Garment hanger

Claim 1

A ONE-PIECE HANGER FABRICATED FROM A PLASTIC MATERIAL FOR GRIPPING AND SUSPENDING A GARMENT PERMITTING IT TO HANG FREELY COMPRISING GRIPPER MEANS, SPRING-BIASING YOKE MEANS, AND COMBINED HOOK AND GRIPPER SEPARATING MEANS: A. SAID GRIPPER MEANS COMPRISING A PAIR OF PARELLEL HORIZONTALLY-EXTENDING GRIPPER MEMBERS, EACH OF SAID GRIPPER MEMBERS HAVING AN INWARDLY DISPOSED VERTICAL GRIPPING SURFACE, SAID GRIPPING SURFACE COMPRISING A PLANAR DIMENSIONAL AREA HAVING FRICTIONAL GRIPPING MEANS, BOTH OF SAID GRIPPING SURFACES BEING NORMALLY SPRING-BIASED BY SAID YOKE MEANS IN A PARALLEL CLOSED CONTACTING POSITION, B. SAID SPRING-BIASING YOKE MEANS HAVING A SPRING ACTION PROPERTY AND A GENERALLY ARCUATE FORM, SAID YOKE MEANS BEING ABOVE AND BETWEEN SAID GRIPPER MEMBERS AND CENTRALLY DISPOSED ALONG A PORTION OF THE HORIZONTAL LENGHT OF SAID GRIPPER MEMBERS, SAID YOKE COMPRISING A MEDIAL PORTION PARALLEL TO SAID GRIPPER MEANS WHICH HAS A SMALLER THICKNESS THAN THE REMAINING THICKNESS OF SAID YOKE MEANS, C. SAID COMBINED HOOK AND GRIPPER SEPARATING MEANS COMPRISING A PAIR OF SEPARATE MEMBERS EACH EXTENDING VERTICALLY UPWARDLY FROM EACH RESPECTIVE SIDE OF SAID YOKE MEANS AND NORMALLY DISPOSED IN PARALLEL RELATIONSHIP, EACH OF SAID MEMBERS COMPRISING HOOK MEANS AT THE UPPER EXTREMITIES THEREOF, D. SAID PLASTIC MATERIAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF POLYVINYLCHLORIDE, POLYSTYRENE, POLYETHYLENE, POLYPROPYLENE, ACRYLONTRILE-BUTADIENE-STYRENE, POLYPROPYLPLASTICS, AND FIBROUS REINFORCE PLASTICS, WHEREBY SAID GRIPPER MEMBERS CAN BE EASILY SEPARATED BY SQUEEZING SAID COMBINED HOOK AND GRIPPER SEPARATING MEANS TO THEREBY ENABLE A GARMENT TO BE INSERTED BETWEEN SAID GRIPPING SURFACES AND TO BE FRICTIONALLY HELD THEREBETWEEN UPON RELEASE OF SAID COMBINED HOOK AND SEPARATING MEANS.