Patent ID: 9585507
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: A47G

Claim:
1. A clothes hanger having a triangular frame having downward-sloping opposed legs, a vertically extending hook adapted to support the clothes hanger on a closet rod and a clothing support rod extending horizontally between the downward-sloping opposed legs of the frame, the clothes hanger comprising: an inflatable garment protecting device provided to retain at least one garment in an inflated configuration, a single inflated portion of the inflatable garment protecting device located only below the clothing support rod and across a length of the clothing support rod between the opposed legs, wherein the clothes hanger includes the single inflated portion and no additional inflatable portions, wherein a length of the single inflated portion is parallel with the length of the clothing support rod and is the longest dimension of the clothes hanger, and wherein the inflatable garment protecting device is supported by the clothing support rod and extends downward in a vertical direction from the clothing support rod across the length of the clothing support rod, the inflatable garment protecting device comprising: an inflation port with a stopper, the inflation port and the stopper provided below the clothing support rod and adapted to retain the inflatable garment protecting device in the inflated configuration wherein the inflatable garment protecting device expands within the garment hung from the clothes hanger when in the inflated configuration, thereby expanding the garment hanging downward in a vertical direction from the clothing support rod to prevent wrinkling of the garment.