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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1991
Claude Fournier, Autun, FR;
Patrick Hauguet, Autun, FR;
Robert Burguiere, Autun, FR;
Jean-Pierre Peauger, Autun, FR;
J Reid London, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Arthur W Parris, Jr, Rockingham, NC (US);
Charles E Helms, Florence, SC (US);
Robert L Stewart, Rockingham, NC (US);
Sara Lee Corporation, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
A system for automatically producing pantyhose garments from elongated tubular fabric blanks, each having a toe end portion and a welt or band end portion. Randomly oriented blanks are sequentially removed from a supply reservoir, oriented in a predetermined manner, and conveyed to a positioning and transferring assembly which orients, removes creases and pleats and properly positions a pair of blanks on the clamping assemblies of a pantyhose seaming machine. The pair of clamped blanks have the welt end portions severed, and severed edges seamed by sewing instrumentalities to define the panty portion of a pantyhose garment. The pantyhose are transferred to a machine where the toe ends are closed by seaming.