US 5,769,287 AGranted

Shaping clip for a shirt collar

OwnerRandy Kiminventor

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Abstract

A shaping clip for a shirt collar to hold the shirt collar in a neat round position when not being worn, and to prevent the shirt collar from becoming wrinkled. The shaping clip comprises an outer relatively long V-shaped band of somewhat resilient but yet stiff material to be placed along the outside of the central front portion of the shirt collar, and an inner relatively shorter arcuate shaped band of the same stiffening material to be placed along the inner surface of the central front portion of the shirt collar. A clamping mechanism is provided to clamp the outer band and inner band together with the central front portion of the shirt collar sandwiched therebetween. The clamp mechanism includes a socket member with a receiving socket integrally formed on one of the bands, preferably the outer band, and an insert member integrally formed on the other for clamping reception in the receiving socket of the socket member.

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Dependent claims

A shaping device for a collar having an outer and an inner surface, an upper edge and a buttoned front center portion, comprising first shaping means for placement along said outer surface of said collar extending in each opposite direction from said buttoned front center portion of said collar for shaping thereof, second shaping means for placement along said inner surface of said collar extending arcuately in each opposite direction from said buttoned front center portion of said collar for shaping thereof, and clamping means to clamp said first and second shaping means together with said outer and inner surfaces of said collar sandwiched therebetween said clamping means including interconnecting members located above said upper edge of said collar when interconnected in place thereon, wherein said first shaping means includes a linearly elongated band of stiffening material having a central portion and an upper edge thereof, a first integrally formed leg extending in one diagonal direction from said central portion of said elongated band and a second integrally formed leg extending in an opposite diagonal direction from said central portion of said elongated band.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.