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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 1985
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1983
Philip N Bowditch, Cohasset, MA (US);
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for converting a pattern for a first garment to a pattern for a second garment, where the first garment includes front and back, body and shoulder portions with sleeves extending from shoulder holes between those front and back portions. The regions of the body and shoulder portion adjacent to the sleeve-to-shoulder seam are non-parallel with respect to regions of the sleeve portions adjacent to that seam when the body and shoulder portions are positioned in a plane. The second garment has the same outer contour as the first garment, including front and back body portions with a shoulder hole between those front and back body portions. Separate, generally tubular sleeve and shoulder portions having a sleeve and shoulder seams extending along their lengths, have one end joined to the perimeters of the shoulder holes along shoulder-to-body seams. These seams are positioned so that the regions of the body portions adjacent to the shoulder-to-body seams are substantially parallel to the regions of the shoulder and sleeve portion adjacent to those shoulder-to-body seams when the regions of the body portion are positioned in a plane without the sleeve seams being joined.