Patent Publication Number: US-2013228599-A1

Title: Stillwell suite hanger

Description:
This application is not related to any other patent application. 
     The subject of this patent application has not been funded in any way by the government of the United States of America. 
     This application is not part of any joint research agreement. There is no computer data involved in this application, hence there is no “sequencing list” included. This invention is designed to make the storage and use of a “suit” of clothes (pants or ladies&#39; skirt, with matching jacket, designed to be worn and stored together) more efficient. 
     Using a conventional hanger to hang both the pants (skirt for a ladies&#39; suit) and the matching jacket together, on the same hanger, leaves the two articles of clothing hung in the reverse order from which they will be used (put on), and in the reverse order from which they will be stored (hung up) when taken off. The subject of this patent application (the Stillwell Suit Hanger) reverses the order in which the two articles of clothing are hung up. In doing so the articles of clothing are hung up in the order in which they will be put on (when dressing) and in the order in which they will be hung up again (when undressing). 
     The Stillwell Suit Hanger has taken the basic hanger design (hook, vertical connector, with sloping or curved arm below) and added a slot or loop in between the hook and the curved arm. The pants (skirt for a ladies&#39; suit) is then hung through the slot or loop with the jacket hung from a curved arm below the slot or loop. The hanger may be made out of a variety of materials (plastic or wood most commonly), and may be of varying size. The dimensions of the material (plastic or wood most generally) may also vary. However, the central design elements (hook, vertical connecter, slot or loop, vertical connector, and curved arm) will remain constant and in the same order. 
    
    
     There are two drawings with this application. The first ( FIG. 1 ) is a drawing of the hanger by itself. The second ( FIG. 2 ) shows how the hanger might look with a suit (pants and jacket) actually hanging from it. 
     The Stillwell Suit Hanger takes the basic clothing hanger design and adds a slot or loop for the pants (skirt for a ladies&#39; suit) to hang on so that the pants (skirt) hangs above the jacket, rather than below it. Simply there is a hook at the very top to hold the hanger to the clothes rod, this is connected by a vertical connector to the slot or loop for the pants (skirt), which is then connected (from the bottom of the slot or loop), with another vertical connector, to a curved arm, used to hang the jacket. This places the two pieces of clothing (pants or skirt, and jacket) in the same order in which they will be used, when getting dressed and in the order in which they will be hung up again when getting undressed. This eliminates the need to dig around inside the body of the jacket to get the pants (skirt) off the hanger when getting dressed, and the need to dig around inside the body of the jacket to hang up the pants (skirt) when getting undressed. 
     Hanging the two pieces of clothing in this way will save time and frustration (all important to busy executives and other personnel who&#39;s jobs require them to wear a suit).