US1462509A - Secure collar button - Google Patents

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July 24, 1923.

F. x. LIST SECURE COLLAR BUTTON INVENTOR ATTORNEY Filed Oct. 24, 1922 Patented duly 24L, 1%23.

FRANK XAVIEE LIST, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SECURE COLLAR BUTTUN.

Application filed October To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK Iiiiivinn Lis'r, citizen of the United States, and resident of New York, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Secure Collar Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to collar buttons, and the main object is to provide an article as mentioned which has a pair of spaced apart disks forming base, the gap between said disks being receptive of the collar band.

Another object is to provide a collar button which can be readily mounted in place, and which is so constructed than when mounted it cannot be displaced or lost. The usual type of collar button is easily dislodged from a button hole and consequently often causes great inconvenience to the wearer.

These and other objects will become ap parent in the description below, in which characters of reference refer to like-named parts in the drawing.

Referring briefly to the drawing, Figure 1 is a front elevational view of the preferred type of collar button.

Figure 2 is a side elevational View of the same. I

Figure 3 is a top plan view of Figure 1.

Figure 4c is a sectional elevational view of the preferred type of collar button, taken on line 44 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a top plan view of the modified type of collar button.

Figure 6 is an illustration showing the preferred type of collar button partially mounted in place.

Describing the drawing in detail, the numeral 10 represents a spherical head upon a circular shank 11, said head forming a retaining means for linen collars when the latter are mounted in place thereon. The collar button in present day use is inserted into a button hole and can easily be dislodged owing to the spherical head being of insufiicient area for resisting the tendency of slipping thru the button-hole. In the collar button herein disclosed, a pair of annular disks 12 and 13 are provided at the base, said disks being separated by a gap 14 in which the collar band 20 is received. In order to insert the collar band in place between the disks, means are provided where by the band can pass over either one of the 1922. Serial No. 596,689.

disks. As the disks are designed to be of larger diameter than the greatest width of the button hole, it is obvious that said button hole cannot be spread and the button insorted.

in order to mount the collar button in place, the upper disk 13 is provided with an eccentric circular cut-out 15. The cut-out has a slot 16, leading thru the edge of the disk. Turned lips 17 and 18 are formed on the sides of said slot and are rounded in order to give the least amount of resistance to passage of the collar band. Lip 17 on one side of the channel is bent upward, forming an entering guide, and lip 18 is bent downward, forming an emerging guide for the collar band. The peripheral edges 19 of the adjacent faces of said disks are curved toward each other and are intended to slightly compress the collar band 20 when the latter is mounted in place between the disks.

In Figure 5 the modified type of collar button is shown, in which the cut-out is dispensed with and a spirally curved slot 21 is used in its stead, said slot being open at the periphery of the disk, and the lip 22 at the outer end of the slot is curved upwardly, forming an entering guide.

In mounting the collar cutton in place at the collar band, the head 10 is pushed thru the button hole 23. Said head is then grasped and rotated toward the lip 17. As the latter is hem sligl'itly outward, the button hole slit will be opened or spread apart, whence lip 17 is guided into the button hole. As rotation in the same direction progresses, the upper disk finally will pass entirely thru the button hole, and collar band will lie in the gap 1 1- between the adjacent faces of the disks 12 and 13. In removing the collar button, the head 10 is oppositely rotated and the emerging lip 18 will guide the collar band outward until the entire band is displaced from the gap 1 1.

I claim 1. A device of the class described comprising an upper and lower disk rigidly united in spaced-apart relation, said upper disk having an eccentric circular cutout therein, a shank on said upper disk adapted to pass thru a button hole, and means for guiding said button hole slit thru the cutout into the space between the disks.

2. A device of the class described comprising a pair of adjacent disks separated by a gap, a shank extending from the up a collar band into the gap when the said lip per disk, the latter having an eccentric ciris rotated toward a button hole slit.

cular cut-out therein, a slot extending from Signed at New York, in the county of said cut-0ut thru the edge of the disk, lips New York and State of New York, this 5 formed by the sides of said slot and turned 7th day of October, A. D. 1922.

respectively downwardly and upwardly, the

upwardly bent lip being adapted to guide FRANK XAVIER LIST.

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