Lower neck indicator for wire hook hangers

• US 20060213938A1
• Filed: 03/10/2006
• Published: 09/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Prosperity Products Limited
• Original Assignee: Spotless Plastics PTY Limited (Downer EDI Limited)
• Inventors: Gouldson, Stanley
• Granted Patent: US 7,516,875 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 223/85
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 25/1407 with identification means identification in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 25/1421 at the top
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 25/1428 at or around the stem

Abstract

In a lower neck sizer for a garment hanger and a combination turnable wire hook hanger and lower neck sizer, the lower neck sizer includes a body dimensioned to generally surround a cylindrical projection and the support flanges adjacent to the body flange of the hanger, and an inwardly extending tab secured to the sizer body configured to engage the hanger at the lower neck region to resist removal. The inwardly extending tab may have a relief to accommodate a cylindrical projection of the hanger and a finger directed towards the intersection between a support flanges and the cylindrical projection. Alternately, the inwardly extending tab may have an upward surface located to engage the body flange. The lower neck sizer may include a downward extension, the inwardly extending tab being carried by the downward extension. Alternately, the inwardly extending tab may include a plurality of substantially radial projections located at an upper surface of the lower neck sizer, and dimensioned to engage the wire hook. The lower neck sizer can have a discontinuity traversing the height of the body to facilitate mounting on the hanger.

Claims

1. A lower neck sizer for a hanger comprising:

a sizer body dimensioned to generally surround the lower neck portion of a predetermined hanger; and

an inwardly extending tab secured to the sizer body, the inwardly extending tab configured to engage the predetermined hanger at a lower neck region and resist removal of the lower neck sizer.

2. The lower neck sizer according to claim 1, wherein the inwardly extending tab comprises a relief sized to accommodate a cylindrical projection of the hanger and a finger directed towards the intersection between a support flange of the hanger and the cylindrical projection when the lower neck sizer is engaged with the hanger at a lower neck region.

3. The lower neck sizer according to claim 1, wherein the inwardly extending tab comprises an upward surface located to engage a body flange of the hanger.

4. The lower neck sizer according to claim 3, wherein the lower neck sizer comprises a downward extension, the inwardly extending tab being carried by the downward extension.

5. The lower neck sizer according to claim 4, wherein the inwardly extending tab is located on at least one of an inward surface of the downward extension, or a lower edge of the downward extension.

6. The lower neck sizer according to claim 1, wherein the inwardly extending tab comprises a plurality of substantially radial projections located at an upper surface of the lower neck sizer and dimensioned to engage a wire hook of the hanger.

7. The lower neck sizer according to claim 6, wherein each of the plurality of substantially radial projections comprises a convex, concave, chamfered or sloped inward end.

8. The lower neck sizer according to claim 1, wherein the lower neck sizer comprises a discontinuity traversing the height of the body.

9. The lower neck sizer according to claim 1, wherein the lower neck sizer comprises an injection molded plastic.

10. The lower neck sizer according to claim 9, wherein the injection molded plastic comprises one or more of a polypropylene, and a K-resin.

11. The lower neck sizer according to claim 1, wherein the lower neck sizer carries predetermined indicia which corresponds to an item to be suspended from a hanger.

12. The lower neck sizer according to claim 11, wherein the indicia comprises one or more of the color of the lower neck sizer, the size of the lower neck sizer, the shape of the lower neck sizer, symbols applied to the lower neck sizer, or symbols molded into the lower neck sizer.

13. The lower neck sizer according to claim 1, wherein the inwardly extending tab is positioned generally adjacent a lower extent of a side wall of the sizer.

14. A combination turnable wire hook hanger and lower neck sizer, the turnable wire hook hanger comprising:

a body having a body flange surrounding the body;

a cylindrical projection extending from the body beyond the flange;

a pair of support flanges extending between the cylindrical projection and the body flange; and

a wire hook rotably received in the cylindrical projection; and

the lower neck sizer comprising;

a body dimensioned to generally surround the cylindrical projection and the support flanges adjacent to the body flange; and

an inwardly extending tab secured to the sizer body, the inwardly extending tab configured to engage the hanger at a lower neck region to resist removal of the lower neck sizer.

15. The combination according to claim 14, wherein the inwardly extending tab comprises a relief sized to accommodate the cylindrical projection and a finger directed towards the intersection between one of the support flanges with the cylindrical projection when the lower neck sizer is engaged with the hanger at a lower neck region.

16. The combination according to claim 14, wherein the inwardly extending tab comprises an upward surface located to engage the body flange.

17. The combination according to claim 16, wherein the lower neck sizer comprises a downward extension, the inwardly extending tab being carried by the downward extension.

18. The combination according to claim 17, wherein the inwardly extending tab is located on at least one of an inward surface of the downward extension, or a lower edge of the downward extension.

19. The combination according to claim 14, wherein the inwardly extending tab comprises a plurality of substantially radial projections located at an upper surface of the lower neck sizer and dimensioned to engage the wire hook.

20. The combination according to claim 19, wherein each of the plurality of substantially radial projections comprises a convex, concave, chamfered or sloped inward end.

21. The combination according to claim 14, wherein the lower neck sizer comprises a discontinuity traversing the height of the body.

22. The combination according to claim 14, wherein the lower neck sizer comprises an injection molded plastic.

23. The combination according to claim 22, wherein the injection molded plastic comprises one or more of a polypropylene, and a K-resin.

24. The combination according to claim 14, wherein the lower neck sizer carries predetermined indicia which corresponds to an item to be suspended from the hanger.

25. The combination according to claim 24, wherein the indicia comprises one or more of the color of the lower neck sizer, the size of the lower neck sizer, the shape of the lower neck sizer, symbols applied to the lower neck sizer, or symbols molded into the lower neck sizer.

26. The combination according to claim 14, wherein the inwardly extending tab is positioned generally adjacent a lower extent of a side wall of the sizer.