Expansion hanger device

Claim 1

A two piece flexible material hanger device comprising a hollow body portion and a hollow plug portion, said plug portion adapted to receive a hanger to hold a fixture thereto and being insertable into a receiving cylindrical aperture defined by a relatively thin wall of said body portion, comprising an integral cylindrical tubular portion frictionally insertable into said cylindrical aperture defined by said thin wall in seizure relationship thereto, said body portion having a front end having a circular flange of a diameter greater than said insertable cylindrical tubular portion of said plug portion, said flange having a channel thereacross, said body portion having said cylindrical aperture therethrough, said aperture having a front cavity of larger diameter communicating with a rear cavity of lesser diameter and forming a vertical wall between said cavities having a peripheral edge, said body portion having at the rear end four quadrant portions separated by four respective slots extending suitably into said cylindrical aperture; and an integral cylindrical tubular plug portion having an exterior cylindrical surface mateable with the surface of said larger cavity of said cylindrical aperture, said plug having a truncated flange at its front end having parallel side walls and adapted to seat in said channel of the flange of said body portion, said plug portion partly separated into two opposed portions by a slot therebetween, said cylindrical surFace of said plug portion having an external circular channel therein adapted to receive said peripheral edges of said cylindrical aperture of said body portion in locked relationship whereby forced insertion of said plug portion in said body portion forces outwardly and lockingly said quadrants of said body portion behind said wall and with said truncated flange of said plug portion being non-rotatably seated in the channel of said flange of said body portion.