Abstract: An apparatus and method for accurately aligning the top and bottom edges of a garment's workpieces to assure even cuffs after sewing, the apparatus comprising two locking jaw assemblies which cooperate with drive rollers (all of which are located upstream of the sewing head) and the conventional bottom feed action of the lower feed dogs on a sewing machine to capture any excess length or slack of the garment's panels between the locking jaws (to match the cuffs ) and then to drive any excess slack out of the panels as they are fed to the sewing head to be sewn.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for automatically forming and hemming garments which are circular or tubular in shape, comprising an expandable multi-roller and cam assembly for mounting and tensioning the garment about the assembly, and which further comprises a means for selectively engaging or disengaging one of the rollers of the assembly depending on the size and shape of the garment to be hemmed. The apparatus further comprises means for loading the circular garment from the multi-roller expandable assembly into a folding device which is used to fold a hem of a predetermined depth into the garment prior to the hem being sewn.