METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEWING DARTS

• US 3,694,818 A
• Filed: 06/11/1971
• Issued: 10/03/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ruth N. Nielson
• Original Assignee: Ruth N. Nielson
• Inventors: Nielson, Ruth N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Guest, Alfred R.
• Application Number:
  US05/152,087
• Time in Patent Office: 480 Days
• Field of Search: 2/243B,243R,218,234,74 223/1.1 33/11,12
• US Class Current: 112/475.09
• CPC Class Codes: A41H 31/00 Other aids for tailors

Abstract

This invention relates to a template to be temporarily fastened to a piece of yard goods and used as a guide while sewing a dart in accordance with a dress pattern or the like. The invention also contemplates the method of sewing the dart which includes the steps of folding the pattern back along the bisector of the dart imprinted thereon, laying the template atop the goods thus exposed along the fold line of the pattern to form the missing half of the dart, removing the pattern, folding the goods back under the template so that the fold line coincides with the bisector of the dart, and stitching the double thickness of material together using the margin of the template remote from the fold line as a guide.

Claims

1. The template for use in sewing a dart along the folded edge of a fabric panel which comprises:

a flat piece of bendable material having sufficient rigidity to guide a sewing machine needle shaped to define at least two marginal edges intersecting one another at an acute angle corresponding to approximately onehalf the acute angle at the apex of the dart, one of said marginal edges locating the Fold line in the fabric that bisects the dart while the other defines the stitch line to be followed in stitching the double-thickness of fabric together, and at least one integrally formed marginal tab depending from said fold-locating edge, said tab being bendable around the folded edge of the fabric and onto the underside thereof to maintain the relative positions of the template and double-thickness panel while the latter is being sewn.

2. The template as set forth in claim 1 in which:

the material from which the template is formed is coated on one side by an adhesive capable of detachably fastening same to the fabric panel.

3. The template as set forth in claim 2 in which:

the adhesive is of the non-drying type.

4. The template as set forth in claim 3 in which:

the non-drying adhesive is protected by a removable covering.

5. The template as set forth in claim 4 in which:

the removable covering comprises a layer of paper.

6. The template as set forth in claim 1 in which:

the fold-locating marginal edge includes at least two tabs arranged in spaced relation to one another.

7. The method of sewing a dart in a fabric panel to conform with the dart-defining indicia on a garment pattern which comprises:

laying the pattern atop the fabric panel, folding the pattern back along the bisector of the dart to expose the fabric panel therebeneath, substituting a template representing the folded half of the pattern dart for the latter in the location formerly occupied thereby, removing the pattern, folding the fabric panel under itself to produce a folded edge aligned with the edge of the template representing the bisector of the dart, stitching the two thicknesses of fabric together using an edge of the template remote from fold as a guide, removing the template, and unfolding the panel.

8. The method as set forth in claim 7 which includes the step of:

detachably sticking the template to the fabric.

9. The method as set forth in claim 7 which includes the step of:

crimping bendable tabs carried by the template onto the folded edge of the fabric panel.

10. The method as set forth in claim 7 which includes the step of detachably securing the template to the fabric by both sticking same to the exposed face thereof and crimping bendable tabs around its folded edge.