Title: Flexible garment hanger

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Abstract: A flexible garment hanger preferably formed of a one-piece, molded plastic-like material having a body, two hanger arms connected to the body by integral flexible hinge portions and a locking bar below the body of the hanger secured to both arms by means of similar integral flexible hinge portions with a stop member projecting medially from the locking bar and having two additional integral flexible hinge portions, one on either side of the stop member. By pulling down on the stop member, the locking bar is deflected downwardly past an overcenter position which in turn allows the two hanger arms to be compressed downwardly and inwardly into a collapsed position. The hanger is locked into a fully deployed position by forcing the stop member upwardly towards the body so that the locking bar passes beyond its center position into an overcentered locking position. The weight on the hanger arms while the locking bar is in an overcentered position and the stop member is abutting the body maintains the locking bar in an overcentered and locked position. A second embodiment carries a hook which is slidably received through an aperture in the body and connected to the stop member. Another embodiment carries a single integral flexible hinge portion connecting the two hanger arms. A hook is slidably received through an aperture in the single hinge around which the two hanger arms are deflected into a collapsed position. A final embodiment replaces the overcenter locking means with a two-segment trouser bar connected at each end to an arm by an integral flexible hinge portion and removably secured at the median by a rigid member.


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