Abstract An adjustable garment hanger having a pair of jaw members provided with a pair of upwardly extending lever members and having fulcrum means positioned therebetween so as to mount the lever members and the jaw members for relative pivoting movement around said fulcrum means such as to move said jaw members between open and closed positions and with said hanger being provided with jaw operating, retaining, and releasing means of an adjustable type operable to lock said jaw members on opposed sides of portions of a garment to be engaged and held thereby and which may be of virtually any desired thickness because of the adjustability of the jaw operating, retaining, and releasing means and with the device further being provided with controllably adjustable open-position-adjusting means for determining the extent of opening movement of the opposed jaw members when the jaw operating, retaining, and releasing means is moved into jaw-open released position. In a preferred form, the adjustable garment hanger may be provided with hanger intercoupling means for coupling two or more of such hangers together in offset and usually downwardly displaced relationship and in a manner such that the hook member of one of said hangers supports the entire group of intercoupled hangers whereby to greatly enhance the efficiency of space utilization such that for greater than the normal number of hangers and garments supported thereby can be positioned within a given spacial region below a hanger-supporting pole, or the like.
An adjustable garment hanger, comprising: a pair of transversely extended jaw members provided with a pair of upwardly extending lever members; fulcrum means positioned between said lever members and spacing them apart to an extent such as to permit relative pivoting movement of said lever members and the corresponding depending jaw members around said fulcrum means in a jaw-opening and jaw-closing manner substantially perpendicular to the upward direction of said lever members and the transverse extension direction of said jaw members; length-adjustable, effective lever-member-tensioning means positioned in vertically spaced relationship with respect to said fulcrum means and effectively interconnecting corresponding portions of said lever members and having an atrest jaw-open position providing a predetermined, controllably adjustable, initial transverse spacing between said corresponding portions of said lever members which correspondingly causes a predetermined, controllably adjustable transverse spacing between said jaw members when in fully open relationship; and jaw operating, retaining, and releasing means operable into one extreme jaw-open position releasing said jaw members and allowing said lever-member-tensioning means to effectively cause said jaw members to move into a fully open relationship and forcibly operable to any desired extent toward an opposite extreme jawclosed relationship whereby to forcibly resiliently close said opposed, previously open jaw members into a jaw-closed relationship of any desired extent wherein said opposed jaw members are spaced apart by any different predetermined desired spacing corresponding to The thickness of a garment to be engaged and held by said closed, opposed jaw members, including manually adjustable means for modifying the initial effective length of said lever-member-tensioning means for modifying said initial spacing between said corresponding portions of said lever members and said initial spacing between said jaw members when in fully open relationship.
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An adjustable garment hanger, comprising: a pair of transversely extended jaw members provided with a pair of upwardly extending lever members; fulcrum means positioned between said lever members and spacing them apart to an extent such as to permit relative pivoting movement of said lever members and the corresponding depending jaw members around said fulcrum means in a jaw-opening and jaw-closing manner substantially perpendicular to the upward direction of said lever members and the transverse extension direction of said jaw members; length-adjustable, effective lever-member-tensioning means positioned in vertically spaced relationship with respect to said fulcrum means and effectively interconnecting corresponding portions of said lever members and having an atrest jaw-open position providing a predetermined, controllably adjustable, initial transverse spacing between said corresponding portions of said lever members which correspondingly causes a predetermined, controllably adjustable transverse spacing between said jaw members when in fully open relationship; and jaw operating, retaining, and releasing means operable into one extreme jaw-open position releasing said jaw members and allowing said lever-member-tensioning means to effectively cause said jaw members to move into a fully open relationship and forcibly operable to any desired extent toward an opposite extreme jawclosed relationship whereby to forcibly resiliently close said opposed, previously open jaw members into a jaw-closed relationship of any desired extent wherein said opposed jaw members are spaced apart by any different predetermined desired spacing corresponding to The thickness of a garment to be engaged and held by said closed, opposed jaw members, including manually adjustable means for modifying the initial effective length of said lever-member-tensioning means for modifying said initial spacing between said corresponding portions of said lever members and said initial spacing between said jaw members when in fully open relationship.