Patent ID: 8028966

Claim:
A hanger device for hooking and attaching to a horizontal hanging rail, the horizontal hanging rail including a forward protruded rail portion, to which the hanger device is hooked and held in place, the hanger device comprising: a metal housing being an open-back case and having a hook connected to a bottom thereof; the metal housing having two rearward extended sidewalls, which are symmetrically provided at rear edges with two identical notches; each of the two notches having an inclined upper edge; a plastic seat being inserted into and thereby embedded in the metal housing via the open back thereof; the plastic seat having a generally central portion defining a transverse recess, the recess and the notches on the metal housing having the same longitudinal cross-sectional shape; the plastic seat being embedded in the metal housing, and the plastic seat being provided at a lower end with a pair of vertically extended first guide channels; a release control element having two sideward extensions for engaging with the first guide channels, so that the release control element is vertically slidable in the first guide channels relative to the plastic seat, and at least one upward projected block located at a top of the release control element; and the projected block being upward extended into the recess of the plastic seat and upward protruded beyond lower edges of the two notches on the metal housing when the release control element is in a highest possible position thereof relative to the plastic seat; and at least one tension spring being located between the release control element and the plastic seat to normally elastically force the release control element to the highest possible position relative to the plastic seat.