Patent ID: 7484644
Filing Date: 2009-02-03
Classification: A47G

Abstract:
1. A method of decorating a plastic hanger having a thin profile body formed with an upstanding central region and downwardly sloping end shoulder regions and hanger ends, and a swivel hook secured at the central body region, comprising the steps of covering the hanger body with a resilient padding while allowing the central hanger region and swivel hook to extend through a slit in the padding so as to be exposed, winding a ribbon like wrap helically over the hanger body starting with a first folded tubular wrap end enclosing one hanger end and then to and over the central and end shoulder regions and ending with a second folded tubular wrap end enclosing the other hanger end, and applying a decorative yarn over the wrap by first securing one end of the yarn at the swivel hook and helically winding the yarn then substantially over one end shoulder region out to and proximate one hanger end and then back to cross both end shoulder regions and the central region substantially out to and over the other end shoulder region to the other hanger end and back to the central region, and knotting the yarn ends together at the swivel hook.