Patent ID: 7500586

Claim:
A hanger, adapted for retaining and hanging objects, comprises: a hook having first and second ends, the first end consisting of a hooked portion for hooking onto a separate supporting object and the second end comprising a straight portion formed to vertically point downward due to gravity when the hook is hooked on the supporting object and the hanger is only supported thereby; and a lower hanger portion having a coil and a spiral-shaped body that has first and second ends, the body being spiral-shaped in a lateral direction along a length of the body from the first end to the second end, a spiral of the spiral-shaped body occupying a volume having three dimensions, each dimension being substantially larger than a non-lateral dimension of a cross-section of the body, the second end being a permanently open terminus of the spiral-shaped body for hanging looped objects on the spiral-shaped body and the first end being connected to the coil in the lower hanger portion, the coil being a separate portion of the lower hanger portion from the spiral-shaped body, and the coil being coiled around the straight portion of the second end of the hook to permit horizontal rotation of the spiral-shaped body with respect to the vertical downwardly pointing straight portion of the hook.