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Granted Patent B2
US 8,857,777 · App. 13/689,152 · Granted Oct 14, 2014

Anti-theft/safety hanger

Inventor: Chi-Tsai Chang (Taichung, TW)
A47F7/00B65D2211/00B65D73/0064B25B13/06Y10S206/806
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Patent No.
US 8,857,777
App. No.
13/689,152
Granted
Oct 14, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

An anti-theft/safety hanger is provided with a plate body having an U-shaped wedge portion. The wedge portion includes a wedge corner portion on one of sidewalls and is connected to the plate body via a connecting edge. The wedge corner portion is movable between a first position and a second position. When the connecting edge is uncut-off, the wedge corner portion is located in the first position and the wedge portion is relatively undeformable so that a socket sleeved around the wedge portion is limited and detachable. When the connecting edge is cut off, the wedge corner portion is pushed and blocked by a blocking corner portion of the plate body so as to be located in the second position. The wedge portion is depressed, and the socket is thus unblocked by the wedge portion and detachable.

Claims (8)

1. An anti-theft/safety hanger, including a plate body, the plate body including a first end and a second end corresponding to each other, the first end formed with a hanging portion, the second end formed with a wedge portion, the wedge portion adapted for a socket to be sleeved therearound, a receiving space being formed between the wedge portion and the plate body, the wedge portion being selectively deformable, one end of the wedge portion toward the plate body being connected to the plate body, the wedge portion formed with a wedge corner portion, the wedge corner portion being connected to the plate body via a connecting edge, the wedge corner portion being selectively movable between a first position and a second position, the second end of the plate body formed with a blocking corner portion extending inwardly toward the receiving space, and the wedge portion formed with a projective positioning portion;

wherein when the connecting edge is uncut-off or unsnipped-off, the wedge corner portion is located in the first position, the wedge portion is limited by the connecting edge so that the wedge portion is relatively undeformable, and the socket is blocked by the positioning portion so that the socket is undetachable from the wedge portion;

wherein when the connecting edge is cut off or snipped off, the wedge portion is relatively deformable so that the wedge corner portion is allowed to be pushed into the receiving space and is blocked in the second position by the blocking corner portion, the wedge portion is depressed so that the positioning portion moves backward, and the socket is unlimited by the positioning portion and permitted to detached from the wedge portion;

wherein the wedge corner portion and the blocking corner portion are not continuously formed, the wedge corner portion and the blocking corner portion form a gap therebetween as the connecting edge is uncut-off or unsnipped-off;

wherein the connecting edge is configured to be plate-shaped, and the connecting edge has two thicker end portions which are connected respectively to the wedge corner portion and the plate body, the connecting edge, relative to the two thicker end portions, has a thinner middle portion between the two thicker end portions, and the thinner middle portion has a thinnest region extending correspondingly above and along the gap;

wherein the wedge portion has a first side wall extending from the second end of the plate body, a second side wall opposite and parallel to the first side wall, and a third side wall laterally connected between the first and second side walls, the third side wall is opposite and substantially parallel to the second end of the plate body, the first side wall has an inverted L-shaped portion which corresponds in shape to a corner portion defined by an interior surface and an end surface of the socket and which is for engagement with the interior surface and the end surface, and the wedge corner portion is formed on a top end of the second side wall;

wherein an enhancing rib extends integrally from a connection part of the inverted L-shaped portion which is located at least partly within the socket and corresponds to the corner portion defined by the interior surface and the end surface of the socket as the wedge portion is sleeved around by the socket, the enhancing rib is further integrally connected vertically to the second end of the plate body and vertically to the third side wall.

2. The anti-theft/safety hanger of claim 1 , wherein the hanging portion is an elongated hole.

Priority Claims (1)
TW 101218281 A · Sep 21, 2012 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20140084128A1 · Mar 27, 2014