Garment hanger with adjustable clamping crossbar

• US 5,082,152 A
• Filed: 12/26/1990
• Issued: 01/21/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Shing-Huei Chen
• Original Assignee: Shing-Huei Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Shing-Huei
• Primary Examiner(s): Schroeder, Werner H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MOHANTY, BIBHU R
• Application Number:
  US07/634,075
• Time in Patent Office: 391 Days
• Field of Search: 223/96, 223/89, 223/94, 223/85, 223/88, 223/91, 211/117, D 6/326, D 6/327
• US Class Current: 223/89
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 25/442 to support shouldered garments non-adjustable shoulder support members A47G25/20
• 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

Abstract

A hanger includes a pair of extendible shoulder members telescopically mounted on a pair of basic shoulders members bifurcated from a central hook of the hanger for adjustably hanging a suit, a dress, a jacket or the like by matching the width of the shoulder members of the hanger with the width of the clothes hung on the hanger for well maintaining the clothes, and a U-shaped cross bar laterally secured between the two basic shoulder members having a grading snap bar slidably engageable with two vertical brackets formed on two opposite end portions of the U-shaped cross bar for adjustably clamping at least a pair of trousers between the cross bar and the snap for preventing releasing of the trousers from the bars.

Claims

1. An adjustable garment hanger comprising:

a central sleeve, two basic shoulder members bifurcated from the central sleeve protruding rightwardly and leftwardly from the central sleeve, a pair of extendible shoulder members respectively mounted on the two basic shoulder members, a U-shaped cross bar laterally secured between said two basic shoulder members having two vertical brackets formed on two opposite end portions of said U-shaped cross bar and a adjustable snap bar supported between said vertical brackets by rack and teeth means which includes a pair of bar clips resiliently formed on opposite ends of the snap bar, each of said bar clips having a pair of lower clamping teeth adjustably engageable with a plurality of rack teeth formed on the two vertical brackets wherein said lower clamping teeth adjustably engage said rack teeth and the snap bar can be adjusted to a desired vertical position along the vertical brackets, said hanger further comprising a main hook member pivotally mounted in the central sleeve to be hung on a fixture.