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US 6,070,542 AGranted
Pucker free collar seam and method of manufacture
AssigneeTaltech Ltd.
InventorJohn Wong
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Abstract
A pucker free collar seam providing a garment with a tailored and wrinkle free appearance. The pucker free seam and method for production utilizes a bonding strip, which contains at least a thermal adhesive component which is inserted between a first surface of a first collar component and an interlining along a seam. A sufficient amount of heat and pressure is applied to the seam, causing the adhesive of the bonding strip to flow onto the surfaces of the collar components and the interlining, thereby creating a compressed seam and permanently bonding a first collar component, a second collar component and an interlining together along the seam to eliminate puckering associated with the shrinkage of sewing thread relative to the collar fabric.
Claims39
A method of manufacturing a pucker free seam at a junction of a first and a second shirt collar component comprising the steps:
- (a) providing a first collar component, having a first surface and a second surface;
- (b) providing a second collar component, having a first surface and a second surface extending generally coextensively with said first collar component and where the second surface of the first collar component contacts the first surface of the second collar component at an edge seam;
- (c) providing an interlining, having a first and a second surface and at least one edge, in an adjacent relationship with the first surface of the first collar component;
- (d) placing a bonding strip along the edge seam and said bonding strip having a first surface and a second surface and having a thermal adhesive component, said bonding strip being placed along the edge seam such that the second surface of the bonding element abuts the first surface of the first collar component;
- (e) sewing the first and second collar components and the bonding element together by a set stitch that extends through the bonding strip, beyond an edge of the interlining, through the first collar component, and through the second collar component;
- (f) reverse folding the second collar component beneath the set stitch such that the second surface of the second collar component folds onto itself at an edge seam;
- (g) reverse folding the first collar component and the bonding element about the set stitch such that the bonding element folds back upon itself and the first surface of said first collar component folds around said bonding strip at an edge seam and abuts the second surface of the interlining;
- (h) sewing said first and second collar components, said bonding element, and said interlining together by a top stitch running along said seam and extending through the reverse folded first collar component, the interlining, the reverse folded bonding strip, the unfolded bonding strip, the unfolded first collar component, the unfolded second collar component, and the reverse folded second collar component;
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- (i) applying sufficient heat and pressure to said bonding element to cause said thermal adhesive to melt such that said adhesive flows onto said surfaces of at least the first collar component, said interlining and said top stitch to provide a bond along the edge seam such that the bonded component will effectively reduce a tendency of the seam to pucker during laundering operations.
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A smooth, edge seam in a shirt collar comprising:
- (a) a bonding strip having at least a thermal adhesive component and having a first and a second surface, the bonding strip being folded such that a portion of the first surface of the bonding strip is bonded with the remaining portion of said first surface such that an edge seam is created;
- (b) an interlining having a first and a second surface, the second surface of the interlining is bonded to a reverse folded portion of a first surface of a first collar component, and a portion of the first surface of the interlining, extending from the outer edge of the seam inward, is bonded to a portion of the second surface of the reverse folded bonding strip;
- (c) a first collar component having a first and a second surface folded such that a portion of said second surface of the first collar component abuts a first surface of said second collar component and that a portion of the first surface of the first collar component is bonded to the bonding strip along the seam and the reverse folded portion of the first collar component is bonded to the second surface of the interlining adjacent to said bonding strip along the seam;
- (d) a second collar component having a first and a second surface, the second collar component being reverse folded away from the bonding strip and the interlining such that a portion of the second surface of the second collar component is adjacent to, and in contact with, a length of the remaining portion of the second surface of the second collar component;
- (e) a set stitch running along the edge of the seam and traversing through the bonding element, beyond said interlining, through said first collar component adjacent to the interlining, and through said second collar component which abuts said second surface of the first collar component;
- (f) a top stitch running along the seam and traversing through the reverse folded first collar component, the interlining, the reverse folded bonding strip, the unfolded bonding strip, the unfolded first collar component, the unfolded second collar component, and the reverse folded second collar component;
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- (g) said bonding strip, having been subjected to a sufficient amount of heat and pressure to cause the thermal adhesive to bond to the first surface of the first collar component, the first surface of the interlining, and a portion of the first surface of the bonding strip itself, such that a bond is formed by the bonding strip along the seam to reduce a tendency of the seam to pucker following laundering.
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