Invertible Hanger Carrier

Abstract

A multiple use hanger carrier with a larger hook at one end for placement on a person's shoulder, and a smaller hook at the other end for placement on a clothes pole or the like, these hooks being at opposite sides of a scroll-shaped central shank portion which also carries a multiapertured pendant or chain to support a plurality of ordinary coat hangers or the like. Either hook can be used to suspend the item from a counter edge or shelf.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The discomfort and awkwardness encountered in manually carrying a number of laden coat hangers is well recognized. When several of the hook portions of such garment hangers are attempted to be supported by directly grasping the same by hand, with any weighty clothing on the hangers, they cut painfully into the hand. This is true of the hooks on most wooden and plastic hangers as well as the common wire hangers provided by commercial dry cleaners. Furthermore garment hangers cannot be carried at arm's length since garments would drag on the floor, resulting in an awkward attempt to carry garments slung over the shoulder or folded on an arm.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

A generally scroll-shaped garment hanger carried supportable on a person's shoulder so that a number of laden coat hangers or the like can be carried comfortably The carrier has a pendant with multiple apertures for the hooks of such hangers. The shoulder engaging portion, that is, the larger hook end of the carrier, is adapted for engaging a counter, bar or table edge and the smaller hook end of the carrier is suitable for engagement of a clothes pole or the like, thus making the item very versatile in use.

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is an isometric view of the carrier;

FIG. 2 is a side elevational view of the carrier, on a reduced scale and showing the opposite side thereof and including a single wire coat hanger attached to the pendant to suggest one mode of using the carrier with the shoulder hook end engaged on the edge of a counter which is fragmentarily included in the upper part of the figure;

FIG. 3 is a view of the carrier on a reduced scale and indicated as inverted and engaged with a clothes rod, the pendant being omitted from this figure; and

FIG. 4 is a fragmentary showing of a variant form of shoulder hook portion equipped with a no-mar pivoted pad attachment.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

Referring now to the drawing, the carrier, generally indicated at 10, is generally scroll-shaped and may be fabricated in flat form in plastic or other suitable substantially rigid material. A larger hook, hereinafter denominated the shoulder hook 12, at one end of a central shank portion 14, is opposed by a smaller hook, hereinafter called the pole hook 16 at the other end of the central shank portion. These hooks 12 and 16 and the central shank portion are ordinarily unitary. The hooks 12 and 16 are thus disposed on opposite sides as well as on opposite ends of the central shank portion. In FIG. 1 the shoulder hook terminates in a flat pad enlargement 18 which may be engaged with a counter edge 20 or any like surface, or the shoulder hook may be used, as its name implies, supported on the shoulder of the user.

A pendant 22 with a plurality of linearly spaced apertures 24 is terminally and pivotally secured as at 26 to the central shank portion 14 of the carrier. Garment hangers 28 may be hung by their hooks 30 inserted individually into the apertures as indicated in FIG. 1. When thus supported the shoulder hook 12 may be used as indicated in FIG. 2 or placed on the shoulder for transporting a plurality of laden garment hangers such as that indicated at 28.

Alternatively, the carrier may be inverted and the pole hook 16 may be engaged on a clothes rod 32 and the pendant employed as stated hereinabove or the hangers may in this instance be hung directly on the shoulder hook 12. Obviously this feature enables the user to arrange several garments facing the front of a wardrobe rather than normal to the usual supporting clothes rod of a wardrobe. If the pendant 22 is used with the carrier in the inverted position shown in FIG. 3, the lowermost of the hooks 12 or 16 may be used simultaneously for direct support of a certain number of garment hangers 28. The great versatility of the carrier will be evident from a consideration of the foregoing.

The pad enlargement 18 has a contact face 38 which is substantially normal to a line theoretically drawn therefrom to the pivot 26. This pad enlargement aids in preventing the terminal of the shoulder hook from causing discomfort in the shoulder of the person using the carrier and also has no-mar characteristics when the item is supported on a counter as illustrated.

Finally, a variant of the shoulder hook, indicated at 12A in FIG. 4, includes a no-mar pad enlargement 34 which is pivotally attached by pin 36 to the terminal of the shoulder hook. When the item is used as indicated in FIG. 2, this pivoted pad prevents damage to the supporting surface 20 and when the carrier is supported on the shoulder of a user this pivoted pad will usually self-orient itself to prevent uncomfortable localization of pressure. The pad enlargement, either fixed as at 18 or pivoted as at 36 is small enough to avoid interference in placing the shoulder hook on the shoulder.

Claims

What is claimed as new is as follows:

1. A multiple use hanger carrier, comprising:

a rigid elongated scroll-shaped member having a central shank portion;

a larger shoulder hook at one end of said central shank portion and a smaller pole hook at the other end thereof;

said hooks being in the same general plane and in confronting relationship on opposite sides of said central shank portion; and

a flexible pendant terminally secured to said central shank portion and having a plurality of links with openings dimensioned to accept the hooks of ordinary garment hangers;

said shoulder hook having a terminal pad having a contact face substantially normal to a line drawn therefrom to the pivotal connection of said pendant so that the weight of a load of clothes hung on hangers hooked onto said pendant will be applied normal to said face, thus avoiding damage to a horizontal surface on which said terminal pad may be hung.