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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2011
Lawrence O. Freese, Charlotte, NC (US);
Lawrence O. Freese, Charlotte, NC (US);
Brica, Inc., Charlotte, NC (US);
Abstract
A dual-configuration hanger for hanging an article from either the handle of a carrier device such as a shopping cart or a stroller, or from a horizontal table surface such as a public diaper-changing table, and a method of using the hanger. A pivot-and-locking assembly joins the proximate ends pair of hook-like curved arms each also having a distal end. The arms pivot between a locked-closed configuration in which the distal ends are in contact with or in close proximity to each other so that the arms define essentially a closed loop; and an open configuration in which the distal ends are spaced from each other to define an opening in between the distal ends, and the curved arms define a pair of opposed hooks.