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AssigneeSara Lee Corporation
InventorsClaude Fournier, Patrick Hauguet, Robert Burguiere, Jean-Pierre Peauger, J. Reid London, Arthur W. Parris, Jr., Charles E. Helms, Robert L. Stewart
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A system for automatically producing pantyhose garments from elongated tubular fabric blanks, each having a toe end portion and a welt or band end portion. Randomly oriented blanks are sequentially removed from a supply reservoir, oriented in a predetermined manner, and conveyed to a positioning and transferring assembly which orients, removes creases and pleats and properly positions a pair of blanks on the clamping assemblies of a pantyhose seaming machine. The pair of clamped blanks have the welt end portions severed, and severed edges seamed by sewing instrumentalities to define the panty portion of a pantyhose garment. The pantyhose are transferred to a machine where the toe ends are closed by seaming.
Apparatus for the automatic formation of pantyhose having panty, leg and foot portions from pairs of individual tubular hosiery blanks, each of which has a band portion and a toe portion, first machine means for forming the panty portion from the band portions of each such pair of hosiery blanks, second machine means for closing the toe portions of the tubular hosiery blanks, means for transferring the tubular hosiery blanks from said first machine to said second machine, supply means having a plurality of randomly positioned tubular hosiery blanks therein, and means for automatically sequentially randomly retrieving said tubular hosiery blanks from said supply means, orienting each blank in a prescribed manner and positioning the blanks on said first machine.
In an apparatus for automatically producing pantyhose garments from tubular hosiery blanks, each such blank having a welt end and a toe end, supply means having a plurality of randomly positioned tubular hosiery blanks therein, a positioning and transferring assembly, means for sequentially randomly retrieving said hosiery blanks from said supply means and orienting said hosiery blanks in a specified manner, means conveying said hosiery blanks oriented in said specified manner to said positioning and transferring assembly, said positioning and transferring assembly including means for aligning pairs of said hosiery blanks, and removing pleats therefrom, pantyhose seaming machine means, means for transferring said hosiery blanks from said positioning and transferring assembly to said pantyhose seaming machine means, where pairs of said hosiery blanks are slit and sewn together to define the body portion of a pantyhose garment, toe closure means for sewing closed said hosiery blanks, means for transferring said sewn blanks to said toe closing machine.
In an apparatus for forming pantyhose garments from tubular hosiery blanks, each such blank having a welt end and a toe end, first means for sequentially randomly retrieving hosiery blanks from a supply source and orienting said hosiery blanks in a specified manner at a first location, pantyhose seaming machine means, a hosiery blank positioning and transferring assembly, means for conveying said hosiery blanks from said first location to said positioning and transferring assembly, said positioning and transferring means including a rotatable turret having a plurality of pairs of loading frames for receiving said hosiery blanks thereon, said positioning and transferring means including means for selectively positioning said hosiery blanks on said loading frames and means for transferring said hosiery blanks from said loading frames to said pantyhose seaming machine means.
The method of forming pantyhose having panty, leg and foot portions from pairs of individual tubular hosiery blanks, each of which has a band portion and a toe portion comprising the steps of:
The method of forming pantyhose having body, leg and toe portions from pairs of individual tubular hosiery blanks comprising the steps of:
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