EXTENDIBLE COAT HANGER WITH MOVABLE SHUTTLES TO ADJUST ITS WIDTH

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This utility model consists of a special hanger whose width is manually adjustable by the movement with clicks that occurs by virtue of two shuttles placed on the main body of the hanger. In this way, the end user will have the option to use a single adjustable hanger for hanging clothes of various sizes and measurements with different shoulder widths.

As is well known to insiders and consumers today there are many forms of hangers in the trade that are differentiated both aesthetically and functionally, designed however for only one type of garment with a particular shoulder width.

If you use the wrong hanger garments can fall off, deform and/or crease.

The use of fixed hangers is even more critical for professionals engaged in, for example, laundry, ironing or cloakrooms that, in their daily activities are in contact with thousands of garments. In this case the need to have adjustable hangers that can carry any type of garment is crucial in view of the small spaces where people are often forced to work and especially for minimising the time required to process garments .

There have been various attempts to create adjustable hangers that were impractical, expensive, insecure, often fragile and in any case not suitable for heavier garments.

This invention overcomes the difficulties, allowing with a single extensible and adjustable hanger to hang clothes of any size, weight and measurement, obviating in this way the purchase and use of several different hangers, avoiding mistreating or soiling, in the case of dropped garments, the clothes hung on them.

The model will now be described, for illustrative purposes, according to one of its more popular forms but not to be construed as in any way limiting other forms, with particular reference to the figures and the drawings attached, noting that all the forms used, notwithstanding their functionality, can vary in size, number and form without this limiting the invention:

Figure 1 shows a front view of the extendible hanger with shuttles in the open position.

? Figure 2 shows a perspective view of the main body of the extendible hanger.

Figure 3 shows a perspective view from the bottom of the inside of the shuttles.

Figure 4 shows a lateral cross-section of a sliding shuttle with relevant detail.

Figure 5 shows a bottom view of the shuttles .

Figure 6 shows a bottom view of the extendible hanger with shuttles inserted.

Figure 7 shows a top view of the extendible hanger with shuttles inserted.

Figure 8 shows a front view of the extendible hanger with shuttles in the closed position .

Figure 9 shows a front view of the extendible hanger with shuttles in the open position.

Referring to the figures in question, it is apparent how this invention consists of a main body (A) on which two identical shuttles (B-C) slide and allow the retraction or extension as needed.

The main body of the invention (A) features on both arms a series of holes and/or small hollows (fig. 2 and 6 no. 101) spaced so as to allow adjustment of the width of the hanger. Indeed, when the shuttles (Ά and B) , equipped with a peg (fig. 3 and 4 no. 102)

75 positioned in their upper inner part, scroll on the main body (A), the same peg (102) will exert a slight pressure on the hole/hollow (101) locking the shuttles in the desired position, thus creating a system for adjusting width.

80 With this system the shuttles, once the width of the hanger is decided on the basis of the garment in question, will remain in the desired position and at the same time, when needs change, will be easily repositioned through the movement along the clicks of

85 the shuttles (fig 8 and 9) .

The central body (A) also features, on the arms, the presence of an end stop (fig. 1, 2, 7, 8 and 9 no.

103) that avoids the shuttles, even when pushed with force, moving further towards the centre of the main

90 body as well as a special security peg (fig. 2 no.

104) , present in the upper part of the arms, that corresponds to a closed groove (fig. 5 no. 105) , located in the inner part of the shuttles, halting further movement outwards and at the same time

95 reinforcing the block (103) on inward movement.

Each shuttle (B) and (C) features, to enable grip and sliding on the main body, in the lower edge, a double set of teeth (fig 3, 4, 5, 6 no. 106) that adhere along the border at the base of the main body 100 (fig. 6) .

This allows the fluid and linear sliding of the shuttles over the main body avoiding side-to-side play too .

The invention, therefore, in the closed position,

105 forms a single body shape that is very small and can accommodate garments with narrow shoulders (fig. 8), while in intermediate positions and/or fully open (fig. 9) the hanger can accommodate garments with increasingly wide shoulders.

110 For a favourite form of use by the user, these, in relation to the shoulder width of the garment to hang on the hook through the central structure (107), will adjust the width of the coat hanger through the movement of two sliding shuttles (fig. 8 and 9) to the

115 desired position.

In resting position or for storage, the two shuttles will be placed in the fully closed position (fig. 8) so as to occupy as little space as possible. The invention can be made of plastic or equivalent

120 materials without this prejudicing the invention. The model has been described in relation to its functions as an illustration but not limiting its application and it is therefore to be understood that changes and/or modifications may be made without it thus exceeding the limits covered by its protection.

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