US3110428A - Garment cover - Google Patents

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• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
  • A47G25/00—Household implements used in connection with wearing apparel; Dress, hat or umbrella holders
  • A47G25/54—Dust- or moth-proof garment bags, e.g. with suit hangers

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• This invention relates to a garment cover for use in laundries, dry cleaning plants and like places for covering the upper portion of a garment suspended from a garment hanger.
• an object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved garment hanger cover which is simple and inexpensive in construction and is so designed that it may be readily and expeditiously arranged upon a garment suspended from a garment hanger suspended from a post, rod, rail or endless conveyer in a laundry, dry cleaning plant or the like, without removing the garment or its hanger from its support, and with a minimum of time and effort on the part of the operator.
• Another object of the invention is to provide a new and improved garment cover for use on garments suspended from garment hangers in laundn'es, dry cleaning plants and the like, in which the garment cover may be expeditiously arranged upon one or more garments by a simple operation of wrapping it over the upper shoulder and neck portions of the garment or garments and around the hook of the garment hanger and then securing in position of use by the application of a pressure-sensitive adhesive coated securing tongue or tab portion formed as an integral part of the garment cover and engageable with a surface thereof.
• An additional object of the invention is to provide a new and improved garment hanger cover which is adapted to cover a plurality of garments suspended on garment hangers suspended from a supporting unit, such as a post, rod, rail or the like, so that a plurality of garments may be covered by a single garment cover and returned to the customer as a single package.
• FIG. 1 is a rear elevational view showing -a typical embodiment of the new garment cover mounted in position of use upon a garment suspended from a garment hanger;
• FIG. 2 is a plan view of the new garment hanger cover
• FIG. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view thereof on line 33 in FIG. 1;
• FIG. 4 is a plan view of the blank shown in FIG. 2 as seen from the side opposite that shown in FIG. 2;
• FIG. 5 is a view similar to FIG. 1 but showing the new garment hanger cover applied to a plurality of garments suspended from garment hangers;
• FIG. 6 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view of the new garment hanger cover as shown in FIG. 5.
• a preferred embodiment of the new garment cover is illustrated in the drawings, where it is generally indicated at 13', and comprises a blank or body 11 which may be formed by die-cutting it from paper, plastic resinous sheet material, such as cellophane, or similar suitable material, and includes a main and generally triangular-shaped center panel 12, a side panel 13 which is integrally connected to the main and center panel 12 along a fold line 14, and a second generally triangulanshaped side panel 15 which is integrally connected to the main and center panel 12 along a fold line 16.
• a recessed or cut-out garment hookreceiving portion 17 is formed centrally in the blank or body 11 between the side panels 13 and 15.
• a securing tongue or tab portion 20 Integrally attached to one of the side panels, namely the side panel 15, is a securing tongue or tab portion 20 which is shown as being generally rectangular in form but may take various other forms and shapes.
• the securing tongue or tab 20 has a coating 21 of a suitable pressure-sensitive adhesive material on its (-in use) inner surface.
• This coating 21 may be in the form of *a continuous film of the pres sure-sensitive adhesive or it may take the form of strips of pressure-sensitive adhesive coated material adhesively secured to the panel 13, as shown in 'FIGS. 2, 4 and 5.
• the area 22 to which the pressure-sensitive adhesive coating 21 on the securing tongue or tab portion 20 is to be adhesively attached is indicated at 22 in the drawings, and is shown as being rectangular in shape although it may take any desired form corresponding to the shape of the securing tongue or tab portion 20 on the panel 15.
• the area 22 may be provided with a pressure-sensitive adhesive coating which may be in the form of a continuous film, as shown for the coating 21 on the securing tab or tongue portion 20, or it may take the form of a series of parallel paper or fabric strips 23 which are adhesively secured on their inner surfaces to the area 22 of the panel 13 and each of which has a coating of pressure-sensitive adhesive material on their outer surfaces which is adapted to be adhesively secured to the pressure-sensitive adhesive coating 21 on the securing tongue or tab portion 20 of the panel 15.
• a pressure-sensitive adhesive coating which may be in the form of a continuous film, as shown for the coating 21 on the securing tab or tongue portion 20, or it may take the form of a series of parallel paper or fabric strips 23 which are adhesively secured on their inner surfaces to the area 22 of the panel 13 and each of which has a coating of pressure-sensitive adhesive material on their outer surfaces which is adapted to be adhesively secured to the pressure-sensitive adhesive coating 21 on the securing tongue or tab portion 20 of the panel 15.
• the new garment cover may be die-cut from paper stock, plastic resinous sheet material, such as cellophane,
• the pressure-sensitive adhesive coating 21 may be applied to the (in use) inner surface of the securing tongue or tab 241, and the pressure-sensitive coated strips 23 adhesively secured at their inner surfaces to the area 22 of the panel 13 by means of any suitable adhesive.
• the blank or body 11 of the new garment hanger cover 10 may then be folded into a generally triangular form by folding the side panels 13 and 15 along the fold line 14 and 16 over the center panel 12, for stacking and storing in a minimum of space, or it may be stored and stacked in extended form, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 4.
• the new garment cover may be readily applied to the upper portion of a single garment, such as 19, suspended on a garment hanger 18, by the simple, easy and expeditious operation of merely manually wrapping the body 11 of the garment cover around the upper portion of the garment 10 with the center panel 12 arranged over the front of the garment and with the side panels 13 and 15 extending across the back of the garment, as shown in FIG. 1, and with the hook portion 18 of the garment hanger projecting through the hook-receiving recess 17, as shown, so that the garment cover 10 is positioned in the manner in which it is shown in FIGS. 1 and 5.
• One of the advantages of the new garment hanger cover is that it may be used to cover a plurality of garments so that a plurality of garments sent in to a laundry or dry cleaning plant may be returned to the customer wrapped in a single garment cover and as a single package.
• the present invention lends itself to this usage and is shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 as used to cover a plurality of garments 19a each of which is mounted on a separate garment hanger 18a.
• the new garment cover 10 In order to use the new garment cover 10 for the purpose of covering a plurality of garments 19a it is merely necessary to wrap the new garment cover 10 about a plurality of garments 19a, each arranged on separate hangers 18a, and to spread or expand the new garment cover 10 somewhat compared to its position as used to cover a single garment 19, as in FIGS. 1 and 3. This is accomplished, as shown in FIG.
• the new garment cover may be expeditiously assembled upon the upper portion of a single garment or a plurality of garments each carried by a garment hanger, as 18 or 18a, with a minimum of time and efiort and in such a manner as not to require any particular skill on the part of the operator and without removing the garment or its hanger from its support, and in that in those instances in which the new garment hanger 4 cover 10 is used to cover a plurality of garments it may be readily wrapped therearound as easily and expeditiously as when used to cover a single garment.
• a garment cover for covering the neck and shoulder portions of one or a plurality of garments suspended on a garment hanger formed from a single blank of flexible sheet material comprising a generally rectangular-shaped body having inner and outer surfaces and including a generally triangular-shaped central panel having a pair of laterally extending and generally triangular-shaped side panels integrally connected thereto along fold lines, each panel including terminal edge portions defining the exterior edges of the blank, said body having a recessed portion arranged centrally thereof between the said laterally extending generally triangular-shaped side panels, one of said laterally extending generally triangular-shaped side panels having a securing tongue portion formed integrally therewith and projecting laterally therefrom at one side of, and in a direction away from, the said centrally arranged recessed portion of said body, and said securing tongue portion including terminal side and end edge portions, the side edges of the tongue being parallel to the terminal edge of its panel and having a pressure-sensitive adhesive coating on its inner surface, and adapted to overlie the outer surface of said other panel with the

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