To provide an assisting implement allowing buttons to be fastened/unfastened without damaging nails and to provide a welfare implement allowing buttons to be fastened/unfastened even with disabled fingertips because there are many people who damage the nails when fastening/unfastening buttons of clothes of hard fabric, jeans, etc. with long nails or artificial nails for ornament due to nail art which is prosperous in recent years, and there are also many people who have difficulty in fastening/unfastening buttons of shirts or clothes because the fingertips are weak, painful or hindered from fine movement due to sickness such as rheumatism or strokes, external wounds, etc.
The buttons can be fastened/unfastened using an implement including bifurcated arm parts 4, 4 provided forward from an end of a shaft part 3 having a grip part 2, and latching parts 5, 5 provided upward at the ends of the arm parts 4, 4.
JPH1132894A | 1999-02-09 |