US1886826A - Collar card for flat form laundered attached collar shirts - Google Patents

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COLLAR CARD FOR FLAT FORM LAUNDERED ATTACHED COLLAR SHIRTS Filed Sept. 15. 1930 iWI M/m I MA, ar

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1 This invention relates to the art of holding the fronts of attached shirt collars flat and smoo in flat form laundered shirts having attached collars.

6 The bosom edges of such shirts are buttoned together and there has been placed between the collar points and the shirt bosom of fiat form laundered shirts, a flat card having a recess cut upward from the lower to edge of the card, and adapted to allow the card to he slipped downward with the edges of the recess between the shirt front and the button which holds the neck band ends together after the shirt is laundered in flat 15 form; and when the card is thus secured to the shirt front, the collar brought into flat form position over the card. It requires considerable time, skill, and attention to apply such fiat form collar holdace with their upper edges seated in the collar folds and the edges of the recess inserted under the button.

An object of this invention is to provide a fiat form attached shirt collar card that with less requirement of skill, with less expenditure of care, attention and time, and with greater ease, than with the former fiat form attached collar card or slip.

An object of this invention is to provide means for securing the flat slip in true position for holding in collars of shirts laundered to fiat form.

In carrying out this invention 1 have provided a flat cardboard anchor templet having a terminally widened shank, an obtuse crown at one end and an oval stock at the other end of the shank, and flat obtuse arm extensions of the crown, the edges of which extensions are spaced from, stock, when in. flat form; arms are placed in the fold of the collar of a flat form laundered shirt, the shank may be bent and the stock folded down inside the neck band, and into practical parallelism with said crown and arms, thus to hold the .coll'arends in ints and the shirt under such points and smooth.

5! The advantages of the invention are that points are flat form the attached" and extend beyond, the

so that when the true position with the collar the device may be cut out of flatcardboard with great rapidity and at very sli ht expense; may be readily assembled an packaged'in flat form for transportation; may be more easily handled by the fingers of the operators, so that the work of applying and removing them from the shirt may-be done more easily and quickly and with less likelihood of displacement, fumbling, crumplling or dropping, than with collar flat forms eretofore. I 1

Other objects, advantages and features of invention may appear-from the accompanymg drawing, the subjoined detailed description and the appended claims.

The invention will be understood by reference to the accompanying drawing,-in which; Figure 1 is a fragmental view of a flat laundered attached-collar shirt to which the.

anchor templet is shown applied; a portion of the collar being broken away to expose the end of one of the anchor arms, and'dotted lines being used to indicate the outer lapped end of the collar band and its securing button; dash lines being employed to indicate the position .of the stock folded inside the collar' band, and dot and dash lines indicating the flat position of the stock.

Fig. 2 is a face view of the anchor in its fiat form as a manufacture.

Fig. 3 is an edge view looking up at the edges of the anchor crown and as in the folded position of Fig. l, omitting the shirt band and collar shown in such figure.

The attached ping ends 3 and bosom 4 of the shirt 5 are all of common construction, and are shown in the fiat ,form' customary for finishing laundered shirts in flat form.

The cardboard anchor templet comprises a terminally broadened shank 6, a triangular rounded-nose plate 7 at one'end of the shank and an oval stock 8 at the other end of the shank; the plate 'comprisingoblique rounded arm extensions 9 embracing a triangular corner space 10 open at one side 11, and accommodating the shank and-stock so that in fiat form the plate be readily handled by the operator s fingers collar 1, neck band 2, lapthe stock,

without bending or distortion of plate, shank or stock, and can be shoved up under the collar and into the end folds thereof, while the shank is positioned between such fold ends, and then the oval stock can be brought into position inside the shirt, thus bending the shank over the collar band and into practical parallelism with the nose and arms of the plate, thus to hold the collar ends flat and In true position.

In practical manufacture, a row of dies, not shown, may be provided, extending across the platen of a printing press and the cardboard may be fed to the press from a roll, not shown, and the anchors may be assembled and boxed in a manner well known in the art of disposing of printing-press card products.

It is understood that the flat surfaces of the anchor may be supplied with advertisements, 20 announcements or other rinted matter, not shown, and that the printing may be done on the cardboard either before or after the anchors are stamped out.

The roundin nose and arms shown are sufiiciently sti to be easily caught by the fingers and shoved up under the collar points, and into the folds of the collar for the purpose, as there is no slot or recess to weaken it and when so placed a stroke on the stock bend the shank at th terminals causing the bend to be there located so that the work may be quickly and smoothly eifected. v By reason of the oval form of the stock and anchor arms, the work is not subject to interference from contact of corners that might cause the armsor the stock to bend or tw' out of true form during the operation of bringing the card to true position. I claim 1. A device for holding in position the neck band ends andattached collar of a flat form laundered shirt, comprising a flat cardboard anchor having a terminally widened shank, an obtuse crown at one end, and'an oval stock at the other end of the shank and flat obtuse arm extensions of the crown, are spaced from and extend beyond the stock when in flat frm;so that when the arms are placed in the fold of the collar of a flat form laundered shirt, the shank ma be bent and the stock folded down inside t e neck band, and into practical parallelism with said crown and arms, thus to hold the collar ends. in true position.

2. 'A fiat cardboard anchor templet comprising a terminally. broadened shank; a triangular rounded-nose plate at one end of the shank and an oval stock at the other end of the shank; said plate comprising oblique rounded arm extensions embracing a triangular corner space open at one side so that in at form the late is sufiiciently stifi to be readily handle b an operators fingers e without bending ore middle, the widened rtion of the plate, the v shank or the stock; and can be shoved u under the collar and into the ends of the fol thereof while the shank is positioned between such fold ends; and such shank can then be bent over the collar band and the stock 10 brought into the shirt behind the front of such band.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto setmy hand at Los Angeles, California, this 5th day of Sept. 1930.

- 78 CHARLES M. MEAD.

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