1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a coat hanger and, more particularly to a coat hanger with a lint remover rotatably mounted thereon.
2. Description of Related Art
The use of coat hangers to hang clothes is known in the prior art. Everyone uses and has used coat or garment hangers to hang clothing while not being worn. However, surfaces of clothing, especially coats, frequently get soiled with particles from the environment, such as lint, human hair, pets shedding hair, dust, etc while they are hung on a hanger or worn on. Numerous devices have been developed for removing these foreign particles from the clothes including vacuuming, sweeping, brushing, or using adhesive tape lint removers. However, they are either suffering from cumbersomeness or generally easy to be misplaced and cannot be located when they are in urgent need before a person puts on a coat.
Therefore, it is desirable to have a device that users can hang their clothes on and also use to remove foreign particles (i.e. fuzz, hair, lint, etc.) from the clothes before they are put on.
One object of the present invention is to provide a coat hanger . . .
Another object of the present invention is to provide means for removing foreign particles including fuzz, hair, and lint from clothing.
A further object of the present invention is to provide a coat hanger with capability of removing fuzz, hair, and lint from clothing.
In one embodiment, the coat hanger comprises a standard coat hanger which includes a hook, a pair of diverging garment arms, and a long transverse bar extends between both terminal ends of the diverging arms, as well as a rolling lint remover mounted onto the transverse bar. The rolling lint remover is an elongated cylindrical tube with a sticky exterior surface which can remove foreign particles including fuzz, hair, and lint from clothing when rolled over the clothing. The rolling lint remover has an opening along its length which enables it to clip over on the transverse bar of a standard coat hanger and roll over the clothing to remove fuzz, hair, and lint on the clothing.
In another embodiment, the coat hanger of the present invention does not have a transverse bar that extends between both terminal ends of the diverging arms. Instead, the coat hanger has two short side bars; each extends from the terminal end of each diverging arms. The rolling lint remover is an elongated cylinder or cylindrical tube that has a sticky exterior surface. However, instead of an opening along the length, the openings are on the two sides of the cylindrical tube. The two transverse bars on the coat hanger are push in to the two openings on the cylindrical tube or the cylinder to rotatably support and enable the lint remover to roll over the clothing for removing fuzz, hair, and lint from the clothing.
The lint remover is rotatably supported by the coat hanger so that it can quickly pick up foreign particles on the clothing while it rolls over the clothing than it is blotting over the clothing. A sheet of paper may cover over the sticky surface of the lint remover until the user decides to remove the paper and use the sticky lint remover. Advertisements may be put on the paper covering the sticky surface.
The more important features of the invention have thus been outlined in order that the more detailed description that follows may be better understood and in order that the present contribution to the art may better be appreciated. Additional features of the invention will be described hereinafter and will form the subject matter of the claims that follow.
Before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
The foregoing has outlined, rather broadly, the preferred feature of the present invention so that those skilled in the art may better understand the detailed description of the invention that follows. Additional features of the invention will be described hereinafter that form the subject of the claims of the invention. Those skilled in the art should appreciate that they can readily use the disclosed conception and specific embodiment as a basis for designing or modifying other structures for carrying out the same purposes of the present invention and that such other structures do not depart from the spirit and scope of the invention in its broadest form.
Other aspects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become more fully apparent from the following detailed description, the appended claim, and the accompanying drawings in which similar elements are given similar reference numerals.
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While there have been shown and described and pointed out the fundamental novel features of the invention as applied to the preferred embodiments, it will be understood that the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the invention and not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise forms disclosed. Obvious modifications or variations are possible in light of the above teachings. The embodiments discussed were chosen and described to provide the best illustration of the principles of the invention and its practical application to enable one of ordinary skill in the art to utilize the invention in various embodiments and with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated All such modifications and variations are within the scope of the invention as determined by the appended claims when interpreted in accordance with the breadth to which they are entitled.