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US 4,379,666 AGranted
Apparatus for manufacture of jigs
AssigneeAMF Incorporated
InventorsJohn A. Rose, Keith Dyer
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Abstract
In the formation of the components of a jig for profile stitching of garment parts, a profile formed in one component is used to create associated profiles in a second component and subsequently one of the associated profiles of the second component is used to create a related profile in the first component.
Claims6
Apparatus for the manufacture of multiple plate jigs for use in sewing, comprising
- a top plate with a contoured outer periphery;
- mounting means adapted to removably support in predetermined spatial relationship a work piece of bottom plate material and said top plate above and parallel to the work piece;
- forming means for contouring a work piece to form a bottom plate with a contoured periphery and for forming a contoured slot thereby separating the bottom plate into inner and outer portions:
- a pair of feeler means each being arranged to move independent of the other along the periphery of said top plate;
- one of said feeler means being operatively connected to guide said forming means when contouring the outer periphery of a bottom plate;
- and
- the other of said feeler means being operatively connected to guide said forming means when forming a contoured slot in a bottom plate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.