Hanger for dust bag

Claim 1

A hanger for supporting a foldable-type walled dust bag having an open top end in a vertical position on a wall support, said hanger comprising a horizontally oriented frame body designed and structurally adapted to spread and hold said bag top end unobstructedly open, said frame body being made from a single wire having a bendable, but self-shape-sustaining characteristic and embodying a central, horizontally disposed U-shaped base portion, a pair of members bent outwardly at a substantially right angle and slightly backwardly and upwardly from said Ushaped base portion to form a pair of duplicate side portions, each of said members being bent at a substantially right angle to said side portions in the same direction to form a pair of duplicate longitudinally spaced parallel coplanar arm portions, each of said portions terminating in a coiled tip portion, said side portions and said arm portions with tip portions forming a U-shaped enclosure whereby all three sides of said U-shaped enclosure resiliently urge against the inside wall of the dust bag to hold it firmly in its open position and simultaneously the two free arm portions tend to move outwardly against the inside wall of the dust bag with increasing force as the bag with its contents becomes heavier; a vertical mounting plate having a horizontally disposed cylindrical bore therethrough, the U-shaped base portion of said frame body being fitted and fixedly retained in said cylindrical bore; and means associated with said mounting plate for readily attachably securing said hanger to said wall support.