Process and apparatus for making garments formed of helically joined pieces

A process of making garments formed of helically joined pieces which comprises feeding from supply rolls a plurality of continuous strips of garment material in side-by-side relation with adjacent edges contiguous, joining contiguous edges of said strips to form a wider composite strip, propelling said composite strip helically around a cylindrical form with edges of adjacent convolutions of said composite strip contiguous with one another while joining said contiguous edges to form a tubular structure, and cutting said material in predetermined manner into garment lengths and to provide any openings required in said garments.

Apparatus for making garments formed of helically joined pieces, which comprises a cylindrical form, means for feeding to said form a strip of garment material from a supply roll containing a continuous length of said material, means for propelling said strip of material helically around said form with edges adjacent convolutions of said material contiguous with one another, means for joining said contiguous edges of adjacent convolutions of said material to form a tubular structure, and means for cutting said material in predetermined manner into garment lengths and to provide any openings required in said garments.

Apparatus for making garments formed of helically joined pieces, which comprises means for feeding from supply rolls a plurality of continuous strips of garment material in side-by-side relation with adjacent edges contiguous, first means for joining said contiguous edges of said strips to form a wider composite strip, a cylindrical form, means for propelling said composite strip helically around said cylindrical form with edges of adjacent convolutions contiguous with one another, second means for joining said contiguous edges of said composite strip to form a tubular structure, and means for cutting said material in predetermined manner into garment lengths and to provide any openings required in said garments.

In a sewing machine the combination of a sewing head having two needles spaced laterally from one another, a presser foot mounted below said sewing head in position to engage material being stitched and means for guiding said material, said guiding means comprising mounting means, means for affixing said mounting means to said presser foot, an inverted U-shaped bracket adjustably carried by said mounting means with downwardly extending legs at opposite sides of said presser foot and guide wheels rotatably mounted on said legs of said bracket in position to engage the material being stitched.