US1356768A - Collar-holder - Google Patents

Description

R. K. AND F. SL MAKER.

coma HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED APR- 8. I920.

1,356,768, Patented Oct. 26,1920.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Q91 26, 1920 Application filed. April 8, 1920. Serial No. 372,127.

1 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, RALPH K. MAKER and FRED S. MAKER, citizens of the United States, and residents of thecities of Providense and Seekonk, respectively, in the counties of Providence and Bristol, respectively, and States of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to collar holders more particularly adapted for engaging the adjacent front edgesof a soft or unstarched collar, to hold them in position about the neck scarf.

The object of this invention is to provide such a holder which is simple and inexpensive in construction and which is provided with automatic gripping members at either end adapted to engage the fabric and force it into a groove to securely grip and bind the fabric in adjusted position.

The nature and advantages of the invention will be better understood when the following detail description is taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,

a the invention residing in the combination and arrangement of parts as claimed.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views and wherein Figure 1 is a front view illustrating a 001 lar with my improved holder in position thereon.

Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation illustrating the general construction of my im proved holder.

Fig. 3 is a view of the under or trough side of the trough-shaped outer bar.

Fig. 4; is a face view of the inner or resilient gripping bar.

Fig. 5 is a view of the under side of my improved holder, showing the gripping bar as secured in the trough of the outer bar.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged section on line 6-6 of Fig. 2, showing the edges of the trough as turned over the inner bar for the purpose of binding it in position therein.

Fig. 7 is a view on line 7-7 of Fig. 2, illustrating the fabric after having been guided beneath the resilient bar and jammed into the groove of the outer bar.

With reference to the drawings, 10 designates the front bar of the holder, which may be made of any suitable ma'terial and which 1S preferably, swaged or drawn up into a trough shape, an open space or deep groove 11 being formed in the back or rear side thereof and the bar itself is preferablyymade on the arc of a'circle as illustrated in Fig. '2,

so as to conform to the general circular contour of the collar.

To provide a gripping member to cotiperate with this outer or trough-shaped bar I have formed an inner or resilient bar 12 which is preferably cut from sheet stock, its middle portion 13 being of a width to fit closely into the middle portion of the trough of the outer bar, while .its end portions 14 are made somewhat narrower so that each will leavesome space between it and the side walls 15 of the trough, as best illustrated in Fig. 5.

In order to secure this bar in the trough of the outer bar I preferably roll the edges 16 at the middle portion, of this outer bar, over those of the inner bar, thereby binding the inner bar securely in the trough. I Then again the ends of this rolled-over stock engage the shoulder-portions 1'? of the inner bar to prevent relative endwise movement between them.

The ends 18 of the inner or resilient bar,

are turned upwardly as best illustrated in Fig. 2, to extend above the trough edges and are set at an angle thereto, thereby providing an open mouth 19 at each end of the holder between the two bars, adapted to en gage the fabric and guide the same down I gage the end 18 of the bar by the thumb nail and by lifting it slightly when the fabric may be readily withdrawn therefrom.

The device is extremely simple and inexpensive in construction, very neat and attractive in appearance and owing to its automatic gripping action it is very easy to ap ply, and will firmly retain the collar. or fabric in any desired position. The foregoing description is directed solely toward the construction illustrated,

but I desire it to be understood thatI' reserve the privilege of resorting to all the mechanical changes to which the device'is susceptible, the invention being defined and openmouth between it and that of said outer bar whereby in forcing the fabric, beneath said inner bar it is carried into the trough of 7 the outer bar.

2 A collar-holdercomprising a troughshaped outer'bar, a resilient inner bar secured to the trough side of said outer bar,

the free ends of said inner bar being each set at an angle to and spaced from the groove in said outer bar to direct and bind the fabric engaged thereby into said trough, and means for securing said bars together.

side Walls of the trough thereover, the ends of said inner bar being raised above the edges of the Walls of the-outerbar andset at an angle thereto to engage, direct and bind the fabric beneath the inner barinto the trough of the outer bar.

In testimony whereof We aflix our signatures.

1 RALPH K. MAKER.

FRED S. MAKER.

' 3; A collar-holder comprising a trough shaped bar, a resilient inner bar secured in 25 the trough of said outer bar by folding the

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