Patent Application
20120153107
In many residences, space for storing clothing or other things that need to be hung is at a premium.
According to an embodiment shown herein, a hanger assembly has a first hollow tube for disposition behind a barrier and a second hollow tube mounted for telescoping motion within the first tube. The second tube has an indentation in its shaped outer surface. A body is rotatably mounted within the indentation and has a hanger mounted thereto. The body and the hanger are disposed in the indentation and conform to the first shaped outer surface of second tube if the second tube is disposed in the first tube and the body rotates away from the indentation if the second tube is not disposed in the first tube.
These and other features of the multiple embodiments described herein can be best understood from the following specification and drawings, the following of which is a brief description.
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The second tube 60 has a shaped indentation 115 extending partially along a length thereof in which a horse-shoe shaped hook 75 is disposed. The horse-shoe shaped hook 75 is attached within the shaped indentation 115 by means of a pin 120 that allows the horse-shoe shaped hook 75, 80 to rotate thereabout. Similarly, the third tube 70 has a shaped indentation 125 along extending longitudinally therein in which the second horse-shoe shaped hook 80 is attached for rotation about pin 130.
Each horse-shoe shaped hook 75, 80 has a roughly rectangular body 135 having an opening near its top for receiving a pin 120 or 130, a shaped curve back 145, or other shape, to mate with the shape of the tubes 60 and 70 and their respective shaped indentation 115, 125, and rectangular sides 150. At or near a bottom 155 of the body 135, a horse-shoe hanger 160 is joined transversely to the body 135 and to the axis 87 by conventional means. The horse-shoe shaped hooks 78, 80 mate with the shaped indentations 115, 125 so that the second tube 60 may slide into and out of the first tube 50 and the third tube 70 may slide into and out of second tube 60. The shaped indentations 115, 125 each have an elongated portion 116 to mate with the body 135 and a curved portion 117 to mate with a curved shape of the horse-shoe hanger 160. Though a horse-shoe shaped hook is shown herein, other shaped hooks that mate with indentations in tubes so that the tubes may telescope without obstruction are contemplated herein.
During operation, a user may grasp the hook 20 and pull the third tube 70 from the second tube 60 and the second tube 60 from the first tube 50 as gravity causes the horse-shoe shaped hook 75 in the second tube to pivot downwardly from the shaped indentation 115 and gravity causes the horse-shoe shaped hook 80 in the third tube 70 to pivot downwardly from the shaped indentation 125. As shown in
The area 46 between the behind the drywall is usually 3-½″ (i.e., D) and therefore the first or second or third tubes may not extend longer than 3-½″ plus the width of the drywall 47 which is usually ⅜″. A width of 3 ¼″ may be used to account for wall variations.
Although a combination of features is shown in the illustrated examples, not all of them need to be combined to realize the benefits of various embodiments of this disclosure. In other words, a system designed according to an embodiment of this disclosure will not necessarily include all of the features shown in any one of the Figures or all of the portions schematically shown in the Figures. Moreover, selected features of one example embodiment may be combined with selected features of other example embodiments.
The preceding description is exemplary rather than limiting in nature. Variations and modifications to the disclosed examples may become apparent to those skilled in the art that do not necessarily depart from the essence of this disclosure. The scope of legal protection given to this disclosure can only be determined by studying the following claims.
