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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 1993
Filed:
Mar. 15, 1991
Dana Franklin, Denver, CO (US);
Samsonite Corporation, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
Past garment bags have included expansion features such as a peripheral zipper in the rail portion to permit the garment bag to expand to accommodate a greater number of clothes. A hanger bar for supporting clothes on hangers has also been provided which has a collapsed condition for supporting few hangers, and an expanded condition for supporting a greater number of hangers corresponding to the expanded condition of the garment bag in which the hanger bar is suspended. Such hanger bars have failed to include an effective means for holding the hooked portions of ordinary closet-type hangers in either the collapsed or expanded condition of the hanger bar. Disclosed is such a garment bag with a hanger bar having hanger retaining means which is effective whether the hanger bar has a shortened length corresponding to the collapsed condition of the garment bag or a lengthened condition corresponding to an expanded condition of the garment bag. In particular, an L-shaped retainer is carried by a first telescoping section of the hanger bar and operates simultaneously to keep hangers from falling off the front end of the hanger bar and from being dislodged upwardly away from the hanger bar.