Abstract: An apparatus for supporting trousers, particularly usable during the finishing operations in ironing trousers, includes a bearing structure, a fastening device on the bearing structure and to which, in one work configuration, at least one trouser support element can be connected, with the trousers having at least one end removable from the support element and extending along a substantially vertical direction, and automatic removal device for removing the support element from the trousers.

Abstract: This invention is about a structure for supporting clothes to be decolorized and for aiding in the process of decoloration, to a method of forming the same, and to a method of using the same to decolorize clothes. It includes manufacturing a semi-finished product for supporting clothes and manufacturing the supporting structure as well as a the method of decolorizing clothes using the supporting structure to have various decolorizing textures and styles.

Abstract: An apparatus for supporting trousers, particularly usable during the finishing operations in ironing trousers, includes a bearing structure, a fastening device on the bearing structure and to which, in one work configuration, at least one trouser support element can be connected, with the trousers having at least one end removable from the support element and extending along a substantially vertical direction, and automatic removal device for removing the support element from the trousers.

Abstract: A device for de-wrinkling garments comprising a torso section made from a semi-rigid and resilient polymeric sheet material adapted to fit within a body of a garment and tension the associated fabric to remove and prevent wrinkles. The torso section is further adapted to be partially rolled or folded for easy insertion into a garment by way of the garment's bottom or waist opening.

Abstract: This invention comprises a torso 2 for putting on a shirt 1, a pair of right and left supporting arms 4 arranged at both sides of the torso 2 and inclined at the side of the torso 2 to draw the sleeve of the shirt 1, and a clamp device 10 arranged at the upper part of the supporting arms 4 for holding and fixing the end segment of the sleeve of the shirt 1. The clamp device 10 is formed in such a way that it can be turned by 90° around the shaft 11 arranged in a direction crossing at a direction crossing at a right angle with a longitudinal direction of the supporting arms 4 and along an inclining direction of the supporting arms 4 and it can be changed over between its vertical orientation and lateral direction. In addition, the clamp device 10 is moved up or down along the longitudinal direction of the supporting arms 4 and its height can be freely adjusted.

Abstract: A body panel is fabricated of a generally rigid sheet with a periphery and with interior and exterior surfaces. A layer of coupling material is provided on the exterior surface. A locator panel has a periphery with interior and exterior surfaces. The interior surface of the locator panel includes a coupling material separably couplable to the coupling material of the body panel. The exterior surface of the locator panel has upstanding pins. An exterior ring and an interior locking ring with each ring having an interior and an exterior face. The lower exterior ring is removably positioned on the locator panel. The exterior face of the lower exterior ring is in contact with the pins of the locator panel. The upper interior locking ring is removably positioned within the lower exterior ring.

Abstract: A fastening device for fastening the cuff of an item of clothing on a device for pressing the item of clothing includes a base plate and a swing-action mechanism. The swing-action mechanism is fastened on the base plate and its pivot pin runs parallel to the ends of the cuff that is to be clamped in.

Abstract: A method and a device for ironing items of clothing with sleeves, especially, shirts and blouses, by a form finisher include an inflatable bag placed inside the item of clothing when it is being ironed. The inflatable bag extends to the sleeves of the item of clothing. For the sleeves to be ironed in a smoother manner, the ends of the inflatable bag can be provided with a reinforcement that extends to the sleeves. Also, to enable the vents, which are situated above the sleeves, to keep their shape (the overlap und underlap), the inflatable bag can also be supplied, therefore, with reinforcement. An inner tensioning mechanism that is inserted inside the area of the sleeve can improve the smoothness even further.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an iron device to be applied to ironing machine for ironing uncreased-trousers, the device comprising a supporting framework which supports an ironing head including trousers support elements as well as trousers bottom gripping elements, the ironing device further comprising a steaming drum coupled to a heating circuit for heating the trousers bottom gripping elements and a steaming duct coupled to the gripper elements.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for finishing a garment comprising, in combination a buck in the general form of a wearer having a front, a back and opposite lateral sides therebetween and adapted to hold at least a front and back of the garment in an orientation for being pressed. A pair of elongated arms are positioned on opposite lateral sides of the buck, the elongated arms extending away from the buck to finish the sleeve of the garment and contracting towards the buck to load and unload the garment. A long sleeve garment is finished through the use of a clip positioned at an upper end of each of the elongated arms. The clips are formed with resiliently urged fingers and adapted to receive an area of the long sleeve garment and form an obstruction for the flow of heated air and steam therethrough during a finishing operation. In the alternative, a clamp is provide along the length of each of the elongated arms to finish a short sleeve garment on the same pressing apparatus.

Abstract: Shirt pressing apparatus capable of pressing long or short sleeve shirts. The apparatus includes a buck for receiving a shirt to be pressed and a sleeve expander assembly mounted on each side of the buck, the sleeve expander assembly being adjustable for use with either long or short sleeve shirts.

Abstract: An apparatus especially configured to encourage children to produce and display handicraft works while also encouraging them to properly care for their articles of clothing. The apparatus is also suitable for users to easily coordinate or harmonize apparel before putting the clothing on. The embodiments include a frame member defining a display region configured for accommodating a handicraft. In a first embodiment, the frame member is especially configured for accommodating a substantially planar, i.e., two dimensional, handicraft in the display region. In a second embodiment, the frame member is configured for accommodating a three dimensional handicraft, e.g., a floral arrangement, in the display region. In a third embodiment, the frame member is configured for accommodating the image of a real human face.

Abstract: A shirt pressing apparatus includes a buck upon which a shin can be loaded before transferring the buck into a cabinet for pressing and finishing of the shirt. Movable with the buck is a pair of rods which have attached thereto cuff clamps. In accordance with the invention, each of the cuff clamps includes a pair of longitudinally chamfered pinch bars which are mounted in a clamp housing and biased into engagement with each other. The pinch bars are preferably made of Teflon.TM. and are readily replaceable when worn. The cuff portions of the shirts to be pressed are loaded between the pinch bars of the cuff clamps from below while the rods are located adjacent the buck. Thereafter, the rods are extended away from the buck to place sleeves of the shirt in tension during the pressing and finishing operation. When the shirt is finished and comes out of the cabinet, the rods remain in their extended positions during unloading of the shirt.

Abstract: This invention disclosed herein deals with an apparatus for removing and stacking trousers after they have been processed through a separate apparatus for crease permanency or pressing.

Abstract: This invention disclosed herein deals with an apparatus for removing and stacking trousers after they have been processed through a separate apparatus for crease permanency or pressing.

Abstract: A crease keeper for maintaining trouser creases and mitigate wrinkling including a pair of spring loaded trouser leg expanders hung from a support system having a hook for hanging the entire assembly with trousers attached in a closet or other location. One embodiment employs a wirelike frame having coil spring cartridges affixed thereto providing crease maintenance forces tending to stretching trouser legs. An alternate embodiment employs a wirelike frame having a first and second portion thereof formed into springs providing crease maintenance forces.

Abstract: An integrated automated manufacturing system for finishing individual garments is provided. The system includes a conveyor system, a fixture constructed for movement on the conveyor in a predetermined orientation, a form mounted on the fixture for holding a garment for finishing in a predetermined fixed orientation relative to the fixture, and finishing stations to which the conveyor carries garments mounted on the fixtures. The fixture mounted form can be inflatable so that the garment mounted thereon can be inflated to its fully extended, three-dimensional form, and the finishing station can include a blower to inflate the form prior to the initiation of a finishing step. The finishing stations can include robot-manipulated tools, such as spray guns or abrasive wheels, for applying chemical or mechanical finishes to selected areas of the fixture mounted garment, washing and drying of the garments, automated garment inspection, or the application of tags and labels to the garments.

Abstract: A garment dryer having a plurality of segments which are connected together to form the shape of a garment. The garment dryer has a body assembly having two or more body segments to which is connected a pair of extremity assemblies, each of which may be formed in two or more parts. The extremity assemblies may be either arm assemblies or leg assemblies, or both. The arm assemblies may be used with the body assembly to dry garments such as sweaters and sweatshirts. The leg assemblies may be used with the body assembly to dry garments such as pants. The arm and leg assemblies could be used together with the body assembly to dry garments such as jumpsuits. A garment is placed over the assembled garment dryer and is allowed to dry by hanging it either vertically or horizontally. Each of the segments of the garment dryer will nest within one of the other segments so that the entire garment dryer can be compactly stored.

Abstract: A device is taught for drying wet gloves or mittens or for drying portions of other wet clothing having inside openings therein which are substantially circular in cross-section and which are of a depth of at least about three inches. The device is a hollow cylindrical dryer or is slightly tapered from cylindrical to slightly conically shaped. The main portion of the dryer between its ends preferably consists of a grid of many square or diamond shaped ventilation holes to facilitate evaporation of moisture. The dryer can be made of flexible plastic material and molded into its final shape (and also into such a shape that a number of said dryers can be "nested" inside each other); or the dryer can be molded in an essentially planar condition and then forced by the user into its shape described above, by slight exertion of hand pressure.

Abstract: An ironing press comprises a heated plate (6) and an arm (5) that can be applied against an ironing board (22). The latter is mounted on a support (28) which can be moved along ramps (30) to reach a lowered position, thus making it possible to lift a sleeve-board (37) which is mounted on arms (38 and 39) in order to bring this sleeve-board substantially to the same level as the level at which the board (22) was previously located. An operating knob (41) allows the sleeve-board (37) or the board (22), as desired, to be locked in the working position or to be both released to allow their positions to be interchanged.

Abstract: A pair of leg frame members are connected in side by side spaced relationship and are adapted to be inserted in the legs of a pair of trousers to display the trousers in a selected position. Each of the leg frame members includes inner and outer seam supports formed by a plurality of elongated elements that are positioned in end to end relationship. The adjacent ends of the elongated elements are pivotally connected so that the inner and outer seam supports are formed by a plurality of spaced parallel pairs of elongated elements. Thus the pairs of elongated elements for each pair of leg frame members are independently pivotal to a preselected angular position. The pair of leg frame members can then be pivoted at a plurality of pivot points along the length thereof so as to display the legs of the trousers in a plurality of imaginative arrangements.

Abstract: A form for shaping a coat sleeve is a Plexiglass tube with a re-entrant, oval, elongated hoop having a pair of generally straight side portions that generally conform in shape with front and back crease lines of the sleeve. Between the side portions are semi-circular end portions; an end portion proximate the shoulder has a greater radius than the end portion proximate the wrist. The two semi-circular end portions are approximately tangent to the ends of the side portions abutting against them so that there is a smooth transition between each of the side and end portions. Because the tube is Plexiglass, it has spring properties that cause the hoop to return to its original configuration if the hoop is deformed less than the elastic limit of the Plexiglass. The outer edges of the side portions are spaced from each other by more than the separation between the front and back crease lines of the sleeve interior so that the side portions exert outwardly directed forces against the crease lines.

Abstract: Methods of manufacturing pants from heat-settable textile material, with molding of the material for a good fit, in which two flat tubes of such material are assembled, seamed to form a crotch seam, applied to a mold shaped to impart appropriate form to the tubes for a better fit, and heated to set the tubes in the form of the mold; and the molds used in carrying out said methods. According to a first embodiment, the material in the crotch section of the tubes is left intact until after molding, being then cut out. According to a second embodiment, the material in the crotch section of the tubes is cut out before molding.

Abstract: A display form having two elongated, three-dimensionally contoured leg-and-hip simulating members for insertion in the legs of a pair of pants, with flexible crease-holding wires extending along the front and back edges of each member, the wires being adjustably mounted on the members to fill out the legs of the pants and hold them taut across the contour of the members. The members are identical moldings having sockets in their adjacent sides near their hip-simulating ends, and are rotatably joined together by a junction block having part-spherical surfaces fitting into the sockets. The members are releasably clamped against the junction block in different angular relations, and the form has mounting sockets in its opposite ends facilitating support of the form in either a normal position or an inverted position.

Abstract: There is disclosed an ironing table that is uniquely suited for use by tailors, particularly for use by homemakers who have need for a compact ironing table having a plurality of iron-working surfaces which are suited for particular purposes. The table comprises a base formed with a platform and an upright standard thereon having a substantially flat planar upper surface and an outboard edge surface and a plurality of interchangeable elongated members bearing iron-working surfaces of different sizes and shapes. The elongated members are removably attached to the base with first clamping means comprising dowel means carried on the upper end of the outboard edge surface of the upright standard with cooperating eyelet means carried at one end and on the undersurface of the elongated members. The second clamping means comprises key means carried at the inboard end of the upright standard with cooperative keyway means carried at an intermediate position on the undersurface of the elongated member.