US2589737A - Clothes hanger - Google Patents

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March 18, 1952 I. SCOTT-DALGLEISH 2,589,737

CLOTHES HANGER Filed Marc 15, 1949 FIG.2.

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lm/enfar v Patented Mar. 18, 1952 Application Mai-Eli 16, 1949, Serial No. 81,787 In Great Britain March 30, 1948 2 claiiiis This invention relates to clothes hangers and has for its object to provide a hanger which will not only accommodate a coat, waistcoat or undercoat, but also two pairs of trousers, two skirts,- other articles such as shirts.

Known clothes hangers usually comprise a hook from which are suspended. sometimes in swivelling relationship, a pair of wooden or metal shoulders, shaped and sloping downwards, to supp it a coat and waistcoat. A bar or rack may be provided which is joined to both extremities offthe shoulders for the reception of trousers or other garments. A drawback to such a rack is that the garments to be supported thereon have t vJoe threaded through the space between the sh ders and the rack, and furthermore the cap ity of the rack is very limited. The clothes hanger according to the presen I vention is, apart from the suspension hook,-:primarily intended for construction in tubular metal, such as steel or alloy, or other materialiof suflicient rigidity and strength.

According to this invention a clothes hanger comprises a curved portion adapted to be s'fuspended from a hook and two substantially straight, substantially horizontal rack portions arranged in substantially parallel spaced relationship, one end of each rack being joined tofone end of the curved portion and the other en of each rack being free and spaced from the t fer end of the curved portion. 1.

The suspension hook may be passed through the curved portion and also through a support, for example semicircular in shape, secured t& he curved portion.

A convenient embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a front elevation and Figure 2 is an end elevation of a clothes hanger according to the invention.

Referring to the drawings, suitable shaped shoulders for a coat and waistcoat are provided by a curved length of metal tube I to the upper convex surface of which is welded or otherwise secured an inverted u-shaped tube 2, the shank of a suitable hook 3 passing through the U-shaped tube 2 and being free to swivel therein. This U shaped tube provides a grip by which the hanger can conveniently be handled.

The end portions of the curved tube I are bent outwardly from the plane of the central part of the tube in opposite directions as may be seen in Figure 2) and each end is berr ound into a straight length of tube 4.to form t 0 horizontal racks which then run in opposite directions parallel to each other with a space between their entire length terminating in free and unattached ends 5 which are bent up slightly and sealed and rounded off at 6. 7

It is thus easy to slip two pairs of, trousers, or two skirts, or a pair of trousers and a shirt and underclothes, on to the racks from their open ends, or to pass the racks themselves between the folds of the folded garments. {I'he provision of two racks doubles the rack capacity of the hanger.

What I claim is:

1. A clothes hanger comprising a curved portion adapted to be suspended from a hook and two substantially straight substantially horizontal 2 rack portions arranged in substantially parallel horizontally spaced relationship, one end of each rack being joined to one end ofath'el; curved portion and the other end of each? ck being free and spaced horizontally from th other end of the curved portion, and the encl portions of the curved portion being bent outw dly from the plane of the central portion.

2. A clothes hanger as claim wherein each rack portion is substantially the length of the space between the en portion.

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REFERENCES crrEp The following references are of record in the file of this patent: 1

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