| 摘要 |
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for forming collars, cuffs or like garment subcomponents, which are fabricated by stitching together a plurality of plies, inverting the stitched together plies and then pressing the inverted subcomponent to a desired finished shape. The apparatus and method are characterized by placing the pressed subcomponent, while the same still retains the heat of pressing, on a vacuum apparatus having throughgoing apertures whereby suction is exerted against the undersurface of the plies. As a result of such suction, the plies and any stiffener material interposed between the plies are maintained in a flatwise or other desired shaped condition during the colling process, whereby the desired sharp crease or fold resulting from the pressing operation is retained in the finished subcomponent.
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