Garments hang-rail coupling securely removably mountable at the forward portion of each of a plurality of parallel conventional horizontal brackets respectively forwardly provided with an upstanding lug such as hook or cube. The coupling forward portion includes an upwardly open trough adapted to removably support a conventional garments hang-rail. The coupling rearward portion includes a housing having forward and rearward open-ends, there being opposed side-panels rigidly attached to lower rearward portions of the trough. The housing also includes a roof-panel spaced a finite-gap rearwardly from the trough to accommodate the bracket upstanding lug and also includes a rearwardly positioned base extending between the side-panels and adapted to abuttably underlie the bracket. The coupling housing might be augmented with optional desireable features such as bracket abutting setscrew, and with novel panel and base configurations permitting ready insertion and secure mounting of the coupling to such forwardly lugged brackets.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
When hanger-engaged blouses and similar garments are displayed in retail 
stores, the hanger-engaged garments can be hung from horizontal brackets 
(e.g. 99) extending horizontally perpendicularly to an upright standard 
(e.g. a wall) or from horizontal hang-rails (e.g. 199) extending parallel 
to a wall means. 
Drawing FIG. 1A represents a perspective view of a conventional retail 
display bracket (99) for supporting blouses or other hanger-engaged 
garments. Bracket 99 comprises a horizontal bar 100 terminating as an 
upright frontal-end 100F and being cross-sectionally rectangularly defined 
by four planar sides including: left-side 102, right-side 103, bottom-side 
104, and top-side 101. For removably attaching the bracket bar (100) 
horizontally perpendicularly to some upright standard (e.g. a wall), the 
bracket includes an apt rearward-end such as, for example, a 
multi-apertured upright flange (109) for nailing or other fastening to the 
upright standard means. The mounted bracket horizontal bar (100), 
immediately rearwardly of the frontal-end (100F), is provided with a lug 
means (e.g. 106, 107) extending uprightly from top-side 101 and to prevent 
the hanger-engaged garments from falling off the bar frontal-end. 106 
indicates a hook-type lug means, and 107 indicates an alternate 
cubical-type lug means. 
Drawing FIG. 1B represents a perspective view of a conventional retail 
display hang-rail (199) customarily mounted with hang-rail fittings (not 
shown) in parallelism with upright wall means and similarly adapted to 
support hanger-engaged garments therealong. Such hangrail-fittings are 
commonly of cumbersome configuration and present difficulties in the 
desired parallel mounting to the wall means, and are usually relatively 
expensive. Though retailers recognize the potential space-saving economy 
of hang-rails (e.g. 199), there is the serious ancillary problem of the 
cumbersome, unreliable, and expensive hang rail-fittings. 
OBJECT OF THE INVENTION 
It is accordingly the general objective of the present invention to provide 
a coupling that might be removably conveniently reliably and economically 
employed with each of a plurality of wall-perpendicular retail display 
brackets whereby such brackets might additionally support a wall-parallel 
hang-rail for hanger-attached garments. 
GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE INVENTION 
With the above general objective in view, and together with other specific 
and ancillary objectives which will become more apparent as this 
description proceeds, the garments hang-rail coupling generally comprises: 
as the coupling forward portion, an upwardly open trough adapted to 
removably support a garments hang-rail extending perpendicularly to each 
wall-perpendicular bracket; a tubular housing including substantially 
parallel side-panels having their forward portions rigidly attached to the 
trough and adapted to lie alongside the bracket left-side and right-side, 
said housing also including a roof-panel attached to both side-panels and 
adapted to abuttably overlie the bracket, the roof-panel being a 
finite-gap rearwardly from the trough to accommodate the bracket 
upstanding hook and/or cube lug, and rearwardly remote base means (such as 
bottom-panel or threaded bolt) extending between the side-panels and 
adapted to abuttably underlie the bracket; and together with desireable 
optional features such as setscrew means, novel panel configurations for 
the housing, etc.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING 
Representative first embodiment "E1" of FIGS. 2-5 comprises (as the 
coupling forward portion) an upwardly open trough 10 adapted to removably 
receive a garments hang-rail (199), and (as the coupling rearward portion) 
a housing having forward and rearward open ends and adapted to removably 
securely surround an upwardly lugged (106, 107) garments bracket (e.g. 
99). 
Trough portion 10 comprises an upright front-wing 11, an upright rear-wing 
12, and a closed floor 13 whereby such upwardly open trough is adapted to 
securely downwardly receive a garments hang-rail (199). 
Housing 20 for first embodiment "E1" comprises substantially parallel 
planar side-panels including a left-panel 22 and a right-panel 23, each 
side-panel at the forward terminus being rigidly attached (as by welding) 
to the trough rearward lower portion (e.g. at rear-wing 12). Side-panels 
22 and 23 are adapted to lie substantially parallel alongside the 
respective upright sides 102 and 103 of a garment bracket (e.g. 99). 
Housing 20 also comprises a roof-panel 21 attached to side-panels 22 and 
23, there being a finite-gap G1 between roof-panel 21 and trough 10 to 
accommodate the bracket upright lug means (e.g. 106, 107). Accordingly, 
roof-panel 21 is adapted to abuttably overlie bracket top-side 101 
immediately rearwardly of the lug means. 
Housing 20 also includes a base means extending between lower portions of 
side-panels 22 and 23 and adapted to abuttably underlie the bracket 
bottom-side 104. For embodiment "E1", the base means comprises a headed 
bolt 24 passing through side-panels 22 and 23 and threadedly engageable 
with a nut 24N bearable against right-panel 23. The respective housing 
base means (e.g. 24, 34, 44) are relegated wholly remotely rearwardly of 
the roof-panels (e.g. 21, 31, 41). Such rearwardly relegated base means 
facilitates insertion and engagement of the forwardly lugged bracket (e.g. 
99) with the coupling (e.g. "E1", "E2", "E3") as will be explained later. 
Coupling second embodiment "E2" of FIGS. 6-8 comprises a said upwardly open 
trough (e.g. 10) and (as the coupling rearward portion) a housing 30 
having forward and rearward open-ends. Housing 30 comprises substantially 
parallel planar side-panels including left-panel 32 and right-panel 33. As 
best seen in FIG. 7 elevational view, for each geometrically symmetrical 
six-edges side-panel (32, 33), the predominate peripheral extent is 
provided by two substantially parallel and downwardly rearwardly sloping 
inclined-edges 30A and 30B. Each said side-panel, at an upright 
frontal-edge, is rigidly attached (as by welding) to the trough rearward 
lower portion (e.g. at rear-wing 12). Side-panels 32 and 33 are adapted to 
lie substantially alongside the respective upright sides 102 and 103 of a 
garments bracket (e.g. 99). Housing 30 also comprises a roof-panel 31 
attached to minor length upper horizontal-edges of side-panels 32 and 33, 
there being a finite-gap gap G2 between roof-panel 31 and trough 10 to 
accommodate the bracket upright lug means (106, or 107). Roof-panel 31, 
which commences at the upper forward terminus of inclined-edge 30B, is 
adapted to abuttably overlie bracket top-side 101 immediately rearwardly 
of the bracket lug means. The base means for housing 30 comprises a 
horizontal bottom-panel 34 commencing at the lower rearward terminus of 
inclined-edge 30A. In view of the so constructed housing 30, and 
particularly for its side-panels 32 and 33, usage of a setscrew (50) is 
normally unnecessary for securing removable reliable engagement between 
coupling embodiment "E2" and a said bracket (e.g. 99). 
Coupling embodiment "E3" of FIGS. 9-11 comprises a said upwardly open 
trough (e.g. 10) and (as the coupling rearward portion) a housing 40 
having forward and rearward open-ends. Housing 40 comprises substantially 
parallel planar rectangular side-panels including a rearwardly lengthier 
right-panel 43 and a shorter left-panel 42F respectively having their 
upright frontal-edge rigidly attached (as by welding) to the trough lower 
portion (e.g. at rear-wing 12). Right-panel 43 is adapted to lie alongside 
bracket upright side 103, and the spatially separated co-planar 
left-panels (42F and 42R) are adapted to lie alongside bracket upright 
side 102. Housing 40 also comprises a roof-panel 41 attached to upper 
horizontal-edges of side-panels 43 and 42F, there being a finite-gap G3 
between roof-panel 41 and trough 10 to accommodate the bracket upright lug 
means (106, or 107). Roof-panel 41 is adapted to abuttably overlie bracket 
top-side 101 immediately rearwardly of the bracket lug means. The base 
means for housing 40 comprises a bottom-panel 44 attached and relegated to 
a rearward portion of right-panel 43 and also attached to the lower 
horizontal-edge of upright panel 42R. 
Secure removable engagement of the coupling ("E1", "E2", "E3") with a 
horizontally extending and stationarily mounted bracket (e.g. 99, 109) 
might be readily accomplished according to the following procedure: 
(a) the operator holds the coupling in an inclined condition wherein its 
housing rearward open-end is at common elevation with the bracket 
frontal-end 100F and wherein the roof-panel (21, 31, 41) slopes downwardly 
toward the bracket top-side 101, 
(b) the operator moves the inclined coupling rearwardly to surround the 
bracket frontal portion and he stops his rearward movement when the 
coupling finite-gap (G1, G2, G3) directly vertically overlies the bracket 
upstanding lug means (106, or 107), and then 
(c) the operator tilts the coupling downwardly to a horizontal condition 
whereby the bracket upstanding lug means emerges through the coupling 
finite-gap and the coupling roof-panel abuttably overlies the bracket 
top-side (101) rearwardly of said lug means (106, or 107). However, for 
embodiments "E1" and "E3", a setscrew means 50 passing through a housing 
side-panel, might be optionally additionally employed to enhance such 
secure removable surrounding relationship of the coupling to the lugged 
bracket. Coupling disengagement is quickly effected by reversing the 
aforedescribed stepwise procedure including reversals of coupling 
movements. 
As previously alluded to, each of a plurality of such parallel mounted 
brackets (e.g. 99) can be frontally provided with a coupling ("E1", "E2", 
"E3") whereby the aligned coupling troughs (e.g. 10) together removably 
support a hang-rail (e.g. 199) in perpendicular relationship to said 
coupling equipped brackets. 
From the foregoing, the construction and operation of the garments 
hang-rail coupling will be readily understood and further explanation is 
believed to be unnecessary. However, since numerous modifications and 
changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired 
to limit the invention to the exact constructions shown and described, and 
accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted 
to, falling within the scope of the appended claims.