Asymmetric hanger for short and long trousers

Abstract

A method and device for hanging long or short pants or any other similar articles of clothing that contains a waistband are disclosed. The device, an asymmetric hanger, hangs folded pants from the waist and is composed of a finger adapted to insert into the top of a pair of trousers engaging the inside of the waistband along with a clamp that clasps the waistband from the outside near the opposite end of the folded pants and that exerts a force away from the finger. The device can be adapted to hang pants from a simple clothes pole to a variety of novel designs that display pants and facilitate removal or hanging.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 215,382 filed May 6, 2009BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Ever since humans started clothing themselves, they have been confronted with the problem of storing such items when they were not in use. Undoubtedly, as clothing evolved and became more sophisticated, the need to store such items in a manner that preserved them so that they are suitable for reuse would have become apparent. Thus the improvisation of suitable clothing hangers, undoubtedly, involves a long and evolving history.[0003]The problem of improvising suitable hangers for clothing that is worn on the upper torso is for the most part quite straight forward. Devices that mimic shoulders are easily constructed and have been used throughout history to hang shirts, jackets, smocks or any other items that primarily are worn by having them rest upon the shoulders of the wearer.[0004]Hangers for trousers or p...

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Benefits of technology

[0010]The present invention is based on a novel asymmetric hanging device for long or short pants that takes advantage of fundamental elements of the construction of pants. The asymmetric device in one embodiment can simply be hung on a traditional transverse closet pole to hang an individual pair of pants. Alternatively several of these devices can be arrayed in some convenient manner and be mounted to a vertical surface such as inside a closet or on a dressing room wall, or for that matter in any appropriate vertical surface. In another embodiment a unit that can accommodate many such devices can be constructed on an appropriate stand so that viewing of all pants hung thereon is facilitated. Such a unit would be of significant benefit in a commercial setting where pants are being offered for sale or in a domestic setting where space is not limited.

[0011]Further, the simplicity in using asymmetric hanger devices affords easy removal of items as well as simple re-hanging. The use of this simple principle, disclosed herein, in such devices confers significant advantages to the user as well as to retail employees who spend considerable time re-hanging sale items.

[0012]In a third embodiment single pairs of pants can be hung on an asymmetric hanging device that telescopes horizontally towards the user and away from adjacent hanging objects. This concept like the array to be described below facilitates inspection, hanging and removal and affords economy of space. The telescoping concept is readily adapted to the entire spectrum of hanging devices that normally are hung on the traditional transverse closest pole.

Problems solved by technology

Ever since humans started clothing themselves, they have been confronted with the problem of storing such items when they were not in use.

The problem of improvising suitable hangers for clothing that is worn on the upper torso is for the most part quite straight forward.

Hangers for trousers or pants, on the other hand, present some unique problems.

This is so because pants by the nature of their function (individually covering legs as well as the lower portion of the trunk) require a complex structure.

Pressing pants so arranged results in the formation of a crease in the front and back of the leg, approximately midway between the inner and outer seams.

There are several issues the previous art has not addressed in the hanging of pants, particularly short pants, sometimes called walking shorts.

One problem is that the user must first arrange the pants in the pressed alignment, so defined above.

However, they are arrayed in such a way that the hanging or removal of a single pair of pants presents some level of difficulty.

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