Adjustable Garment Hanger With Button-Locked Telescoping Shoulders

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional garment hangers are not adjustable, leading to wrinkles and dimples in clothing due to mis-sizing, and existing adjustable designs often feature breakable parts or alignment issues.

Innovation Solution

An adjustable garment hanger with a slot and button mechanism, where the pants bar is split in the middle, allowing the shoulder beam to be telescoped and locked at multiple positions using a series of locking buttons, ensuring proper alignment and preventing deformation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a single unitary hanger design is used, then manufacturing cost is low and durability is high, but the hanger cannot be adjusted to fit different garment sizes

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadjustability to garment sizesVSAvoidhanger structure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The hanger is divided into a stationary yoke and a movable hanger section that can be positioned at different locations along the yoke. This segmentation allows the hanger to be adjusted to different sizes while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and device complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If spring-loaded adjustability is used, then the hanger can be adjusted to different sizes, but the springs are breakable and reduce reliability

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadjustability to garment sizesVSAvoiddurability of adjustable mechanism

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The spring component is extracted and replaced with a simple button-and-slot locking mechanism. This eliminates the breakable spring while maintaining adjustability, thereby improving reliability without sacrificing the ability to adjust to different garment sizes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Adaptability or versatility

If an adjustable rod is used, then the hanger can accommodate different garment sizes, but the rod can snag and grab pants placed on the pants rod

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadjustability to garment sizesVSAvoidsnagging of garments

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The hanger is segmented into a stationary yoke and a movable section that slides within a slot. This segmentation allows adjustment while maintaining smooth surfaces that do not snag garments, eliminating the harmful effect of the adjustable rod design.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

4Adaptability or versatility

If the pants bar is not split, then the hanger structure is simpler, but the hanger cannot be adjusted to different sizes

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadjustability to garment sizesVSAvoidhanger structure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The pants bar is split into left and right hanger sections that can be independently positioned along the yoke. This segmentation enables size adjustment while keeping the overall structural complexity manageable through the use of a simple slot-and-button system.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS9055834B2Adjustable garment hanger

Publication Date: 2015.06.16 ZECHINI DEBORAH FUSCO

AI summary

The present invention is an adjustable hanger which allows for using a single hanger to be utilized for multiple different sized clothes. The shoulders utilize a locking button system. In some embodiments spring or magnetic clips are used on the horizontal beam of the hanger.