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    Question ID:   12309         Current Version: 1
Question: Who invented wire coat hanger?
Category: Home & Garden > Other
Keywords: origin, invent, inventor, wire coat hanger, Albert J. Parkhouse
Type: who
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Today's wire coat hanger was inspired by a clothes hook patented in 1869, by O. A. North of New Britain, Connecticut. Albert J. Parkhouse, an employee of Timberlake Wire and Novelty Company in Jackson, Michigan, created a coat hanger in 1903, in response to co-workers' complaints of too few coat hooks. He bent a piece of wire into two ovals with the ends twisted together to form a hook. Timberlake patented his invention, but it is not known if he profited. Schuyler C. Hulett received a patent in 1932 for an improvement which involved cardboard tubes screwed onto the upper and lower portions to prevent wrinkles in freshly laundered clothes. Three years later Elmer D Rogers created a hanger with a tube on the lower bar which is still used today.

Source: USPTO

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