Patent ID: 8910837

Claim:
A hanger assembly for a garment including a neck opening and a pair of shoulder areas, comprising: a rail having a pair of free lateral ends, each free lateral end configured to support one shoulder area of the pair of shoulder areas from inside the garment wherein said rail includes an envelope of uniform curvature extending from a particular free lateral end to an other free lateral end; and a carriage, coupled to said rail to transition between a pair of locations along said rail with said pair of locations including a first location generally centered between said pair of free lateral ends and a second location closer to said particular free lateral end than said other free lateral end, said carriage having a suspending mode wherein said carriage is located at said first location and an insertion-removal mode in which said carriage is located at said second location; wherein said carriage includes a channel having a roof, a floor, and a channel height between said roof and said floor, wherein said rail includes a top rail surface, a bottom rail surface and a rail width between said top rail surface and said bottom rail surface extending from said first location to said second location, wherein said channel width closely matches said rail width with said carriage configured to engage said rail by passing said particular free lateral end through said channel when said carriage is decoupled from said rail; wherein said lateral arms of said rail are generally disposed in a plane, wherein said carriage includes a hook to engage an object for suspending said carriage and said rail from said object, a shank tip, and a shank bore bottom, and wherein said shank tip and said shank bore bottom are matchingly tapered in one dimension wherein said hook automatically aligns itself with said plane when said rail hanger is lifted and said hook disengages from said object.