Tie attachment for coat hanger

• US 3,967,766 A
• Filed: 11/13/1975
• Issued: 07/06/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Joseph M. Hart
• Original Assignee: Joseph M. Hart
• Inventors: Hart, Joseph M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Krizmanich, George H.
• Application Number:
  US05/631,763
• Time in Patent Office: 236 Days
• Field of Search: 223/DIG. 1, 223/85, 223/91, 223/96, 223/88, 211/113, 211/124
• US Class Current: 223/85
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 25/487 for clamping the trousers or skirts against the trouser-supporting bar or between trouser-supporting bars A47G25/483 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 25/743 of the clothes hanger-type
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 223/01 Tie hanger

Abstract

A coat hanger having a paperboard sleeve on the lower run is provided with an elastomeric band and projecting guide located centrally of the sleeve and depending downwardly therefrom and in which the elongated runs of the band are arranged around the guide and cross over beneath the sleeve to tension the elongated band runs against the sleeve to clamp ties or the like to the sleeve.

Claims

1. In a hanger of the type having a lower supporting run including a paperboard sleeve spanning the run and having upwardly converging runs extending from the lower run, the improvement comprising a continuous elastomeric band having opposed ends and elongated runs with said opposed ends arranged around the juncture of said lower run and converging runs of said hanger and above said sleeve and guide means located intermediate the length of said sleeve and fastened to said sleeve and projecting downwardly therefrom and said band having its elongated runs trained about said guide means with said elongated runs crossing each other on opposite sides of said guide means whereby said elongated runs are engaged under tension with said sleeve at points intermediate the ends of said sleeve and said guide to clamp articles to said sleeve.

2. The improvement of claim 1 wherein said guide means comprises a pin with a point projecting through the wall of said sleeve and having a headed shank portion about which said elongated runs of the band are trained.