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.

Abstract: A waste water treatment machine for use primarily with dry cleaning equipment to remove the solvent perchlorethylene and other contaminants from waste water so the purified water can be returned to the environment. The machine includes a collecting tank to collect waste water from both a dry cleaning machine and a dry cleaning vacuum press which vacuum waste water and solvent from garments that still remains therein after the dry cleaning operation is completed. The treatment machine pumps the collected waste water through filters and an elevated separation tank wherein the heavier than water perchlorethylene separates from the water, the machine having a re-circulation conduit through which the partially purified water above a separation level in the separation tank can flow by gravity back down for re-circulation through the filters and then pumped up again to the separation tank for additional filtering and separation of the solvent and other contaminants.