Garment hanger

Abstract

There is provided a garment hanger having a function of preventing shoulder portions of a garment from losing their original shapes, capable of being vertically stacked and not bulky in packing to reduce transportation cost, and not requiring time and effort to assemble into a three-dimensional shape. A hanger includes a hook portion and a hanger main body having a pair of left and right shoulder support portions for supporting shoulder portions of a garment, wherein upper faces of the shoulder support portions are inclined from a front side toward a back side of the hanger main body, a front-back thickness of each of the shoulder support portions is greater than a basic thickness of the hanger main body, and overlap thicknesses between the front and back shoulder support portions when the plurality of hanger main bodies are stacked in a thickness direction are greater than or equal to a difference between the front-back thicknesses and the basic thickness.

1 . A garment hanger comprising:
 a hook portion;   a collar support portion connected to the base end of said hook portion, which maintains a shape of a collar portion of a garment; and   a hanger main body having a pair of left and right shoulder support portions for supporting shoulder portions of a garment, said pair of left and right shoulder support portions are connected at both ends of said collar support portion, wherein   a front-back thickness A of each of the shoulder support portions is greater than a basic thickness T of the hanger main body, said basic thickness T is equal to the thickness of said base end of said hook portion, and   an overlap thickness between a front shoulder support portion and a back shoulder support portion when the plurality of hanger main bodies are stacked in the thickness direction is almost equal to a difference between the front-back thickness A and the thickness T;   a front-back thickness B of the collar support portion is greater than the basic thickness T of the hanger main body, and   an overlap thickness between a front collar support portion and a back collar support portion when the plurality of hanger main bodies are stacked in the thickness direction is almost equal to a difference between the front-back thickness B and the thickness T; and   a cross-sectional shape of at least of the near portions of said collar support portion or whole of each of the shoulder support portions is a combination of a lower C-shaped forward curved portion and a flipped-C-shaped collar receiving portion with a reversed center of curvature above the forward curved portion.   
     
     
         2 . The garment hanger according to  claim 1 , wherein
 in case that said cross-sectional shape of near portions of said collar support portion of each of the shoulder support portions is a combination of a lower C-shaped forward curved portion and a flipped-C-shaped collar receiving portion with a reversed center of curvature above the forward curved portion, a cross-sectional shape of remaining side portions continuing to said near portions of the shoulder support portions is a combination of a central vertical rib portion, a first arc-shaped protruding portion protruding forward from an upper portion of the vertical rib portion, and a second arc-shaped protruding portion protruding backward from the upper portion of the vertical rib portion, and   there is a height difference between positions of the first arc-shaped protruding portion and the second arc-shaped protruding portion so that, when the plurality of hanger main bodies are stacked in the thickness direction, an upper portion of the first arc-shaped protruding portion and a lower portion of the second arc-shaped protruding portion of the adjacent hangers come in contact with each other in a vertical direction.   
     
     
         3 . The garment hanger according to  claim 1 , wherein
 a vertical thickness of a top portion of the hook portion is smaller than a depth of a groove of a screw conveyor which is an automatic conveying device in a laundry establishment, and   a wall thickness of the hook portion is increased to make up for a shortage of strength.   
     
     
         4 . The garment hanger according to  claim 2 , wherein
 a vertical thickness of a top portion of the hook portion is smaller than a depth of a groove of a screw conveyor which is an automatic conveying device in a laundry establishment, and   a wall thickness of the hook portion is increased to make up for a shortage of strength.