Patent ID: 7757869

Claim:
A hanging assembly comprising, in combination, a hanger interconnected with a slatwall track and a retainer to secure said hanger to said slatwall track, said slatwall track including several parallel channels extending along its length, each of said several parallel channels incorporating a horizontal top, successively followed downwardly by an upper vertical back, a first horizontal bottom extending forwardly, a lower vertical back extending downwardly and a second horizontal bottom extending forwardly, and then a frontal vertical wall of said slatwall track connecting said horizontal top of a following lower channel with said second horizontal bottom of an upper following channel and continuing upwardly as a lip, a niche being formed by said lower vertical back, said lower second horizontal bottom and said lip, said hanger including a bracket having a central substantially flat body provided laterally at each side with a hook, and extending into an uppermost backwardly folded segment adapted to engage and capture partially, in a vertical direction, said lip of an upper channel, and extending into a lowermost flat retracted segment that forms a backwardly directed step for engaging an inside surface of said lip between said upper and said lower channels, an intermediate channel identical to said upper and said lower channels being used, said intermediate channel providing a space wherein said retainer after penetrating said bracket is partially extending for interconnecting with said slatwall wall; said central flat body being also provided at each extremity, before said hook, with a vertical slit having a length generally coextensive with said intermediate channel, said length being relatively slightly less than a length between said horizontal top and an upper edge of said lip; said retainer being provided with a capacity to flexible deform and having an elongated body extending into a top and bottom horizontal walls and into a pair of lateral vertical walls, perpendicularly disposed with respect to said top and bottom horizontal walls, each of said top and bottom horizontal walls being provided with an outward edge abutting said central flat body, said outward edge being discontinued centrally by a narrow, relatively shortly extended cutoff intended to facilitate removal of said retainer from its set position; a distance between said pair of lateral vertical walls and a distance between said vertical slits being approximately the same, each said lateral vertical wall being provided with means for snapping into said vertical slits, wherein said retainer is so dimensioned that it is able, when said hanger is unintentionally bumped vertically, to engage, via upper edges of said pair of lateral vertical walls, said horizontal top of said intermediate channel, therefore a small dimensional gap between said horizontal top and said upper edges is provided.