US241877A

US241877A - Collar-button

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Publication number: US241877A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-05-24
Anticipated expiration: 1898-05-24

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' NIBAM MUDGE, OF ALBION, MICHIGAN.

COLLAR-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 2&1,877, dated May 24, 1881.

Application filed April 8, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NIRAM MUDGE, of Albion, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Collar-Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of this invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in devices for securing the ends of gen tlemens collars together and to the band of the shirt, whereby such fastening may be easily accom plished and collars of ditlerent sizes may be made to fit the band.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction of the various parts and their combination and operation, as more fully hereinafter described.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved collar-fastener. Fig. 2 is a sectional view, showing the device applied to aportion of a shirt-collar, and also showing the ends of the collar in place.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, A represents the detachable head of a collar button or stud of the ordinary construction. To the face of this stud is secured, by solderiug'or otherwise, the loop B, whose bar, a, is serrated, as shown, said serrations being turned inward.

O is a rod extending through the loop B, and upon it is hinged the lever D by means of small loops 0, between which and around the rod is situated the coil-spring cl. The upper end of this spring is secured to the lever, and its lower end rests against the face of the button, so that it will cause the short arm of the lever to press forcibly toward the serrations on the bar a. The short arm of this lever is also serrated, and when resting against the inner face of the bar at these serrations fall within the serrations upon said bar, the spring being arranged to keep the lever at all times in this position, except whenforce is applied to the other end of the lever.

In practice the stud is put into the shirtneckband in the usual way, after which the serrated end of the lever is separated from the serrated bar aby pulling its long end outward, and the ends of the collar are then inserted in opposite directions through the loop, between the serrated end of the lever and the serrated bar'a, after which the lever is released, so as to allow the spring to close the serrated edge of the lever against the serrations of the bar a, thereby firmly holding the ends of the collar between the two serrated edges, as represented in Fig. 2.

I am aware that it is not new to make shirt studs with spring-clasps, and that studs have been made with separable heads, and therefore I do not broadly claim either of said inventions.

\Vhat claim as .my invention is- 1. In combination with a collar button or stud, the loop B, provided with a serrated bar, a, lever D, having a serrated edge, rod 0, and spring (I, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. A clasp consisting of a loop, B, provided with a serrated bar, a, a rod, 0, lever D, and spring (Z, in combination with a collar button or stud with a detachable head, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

NIRAM MUDGE.

Witnesses H. S. SPRAGUE, E. SOULLY.