Patent ID: 7753241

Claim:
A hanger for suspending a plurality of articles, comprising: a body; at least first and second pairs of opposed article gripping members, one of each said pair being a stationary article gripping member affixed to the body to laterally outwardly extend therefrom; the other of each said pair of article gripping members being a mobile article gripping member translatable toward the stationary gripping member to fasten at least one article therebetween; the stationary article gripping members in the first and second pairs of article gripping members being formed to be adjacent to each other, a first of the stationary article gripping members extending in a first lateral direction from the body, a second of the stationary article gripping members extending in a second lateral direction from the body in mirror image to the first direction; each of said stationary article gripping members being formed as a channel defined by first, second and third plates, the first plate being vertical and in a plane parallel to the first direction, the second plate being joined to and extending from the first plate in a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions, the third plate being joined to the second plate, the third plate disposed to be vertical and in a plane parallel to the first direction and spaced from the first plate by the second plate, the third plate of one of said stationary article gripping members being continuous and coplanar with the third plate of the other of said stationary article gripping members; a first one of the mobile article gripping member and the stationary article gripping member in each pair having a fastening arm extending in parallel to the first direction toward a second one of the mobile article gripping member and the stationary gripping member, the fastening arm having formed therein a plurality of detenting teeth spaced apart from each other in the first direction; and the second one of the mobile article gripping member and the stationary article gripping member in each pair having an arm-receiving channel and a movable pawl for engaging at least a selected one of the detenting teeth on said fastening arm, a lever operatively connected to the pawl for selectively disengaging the pawl from the detenting teeth.