The present invention relates to a trousers rack, and in particular to a trousers rack which is directed to using a feature that an upper portion is thicker and a lower portion is thinner about a waist seam line of trousers, and an upper portion of a waist seam line, which portion is usually thicker than a lower portion of a waist seam line, can be naturally mounted on a support part in such a manner that a user holds a waist seam line portion of trousers with two hands and inserts a lower portion of a waist seam line portion and then releases the same, and a trousers insertion space can increase or decrease by changing the number of hanging parts, thus consequently adjusting the width between support parts depending on the thickness of trousers, which leads to easier use.
Trousers, generally, are stored in such a manner that the trousers are folded upward and downward and the folded portions are hung on a rack or that trousers are made upside down and are caught by tongs and then are stored.
In the former case, since it is needed to hang trousers with one hand holding a hanger and with the other hand holding trousers, such trousers hanging procedure seems to be very hard while hanging trousers on a rack. Since the trousers are folded upward and downward, the folded portions might be wrinkled, which results in inconvenience when wearing trousers. In the latter case, since it is needed to hang trousers with one hand trousers and with the other hand widening tongs, such operations cause inconvenience, and the marks of tongs remain at the ends of trousers due to the use of the tongs after the trousers are hung.
In recent years, diverse trousers racks are disclosed, which are capable of storing trousers without widening the tongs while preventing wrinkles when storing trousers. One of the above trousers racks is a Korean utility model number 0348371.
As disclosed therein, a body part consists of a bar shaped fixture. A waist seam line ring of trousers is inserted into the fixture, thus storing the trousers. When in use of such trousers hanger, it seems to overcome the problems such as winkles and tongs marks and the problems that the ends of the trousers are damaged can be basically prevented.
A work of Inserting the waist seam line ring of trousers into the bar shaped fixture seems to be hard like the procedure of widening tongs. As the waist seam line rings are inserted into the fixture and the trousers which are in storage are selectively unloaded, a safety cap of a fixture might escape due to the repeating friction between the trousers rings and the safety cap of the fixture, so a sharp tip of the metal is exposed, thus damaging clothes or waist seam line rings.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a trousers rack which might overcome the above problems, in particular any inconveniences caused when hanging on the trousers hanger and is directed to preventing the trousers from becoming wrinkled by storing the trousers in unfolded state, and the loading and selective unloading are easy, and the accommodation space can be increased or decreased if needed, thus efficiently using the space.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a trousers rack which might overcome the above problems, in particular any inconveniences caused when hanging on the trousers hanger and is directed to preventing the trousers from becoming wrinkled by storing the trousers in unfolded state, and the loading and selective unloading are easy, thus efficiently using the space.
To achieve the above objects, there is provided a trousers rack, comprising a body part which is directly attached to a wall surface or a closet or is attached to a support member; and a plurality of support parts which are sequentially protruded at regular intervals, thus sequentially forming at regular intervals a plurality of trousers insertion space parts at a front surface of the body part, wherein trousers are inserted in an unfolded state into the trousers insertion space part formed between the support parts, and a waist seam line engaging part relatively thicker than other portions of the clothes of the trousers is naturally placed on the support part.
Preferably, the support part is either a reinforcing plate attached to a wall surface or a closet or a hanger support which is uprightly installed on a floor.
Preferably, the thickness of the support part is getting thinner from the rear side to the front side, so the trousers insertion space part formed between the support parts is getting wider from the rear side to the front side, thus obtaining easier loading and unloading operations of the trousers.
Preferably, there is further provided an interval maintaining part between the bodies in order to increase the width of the trousers insertion space part formed between the support parts.
To achieve the above objects, there is provided a trousers rack with an adjustable width, comprising a guide bar which is directly attached to a wall surface or a closet or is attached to a support part; a body which is detachably inserted into the guide bar; a hanging means which is formed of a support part forwardly protruded from a front surface of the body and forms a trousers insertion space part as at least two are engaged to the guide bar, thus inserting the trousers into between the support parts; and a fixing apparatus which is engaged at both sides of the guide bar in such a way to prevent the movements of the hanging means and comes into close contact with both sides of the hanging means, so the trousers are inserted in a unfolded state into the trousers insertion space part formed between the support parts, so the waist seam line engaging part relatively thicker than other portions of the clothes of the trousers can be naturally placed at the support part.
Preferably, the guide bar is fixedly inserted into between the mounting part and the upper connection bar.
Preferably, the body is formed of a protrusion bar and an insertion part at a lower side of the body so that it is forcibly engaged to the guide bar.
Preferably, the support part is either a mounting part fixing the side surface of the guide bar at a wall surface, a reinforcing plate attached to a wall surface and a closet, or a hanger support uprightly installed on a floor.
Preferably, the hanger support is characterized in that the height of the guide bar can be adjusted in such a way to fixedly insert the upper connection bar into an inner diameter portion of the lower connection bar, and to insert the height extension part into the engaged portion of the lower connection bar and the upper connection bar.
Preferably, the thickness of said support part is getting thinner from the rear side to the front side, and the trousers insertion space part formed between the support parts is getting wider from the rear side to the front side, thus obtaining easier loading and unloading operations of trousers.
Preferably, there is further provided an interval maintaining part between the bodies in order to increase the width of the trousers insertion space part formed between the support parts.
In the trousers rack according to the present invention, it is characterized in that a user holds with two hands an upper portion of a waist seam line engaging part of trousers and inserts into between support parts disposed at a front side of a body of a hanging part engaged to a guide bar fixed by means of a wall or hanger support part, so it is very easy to engage for the storage of trousers. Since the trousers are not needed to be folded for storage, namely, they are inserted and stored in unfolded state, thus preventing the trousers from becoming wrinkles, and since the front side of the insertion space part is wide, the loading and selective unloading are very easy.
A plurality of trousers insertion space parts are provided, and since a trousers insertion space part is formed at every connection portion when connecting multiple trousers insertion space parts, a plurality of trousers can be efficiently stored, thus efficiently using the space.
Since the hanging part is detachable, the trousers insertion space part can be increased or decreased in the accommodation space, so it can be used irrespective of the thickness of trousers. The trousers rack of the present invention can be well used by every people irrespective of their sexes and ages, and seasons.
The conventional hangers can be by hanging the same on a guide bar, which enables the trousers and tops to be hung together.
The present invention will become better understood with reference to the accompanying drawings which are given only by way of illustration and thus are not limitative of the present invention, wherein;
The trousers rack according to the preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The terms and words used in the specification and claims are not supposed to be interpreted in a conventional manner or on a dictionary basis, and the inventors are supposed to use the terms and words well matching with the technical concepts based on the principles that the concepts of the terms and words can be properly interpreted in order to describe the present invention in the best way.
The embodiments in the specification and the constructions shown in the drawings are referred to the more preferred embodiments of the present invention, not fully representing all the technical concepts of the present invention, so it should be understood that diverse equivalents and modification substituting such technical concepts might exist.
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The body part 110 is formed in a plate shape and comprises a plurality of engaging holes 112 formed at the upper and lower sides in order to attach the body part 110 to a wall surface or a closet, for example, a support part 140 (not shown) by using a fixing part such as a screw, a nail or the like. A certain adhesive or a double-sided tape might be provided at a back surface instead of a fixing part, thus to more easily attach the same. The above attaching way is known in the art, so the detailed descriptions thereon will be omitted.
The support part 120 is formed in a bar shape and is protruded at a regular intervals in series from the front surface of the body part 110, with a plurality of insertion space parts 130 being formed at regular intervals between the support parts 120. At this time, as shown in
Even though the widths (s, s′) of the trousers insertion space part 130 are getting wider toward the front side, the area (s) of the front side is designed not to be wider than the thickness of the waist seam line engaging part formed at the upper side of the trousers.
It is preferred that the length of the support part 120 is about 36˜40 cm long, and more preferably, the length of 36 cm is set as the type A, and the length of 38 cm is set as the type B, and the length of 40 cm is set as the type C, respectively. In case of the type A, in terms of the area ratio of the trousers insertion space part, the front side is 6 mm, and the rear side is 4 mm, and in case of the type B, the front side is 8 mm, and the rear side is 6 mm, and in case of the type C, the front side is 10 mm, and the rear side is 8 mm, the options of which can be selected by the users.
In the above manner, there are provided three types since the widths are different depending on the sizes of the trousers. Since the widths might vary depending on the fall and spring type, the summer type and the winter type, it is needed to flexibly cope with the situations. The above size example is provided only for the illustrative purpose, and their sizes might change.
In addition, an extension part 114 is further provided at both sides of the body part 110. As shown in
The trousers rack 100 formed of the body part 110 and the support part 120 is preferably made from a wooden material or a plastic material or a metallic material, which materials might be selected.
The use state and operations of the trousers rack 100 with the above construction according to the present invention will be described.
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At this time, when the reinforcing plate material 142 is attached to a wall surface or the closet, it is attached by a certain fixing member such as a bolt, a screw or the like. The body part 110 of the trousers rack 100 attached to the front surface of the attached reinforcing plate material 142 might be effectively attached with the aid of one of the above fixing members.
The hanger support part 144 has a structure which is uprightly installed on the floor and is preferably made from a metal, a plastic or a wooden material. On the upper side of the hanger support part 144 is provided an attachment surface 144′ to which the body part 110 of the trousers rack 100 is attached. The body part 110 might be inserted into a welding portion or an attachment surface or might be attached by selecting one among the fixing members 150. It is preferred to form the hanger support part 144 in a separable structure for easier transportations.
When the trousers rack 100 according to the present invention is installed using the support part 140, as indicated by the broken line in the drawing, the trousers 200 are hung and stored. The trousers 200 are characterized in that the waist seam line part 210 surrounding a users waist is thicker than the other portions, and the waist seam line rings 130 are formed at the waist seam line part 210.
In a state that the trousers 200 are arranged long, in other word, not folded, when the lower end portions of the waist seam line engaging part 210 are inserted into the trousers insertion space part 130 formed between the support parts 120, both sides of the waist seam line engaging part 210 which are relatively thicker are naturally placed on the upper surface of the support part 120 provided at both sides of the trousers insertion space part 130 like the trousers are unfolded and remain long, and are stored. The above operation will be described in more detail with reference to
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The trousers 200 storing procedure is completed as the trousers are inserted into the trousers insertion space part 130 by using the differences in the thicknesses of the trousers, so it is possible to easily store the trousers without forming any wrinkles. In addition, since the front side of the trousers insertion space part 130 is wider, the loading and unloading procedures can be easily performed, and multiple trousers 200 can be concurrently stored in a limited space, thus efficiently using the space. In particular, when at least two trousers racks 100 are connected and used, the extension part 114 is provided at the connected portion, which might be used as another trousers insertion space part 130, so the applicability of the space is optimized.
The trousers rack according to another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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The guide bar 310 has a certain length and is formed in a rectangular shape, the shape of which might be a triangle shape, a polygonal shape or the like. The guide bar 310 can be fixedly attached to a wall surface, a closet, a support part or the like by using a fixing member such as a bolt, a screw, a nail or the like. When it is fixed by using a fixing member such as a bolt, a screw, a nail or the like, it is preferred to fix with the aid of a bracket 312 engaged to both ends of a guide bar 310 rather than directly engaging the guide bar 310, and it can be attached to a wall surface with the aid of a mounting member 316 which serves to fix a side surface of the guide bar to a wall surface.
The hanging part 320 comprises a body 322 having communicating left and right sides for a detachable insertion with the guide bar 310, and a support part 326 forwardly protruded from the front side of the boy 322. As at least two hanging parts 320 are engaged with each other, a trousers insertion space part 328 acting as an accommodation space is formed, thus inserting trousers into between the support parts 326. A protrusion part 324 is protruded, from both sides of the body 322, more than the widths (t, t′) of the support part 326 in order to form the trousers insertion space part 328. In the above state, as two hanging parts 320 are forced to be close to each other, two protrusion parts 324 meet, thus forming a trousers insertion space part 328 between the support parts 326.
At this time, since the hanging part 320 is detachable, the space of the trousers insertion space part 328 can increase or decrease depending on the number of user's trousers.
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The guide bar 310 can be attached to a wall surface as its both sides are attached thereto with the aid of a mounting part 316. The mounting part 316 has a mounting groove 318 at its central portion so that the side surface of the guide bar 310 can be fixedly inserted.
As not shown in the drawings, the mounting part 316 can be fixed at a wall surface by using a nail or a screw, and the mounting groove 318 has the same size and shape as the lateral surface of the guide bar 310.
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Here even when the widths (s, s′) of the trousers insertion space part 328 are getting wider toward the front side, it is preferred that the area (s) of the front side is not wider than the thickness of the waist seam line engaging part formed at the upper side of the trousers.
Since the thickness of the trousers changes depending on the kinds of the trousers used in the fall and spring, the summer and the winter, there is provided an interval maintaining part 314 to effectively cope with the changing thicknesses of the trousers. When it is needed to store the trousers thicker than the width of the trousers insertion space part 328, the interval maintaining part 314 is inserted and engaged between the bodies 322 in order to widen the width of the trousers insertion space part 328.
The interval maintaining part 314 is characterized in that its left and right sides communicate with each other, and its lower side is open, so it serves to widen the trousers insertion space part 328 formed between the support parts 326 as it is engaged between the bodies 322 of the hanging part 320. When engaging the same, the bodies 322 and 322 are forced to be spaced apart, and the open, lower side of the interval maintaining part 314 is widened and inserted into between the bodies 322.
Finally, the fixing apparatus 330 is engaged at both sides of the guide bar 310 in order to prevent the hanging part 320 from moving randomly, and comes into close contact with the hanging part 320. The fixing apparatus 330 comprises a clip 332 the left and right sides of which pass through to engage with the guide bar 310, and a butterfly bolt 334 which is bolt-engaged to the upper surface of the clip 332 and which comes into close contact with the upper surface of the guide bar 310, thus preventing the clip 332 from moving randomly.
At this time, it is needed to release the restriction force of the fixing apparatus 330 in order to disengage the interval maintaining part 314, and the bodies 322 of hanging part 320 are spaced apart, and then the interval maintaining part 314 is disposed between them. The movement of the hanging part 320 is prevented by restricting the fixing apparatus 330.
In addition, the trousers rack 100′ consisting of the guide bar 310, the hanging part 320 and the fixing apparatus 300 and capable of adjusting widths is preferably made from a wooden material, a plastic material or a metallic material. One of the materials can be optionally selected.
The use state and operation relationship of the trousers rack 100′ according to the present invention will be described.
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At this time, when the reinforcing plate 342 is attached to a wall surface or a closet, a fixing member 150 such as a bolt, a nail, a screw or the like might be used. The guide bar 310 of the trousers rack 100′ with an adjustable width attached to the front side of the attached reinforcing plate 342 might be attached by using one of a fixing part 150′ and a bracket 312.
In addition, the hanger support 344 is formed in a structure which is uprightly installed on a floor and is made from a metal, a plastic or a wooden material, and the guide bar 310 might be directly installed at the hanger support 344 or might be installed by inserting the hanger support 344 into a fixture 345 with a mounting part 346.
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The mounting part 346 is formed in a L-shape and has a fixture 345 at its lower side for allowing the upper connection bar 360 to be inserted, and the upper connection bar 360 is inserted into the fixture 345, and the guide bar 310 is inserted into one side of the mounting part 346, and the guide bar 310 is fixed by means of the mounting part 346 and the upper connection bar 360.
A height extension part 380 is inserted into between the upper connection bar 360 and the lower connection bar 370 depending on the length of the trousers, thus forming a certain height. The height of the guide bar 310 can be adjusted by adjusting the height of the mounting part 346.
When the trousers rack 100′ with an adjustable width according to the present invention is installed with the aid of the support part 340, as indicated by the broken line in the drawings, the trousers are prepared and hung, thus storing the same. Here, the common trousers 200 have the waist seam line engaging part 210, which is thicker than other portions and surrounds a users waist. The waist seam line rings 220 are generally attached to the portions.
In a state that the trousers 200 are arranged long in an unfolded state, the lower ends of the clothes of the waist seam line engaging part 210 are inserted into the trousers insertion space part 328 formed between the support parts 326. In this state, both sides of the waist seam line engaging part 210, which are relatively thicker, are naturally placed on the upper surface of the support part 326 disposed at both sides of the trousers insertion space part 328, so the trousers 200 are stored in a longitudinally unfolded state. The above construction is shown in
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The hanging part 320 is easily detached by separating the fixing apparatus 330 from the guide bar 310. When storing trousers, the hanging parts are prepared as many as the number of the trousers to be stored, and are engaged with each other, along the width adjustments.
The trousers insertion space part 328 formed by the hanging part 320 might increase or decrease its storing space by further engaging or disengaging the interval maintaining part 314 by a certain number depending on the thickness of the trousers with the aid of the interval maintaining part 314 disposed between the bodies 322.
The trousers 200 are inserted into the trousers insertion space part 328 by using the thickness of the trousers, thus completing the storage of the trousers, so it is possible to easily store trousers without forming wrinkles. Since the front side of the trousers insertion space part 328 is wider, the loading and unloading procedures are easy, and multiple trousers 200 can be efficiently stored in a limited space, thus efficiently using the space. In particular, since the hanging part 320 is equipped with an interval maintaining part 314 in order to artificially expand the trousers insertion space part 328, it is possible to concurrently store diverse kinds of trousers without any limits.
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The above descriptions are supposed to describe the features and technical advantages in wider ranges in an attempt to help better understand the accompanying claims. Additional features and advantages belonging to the claims have been described in the above. It is obvious that an ordinary person with skills can easily perform the purposes similar with those of the present invention in terms of the concepts and feature embodiments of the present invention.
In addition, in order to perform the same purposes of the present invention, all changes and modifications that fall within the meets and bounds of the claims, or equivalences of such meets and bounds are therefore intended to be embraced by the appended claims without departing from the inherent technical concepts and spirits of the present invention.
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20-2009-0014825 | Nov 2009 | KR | national |
20-2009-0015246 | Nov 2009 | KR | national |
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PCT/KR10/08046 | 11/15/2010 | WO | 00 | 11/12/2011 |