Garment hanger

Claim 1

A one-piece hanger fabricated from a plastic material for gripping and hanging a garment permitting it to hang freely comprising gripper means, spring-biased yoke means, gripper separating means, and hanger suspending means: a. said spring-biasing yoke means having a spring action property and a generally arcuate form extending horizontally; b. gripper means and gripper separating means disposed at opposite ends of said yoke means; c. each of said gripper separating means comprising a pair of arm members angled downwardly towards each other, each arm member connected at an intermediate portion thereof to the side of said yoke means; d. said gripper means comprising horizontally-extending gripper members connected to and coextensive with the lower end of each of said arm members; each of said gripper members having an inwardly disposed vertical 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; e. said suspending means extending upwardly and connected to an upper medial portion of said yoke means for suspending said hanger; whereby said gripper means at each end can be easily separated by squeezing respective arm members towards each other to thereby enable a garment to be inserted and frictionally held between said gripper members at each end of said hanger upon release of said arm members.