Collar support strap for shirt packaging
Assigneer-pac International Corp.
InventorMichael TEITELBAUM
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Abstract
A single piece of collar support strap to package collar portion of a shirt is described. Shirt collars are traditionally packaged in a way to reflect the collar's positioning and shape in actual use. Conventional methods employ multiple pieces of support items placed in different locations. A collar support strap provides the positioning of the collar in a packaged shirt not only through a single piece item, but also provides ease of packaging by avoiding multiple steps of operations to package the shirt. The collar support strap enables adjustment to varying collar sizes, anchoring to the collar button, and accommodation of the different collar types.
Claims20
A method to provide support for a shirt collar in a packaged form, the method comprising:
- selecting a pre-formed collar support strap based on one of more of a collar size, a collar type, and a collar height;
- unfolding the shirt collar over a collar band;
- placing the selected collar support strap on an outside surface of the collar band;
- anchoring the collar support strap to a collar button;
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- folding the shirt collar over the collar support strap.
A collar support strap to provide support for a shirt collar in a packaged form, the collar support strap comprising:
- a substantially flat body comprising two halves at a predefined angle;
- a locking mechanism comprising a tongue piece protruding from a distal edge of one of the two halves and a plurality of grooves along another one of the two halves;
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- a cutout at an apex of the body connecting the two halves, the cutout configured to anchor the collar support strap to a collar button.
A collar support strap to provide support for a shirt collar in a packaged form, the collar support strap comprising:
- a substantially flat body comprising two halves at a predefined angle;
- a locking mechanism comprising a tongue piece protruding from a distal edge of one of the two halves and a plurality of grooves along another one of the two halves;
- a second locking mechanism within the body of the collar support strap, wherein the second locking mechanism comprises another tongue piece and a cutout around the other tongue piece to push the other tongue into another selected groove;
- a cutout at an apex of the body connecting the two halves, the cutout configured to anchor the collar support strap to a collar button;
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- two protrusions from the body of the collar support strap in a vicinity of the cutout to provide support for collar points in the packaged form.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.