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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 1984
Filed:
Jun. 01, 1983
Philip N Bowditch, Cohasset, MA (US);
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for assembling pants from two substantially identical fabric panels using flat plane seams for joining the two panels. The pants are assembled according to the sequential steps of first positioning one of the panels in a plane, then overlaying the other of the panels on the first panel. Then the crotch seam regions of the first panel are joined to the corresponding overlying crotch seam regions of the second panel to form two flat plane segments of the crotch seam. Then, the leg portion of one of the panels is folded 180 degrees about a first fold axis which passes through the junction points of the contiguous inseam and crotch regions of the panel. Thereafter, the panels are folded 180 degrees about a second fold axis passing between the first and second sides, so that the inseam regions of each panel are mutually adjacent. Finally, the adjacent inseam regions are joined thereby forming the flat plane inseam, and also joining the two segments of the crotch seam to form the flat plane crotch seam. With this configuration, the pants are formed from the two panels entirely with flat plane seam joining techniques.