Abstract: In the formation of an envelope or jacket for a disc, comprising laminating a nonwoven fabric to a plastic sheet, superposing two such laminates with the nonwoven fabrics facing each other, and joining such superposed laminates along all edges but one, thereby to form an envelope, the improvement which comprises effecting the laminating by providing a fusible layer between the nonwoven fabric and plastic sheet and heating to soften the fusible layer while pressing to join the nonwoven fabric to the plastic. The low melting fusible layer eliminates the tendency, in its absence, to pull particles of the jacket plastic through the nonwoven liner layer where it could damage the object to be encased in the envelope. Advantageously the fusible layer is a spray spun low melting polyester which, in addition to polyvinylchloride, is bondable to polycarbonate.

Abstract: An expandable chest piece and a method of constructing a garment wherein the chest piece is connected to the garment fabric between the arm hole and the lapel break line. The chest piece is prefabricated by providing a carrier member composed of relatively stiff textile material and configured to have a first connecting edge in the vicinity of the lapel break line and a second connecting edge in the vicinity of the arm hole of the garment and connecting an elongated connecting strip composed of relatively stiff textile material and configured to extend substantially the entire length of the first connecting edge to the carrier member for movement from a rest position wherein the connecting strip overlaps the first edge with the outer edge of the strip spaced therefrom and substantially parallel thereto to an extended position wherein the outer edge is spaced further from the first edge. The chest piece is positioned on the fabric with the second edge aligned with the arm hole.

Abstract: A roll of a continuous strip of a non-woven fabric having on only one side thereof a heat actuatable adhesive, said fabric having at least one longitudinally running perforated line running parallel with a side edge of said fabric, said fabric being free of any surface interruptions other than perforated lines running parallel with a side edge and its use in garment manufacture.