Cuff making system

Claim 2

Apparatus for forming shirt sleeve cuffs or the like comprising means for connecting pairs of cuff panels to a continuous supply of lining material, means for cutting away the corners of adjacent ones of the pairs of cuff panels and the adjacent lining material, means for simultaneously sewing the ends of the cuff panels to the lining material and cutting across the lining material between the adjacent pairs of cuff panels, and means for turning the cuff panels as the cuff panels are being sewed along their ends whereby stitching is formed adjacent the edges of the cuff panels where the corners were cut away.

Claim 3

The apparatus of claim 1 and wherein the means for cutting away the corners of adjacent pairs of cuff panels includes detecting means for detecting the pairs of cuff panels as the cuff panels move along a path adjacent the detecting means, and cutting means for cutting away the corners of the cuff panels in response to the detection by said detecting means of a pair of cuff panels on the path.

Claim 4

A process of forming shirt sleeve cuffs or the like comprising: moving a continuous length of lining material along its length through a first predetermined path, sewing two plies of cuff panel material in stacked overlying relationship to the continuous length of cuff lining material along one mutual aligned side edge of the lining material and the two plies of cuff panel material at a first position along the first predetermined path in an arrangement where notches are formed at equal intervals along the length of the two plies of cuff panel material of the sewn together structure, folding over and sewing the overlying opposite side edge of one ply of cuff panel material about the opposite side edge of the lining material at a second position along the first predetermined path, moving the sewn together structure along its length through a second predetermined path, detecting the notches formed in the sewn together structure as the sewn together structure moves along the second predetermined path, cutting into the sewn together mutual side edges of the cuff panel material with a generally V-shaped cut in response to the detection of the movement of the notches of the sewn together structure at a first position along the second predetermined path, and simultaneously sewing across the sewn together structure and cutting across the sewn together structure at a second position along the second predetermined path which is displaced from the first position along the second predetermined path.

Claim 5

A process of forming shirt sleeve cuffs or the like comprising: moving a continuous length of lining material along its length through a first predetermined path, sewing two plies of cuff panel material in stacked overlying relationship to the continuous length of cuff lining material along one mutual aligned side edge of the lining material and the two plies of cuff panel material at a first position along the first predetermined path in an arrangement where notches are formed at equal intervals along the length of the two plies of cuff panel material of the sewn together structure, folding over and sewing the overlying opposite side edge of one ply of cuff panel material about the opposite side edge of the lining material at a second position along the first predetermined path, moving the sewn together structure along its length through a second predetermined path, detecting the notches formed in the sewn together structure as the sewn together structure moves along the second predetermined path, cutting into the sewn together mutual side edges of the cuff panel material with a generally V-shaped cut in response to the detection of the movement of the notches of the sewn together structure at a first position along the second predetermined path, and simultaneously sewing across the sewn together structure and cutting across the sewn together structure at a second position along the second predetermined path which is displaced from the first position along the second predetermined path.