Patent ID: 7641084
Filing Date: 2010-01-05
Classification: A47G

Abstract:
1. An adjustable clothes hanger for accommodating alternate sized garments, said adjustable clothes hanger comprising: a hollow body provided with a chamber formed therein; first and second arms conjoined to said body and disposed exterior of said chamber; and means for slidably and linearly displacing said first and second arms along respective linear paths in such a manner that said first and second arms simultaneously extend and retract along opposed flanges of said body; wherein said first and second arms are prohibited from medially traveling beyond corresponding limits defined towards a center of said body; wherein said slidably and linearly displacing means comprises first and second rectilinear rods having respective distal ends directly anchored to said distal ends of said first and second arms in such a manner that said distal ends are disposed externally of said chamber when said first and second arms are adapted to laterally extend positions respectively; a primary dial seated within said chamber and being rotated in clockwise and counter clockwise directions; a secondary dial seated within said chamber and being directly engaged with said primary dial, said secondary dial being rotated along counter clockwise and clockwise directions when said primary dial is rotated in clockwise and counter clockwise directions respectively; and means for providing a resilient force that resists undesirable rotation of said primary dial when the garments are supported and removed by said first and second arms; wherein each of said primary and secondary dials are provided with a plurality of teeth juxtaposed along respective outer perimeters thereof; wherein said resilient force providing means comprises a deformably resilient spring member oriented along a sloping angle offset from a horizontal plane such that a bottom end of said spring members is seated adjacent to said primary dial while a top end of said spring member is anchored to an inner surface of said body; a finger monolithically formed with said body and nested within said chamber, said finger being juxtaposed adjacent to said primary dial and adjoined to said outer perimeter thereof; and a bracket pivotally coupled directly to said finger, said bracket being coupled directly to said spring member and rotated along an arcuate path defined along said outer perimeter of said primary dial such that said bracket selectively engages said teeth of said primary dial as said spring member is adapted between compressed and equilibrium positions respectively.