Patent ID: 8413860

Claim:
A hanger assembly for hanging a pullover garment from its top, the pullover garment having a neck opening, an interior, and a shoulder line profile, comprising: a handle including a holder carrier portion and a hook portion, the holder carrier portion including first and second support arms having distal ends that terminate in respective first and second opposed coupling members, and the hook portion positioned medially between the first and second coupling members; and an elongated unitary flexible holder that, when joined with the handle to form the hanger assembly, is operationally coupled for lengthwise slidable engagement with the first and second coupling members, the flexible holder having holder ends and a lengthwise profile, a cross-sectional profile, and a length, the lengthwise profile configured to define a bow shape in a rest state, the cross-sectional profile configured to achieve, in response to a holder compressive applied force, bending of the flexible holder in a lengthwise compressed state and thereby bring closer together the holder ends to enable insertion of the holder ends through the neck opening to the interior of the pullover garment, and in response to a garment removal applied force, buckle-free bending of the flexible holder in a lengthwise break-free state and thereby bring closer together the holder ends to enable removal of the holder ends through the neck opening from the interior of the pullover garment, and the length selected to achieve, in response to removal of the holder compressive applied force and a consequent relaxation of the flexible holder from the compressed state to a partly relaxed state, a spreading apart of the holder ends to allow the flexible holder to span beyond each of the first and second coupling members a distance that enables the pullover garment to hang on the flexible holder, with the flexible holder following the shoulder line profile of the pullover garment.