Method of fabricating shirts from circularly knitted fabric and shirts produced thereby
AssigneeSpeizman Industries, Inc.
InventorKeith Sherrill
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Abstract
Shirts may be fabricated with a minimal number of sewn seams utilizing a first circularly knitted fabric tube forming a shirt body and a second circularly knitted fabric tube forming shoulder portions and sleeves by orienting the tubes essentially transversely to one another and sewing one axial end of the tubular fabric of the shirt body to a side portion medially along the length of the tubular fabric of the shoulders and sleeves.
Claims11
A method of fabricating a shirt from circularly-knitted fabric, comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a shirt body tube comprised of a circularly knitted tubular seamless fabric of a predetermined length and diameter;
- (b) providing a shoulder and sleeve tube comprised of a circular knitted tubular seamless fabric of a predetermined diameter and length;
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- (c) sewing one axial end of the shirt body tube to a side portion of the shoulder and sleeve tube at a medial location therealong.
A shirt comprising a torso-encircling shirt body formed of a first length of circularly knitted seamless tubular fabric, and shoulder portions and sleeves formed of a second length of circularly knitted tubular seamless fabric sewn to one axial end of the tubular fabric of the shirt body with the respective axes of the tubular fabrics oriented essentially transversely with respect to one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.