US2531293A - Coat hanger - Google Patents

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Nov. 21, 1950 H. M. PAULSEN 2,531,293

COAT HANGER I Filed Dec. 17, 1947 INVENTOR. HENRY M. PAULSEN ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 21, 1950 iJNliED STATES NT OFFICE COAT HANGER Henry M. Paulsen, Seattle, Wash.

Application December 17, 1947, Serial No. 792,132

2 Claims.

This invention relates to coat hangers, and particularly to adjustable forms therefor which are automatically locked in predetermined positions when a coat is supported thereby.

In the construction and use of coat hangers it is important that they be constructed economically with few parts and adapted to be adjusted for use for different size coats. It is especially important also that the assembled parts be automatically locked in such positions when used.

It is therefore an object of this invention to provide a coat hanger to meet such requirements with a minimum number of parts or wires cooperating together for telescopic adjustment. A. particular object being to provide a wire coat hanger which may be easily adjusted into various lateral widths for various coats and which will be automatically locked in such desired positions by the weight of a coat suspended thereover or thereupon.

With these and other objects to be hereinafter stated I have illustratively exemplified my invention by the accompanying drawings of which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation or vertical view of the assembled coat hanger in locked position. Figure 2 is a cross section view taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1 with dotted lines to indicate the position of the supporting hook when the wires are freed for easy shifting or changing the dimensions thereof.

Like numerals on the different figures represent like parts.-

This improved hanger is preferably formed of or from four pieces or sections of resilient wire movably connected together for use. Two relatively short shoulder sections [3 and M are twisted together at their upper ends beginning at the point l2 to provide a stiff supportin neck II which terminates with one member bent into a hook I!) for supporting the hanger. The lower extremities of these two wires or shoulder members are twisted forwardly for eyes at obtuse angles therewith as l5 and I6 forming eyes for slidable disposition over the upper portions of relatively longer cross body wire braces 23 and 24.

These cross braces overlap each other and carry eyes 25 and 26 which respectively embrace the other complementary brace for free slidable or telescopic movement for changing the width of the hanger. At suitable points these braces are bent upward into substantially U shapes for elbows l1 and I8, which in use fit beneath the outer edges of the shoulders of a coat and maintain the same in expanded position to prevent wrinkles being formed therein when suspended upon the hanger. The upper ends of the exextended U bends carry eyes thereon 2i and 22 which are twisted backwardly downwardly and forwardly over the shoulder wire 13 and I4 in slidable relation therewith to facilitate the shifting in width of the elbows I! and I8 and the lower braces 23 and 24. These eyes 2! and 22 and the other eyes l5 and i6 slope at obtuse angles with their respective bodies from which they are formed and thus create frictional contact with the enclosed wires as they are extended thereover forwardly from the lower members and backwardly from the upper shoulder members.

In order to provide for additional friction of the eyes last described and for lockin the same into predetermined positions desired for the elbows, the lower portions of the shoulder sections indicated at l3 and I4 respectively are partially twisted and bowed forward over the adjacent port-ions l9 and 211 respectively of the upper sections of the U members; and the upper portions of the adjacent U members indicated as H] and 20 are slightly twisted and bowed backward over such sections I3 and [4 thus forming suflicient friction when the hook is vertically disposed and such adjacent contacts at their greatest frictional disposition to effectively lock the shoulder wires and the lower brace wires in the predetermined positions for expansion desired. When the hook is bent backward as indicated by the dotted lines in Figure 2 then the positions of the twisted and bowed sections as l3 and l4 l9 and 20 will be thereby sufficiently released from friction to permit the operator to readily extend the elbows b sliding movements of the bowed portions within the respective binding eyes J5, I6, 2| and 22. When not in use the hook normally assumes a position shown in dotted lines which facilitates the shifting of the positions for the various garments. Then when a coat is draped over the hanger and the hook looped over any usual support the weight of the is twisted together at the top ends thereof to provide a neck and supporting hook, and the lower bodies thereof being sloped outward and downward to provide shoulder members, the lower ends thereof being bent backward and into eyes, said lower pair of such sections having injustments of width or sizes and said outer ends of such lower portions being turned upward and inward to provide elbows for expanding a garment thereover, the upper ends of such-upturned elbows being threaded through the respective adjacent eyes On the lower ends of' such upper shoulder members and there bent f0r.War.d.,,into.-

eyes enclosing the shanks of such shoulder membars to provide; slidabl'e, relations between such upper and lower sections for adjustmentsoi the elbows, and the, portions of such upper shoulder sections, and. the upper portions of such: elbow sections between the, last described pairs, ofeyes being partially twisted'and bowed over andtoward the opposite adjacent respective sections for pro.- viding friction for locking the pairsrofi sections against lateralimovement whenthe hook is vertie cally disposed, by the weight of garment, sup.- ported over the Saidsections 2. A device for expanding and supporting coats and garments, comprising, an upper and lower pair of resilient wires, the upper pair thereof having a supporting hook disposed approximately vertical normally above the same for supporting the device and garments, and having down sloping shoulders below the hook provided with eyes twisted on the lower extremities for guides and, said lower members having the major portions thereof disposed horizontally in parallel relation and their inner ends provided with eyes thereat for telescopic disposition with the adjacent member forrlateral adjustments, elbows, curved in the outward portions of such horizontal members oppositely disposed for stretching the garments thereover laterally and for supporting the same,

' andathe top portions of such elbows being extended upward and telescopically connected with the lower portions of such upper pair of wires, the adjacent portions of, such elbows and the upper pair of wires being twisted and bowed over and toward each other for creating friction between the same for locking the upper and lower pairs together to: prevent accidental shiftin positions thereof when the hook iszvertical.

HENRY M. PAULSENt REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:;

UN ITED' STATES PATENTS.

Number Name Date 1,598,747 Scharles Sept. 7, 1926 2,360,119 Gallagher Oct. 10; 194-4

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