US3780682A
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Method of making a shirt front assembly
Assignee: Oxford Industries Inc
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Filing: 1972-04-13
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Granted: 1973-12-25
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Expires: 1992-04-13
Abstract
Abstract A shirt front assembly, method and apparatus wherein a connected series of center plait pattern parts and a series of shirt front pattern parts are fed simultaneously to a sewing machine and sewn together to form a connected series of shirt front assemblies. The connected series of shirt front assemblies are conveyed away from the sewing station to a cutting station where the center plait pattern parts are cut apart and trimmed so as to have their ends coextensive with the edges of the shift front pattern parts, and the cut-apart series of shirt front assemblies are stacked.
Inventors
- 👤 W Frost
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-28 21:07
CPC Classifications
D; D05; D05B; D05B41/00; A; A41; A41H; A41H42/00; A41H43/00; A41H43/02; A41H43/0207; D05B33/00; D05B33/02; D05B35/00; D05B35/06; D05B35/062; D05B33/006; D05D; D05D2207/00; D05D2207/02; D05D2207/04; D05D2303/00; D05D2303/02; D05D2303/20; D05D2305/00; D05D2305/02; D05D2305/04; D05D2305/08; D05D2305/12; Y; Y10; Y10T; Y10T83/00; Y10T83/525; Y10T83/541; Y10T83/543; Y10T83/768; Y10T83/7863
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 17
Claim 1
Independent Claim
140 words
A method of attaching center plate pattern parts or the like to shirt front pattern parts or the like comprising: forming a connected series of center plate pattern parts in end to end relationship with each other; simultaneously passing in timed relationship the connected series of center plate pattern parts and a series of shirt front pattern parts toward a sewing station with the leading and trailing ends of the center plate pattern parts in overlying relationship with respect to the leading and trailing ends of the shirt front pattern parts; sewing together the connected series of center plate pattern parts and the series of shirt front pattern parts to form a connected series of shirt front assemblies; passing the connected series of shirt front assemblies to a cutting station; and cutting apart the connected series of shirt front assemblies.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
140 words
A method of attaching center plate pattern parts or the like to shirt front pattern parts or the like comprising: forming a connected series of center plate pattern parts in end to end relationship with each other; simultaneously passing in timed relationship the connected series of center plate pattern parts and a series of shirt front pattern parts toward a sewing station with the leading and trailing ends of the center plate pattern parts in overlying relationship with respect to the leading and trailing ends of the shirt front pattern parts; sewing together the connected series of center plate pattern parts and the series of shirt front pattern parts to form a connected series of shirt front assemblies; passing the connected series of shirt front assemblies to a cutting station; and cutting apart the connected series of shirt front assemblies.
Claim 3
Independent Claim
124 words
A method of attaching center plate pattern parts or the like to shirt front pattern parts or the like comprising: forming a connected series of center plate pattern parts in end to end relationship with each other; simultaneously passing in timed relationship the connected series of center plate pattern parts and a series of shirt front pattern parts toward sewing stations; sewing together the connected series of center plate pattern parts and the series of shirt front pattern parts to form a connected series of shirt front assemblies; passing the connected series of shirt front assemblies to a cutting station; and cutting apart the connected series of shirt front assemblies, including trimming portions of the leading and trailing ends of the shirt front assemblies.
Claim 4
Independent Claim
124 words
A method of attaching center plate pattern parts or the like to shirt front pattern parts or the like comprising: forming a connected series of center plate pattern parts in end to end relationship with each other; simultaneously passing in timed relationship the connected series of center plate pattern parts and a series of shirt front pattern parts toward sewing stations; sewing together the connected series of center plate pattern parts and the series of shirt front pattern parts to form a connected series of shirt front assemblies; passing the connected series of shirt front assemblies to a cutting station; and cutting apart the connected series of shirt front assemblies, including trimming portions of the leading and trailing ends of the shirt front assemblies.
Claim 5
Independent Claim
123 words
A method of attaching center plate pattern parts or the like to shirt front pattern parts or the like comprising: forming a connected series of center plate pattern parts in end to end relationship with each other; simultaneously passing in timed relationship the connected seRies of center plate pattern parts and a series of shirt front pattern parts toward a sewing station; sewing together the connected series of center plate pattern parts and the series of shirt front pattern parts to form a connected series of shirt front assemblies; passing the connected series of shirt front assemblies to a cutting station; and cutting apart the connected series of shirt front assemblies, including trimming a portion of one end of each shirt front panel.
Claim 6
Independent Claim
123 words
A method of attaching center plate pattern parts or the like to shirt front pattern parts or the like comprising: forming a connected series of center plate pattern parts in end to end relationship with each other; simultaneously passing in timed relationship the connected seRies of center plate pattern parts and a series of shirt front pattern parts toward a sewing station; sewing together the connected series of center plate pattern parts and the series of shirt front pattern parts to form a connected series of shirt front assemblies; passing the connected series of shirt front assemblies to a cutting station; and cutting apart the connected series of shirt front assemblies, including trimming a portion of one end of each shirt front panel.
Claim 7
Independent Claim
176 words
A method of attaching center plate pattern parts or the like to shirt front pattern parts or the like comprising: forming a connected series of center plate pattern parts in end to end relationship with each other; simultaneously passing in timed relationship the connected series of center plate pattern parts and a series of shirt front pattern parts toward a sewing station; sewing together the connected series of center plate pattern parts and the series of shirt front pattern parts to form a connected series of shirt front assemblies; accumulating a first predetermined length of connected series of shirt front assemblies, feeding the connected series of shirt front assemblies toward a cutting station until the accumulated length of the connected series of shirt front assemblies has been reduced to a second predetermined length and terminating the feeding of the connected series of shirt front assemblies to the cutting station until the first predetermined length of the connected series of shirt front assemblies has been accumulated again; and cutting apart the connected series of shirt front assemblies.
Claim 8
Independent Claim
176 words
A method of attaching center plate pattern parts or the like to shirt front pattern parts or the like comprising: forming a connected series of center plate pattern parts in end to end relationship with each other; simultaneously passing in timed relationship the connected series of center plate pattern parts and a series of shirt front pattern parts toward a sewing station; sewing together the connected series of center plate pattern parts and the series of shirt front pattern parts to form a connected series of shirt front assemblies; accumulating a first predetermined length of connected series of shirt front assemblies, feeding the connected series of shirt front assemblies toward a cutting station until the accumulated length of the connected series of shirt front assemblies has been reduced to a second predetermined length and terminating the feeding of the connected series of shirt front assemblies to the cutting station until the first predetermined length of the connected series of shirt front assemblies has been accumulated again; and cutting apart the connected series of shirt front assemblies.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
37 words
The method of claim 4 and wherein the step of feeding the connected series of shirt front assemblies toward the cutting station comprises continually feeding the shirt front assemblies to the cutting station in intermittent feeding movements.
Claim 10
Independent Claim
200 words
A method of fabricating garments or the like comprising moving a length of lining material through at least one sewing station, continually connecting a series of duplicate pattern parts in series to the lining material at the sewing station, passing the lining material and the pattern parts connected thereto to a second garment processing station, treating the lining material and pattern parts at the second garment processing station, accumulating the lining material with the pattern parts connected thereto between the sewing station and the second garment processing station, terminating the connecting of the pattern parts to the lining material at the sewing station in response to the accumulation of a first predetermined length of lining material with the pattern parts connected thereto between the sewing station and the second garment processing station, and reactivating the step of continually connecting the series of duplicate pattern parts in series to the lining material at the sewing station in response to the depletion of the length of lining material with the pattern parts connected thereto between the sewing station and the second garment processing station to a length less than the first predetermined length of lining material with the pattern parts connected thereto.
Claim 11
Independent Claim
200 words
A method of fabricating garments or the like comprising moving a length of lining material through at least one sewing station, continually connecting a series of duplicate pattern parts in series to the lining material at the sewing station, passing the lining material and the pattern parts connected thereto to a second garment processing station, treating the lining material and pattern parts at the second garment processing station, accumulating the lining material with the pattern parts connected thereto between the sewing station and the second garment processing station, terminating the connecting of the pattern parts to the lining material at the sewing station in response to the accumulation of a first predetermined length of lining material with the pattern parts connected thereto between the sewing station and the second garment processing station, and reactivating the step of continually connecting the series of duplicate pattern parts in series to the lining material at the sewing station in response to the depletion of the length of lining material with the pattern parts connected thereto between the sewing station and the second garment processing station to a length less than the first predetermined length of lining material with the pattern parts connected thereto.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
110 words
The method of claim 6 and further including the step of terminating the step of passing the lining material with the series of duplicate pattern parts connected thereto to the second garment processing station in response to the depletion of the accumulated length of lining material with the pattern parts connected thereto to a second predetermined length, and reactivating the step of passing the lining material with the pattern parts connected thereto to the second garment processing station in response to the accumulation of a length of lining material with the pattern parts connected thereto greater than the second predetermined length of lining material with the pattern parts connected thereto.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
37 words
The method of claim 6 and wherein the step of accumulating the lining material with the pattern parts connected thereto includes mainTaining the lining material under tension between the sewing station and the second garment processing station.
Claim 14
Independent Claim
151 words
A method of attaching center plate pattern parts to shirt front pattern parts comprising: attaching a series of center pattern parts in spaced end to end relationship to a length of lining material; simultaneously passing in timed relationship the length of lining material with its connected series of center plate pattern parts and a series of shirt front pattern parts toward a sewing station; sewing together each of the center plate pattern parts carried by the lining material and a shirt front pattern part from the series of shirt front pattern parts to form a series of shirt front assemblies carried by the length of lining material; passing the length of lining material with its series of shirt front assemblies to a cutting station with the shirt front pattern parts hanging freely from the length of the lining material; and cutting the lining material between the series of shirt front assemblies.
Claim 15
Independent Claim
151 words
A method of attaching center plate pattern parts to shirt front pattern parts comprising: attaching a series of center pattern parts in spaced end to end relationship to a length of lining material; simultaneously passing in timed relationship the length of lining material with its connected series of center plate pattern parts and a series of shirt front pattern parts toward a sewing station; sewing together each of the center plate pattern parts carried by the lining material and a shirt front pattern part from the series of shirt front pattern parts to form a series of shirt front assemblies carried by the length of lining material; passing the length of lining material with its series of shirt front assemblies to a cutting station with the shirt front pattern parts hanging freely from the length of the lining material; and cutting the lining material between the series of shirt front assemblies.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
56 words
The method of claim 9 and wherein the step of passing the length of lining material with its series of shirt front assemblies to a cutting station includes maintaining the lining material under tension after the shirt front pattern parts have been connected to the lining material and before the step of cutting the lining material.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
36 words
The method of claim 9 and wherein the step of cutting the lining material between the series of shirt front assemblies includes trimming portions of the leading and trailing ends of the center plate pattern parts.
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USPTO Annuity & Maintenance Windows
| Annuity Stage | Window Opens | Payment Deadline | Surcharge Period Until | Estimated Fee | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 Years (Year 4) | 1976-12-24 | 1977-06-25 | 1977-12-25 | $2000.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |
| 7.5 Years (Year 8) | 1980-12-24 | 1981-06-25 | 1981-12-25 | $3760.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |
| 11.5 Years (Year 12) | 1984-12-24 | 1985-06-25 | 1985-12-25 | $7700.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |