Method and apparatus for forming and presenting bias cut gussets in the formation of panty hose garments

US4704976A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Sara Lee Corporation · US

Inventors

• J. Reid London · Winston-Salem, US
• Cecil R. Bell, Jr. · Spruce Pine, US
• A. Russell Edwards · Winston-Salem, US
• Willie M. Lathery · Germanton, US
• Lee A. Efird · Kernersville, US
• Richard M. Porter · Hartsville, US
• Stephen K. Shaw · Winston-Salem, US
• Thomas Costello · Kernersville, US
• August A. Pike · Winston-Salem, US
• Donald G. Bell · Pine Apple, US
• Harold Setliff · High Point, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 27, 1986
• Grant date: Nov 10, 1987
• Expiry date: Oct 27, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/1194
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A system for forming substantially diamond-shaped gussets to be used in the production of panty hose garments wherein the gussets are formed by severing a circular knit tube along a bias angle of approximately 30.degree. subsequently to form strips having a width corresponding to the desired width of a gusset. The strip then is severed along a prescribed angle of approximately 30.degree. to define a gusset wherein the fabric wales extend parallel to a line extending from one point to the diagonally opposite point of the diamond-shaped gusset. The gusset is then transferred and oriented for subsequent sewing to hosiery blanks in the forming of panty hose.