Carolyn M Halverson

US Patent:

54761999, Dec 19, 1995

Filed:

Mar 23, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/216552

Inventors:

Carolyn M. Halverson - Weyauwega WI
Paula R. Halverson - West Hills CA

International Classification:

A47G 2544

US Classification:

223 94

Abstract:

A clothes hanger having movably adjustable, extendable clothing support arms, enabling the side-to-side or lateral extent of the hanger to be adjusted or extended to fit clothing of different sizes. The movably adjustable hanger arms may both be independently and continuously adjustable from a fully withdrawn or non-extended position to a fully laterally extended position and are attached to each fixed or stationary inclined arm of the hanger by a multiplicity of frictionally engaging flexible gripping members cooperating with longitudinally extending grooves provided in the adjustable arms and the fixed arms of the hanger, respectively. The hanger may be made of molded, recycled plastic or polymer material.