US1718452A - Collar button - Google Patents

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June 25, 1929. E. J. BERGSTROM COLLAR BUTTON Filed Sept. 2, 1927 HWOPA/E/ Patented June 25, 1929.

ERIK JOHAN BER-GSTRbM, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COLLAR BUTTON.

Application filed September 2, 1927.

This invention relates to improvements in collar buttons and it has particular reference to a device for associating a collar with the rear portion of the neekband of a shirt. One object is to provide a collar button that can be readily applied and removed with one hand and that when in place will permit the necktie readily to slide between the folds of the collar.

A further object is to provide a collar button of very simple construction, durable and efficient in use and cheap to manufacture. IYith the foregoing and other objects in View the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described, pointed out in the appended claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this application and in which Fig. 1 is View of the collar button in elevation.

Fig. 2 is a view illustrating the applica tion of the button to secure a collar to the band of a shirt, said members being shown in section.

Like reference characters denote corresponding parts in both views.

The present collar button is of the onepiece flexible type, made of a single length of wire that is open at the top, the top ends being pressed together to elfect entry into the button hole in the collar and into the shirt band when the said ends will spring apart and so secure the button in position thus elfectually securing the collar to the shirt band.

The reference numeral 1 denotes the outer ply, having button hole 3, and 2 vthe inner ply of the neckband of a shirt, said plies being partially separated at the rear portion of the neekband to form the usual guard pocket l for a portion of the collar button; the inner fold 5 of the collar 6 having formed therein the button hole 7.

The improved collar button is formed of Serial No. 217,286.

a single length of wire bent to form the V-shaped body or lower portion 8 immediately adjacent which portion is the contracted off-set neck portion 9 which merges into the diametrically opposed oppositely bulged portions 10, 10, the free ends thereof extending toward each other except the tips 11 which are bent inwardly and away from each other. It is noticeable that the bulged portions 10, 10 of the button when manually pressed together will, due to the shape and resiliency of the material, spring back into normal position illustrated in Fig. 1, when released.

In operation the bulged portions 10, 10 of the button are manually pressed together and passed through the button hole in the collar leaving the depending body portion 8 of the button between the folds of the collar. When the collar is applied to the shirt band the bulged portions are again manually pressed together and passed through the buttonhole 3 of the shirt band and then released when they will expand again and so secure the collar to the shirt. The button may be removed by again pressing the portions 10, 10 together and withdrawing them first from the shirt band and then from the collar.

\Vhat is claimed is In a collar button formed of a single length of resilientmaterial, a V-shaped body portion, a contracted neck portion offset from the upper end of said body portion, and diametrically opposed oppositely bulged portions merged with said neck portion at one. end, the tip ends of said bulged portions being rcverscly bent and spaced yieldingly one from the other, said bulged portions and body portion being in separate and parallel planes cut by the plane of said neck portion, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature.

ERIK J OHAN BERGSTROM.

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