Compact Garment Hanger With Detachable Support for Long Garments
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional garment hangers require a full length to hang long garments, which is inefficient and takes up more space, and do not provide secure support for both the top and bottom portions of the garment.
Innovation Solution
A compact garment hanger design featuring a primary support with a hook for the top portion and an auxiliary support with a bar for the bottom portion, using detachable connecting elements such as magnets, hook-and-loop fasteners, or ball-and-socket joints to securely suspend the garment, allowing for half or less length of space usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If a conventional full-length hanger is used to hang long garments, then the garment can be supported from top to bottom, but the hanger occupies excessive space and requires full length storage area
Solution Approach 1:
The hanger is divided into two separate components: a primary support for suspending the top portion of the garment and an auxiliary support with a bar for suspending the bottom portion. This segmentation allows the garment to be supported at both ends while using significantly less vertical space than a conventional full-length hanger.
2Ease of operation
If the auxiliary support is detachably connected to the primary support, then assembly and disassembly become easy, but the connection must resist shear forces to prevent separation
Solution Approach 1:
The connection between the auxiliary support and primary support replaces traditional mechanical fastening systems with magnetic attraction. Magnets embedded in one component attract ferromagnetic material in the other, providing both easy attachment/detachment and sufficient resistance to shear forces to prevent separation during use.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The hanger securely supports long garments using less space by allowing the bottom portion to be draped over a bar, providing efficient storage and easy assembly/disassembly, while preventing sheer forces from separating the supports.
Implementation Method 1
a magnet is provided in one of the primary support and the auxiliary support and a material to which the magnet is attracted is provided in the other of the primary support and the auxiliary support
Data Source
AI summary
A hanger is provided which supports long garments securely and easily in half or less length than the garment would occupy hanging on a conventional hanger. Such a garment hanger comprises: a primary support including a hook and elements arranged to suspend a top portion of a garment; an auxiliary support including a bar for suspending the bottom portion of the garment, shortening a total length of the garment thus supported; and the primary support and the auxiliary support including cooperative, non-locking elements detachably suspending the auxiliary support from the primary support with the bar close to the primary support.