Patent ID: 6889387

Claim:
A collar protector for the collar on a garment wherein said collar has, an inner face, an outer face and a collar button, comprising, a body made of a resilient material, said body having a relatively wide center section, said center section having an attachment assembly which is releasably affixed to the collar button, relatively wide and spaced side sections having an inner end and an outer end each respectively connected at the inner end to the center section and disposed to extend in opposite directions from the center section so that each respective outer end forms a free end, each of the respective side sections having a resilient holding member in the medial section of the associated one of the side sections, each resilient holding member is an elongated strip having a strip inner end and a strip outer end and connected at its strip inner end with and extending in the same direction from the connected inner end of its associated one of said side sections, and the strip outer end of each said holding member forming a free end remote from its said connected strip inner end to enable the respective side sections to extend in opposite directions so the outer end of the respective side sections is in engagement with the inner face of the collar and to enable each respective holding member in assembled position to extend to opposite sides of the center section to engage the outer face of the collar on the said garment and to hold and protect the collar.