Dec. 25, 1962 T. CAMPAGNOLO 3,070,270

CLOTHES HANGING DEVICE Filed June 22, 1959 4 Sheets-Sheet l Elsi 4 Inventor TULLIO CAMPAGNOLO Attorney T. CAMPAGNOLO CLOTHES HANGING DEVICE Dec. 25, 1962 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed June 22, 1959' Inventor 7044/0 CAMPAGNOLO A ttomey 1952 T. CAMPAGNOLO 7 3,07

' CLOTHES HANGING DEVICE Filed June 22, 1959 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 Inventor 1 Tum/0 CAMpAs/vozo i/ MM Attorney Dec. 25, 1962 CAMPAGNOLQ 7 3,070,270

CLOTHES HANGING DEVICE Filed June 22, 1959 I 4 Sheets-Sheetfl I Inventor Tz/LL/a CAMPflG/VOLO By (9/100- d Attorney United States Patent fihce 3,070,270 Patented Dec. 25, 1962 3,070,276 LOTHES HANGING DEVECE Tullio Campagnolo, Vicenza, Italy Studio F. Fumero, Corso Magenza 27, Milan, Italy) Filed June 22, 1959, Ser. No. 822,047 Claims priority, application Italy June 24, 1953 1 Claim. (Cl. 223-85) The present invention relates to a device for hanging clothing articles, such as trousers or skirts, consenting to same to be kept straight, and preventing same from taking false folds, or being creased during its hanging.

Said device is characterized by a hangable and deformable structure comprising two arms stretched in opposite directions and located on the same plane so that they can be moved apart or approached to each other, said arms being at their free ends provided with means adapted to hold the clothing article at opposite, corresponding points thereof.

According to a typical embodiment, said structure is elastically deformable and is formed by at least one piece of steel wire shaped in such a way as to provide at the two sides of its hanging element, two short branches divergently directed downwardly, which are then prolonged into substantially horizontal arms, specularly symmetrical with respect to the vertical axis of the hanging element, at whose free ends are associated the means for holding the clothing article.

Some practical embodiments of the device for hanging clothing articles according to the invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawing wherein:

FIGS. 1 to 3 are a front view, a side view and a prospective view respectively, of a first embodiment meant to serve as trousers-holder;

FIG. 4 is a detail of a change thereof, in enlarged scale;

FIGS. 5 to 7 are views similar to those of FIGS. 1 to 3 respectively, of another embodiment of a trousersholder;

FIGS. 8 and 9 are front views of an embodiment of the device to be used as skirt-holder, respectively in rest position and in operative position;

FIG. 10 is a view similar to the one of FIG. 9 of another embodiment of a skirt-holder;

FIG. 11 is a front view in reduced scale of a fourth embodiment of the device according to the invention;

FIG. 12 is a front view of a fifth embodiment, of which FIGS. 13 to 15 are details, partially sectioned; and

FIG. 16 is a partial front view of a sixth embodiment of the device according to the invention.

With reference to FIGS. 1 to 3, the hanging element is formed by a steel wire which is shaped in such a way as to provide two arms 1 specularly symmetrical with respect to the axis y-y which, through two inclined branches 2, symmetrical with respect to the axis itself, join each other in a central loop 3. Said arms 1 have at their free ends, forks 4 indented on the outer side of their two branches, which are introduced into the lower opening of both legs, respectively, of the trousers l, as shown in FIG. 3. Instead of being fixed to arms 1 as in FIGS. 1 to 3, the forks 4 can be, for making their adhering to the trousers safer, hinged at about mid-height of their branches (FIG. 4). The final sections 6, suitably bent to said aim, of the arms 1 engage pivot 5 connected between forks 4. In this case each fork can oscillate but is limited by pawl means such as, for instance, a slot 7 is formed in the top part of the fork, through which the corresponding final section 6 of the arm 1 is disposed.

In the embodiment according to FIGS. 5 to 7, the loop wherein the two arms 1 of the device join each other through the two branches 2, is bent in hook-like manner 8. The two pieces of wire forming the hook 8 are curved so as to form two adjacent arcs slightly divergent starting from the top thereof. In order to make the device more handy since it must be tightened by hand to insert the forks 4 into the trousers P, at the bottom of the branches 2 there are provided small indentations 9 for the fingers to readily grasp the device. Furthermore to facilitate the insertion of the two branches of each fork 4 into the openings of the trousers P, the branches of a fork to be inserted into the opening of one leg are made of a different length from the branches of the fork which is to be inserted into the opening of the other leg.

The skirt-holder according to FIGS. 8, 9 is exactly like the trousers-holder as per FIGS. 5 to 7. However, the arms 1 are provided at their extreme ends with means for engaging the skirt which in the embodiment of FIGS. 8, 9 are made by small cylinders 10 provided with a series of annular projections 11 in order to ensure a perfect adherence to the inner part of the belt of the skirt G. Said cylinders being made of various kinds of material such as metal, glass, china, plastic or the like, are mounted, e.g. by pressure, on the free ends of the arms 1 which are substantially bent to form a right angle.

While in the skirt-holder of FIGS. 8, 9 the means for engaging the skirt are directed downwards with respect to the arms 1, in the embodiment according to FIG. 10 they are directed upwards which in many cases may result in a more convenient arrangement because the height of the skirt-holder is reduced and at the same time the room for the skirt is increased beneath the hanging point.

In order to give a clear example of the difference of the various means which can be adopted for engaging the skirt, while on the left-hand side of FIG. 10 the means is represented by a small cylinder 10 with annular projections 11, same as in FIGS. 8, 9, while, on the righthand side of FIG. 10 said means is represented by a undulated projection of the corresponding arm 11' bent in a right angle with respect to the arm itself.

FIG. 11 represents a trousers-holder, formed by two rods 12 and 13 reciprocally slidable along their common axis and lockable in any desired position for instance through a winged screw 14. Rod 12 supports a hook 15.

The trousers or skirt hanging device according to FIGS. 512, 13 is provided with two metal elements formed for instance by two pieces of steel wire bent to form an angle in order to provide each piece of wire with a longer branch 1 and a shorter branch 2. Said two elements, equal to each other, are located in a position specularly symmetrical to each other with respect to the axis yy, on the same plane and with the shorter branches adjacent and slightly convergent towards their free ends. Two brackets 16, 17 respectively are connected to the shorter branches. Said two brackets'are partially overlapping in order to form together, about a common pin is pivoted on both, a casing. Within said casing there is a spring 19 about the pin 18 having one end 19 thereof engaging aprojection on the inner side of bracket 17, while the other end 19" of it engages any of the slots 28 with which the inwardly bent lower edge of the bracket 16 is provided. Thus, by displacing said projection 19 of the spring from a slot 20 to the next, the tension of the spring can be adjusted and in consequence also the action of the means for engaging the clothes on the clothes themselves in any desired manner. 0f the branches 2 of the two elements, the one next to bracket 17 is prolonged beyond said bracket with a hook-like part 21 which serves for hanging the device.

In the manner as the embodiments described above, the clothes-holder according to FIG. 12 is provided at the ends of the branches 1 with holding means of the above described type, or of other similar types such as for instance the one illustrated in FIG. 14 if it is a trousersholder (as shown at the left in FIG. 12) or the one illustrated in FIG. 15 if meant for holding skirts (as shown at the right in FIG. 12).

Both the holding means of FIG. 14 and FIG. 15 comprise a metal plate 22 bent over itself and shaped in its central part so as to engage, in opposite housings 23 provided with conical recesses 24, an eye 25 connected to the end of the branch 1 of the element on which said plate is to be located.

For the trousers-holder, then, the plate 22 is prolonged at the two upper ends of its bending on itself through a double right angle folding, into two opposite parts which form the two branches 26 and 27 of a fork, meant to be inserted into the two legs of the trousers. In this case as well, the branches 26 and 27 have ditferent lengths in order to facilitate their insertion into the two legs of the trousers, and along the outer face they are indented.

For the skirt-holder, it is the initially bent part of the plate 22 which holds the skirt by its belt, and which is also indented in its outer edge.

In the embodiment of the clothes-holder of FIG. 16 there are shown two metal elements bent to form an angle in order to provide two longer branches 1 and two shorter branches 2, the latter being convergent and connected to each other by two brackets 28, 29 associated therewith, which partially overlap, and are pivoted on a common pin 30. The branches 2 are divergently prolonged beyond said brackets 28, 29 and on these divergent ends, outside the brackets, there is anchored a tension spring 31 with two terminal hooks, tending to move apart from each other the two branches 2 in the part beneath the brackets 28, 29. Above the spring 31 one of the branches 2 is prolonged so as to form a hanging book 32.

What I claim is:

A garment hanger comprising a single length of spring wire having an approximately 180 bend adjacent the center axis of said garment hanger forming arms disposed in the same plane which extend from said bend and are spaced from each other, said arms adjacent said bend being formed into a compressible suspension hook, one of said arms extending rearwardly from said axis and having an inclined branch which forms an acute angle with said axis, an indentation which is directed toward said axis formed in said inclined branch at the bottom thereof, the other of said arms extending forwardly of said axis and having a further inclined branch which forms an acute angle with said axis, a further indentation which is directed toward said axis formed in said further inclined branch at the bottom thereof, each arm extending from each indentation away from said axis at substantially a right angle thereto, each arm terminating in garment engaging means substantially parallel to said axis, said garment engaging means supporting and maintaining a garment thereon in tension with said suspension hook compressed to exert an expansive force between said garment engaging means.

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