Folding coat hanger

Abstract

A coat hanger has two arms joined at one of their respective ends by a joint, whereon they may rotate, which permits two use positions. In the first position, the arms are totally open adopting a suitable angle for the correct adaptation of the form of the garments to hang. In this position it has the appearance of a traditional coat hanger. In the second position, the arms, rotating in their joint, are folded back one over the other until totally coinciding, so that the size of the coat hanger is compacted reaching its minimum volume.

1 : Improved folding coat hanger, wherein it is constituted by two arms whose outer silhouettes are appreciably coincident and symmetrical and are articulated by a turn axis which is traversed by its ends; each of the arms has an elongated shape which narrows in the area surrounding the turn axis of the joint, adopting an appreciably circular shape, which is also distorted in a minor protruding elongation; the first arm has a graduated section and a non-through cylindrical housing with two different diameters; the second arm also has a graduated section which corresponds, in negative, to that of the first and has a slot constituted by a sector of circular crown whose average radius coincides exactly with the distance between the turn axis of the joint and the shaft of the cylindrical housing made in the first arm; the ends of the sector of circular crown are finished with different non-through cylindrical notch-cuts; in the proximities of the joint, in its appreciably circular area, the graduations of each of the arms are sharply cut finishing in different vertical planes; coaxially mounted with the turn axis whereon are articulated the arms there is a blade spring whose straight extensions of the ends of the steel wire which constitutes it are applied against the respective graduations of the arms; in the cylindrical housing made in the first arm there is a sliding rod, also cylindrical, which has three differentiated portions: the intermediate has a greater diameter than the ends; one of the ends of smaller diameter traverses the groove in the form of sector of circular crown and its extension takes the form of a button whilst the intermediate portion and the other end of smaller diameter, are coupled in the corresponding hollows of the cylindrical housing of the first arm; in the same housing, coaxially mounted with the rod and around one of its ends of smaller diameter there is a torsion spring which works by compression; the hook whereby the coat hanger hangs has a special curvature; each of the arms of the coat hanger have notches made and all the component parts of the invention have their protuberances and corners smoothed by fillets. 
   
   
       2 : Improved folding coat hanger according to  claim 1 , wherein it has a button whose detailed organization is not described or claimed, which is housed in the minor protruding elongation existing in the appreciably circular area of the first arm.