Abstract: A jacket comprising a pair of front panels, a back panel, a collar and sleeves. The outer surface of the jacket having vent panels attached to front and rear panels which create accessible, upwardly extending vent panel pockets. Inside each vent panel pocket is a detachable flexible informational display panel which can be stored inside each pocket and hidden from view. When the situation arises, the flexible informational display panel can be repositioned and extended downwardly below the vent panel pocket and used to display information.

Abstract: A pair of pants and an associated method of construction utilizes an hourglass-shaped panel and a pair of leg sections each including a tube-like portion operatively attached to the hourglass-shaped panel. The hourglass-shaped panel defines, when placed in a planar, spread condition, two relatively broad parallel edges at opposite ends thereof and a pair of generally C-shaped side edges extending between the broad end edges. Furthermore, the side edges of the hourglass-shaped panel are arranged relative to one another so that the Cs thereof open generally away from one another and so that a neck region is defined substantially midway between the broad edges. Each of the leg sections define an endless upper edge for encircling the corresponding one of the legs adjacent the top thereof, and each leg section is joined to a corresponding one of the C-shaped edges and along seams extending the entire length thereof to operatively join the leg sections to the hourglass-shaped panel.

Abstract: A pant garment is formed of two front panels connected to each other to form a fly and crotch and connected to a bakc panel to form side seams and an inseam with an improvement in the stitching therein of a reenforcing fabric across said crotch and into an end portion of an inner fly.

Abstract: The disclosed method and apparatus for setting a workpiece correctly on a skirt-zipper sewing machine provides a pair of pressing plates which are positioned at the center of a zipper when the plates are lowered and which press the material of the workpiece and the zipper to be sewed to it.Each pressing plate works as a guide to set the to-be-sewn section of the workpiece at the center line of the zipper. The plates are then raised and again lowered to press the workpiece so that shrink marks that occur in bias curved sections of the workpiece are stretched. In this manner, a zipper is sewed to the workpice without shrink marks.

Abstract: A programmable sewing machine that has a work holder and X-Y actuators to move the work holder about on the bed of the machine is provided with a clamping structure to grasp a workpiece to move it about to form a programmed pattern of stitches in it. The clamping structure includes a clamp and a first quick-release connector to connect the clamp to a clamp foot on the work holder, and it also includes a cloth plate and a second quick-release connector to connect the cloth plate to the work holder under the clamp so that both the clamp and the cloth plate are firmly held by the work holder to move in unison but are both quickly releasable from the work holder to be easily replaced.

Abstract: A folding device for an automatic sewing machine has a carrier plate for a first workpiece, a sword which is movable in the longitudinal direction thereof to receive a second workpiece and an outer frame having creasing devices for folding the second workpiece around the sword. The outer frame is pivotable into a total of three different working positions. In addition, it is movable out of its working positions into a retracted position. The purpose of this measure is to improve the field of vision for the operator while at the same time reducing the risk of an accident.

Abstract: An article for removing static electricity includes a clean room garment to be worn by a person, the garment including a grid of electrical thread throughout for removing and collecting static electricity from the person; a metal snap at a front waist section of the garment; and an electrical coupling thread in electrical contact from cuff to cuff and electrically connected to the snap for collecting static electricity from the grid and for supplying the collected static electricity to the snap for electrical discharge thereat.

Abstract: A method for fabricating and stabilizing three dimensional composite fabric preforms. The method comprises disposing a plurality of fabric plies between upper and lower templates that have substantially the desired preform shape and openings in at least two planes. The fabric plies are joined through the template openings and the templates are removed from the preform. These stabilized preforms maintain tighter tolerances.

Abstract: Low cost tuckaway garment which protects wearer against cold wind or rain and can be rolled or folded up when not needed and tucked into a pocket. The garmet is comprised entirely or essentially entirely of thin polyethylene sheet. A preferred embodiment is a windbreaker made of high density polyethylene having an opening at the top for the wearer's head, a long turtleneck and essentially identical front and back joined together by heat joining.

Abstract: A dry fiber form, useful for the preparation of fiber/resin composites, is proposed by stitching a continuous tow of structural yarn to a substrate, according to a predetermined pattern. Numerous layers, similar or different to each other, are prepared, and adhered together. In one embodiment, the fibers are stitched to a removable substrate.

Abstract: A wrist mounted entertainment unit is set forth including a miniature television, calculator, radio, and clock combination wherein the aforenoted television is mounted in a first console separate and pivotally mounted to a second console housing the calculator, radio, and clock. The plural consoles are mounted upon an arcuate flexible mounting member with an underlying matrix of projections to space the consoles when mounted to an associated glove. The mounting enables circulation of air flow to protect the various electrical components from heat and damage associated therewith.

Abstract: There is disclosed a sewing machine suitable for sewing articles such as clothes, bedclothes and the like, and, in particular, for thick bed quilts or futon comforters. This sewing machine includes: a machine frame (10); upper and lower support bases (27), (33) connected to the machine frame for horizontal movement; upper and lower rotary members (26), (32) connected respectively to the upper and lower support bases for turning movement; a machine body (55) having an arm unit (56) and a bed unit (57), the arm unit being connected to the upper rotary member, the bed unit confronting the arm unit and being secured to the lower rotary member; a mounting mechanism (58) interconnecting the arm unit with the upper rotary member for upward and downward movement of the arm unit; and a vertical drive mechanism (59) for moving the arm unit upward and downward. The upper and lower support bases are adapted to be driven synchronously with each other along their respective guide members by an X-axis drive mechanism.

Abstract: A protective hood jacket adapted to be worn in combination with a protect suit in toxic environments comprises a hood jacket formed of heat-sealable material forming a garment that is hip length and short sleeved. There is a large hump in the rear to accommodate the air cylinder of a self-contained breathing apparatus and to avoid for forward bending. There is a combination closure in the back of the jacket consisting of a metal zipper and a CHLOROPEL zip-loc closure for donning/doffing an air bottle replacement. Vapor leakage is mechanically reduced by two types of seals. The first type encompasses the garment peripheries at the waist and sleeve ends and these seals incorporate cable draw strings and B-lock fasteners allowing for adjustment. The second type constitute internal collars, spaced above the end of the sleeves and waist and around the neck which include elastic webbing providing self-adjustability to fit small, medium and large size personnel.

Abstract: For the manufacture of pantihose, a gusset inserting machine is coupled to a hosiery machine such as a boarding or toe closing machine, for automatic transfer of gussetted pantihose to the latter machine, by a first transfer mechanism which strips pantihose from the gusset machine and loads a rotary conveyor and by a second transfer mechanism which strips the pantihose from the conveyor and loads it on a pair of supports of the receiving hosiery machine. After the gusset machine has seamed a gusset into the pantihose, a support head on which the pantihose is mounted for gusset insertion is rotated through a predetermined angle for orienting the pantihose according to the loading requirements of the receiving machine, and the two transfer mechanisms and conveyor maintain the orientation of the pantihose as established by rotation of the support head.

Abstract: A protective garment is shown for protecting the wear against noxious chemicals in liquid aerosol and vapor form. The protective garment is made up of two separate plies, the first ply comprising a fire retardant fabric having bonded to it a microporous material arranged such that the microporous material can allow passage of moisture vapor but prevent passage of droplets in liquid; and a second inner ply including a vapor absorbent material.

Abstract: A waistband sew-in device to carry out. The sewing of waistbands in the waist part of briefs, skirts and trousers by retaining a cloth in a hoop shape with a stationary frame equipped with an inverted two-legged U-shaped guide surface, inserting a stretched waistband outside the cloth, folding over a cloth edge of the cloth in two plies to the outside of the waistband, further folding the cloth edge of the already folded part in two plies to be pushed into the space between the waistband and the cloth, sliding a belt strip reeled on the guide surface of the stationary frame on the guide surface by a take-up and rewinding mechanism installed on each leg of the two legs of the stationary frame, and sending the cloth having the waistband reeled in its three-folded cloth edge into a sewing unit of a sewing machine together with said waistband.

Abstract: A garment (20) for controlling excessive hand activity comprises a body clothing means (22) and a pair of sleeve members (24, 26) which each comprise a control end (28, 30). The control ends (28, 30) each comprise a plurality of envelopes (46, 48, 50, 52, 54). The plurality of envelopes are disposed in substantially concentric relation to each other and each contain an opening thereto. Each of the openings are disposed in substantial alignment with the other and are positioned, configured and dimensioned to receive a portion of a person's arm, wrist and hand.

Abstract: A health care personnel blouse of light-weight material including a pocket which is designed for holding pens, scissors, and the like normal to activities of health care personnel. The pocket is orientated in such a position as to be aligned with the fold of the groin of the wearer so that articles in the pocket when the wearer is bending over remain within the contours of the natural bend of the body, thereby preventing items from poking into the wearer or falling out of the pocket. Also, the pocket has a reinforced bottom to provide extended use of the garment even though it is of light-weight construction.

Abstract: A hemmer seamer assembly comprising an apparatus for positioning a chain of stitches for stitching onto fabric having a needle and a throat plate, including a device for positioning the chain of stitches forwardly of the needle, and a device for moving the fabric to the throat plate for sewing the chain onto the fabric.

Abstract: A rotational stitching apparatus with separately driven stitching head is used for stitching folded sheets by wire and thread clamping, thread sealing, and loop thread stitching. The drive system permits autarkic stitching heads to be optionally replaced and to be adjusted in correspondence with the product assortment. Each stitching head has a stitching head driveshaft, by means of which it is connected to the stitching cylinder driveshaft 1 or the cylinder axle 37, preferably by way of a gear or the toothed belt. Implementation of various stitching technologies is made possible by additional apparatus disposed peripherally to the stitching cylinder circumference.