Method and apparatus for making pantyhose with a comfort gusset
AssigneeDetexomat Machinery Limited
InventorRudolf Eichhorn
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Abstract
In order to insert into tights comfort gussets which reach to the waistband of the tights, a line closing apparatus for the machine sewing of a pair of tights is used which has an extra form provided in the sets of forms of the apparatus, and a tubular prefabricated comfort gusset is pulled onto the extra form. The tubular gusset is cut open together with two tubular prefabricated stocking leg portions and is connected to the stocking leg portions when seaming the legs together.
Claims9
A method for the machine sewing of a pair of tights having a comfort gusset extending at least from the crotch over the seat portion and to the waistband of said tights, comprising the following successive steps:
- a) prefabricating a comfort gusset in the form of a tubular knitted part having an end band portion;
- b) closing the end of the tubular knitted part remote from said end band portion by means of a closing seam;
- c) pulling the tubular comfort gusset onto a form disposed between two other forms each of said two other forms receiving a stocking portion of the pair of tights in such a manner that said closing seam extends partially in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal planes of said forms which are parallel to one another;
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- d) subsequently seaming the stocking portions to the comfort gusset after a previous partial cutting of each of said gusset and said stocking portion.
A line closing and gussetting apparatus for machine sewing of a pair of tights having a tubular prefabricated comfort gusset comprising a plurality of processing stations located along a predetermined path, at least one pair of forms for holding two prefabricated tubular stocking leg portions of the tights and adapted for movement past said stations, at least one of said stations comprising a cutting device and at least one station a sewing device, and a third form disposed between said two forms, said third form being adapted to hold the tubular prefabricated comfort gusset and being arranged for joint movement with said other two forms past said station for partial cutting of said gusset and said stocking leg portions and sewing said cut gusset to both of said leg portions to form said tights.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.