US2115545A - Collar button inserter - Google Patents

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April 26, 1938.. c, j YUMQNT' 2,115,545

COLLAR BUTTON INSERTER Filed Jan. 15, 1937 far-$20 i atentecl Apr. 26, 1938 UNlTED STATES PATENT QFFECE 2 Claims.

My present invention relates to collar buttons and more particularly to a button hole device in combination with a collar button in which the collar button is clamped in the device and then entered in the button hole.

The principal object of my invention is an improved collar button inserter;

Another object is an improved inserter for collar buttons and the like which is provided with a split head in which the end of the collar button is held, and

Other objects and novel features comprising the construction and operation of my device will appear as the description of the same progresses.

In the drawing illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, the illustrations of which are greatly exaggerated;

Fig. l is a side elevation of the apparatus;

Fig. 2 is a cross-section taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is a side elevation similar to Fig. 1 but showing the device in an open position either before mounting on the collar button or just having been removed.

Referring more in detail to the drawing, 10' indicates a conventional collar button commonly used to fasten the front of the collar to the shirt band. At H I have shown a hollow tube the sides of which are tapered outwardly toward a ball socket end generally indicated at [2. It will be noted that the tube I I adjacent the ball socket end 52 is split at 3. The split 93 extends approximately half way toward the small end of tube ll. Preferably oppositely opposed slots are used although a larger number may be used if desired. Just back of the ball socket end and formed in the curved body of the tube material I have located a groove M. Also the sides of the tube between the bead l5 and the ball socket end iii are curved, as viewed in the horizontal plain, but are round in cross-section. Surrounding the split portion of the tube H and provided with a complementary curved surface is a sleeve Hi. It will be noted that the large end of this sleeve I5 is provided with a spun-over edge I! which when the apparatus has been closed over the head of a stud, as in Figs. 1 and 2, seats around the groove M of the ball socket end 12. When the device is open the ball socket end [2 springs apart, as shown in Fig. 3. The bead it acts as a back stop for the sleeve 36 and prevents it from being slid oif of the small end of the tube H when opened, as in Fig. 3.

In operation, a collar button, or stud, Ill is inserted in the ball socket end l2 of the device and the sleeve 15 is slid forward on the tube it into the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The small end of the tube H is now pushed through the button hole of a shirt or collar, the shirt or collar being slid back over the ball end on to the post of the collar button l0. After the bu ton holes of the shirt, or the shirt and collar together have been mounted around the post of the collar button In the instrument is removed by pulling back on the sleeve 16, as shown in Fig. 3. The spun-over edge l'l on the sleeve l6 temporarily locks the device when in use but is easily released when pulled back. The curved sides of the sleeve l6 and tube H reduces the friction required by the finger of the operator when loading the device.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new is:

1. A collar button inserter comprising, a hollow tube, said tube being tapered, one end of said tube being split, the split portion comprising two halves normally curved outwardly away from each other, the end of the said split portion comprising semi-ball socket portions, the said socket portions being joined to the said outwardly curved split portions by means of a depressed area comprising a groove, a slide member comprising a tapered tube slidably mounted over the tapered end of said split portions adjacent the semi-ball socket portions, the taper of said slide member also being curved outwardly, the end of said slide adjacent the said semi-ball socket portions of said -split portions being spun over inwardly around the edge and adapted to engage in said groove when said inserter is in a closed position.

2. A collar button inserter comprising the features set forth in claim 1 and being further provided with, an annular ring formed around said hollow tube adjacent its small end being adapted to stop the rear end of said slide when said inserter is in an open position.

CHARLES J. YUMONT.

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