Garment hanger

Claim 1

A two-piece separable garment hanger including a hook part and a garment-supporting body part, said hook part, in its free state, being in the form of a unitary elongated strip of flat resilient material of appreciable width and provided with a reentrant bend therein defining a relatively short leg, a relatively long leg, and an interconnecting bight portion designed for reception over a clothes rod, said long leg being normally of wide angle bowed configuration so as to provide an upper proximate section and a lower distal section, said upper proximate and lower distal sections being each provided with a relatively small hole therethrough in the medial regions thereof, the holes in said upper and lower sections being disposed in vertical alignment, said garment-supporting body part including a pair of downwardly inclined divergent garment shoulder-supporting arms from the juncture region of which there project upwardly and vertically a rod-like suspension neck, said suspensioN neck projecting through said vertically aligned holes, said long leg existing under spring flexion, whereby the suspension neck is frictionally and releasably gripped in binding relationship by the rim regions of said holes for immediate release upon manual flexion of said long leg in a direction tending to decrease the wide angle relationship of said proximate and distal sections.