Patent ID: 7226032

Claim:
A picture-hanging device, the picture-hanging device for enabling a user to mark a select vertical location and hang a picture at the select vertical location, the picture comprising a picture-hanging cord and a picture load, the picture-hanging device being formed from a single piece of loopable, substantially planar, elongate material and comprising a looped handle portion, a substantially planar hanger portion, and a handle-hanger junction, the handle portion comprising a substantially planar anterior portion, a substantially planar posterior portion, and a semi-cylindrical handle terminal region, the handle terminal region joining the anterior portion to the posterior portion opposite the handle-hanger junction, the anterior portion comprising a substantially planar junction region, the junction region angularly attaching the anterior portion to the posterior portion at the handle-hanger junction, the hanger portion comprising an anterior surface, a posterior surface, a hanger terminal region, a hanger junction region, an elongate hanger slot, and a hanger hook, the hanger slot having a hook end and an open end and extending from the anterior surface to the posterior surface, the hook end being adjacent the hanger terminal region, the open end being adjacent the hanger junction region, the hanger hook extending from the anterior surface toward the hanger junction region intermediate the hanger terminal region and the hook end at a hook junction, the hanger hook being sized and shaped to receive the picture-hanging cord, the hook junction being sufficiently formed to support the picture load, the anterior portion being substantially parallel to the posterior portion, the looped handle portion thus having a substantially uniform loop thickness, the hanger portion being coplanar with the posterior portion, the hanger junction region comprising indicia means upon the anterior surface, the indicia means and the hanger slot enabling the user to mark the select vertical location, the picture-hanging device thus enabling the user to mark the select vertical location and hang the picture at the select vertical location.