US 4,287,612 A · Method of making and ornamenting shirts and shorts

Abstract

A method of making body garments, such as shorts or shirts which have decorations applied along their sides, includes starting with a length of tubular material which is flattened for passing it through a design-applying mechanism which applies decorations along the central area, cutting off pairs of identical garments along transverse lines spaced from each other a distance sufficient to provide two garments between them, these transverse lines defining the respective waist lines; removing pieces of material midway between the transverse lines to provide openings for the legs in the case of shorts, and for the neck and arms in the case of shirts. The tubular material is then shifted to place the decorated areas to the sides and the garments are finished by either joining portions of the margins together, or by joining the margins with additional material.

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Dependent claims

Method of producing body garments having a generally symmetrical profile when viewed from the front or back and a profile when viewed from the side which is assymmetrical comprising the steps of:

laying out a length of tubular material sufficient to make an even number of garments to provide two plies of said material collapsed into a flat plane in which the elongated center line of said collapsed material defines a vertical line disposed along the respective sides of the finished garment;
applying a design to the longitudinally extending central surface of said collapsed material, said design being intended to cover an area at the side of a finished garment;
severing said two plies of collapsed material transversely along two longitudinally spaced lines which define the waist lines of two oppositely disposed garments, and;
severing said two plies of collapsed material transversely at a location medial of said first two lines and removing superposed pieces of material having identical outlines from both of said plies to provide openings for the extremities of the body remote from the waist.

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Method of producing body garments having a generally symmetrical profile when viewed from the front or back and a profile when viewed from the side which is assymmetrical comprising the steps of:

laying out a length of tubular material sufficient to make an even number of garments to provide two plies of said material collapsed into a flat plane in which the elongated center line of said collapsed material defines, a vertical line disposed along the respective sides of the finished garment;
severing said two plies of collapsed material transversely along two longitudinally spaced lines which define the waist lines of two oppositely disposed garments;
severing two superposed pieces of material having identical outlines from said two plies of material at a location midway between said longitudinally spaced lines and medial of the opposite side margins of the collapsed material to define the respective arm holes of the finished garment, and;
severing a single piece of material from each of the opposite margins of said two plies of material at positions adjacent said location midway between said longitudinally spaced lines, the lines of severing in one ply being identical with the lines of severing in the other ply to define the respective front and rear necklines of each garment.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method of making and ornamenting shirts and shorts

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