Sara Lee Corporation

Lee A Efird

Cecil R Bell

Willie M Lathery

Donald G Bell

Richard M Porter

J Reid London

A Russell Edwards

Thomas J Costello

Stephen K Shaw

Harold Setliff

August A Pike

Howard D Boyles

Sherrill B Coggins

A method of producing panties, briefs, or the like from seamless knit tubular blanks. First and second tubular blanks are slit longitudinally along the entire length thereof and when opened out flat define first and second panels. A third tubular blank substantially smaller in length and diameter than the first and second blanks is slit along one side to define a crotch panel. A crotch panel is secured to each of the first and second panels and the first and second panels are folded upon each other with selected overlying edges attached to each other thereby providing a panty or brief having front and back portions defined by the first and second panels.

Method of forming a brief

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.

Method and apparatus for forming and presenting bias cut gussets in the

Apparatus for forming and presenting bias cut gussets in the formation

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Kernersville, NC, United States of America

Lee A Efird