Union Special Corporation

Stephen J Pagett

Maximilian Adamski, Jr

Conrad L Fernandez

Richard J Kurtz

Maxmilian Adamski, Jr

A sewing machine in combination with a work piece control and advancing mechanism and a microprocessor for setting sleeves in shirt bodies. A sleeve and shirt body are manually loaded on the work piece control and advancing mechanism and placed under the presser foot and the individual edge guides. An automatic sew cycle is then actuated that is under the control of the microprocessor. During the automatic sew cycle the sewing machine operator is free to prepare to load the next product.

Method and apparatus for sewing sleeves on shirt bodies

A sewing machine in combination with a workpiece control and advancing mechanism for automatically forming a seam along the aligned edges of a two ply waist band and a shirt body. The mechanism includes edge guiders, that are controlled by sensors, for individually controlling each workpiece edge such that the marginal edges of all layers are aligned.

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Tega Cay, SC, United States of America

Stephen J Pagett