at at least a single point. Raising the crossing point along the downward extending elements causes the lower portion of the downward extending elements to extend outward, pulling taut the lower portion of draped article of clothing. Lowering the crossing point along the downward extending elements causes the lower portion of the downward extending elements to be pulled together, allowing for more compact storage of the expandable clothes hanger or for easier placement or removal of draped articles of clothing. The downward extending elements can also be configured as an attachment to a conventional hanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Inventor: Steven T. Gottlieb
  • Patent number: 8678250
    Abstract: An apparatus for hanging garments is disclosed. The apparatus includes a hanger device, and a substantially rigid support mechanism coupled to the hanger device. The support mechanism includes a slit extending through at least part of the support mechanism, and one or a plurality of button holes on at least one side of the slit, such that when a garment with one or a plurality of buttons is on the hanger device, a side of the garment with the one or a plurality of buttons extends through the slit so that at least one of the one or a plurality of buttons is inserted through at least one of the one or a plurality of button holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Inventor: Ryan Williams
  • Patent number: 8651343
    Abstract: A suspensory lifting apparatus for lead suits in radiation therapy is an apparatus to suspend a lead suit for radiation therapists. A radiation therapist puts on the lead suit under the apparatus. A load of the lead suit imposing on the therapist is reduced by the apparatus. Thus, a radiation therapist is able to take actions comfortably as far as the mechanical arm's reach of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Inventor: Shi-Jie Huang
  • Patent number: 8517232
    Abstract: A collapsible garment hanger having a male arm with an integral hinge mechanism mounted onto a partial disc, and a female arm having a hanger hook. The female arm and the male arm are joined at the integral hinge mechanism. The female arm comprises lateral walls to define a channel. The channel is shaped to cooperatively receive the partial disc. The female arm comprises female parts to receive the integral hinge mechanism. The channel receives the partial disk when the male arm and the female arm are in an extended position. The male arm further has an integral connection and a latch. The latch has a first set of teeth, and the female arm further has a second set of teeth. The first set of teeth engages the second set of teeth when the male arm and the female arm are in an extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Swissrael, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Stuart Geltzer, Caesar Earle Ciaglia
  • Patent number: 8413860
    Abstract: A hanger assembly allows a user to hang a pullover garment from its top and remove the pullover garment quickly and easily without damaging it. The hanger assembly includes a rigid handle to which is joined an elongated flexible holder. The rigid handle has a hook portion and a holder carrier portion including first and second opposed coupling members. The flexible holder is operationally coupled for slidable engagement with the first and second coupling members to allow the flexible holder to transition between a lengthwise compressed state and a partly relaxed state to hang the garment and between the partly relaxed state and a break free state to remove the garment without stretching its neck opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Inventor: Mehdi Mojtabavi
  • Patent number: 8397961
    Abstract: An apparatus for organizing and storing multiple items of clothing comprising an upside-down L-shaped body with an upper horizontal arm which includes two parallel hooks used to hang the apparatus from a standard closet bar, and a lower vertical arm which includes a rear-mounted brace that may be adjusted to support the apparatus against the rear wall of a closet, with the two arms being connected at a substantially perpendicular angle and reinforced by a cross-bar; and a plurality of hanger arrays depending from the lower vertical arm, with each hanger array comprising a plurality of hanger members that have two ends and are peaked in the middle and are each attached on one end to the lower vertical arm by a vertical hinge with the other end remaining accessible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Inventor: Julie Nixon Viehe
  • Patent number: 8381952
    Abstract: The finding concerns a clothes hanger with fold-away hook. Therein, in that the base of the hook, on one side is connected to the arched body through a flexible tongue, which allows the aforementioned hook to elastically twist, in particular to rotate by 90° and more, from vertical to horizontal and vice versa, or else from perpendicular to parallel on the arched body, whereas on the opposite side said base is equipped with a fastening system that, in the operative step, holds the hook on the body, so that, when the hook is lifted, the clothes hanger takes up the typical configuration, the normal function and has the same strength as a common clothes hanger with fixed hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Mainetti S.p.A.
    Inventor: Mario Mainetti
  • Patent number: 8220674
    Abstract: An improved closet hanger for use to hang clothes on a closet bar in a closet that is more attractive than prior art hangers. The closet hanger has an upper section, having a hook member configured to engage the closet bar and a neck, and a lower section, having a hanger body connected to the neck, that supports the clothes. At least the upper section is made from a transparent acrylic material and has a design element, comprising one or more design objects, incorporated therein that it is visible above the clothes hanging on the hanger body. The clothes hanger can include a design plate attached to or integral with the upper section. The design element can be in the design plate or the design plate can comprise a second design element having a theme corresponding or contrasting the theme of the design element in the hook member and/or neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Inventor: Tanya Liscano
  • Patent number: 8113393
    Abstract: A collapsible hook hanger having a metal hook moveable between an upright position for displaying garments and a folded position for reducing the footprint of the hanger during packaging/transportation of pre-hung garments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: The Build-Up Plastic & Metal Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Leung Ho
  • Patent number: 8047410
    Abstract: A hanging clothing assembly includes a hanger, a clothing item, and a hanging strap. The hanger has a body portion and an upper support portion. The clothing item has a free-hanging length and defines an upper portion configured to be worn over an upper body of a wearer and a lower portion configured to be worn over a lower body of the wearer. The upper portion of the clothing item is supported on the body portion of the hanger. The hanging strap is secured to the lower portion of the clothing item and is also releasably secured in a closed loop that extends about the lower portion of the clothing item. The closed loop is releasably secured to the hanger such that the lower portion is supported from the hanger and the clothing item defines a display-hanging length that is less than the free-hanging length of the clothing item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Katie Holm, Neal Anderson
  • Patent number: 8028868
    Abstract: Embodiment of the invention provide a garment support system, which may include a garment hanger and a garment bar physically unconnected to the hanger that can attach to the bottom of a garment supported by the hanger. The garment bar may include one or more clips for attaching the supporting to a garment. The support also may be weighted to provide additional support to the garment and/or to maintain a garment in a desired configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Ingenious Designs, LLC
    Inventor: Joy Mangano
  • Patent number: 7975885
    Abstract: A garment hanger includes a body having a hook member that extends outwardly from a cross bar that has a first end and an opposite second end. The cross bar has a first end portion that terminates at the first end, a second end portion that terminates at the second end, and a central portion disposed between the first end portion and the second end portion. The hook member is coupled to the central portion, wherein a cross-section of each of the first and second end portions has a first shape and a cross-section of the central portion has a second shape that is different than the first shape. In one embodiment, the first shape is an I-shape and the second shape is a Z-shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Uniplast Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: King Keung Kennedy Chan
  • Patent number: 7837074
    Abstract: A garment hanger with a hook that pivots between a substantially vertical position and a substantially horizontal position. The body of the hanger having detents for securing the hook in either the vertical or horizontal position. The hook capable of being alternately attached and detached from the body of the hanger. The hook additionally capable of being rotated along a substantially vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Inventors: Richard R. Rude, Stanley Austin
  • Patent number: 7832604
    Abstract: A coordinate set hanger has a primary hanger with a first body, a hook extending upward from the first body, a first means for suspending a garment from the first body, and a first connection tab extending downward from the body, operative to releasably suspend a dependent hanger therefrom. A connection link having a locking end at each end thereof, the locking end having at least one snap lock with at least one horizontal surface is releasably attachable to at least a connection tab of a primary hanger. A dependent hanger has a body and a second means for suspending a garment from the second body, and a second connection tab extending upward from the second body. The second connection tab is operative to releasably secure the locking end of the connecting link therein. In other embodiments, the component parts of the coordinate set hanger are modular, or may include a dependent loop for integration with existing hanger stock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Spotless Plastics Pty. Ltd.
    Inventor: Stanley F. Gouldson
  • Publication number: 20100252587
    Abstract: A clothes hanging system wherein a clothes hanger has a metal or magnetic plug in lieu of a hook and may be packaged with metal or magnetic rods, strips or mounting systems for the purpose of hanging clothing to achieve clothes organization while eliminating stretching of collars and tangling of hangers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventor: ALEX R. BOLES
  • Publication number: 20100193552
    Abstract: In a top garment hanger, through openings are formed in the arms of the hanger relative to a center axis of the hanger body. The provision of the various through openings reduces the total weight of the hanger and the resin material used to mold the hanger. The hanger is accordingly environmentally friendly. The manufacturing cost and the transportation cost of the hanger are reduced, which provide a market advantage for the manufacturer, transporter and retailer of the garment hangers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: SPOTLESS PLASTICS PTY. LTD
    Inventor: Stanley F. Gouldson
  • Patent number: 7748581
    Abstract: A three-dimensional collar shape retaining hanger prevents collars of a plurality of garments from being crushed and is capable of being stacked in a large number. The hanger has a hook portion and a hanger body. Between the hook portion and the hanger body, a connecting plate part which is a central collar supporting portion body is provided to connect the hook portion and the hanger body. A pair of first curved parts which protrudes toward a rear side of the hanger so as to abut on a rear neck portion of a collar is connected to right and left sides of the connecting plate part. To end portions of the first curved parts, a pair of second curved parts is connected at each distal end thereof. Each base end of the second curved parts is connected to the hanger body. A portion between the distal end and the base end of each of the second curved parts protrudes toward the front side of the hanger so as to abut on an inside of a front portion of the collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Maruso Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Osamu Yamada
  • Publication number: 20100140306
    Abstract: A garment hanger includes a body having a hook member that extends outwardly from a cross bar that has a first end and an opposite second end. The cross bar has a first end portion that terminates at the first end, a second end portion that terminates at the second end, and a central portion disposed between the first end portion and the second end portion. The hook member is coupled to the central portion, wherein a cross-section of each of the first and second end portions has a first shape and a cross-section of the central portion has a second shape that is different than the first shape. In one embodiment, the first shape is an I-shape and the second shape is a Z-shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: Uniplast Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: King Keung Kennedy Chan
  • Patent number: 7694859
    Abstract: A collapsible hanger used for garments having a hanger hook with a pair of oppositely disposed support arms pivotally secured thereto. Deployment control cable straps extend from the respective arms for folding and use deployment of the hanger arms via a central slidably disposed lock and release knob on a central support shaft in the preferred form of the embodiment. An alternate form is also available which shows an automatic spring-urged deployment system in which the hanger arms are retracted under spring tension and then released via an access button into full horizontally disposed use position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Inventor: Lance Whittaker
  • Patent number: 7658016
    Abstract: Embodiments of an apparatus for facilitating drying of a garment on a garment hanger are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus for drying a garment on a garment hanger includes an elongated body comprised of a water resistant material. The body has a major axis extending between a first end and a second end. The body is configured to be repeatably changed between a substantially flat and a substantially tubular orientation. An elongated aperture formed in the first end of the elongated body to allow passage of the hook of the garment hanger through the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Inventor: Elaine M. Schulkin
  • Patent number: 7641084
    Abstract: An adjustable clothes hanger includes a hollow body provided with a chamber formed therein, first and second arms conjoined to the body and disposed exterior of the chamber, and a mechanism for slidably and linearly displacing the first and second arms along respective linear paths in such a manner that the first and second arms simultaneously extend and retract along opposed flanges of the body. The device further includes first and second hooks partially seated within the chamber and disposed along the flanges. Each of such first and second hooks has top ends terminating outwardly from the chamber and traversing respective travel paths of the first and second arms when the primary and secondary dials are rotated in corresponding directions such that the first and second arms are engaged and stopped from traveling therebeyond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Inventor: Claudia Alcaraz
  • Publication number: 20090302074
    Abstract: A sizer for a garment hanger configured to extend over a garment hanger comprising a body. The body has an outer surface and an inner surface, and defines a cavity with an upper opening and a lower opening. The body further having a central region with a first wall and a second wall spaced apart therefrom, and, a first curved wall spanning between the first wall and the second wall and a second curved wall spanning between the first wall and the second wall. The first and second curved walls are outwardly convex and define a peak region on each of the first and second curved walls. Applying a pinching force upon the first and second curved walls toward each other drives the first wall and second wall further apart, to, in turn, temporarily widen at least one of the lower and the upper openings of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: James Hansen, Russell O. Blanchard
  • Patent number: 7628302
    Abstract: A hanger having a dependent loop is described. The dependent loop permits an associated hanger to be attached thereto. An accessory hanger is also described. The accessory hanger includes a securing mechanism for attachment to the dependent loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Inventor: Wai Shing Yau
  • Patent number: 7621430
    Abstract: Garment refreshing hangers incorporate activated charcoal, a proven odor absorbing material, into the body of the hanger. Garments such as a jacket are hung on the hanger in the traditional manner. The garment areas susceptible to odor producing body areas like the neck and armpits are placed in close proximity to the activated charcoal in the hanger. The activated charcoal absorbs the odors thus removing them from the garment. Provision is made for charcoal replacement upon consumption. Preferably, the charcoal includes activated carbon impregnated porous sheet material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Market Reconnaissance Group, LLC
    Inventor: Arthur Edward Schawbel
  • Publication number: 20090272771
    Abstract: A hanging clothing assembly includes a hanger, a clothing item, and a hanging strap. The hanger has a body portion and an upper support portion. The clothing item has a free-hanging length and defines an upper portion configured to be worn over an upper body of a wearer and a lower portion configured to be worn over a lower body of the wearer. The upper portion of the clothing item is supported on the body portion of the hanger. The hanging strap is secured to the lower portion of the clothing item and is also releasably secured in a closed loop that extends about the lower portion of the clothing item. The closed loop is releasably secured to the hanger such that the lower portion is supported from the hanger and the clothing item defines a display-hanging length that is less than the free-hanging length of the clothing item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: TARGET BRANDS, INC.
    Inventors: Katie Holm, Neal Anderson
  • Patent number: 7552850
    Abstract: The present invention provides a clothes holding device which is easily assembled (formed) as a clothes holding device (for example, a hanger), which is compact, which has an interior function for use as an interior material. The device includes a plate member having flexibility, wherein the plate member is bent on the symmetrical axis, and clothes are held with a resulting bent portion. When clothes are not held, the clothes holding device of the present invention is assimilated with the surface of a wall, and appears to be a part of a room's interior. When holding clothes, a vertical-directional lower area of the plate member is bent along the horizontal axis, and the bent portion and the remaining portion hold clothes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignees: Nihon University, Seems Inc.
    Inventors: Fujio Koeda, Kei Matsuzawa
  • Publication number: 20090152310
    Abstract: Garment refreshing hangers incorporate activated charcoal, a proven odor absorbing material, into the body of the hanger. Garments such as a jacket are hung on the hanger in the traditional manner. The garment areas susceptible to odor producing body areas like the neck and armpits are placed in close proximity to the activated charcoal in the hanger. The activated charcoal absorbs the odors thus removing them from the garment. Provision is made for charcoal replacement upon consumption. Preferably, the charcoal includes activated carbon impregnated porous sheet material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventor: Arthur Edward Schawbel
  • Publication number: 20090134189
    Abstract: A narrow wrap of colorful cloth is helically wound end-to-end over a hanger body, including its upstanding central and downwardly sloping shoulder regions, but not covering the hanger swivel hook at the central region. A decorative yarn holds the wrap in place, being first secured near one end to the hanger swivel hook, and then being helically wound over one end shoulder region and out to proximate one hanger end and then being wound back over the shoulder and central regions substantially out to the other hanger end and back then to the central region. The yarn is then tied to the swivel hook. A thin padding preferably covers the hanger to underlie the wrap, but the swivel hook extends through a slit therein to be exposed. The ends of the tubular wrap are folded over and secured by the yarn to hide the hanger ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventor: Mary Elizabeth Forsberg
  • Publication number: 20090129972
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a clothes-conditioning hanger able to condition (e.g. fragrance) clothing on the hanger The hanger has a socket (9) beneath its apex (4), which can retain a source of conditioning agent. The hanger arms (3) contain passageways and apertures (6) whereby conditioning agent may be delivered to the clothing on the hanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: Reckitt Benckiser N.V.
    Inventors: Guiseppe Di Bono, Giorgio Franzolin
  • Patent number: 7455202
    Abstract: A hanger body 10 is provided with a body section 20, a pair of stick type extension members 30, which is embedded in the body section 20 in such a manner that the respective ends of the stick type extension members 30 extend from the body section 20 in directions opposite to each other, a pair of shoulder sections 40 which each have elastically deformable long bodies, and a storage section embedded in the body section 20 in such a manner that each of the long bodies of the shoulder sections 40 can be housed from each side of the long bodies. The hanger body 10 has a plurality of locking means, which can be locked at the respective ends of the stick type extension members, on the other sides of the long bodies. In a state where the long bodies form the shoulder sections for clothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Inventor: Masahiro Shimura
  • Patent number: 7404503
    Abstract: A compact clothes hanger having a straight member having a hooked end and an opposite end perpendicularly secured between a first end and a second end disposed opposite the first end of a horizontal top arm. A recessed area centrally disposed between the first end and the second end and operatively aligned with the hooked end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Inventors: Andrew Cleaver, Myron D Osborn
  • Publication number: 20080173679
    Abstract: A clothes hanger having a shoulder bar with two spaced ends. An elongated pant bar having two ends is disposed between the shoulder bar so that one end of the pant bar is secured to one end of the shoulder bar, while the other end of the pant bar is secured to the other end of the shoulder bar. A hook is attached to the midpoint of the shoulder bar for mounting the hanger on a closet rod. The shoulder bar and pant bar each include at least one elongated airflow through slot which facilitates air circulation through the hanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: The Evercare Company
    Inventors: Noah McNeely, Allison Guyton
  • Patent number: 7350680
    Abstract: A radiation garment holder for mounting on a wall or other suitable surface. The holder has a central section with first and second clearance sections, first and second arms, and first and second shoulder support regions. The cantilevered clearance sections prevent radiation protection garments from contacting a support surface. The non-contact design reduces disease transmission between the radiation garment and a support surface, and reduces mechanical damage to the garment. The convex shoulder supports help extend the useful life of a radiation garment. The holder is nonporous and may readily be disinfected without degrading the material. The nonporous holder reduces the absorption of infectious agents, reduces the ability of the holder to support the growth of microorganisms or other antigenic materials, and reduces the risk of transferring unhealthful agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Inventor: Mark DeBroeck
  • Patent number: 7320419
    Abstract: The present invention 10 discloses a clothes hanger 12 having roller beads 14 mounted upon the hook portion 22 of the frame. The present invention 10 comprises a lower wire frame 23 which may take the conventional hanger shape or other shapes or styles with the hook portion 22 having bead-like rollers 14 captive thereon. The hanger rolls with ease along the hanger rod 16 making the task of moving heavy clothing 18, such as coats, easy. The rollers 14 can be constructed from a variety of materials and can be of a variety of colors. The rollers can be held captive to the hook portion of the hanger 12 by a hook-shaped roller stop 24 at one distal end and the wrapping of the wire hanger at the other end 28 or by bonding the first and last bead to the hanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Inventor: Sandro Finamore
  • Patent number: 7290686
    Abstract: A clothes-hanging apparatus is made of a wire formed into an upwardly extending hanger contiguous with a downwardly extending pair of sloping shoulders, the shoulders each contiguous with one of a pair of separate collinear horizontal legs, the horizontal legs terminating in an adjacent, close-abutting relationship. A strengthening web is formed on and between critical portions of the shoulders and the legs for rigidizing the apparatus. An element is used to support or connect the legs so they may be parted or joined as desired for placement and removal of a garment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Inventor: Volker von Detten
  • Patent number: 7287674
    Abstract: A garment hanger system including a hook member, a hanger body and an information indicator mounted on the hanger body. The hanger body includes a reinforcing rib section disposed adjacent a mounting structure that receives the hook member. The information indicator is adapted to mount around the hook member and detachably interlock with the reinforcing rib section. The information indicator includes one or more walls defining a top opening and a hollow cavity. Preferably, the end of the hook member passes through the top opening such that the indictor can slide down the hook member. The sidewalls of the indicator are preferably adapted, for example, with locking nibs, to detachably interlock to the reinforcing rib section of the hanger body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: The Accessory Corp.
    Inventors: Steven Sutton, John G. Warmath
  • Patent number: 7258258
    Abstract: A clothes hanger is provided with a hook and two arms projecting from it. Each of the arms is formed by a bottle-shaped container. The hook preferably has a thread for each bottle-shaped container. Each of the bottle-shaped containers is detachably screwed into one of these threads by means of its mouth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Inventor: Paul Schweizer
  • Patent number: 7249699
    Abstract: The present invention is an apparel apparatus that is especially useful for hanging narrow or small necked shirts and sweaters. It is a collapsible garment hanger, or clothing hanger, that has moving parts. There are two hanger arms that rotate about pins on a hanger body, and there is a fulcrum about which a quick-release lever and release tabs pivot so that a locking mechanism can be manipulated. All of the parts used with the apparatus are inexpensive plastic parts that can be injection molded, and the apparatus can be quickly assembled by snapping parts together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Zadee Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Allen Hill, Zachary R. Cresap, Jennifer Rebekah Hartmark-Hill
  • Patent number: 6629014
    Abstract: An apparatus especially configured for users to easily coordinate or harmonize apparel before putting the clothing on. The embodiments include a frame member defining a display region configured for displaying the personalized real human facial image of a user. In a first embodiment, the display region is positioned on top of a garment supporting device. In a second embodiment, the display region comprises a computer monitor. In a third embodiment, the facial or garment image is retrieved from a remote computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Inventor: Peter Ar-Fu Lam
  • Patent number: 6499633
    Abstract: An improved information marker for a clothes hanger is disclosed. Between the shoulder and the hook of the hanger, a web is secured. At two or more locations on the web, a profiled surface is created. These profiled surfaces engage with fingers on the interior of an information tab, so as to hold the information tab securely on the web and necessarily the hanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Acotex Far East Limited
    Inventor: Neil Pogmore