Patent Application
20240382027
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The disclosure relates to clothes hanger devices and more particularly pertains to a new clothes hanger device for hanging clothes of various sizes. The device includes an upper member, a lower member and a pair of curved members that each slidably engages the upper member and the lower member to define a clothes hanger. The device includes a pair of cushions wrapped around a respective curved member and a pair of locks integrated into the upper member. Each of the locks releasably engages a respective curved member for retaining the curved members at a selected width to facilitate the clothes hanger to accommodate various sizes of clothing.
The prior art relates to clothes hanger devices including a clothes hanger that includes a variety of support frame formed into a loop and a pair of support rods extending laterally across the clothes hanger. The prior art discloses a clothes hanger that includes a central member and a pair of adjustable members that is slidably engaged to opposing ends of the central member for adjusting an overall length of the clothes hanger. The prior art discloses a clothes hanger that has a pair of shirt hooks integrated into a lower member of the clothes hanger.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising an upper member that is longitudinally elongated. A hook is coupled to and extends upwardly from the upper member thereby facilitating the hook to be positioned on a closet rod. A lower member is elongated to have a length that is equal to a length of the upper member. A pair of curved tubes is provided and each of the curved tubes defines a U-shape to hang an article of clothing in the convention of a clothes hanger. Each of the curved tubes insertably receives the upper member and the lower member such that the upper member and the lower member and the pair of curved tubes defines an ovoid shape which has an adjustable length to accommodate various sizes of articles of clothing.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A hook 32 is coupled to and extends upwardly from the upper member 12 thereby facilitating the hook 32 to be positioned on a closet rod. The hook 32 has a lower end 34 and an upper end 36 and the lower end 34 extends into the well 30 in the distal end 28 of the second portion 26 of the receiver 22. Furthermore, the hook 32 is curved between the upper end 36 and the lower end 34 such that the upper end 36 is directed toward the lower end 34 thereby facilitating the hook 32 to extend around the closet rod 38. A lower member 40 is included that is elongated to have a length which is equal to a length of the upper member 12.
A pair of curved tubes 42 is provided and each of the curved tubes 42 has a centrally located curve 43 such that each of the curved tubes 42 defines a U-shape. In this way the upper member 12, the lower member 40 and the pair of curved tubes 42 can hang an article of clothing 44 in the convention of a clothes hanger. Each of the curved tubes 42 insertably receives the upper member 12 and the lower member 40 such that the upper member 12, the lower member 40 and the pair of curved tubes 42 defines an ovoid shape which has an adjustable length to accommodate various sizes of articles of clothing 44. Additionally, each of the upper member 12, the lower member 40 and the pair of curved tubes 42 may be comprised of steel, aluminum or other type of non plastic material that is recyclable.
Each of the curved tubes 42 has a primary end 46 and a secondary end 48 and the curve 43 associated with each of the curved tubes 42 is centrally located between the primary end 46 and the secondary end 48. Thus, the curve 43 defines a primary portion 50 of the curved tubes 42 that is spaced from and is oriented parallel with a secondary portion 52 of the curved tubes 42. The primary end 46 of each of the curved tubes 42 insertably receives a respective one of the first end 14 and the second end 16 of the upper member 12. The secondary end 48 of each of the curved tubes 42 insertably receives a respective one of a pair of ends 54 of the lower member 40. Additionally, each of the curved tubes 42 has a hole 56 extending through the primary portion 50 and the hole 56 in each of the curved tubes 42 is positioned adjacent to the primary end 46 of a respective one of the curved tubes 42.
A pair of washers 58 is each attached to the primary end 46 of a respective one of the curved tubes 42 such that the upper member 12 extends through each of the washers 58. Each of the washers 58 has a diameter that is greater than a diameter of the respective curved tube 42. A pair of cushions 60 is each wrapped around a respective one of the curved tubes 42 to facilitate the article of clothing 44 to frictionally engage the cushions 60 thereby inhibiting the article of clothing 44 from sliding off of the curved tubes 42. Each of the cushions 60 is positioned on the primary portion 50 of the respective curved tube 42 and each of the cushions 60 extends between a respective one of the washers 58 and the curve 43 in the respective curved tube 42.
A pair of locks 62 is each movably integrated into the upper member 12 and each of the locks 62 is biased to extend outwardly through a respective one of the holes in the outer wall 18 of the upper member 12. Each of the locks 62 is biased to extend outwardly through the hole in the primary portion 50 of a respective one of the curved tubes 42 for retaining the pair of curved tubes 42 a selected distance apart from each other. In this way the length of the ovoid shape defined by the upper member 12, the lower member 40 and the pair of curved tubes 42 can be adjusted.
Each of the locks 62 comprises a button 64 that has a lip 66 extending around the button 64. The lip 66 abuts an interior surface 68 of the upper member 12 thereby inhibiting the button 64 from being removed from the upper member 12. Each of the locks 62 includes a biasing member 70 that is positioned within the upper member 12 and the biasing member 70 extends between the interior surface 68 of the upper member 12 and the lip 66 on the button 64. Additionally, the biasing member 70 extends around an engagement point 72 that is disposed on the interior surface 68 of the upper member 12 thereby inhibiting the biasing member 70 from being displaced.
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In use, each of the locks 62 is pushed inwardly to facilitate the pair of curved tubes 42 to be adjusted on the upper member 12 and the lower member 40. The locks 62 are released to facilitate the locks 62 extend outwardly through a respective one of the holes 20 in the upper member 12 and the hole 56 in the respective curved tube 42 to accommodate the article of clothing 44 that is hung on the primary portion 50 of the pair of curved tubes 42. In this way various sizes of articles of clothing can be hung on the primary portion 50 of the pair of curved tubes 42.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
