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Apparatus and method for buttoning garments

US4141131A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateSep 29, 1977
Grant dateFeb 27, 1979
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Expiry dateSep 29, 1997

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T29/53961
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

Apparatus and method for buttoning garments such as shirts including a frame supporting surface which supports the garment to be buttoned, such frame comprising a plurality of pairs of spaced plates for fixedly holding the buttonhole strip of the garment, a plurality of hook-shaped members positioned to extend through the buttonholes into contact with the button strip, a plate adjustably supporting the button strip so as to move the buttons into engagement with the extended hook-shaped members; the hook-shaped members and attached buttons being drawn through corresponding buttonholes, and the hook-shaped members and pairs of plates being disengaged from the buttoned garment.

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