US 10,465,315 B2 · Aggregating textiles for production

Abstract

Techniques for operating a loom to produce multiple different textiles during a single operation of the loom. Conventionally, a loom produces a single textile during each single operation of the loom. When producing multiple different textiles during a single operation of the loom, a single run of the mill may generate the multiple different textiles for multiple different customers. In some embodiments, during a single operation of a loom, the loom may generate a single piece of loom-finished fabric that includes multiple different textiles for multiple different customers and, following the single run of the mill, the single piece of loom-finished fabric may be cut apart to yield the different textiles, which may be one, two, more than five, more than ten, or any suitable number of different textiles for any suitable number of different customers.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor;
and
at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having encoded thereon executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to carry out a method of producing an aggregate textile comprising a plurality of different textiles that a plurality of different customers requested be produced, the method comprising:
receiving information describing each textile of the plurality of different textiles to be produced, the information comprising, for each textile of the plurality of different textiles, one or more quality attributes for the textile;
evaluating quality attributes for each of the plurality of different textiles to identify two or more textiles of the plurality of different textiles having matching quality attributes;
and
generating a specification for the aggregate textile based on the information describing the two or more textiles, the specification of the aggregate textile including at least some of the quality attributes for the two or more textiles and specifying that the aggregate textile is to be woven by weaving the two or more textiles in a series.

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A method comprising:

operating at least one processor to carry out acts of:
providing, via a web interface, information associated with one or more color palettes to be used in designing textiles, wherein a first color palette of the one or more color palettes includes multiple colors and each color of the first color palette corresponds to a different set of quality attributes of a textile;
receiving information describing a textile to be produced, wherein the information describing the textile indicates at least one color to be included in the textile;
determining, based on the information describing the textile, at least one color palette of the one or more color palettes to which the textile corresponds;
and
determining, based on the at least one color palette and the at least one color to be included in the textile, one or more sets of quality attributes to be used in weaving the textile.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Aggregating textiles for production

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