Patent ID: 7389885

Claim:
A hanger for suspending at least one article, comprising: a body; at least first and second pairs of opposed downwardly depending article gripping members, one each of said pairs being a stationary article gripping member affixed to the body to downwardly depend therefrom; the other of each of said pairs of article gripping members being a mobile article gripping member translatable in a first direction at an angle to the vertical and toward the stationary gripping member to fasten the article therebetween; the first pair of article gripping members being displaced from the second pair of article gripping members in a second direction at an angle to the first direction and at an angle to the vertical; in each pair, at least one of the mobile gripping member and the stationary gripping member having an article support finger extending in parallel to the first direction toward the other gripping member; in each pair, the mobile article gripping member having a fastening arm extending in parallel to the first direction toward 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 in each pair, stationary article gripping member 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, the detenting teeth, when engaged with the pawl, disposed in a vertical plane which is at an angle to the second direction.