Patent ID: 6487760
Filing Date: 2002-12-03
Classification: A47G,D06F,Y10T

Abstract:
The combination of a hook, which is part of and which comprises suspension means for a garment hanger, and a flexible and elastically elongatable effectively closed loop, wherein the hook and the loop are assembled and arranged in a hereinafter described relative position with respect to each other to fasten the hook to a linear member with the hook being hooked to the linear member in the normal manner, wherein the assembled and arranged relative position of the hook and the loop with respect to each other is that in which, with the hook hooked to the linear member, the hook passes through one end of the loop opening at a first substantially inwardly inclined location on the hook which is outboard of the position occupied by the linear member and the loop substantially and effectively lies on a path which extends from said first outboard location where the hook passes through the loop opening to a location under the position occupied by the linear member, thence to a second substantially inwardly inclined location on the hook which is inboard of the position occupied by the linear member with both strips of loop material, which extend from said first inwardly inclined outboard location on the hook, passing to one side of and over and around the outside of and around to the other side of the hook at said second inwardly inclined inboard location on the hook, thence under the position occupied by the linear member again and the hook passes through the other end of the loop opening at a generally inwardly inclined location on the hook which is outboard of the position occupied by the linear member, generally near to the first said inwardly inclined location where the hook passes through the loop opening, wherein the hook is of such size and shape with respect to the diameter or thickness of the linear member to which it is being fastened that the linear member is comparatively thin with respect to the size and shape of the hook to such degree that the loop can be installed on the hook at substantially inwardly inclined locations on the hook which are outboard and inboard, respectively, of the position occupied by the linear member, wherein the size, the flexibility, and the range of effective and useful elastic extensibility and contractibility of the loop is such as to permit installation of the loop to such position and also to confiningly grasp the hook and the linear member in such position within such range, and wherein the loop is so constructed that it functions to permit its installation to such position and to confiningly grasp the hook and the linear member in such position primarily by the elastic extension and contraction of the loop.