US 10,872,308 B2 · System and method of transferring textile-tool information

Abstract

A method and an equivalent system of transferring information (9, 12) relating to textile tools—preferably to knitting-machine and felting needles—from a tool sales organisation (1) to the tool user (2) is described and claimed. With this system, each type of textile tool is provided with a name (5) by the tool sales organisation (1), wherein •a software system books orders (4) from tool users (2), •at least one identification device (27) is provided with which quantities of textile tools are provided with labels (8), •the software system can activate the identification device (27), which assigns labels (8) that do not contain the name (5), •a forwarding system (7) is provided, •an information carrier (10) is provided, which is accessible to the tool user (2) and on which information (9, 12, 19) concerning the quantity of textile tools is assigned to the label (8).

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Dependent claims

A method of transferring information relating to textile tools from a tool sales organisation to a the tool user, in which at least one textile-tool type is provided in each case with at least one name by the tool sales organisation, the method comprising:

providing, in response to receipt of an order process initiated by the tool user, a quantity of textile tools of this type with at least one label, said label one or more of differing from the at least one name and not containing the at least one name;
the label being specific to one or more of the tool user, the order process, a factory and a batch;
the quantity of textile tools ordered in the order process being forwarded to the tool user;
the at least one label being provided with the quantity of textile tools for identification thereof,
the quantity of textile tools being free of the name,
the label featuring an identification code;
the tool sales organisation granting the tool user access to an information carrier;
and information concerning the quantity of textile tools being assigned to the identification code on this information carrier.

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A system of transferring information relating to textile tools from a tool sales organisation to a tool user, the system comprising:

a software system, wherein the software system includes at least one processor and memory configured to store software associated with the software system, wherein the software system is configured to record the material flow within the tool sales organisation to assign at least one name to tool types, and
to book orders from tool users;
at least one identification device, with which quantities of textile tools can be provided with labels that contain an electronically readable identification code;
an identification device of the at least one identification device is configured to be activated by the software system, which is set in such a way that the identification device is configured to furnish the quantities of textile tools with labels, which do not contain the name;
a forwarding system with which the quantity of textile tools can be shipped to the tool user, the label being sent together with the quantity of textile tools;
and
an information carrier, which is accessible to the tool user and on which information concerning the quantity of textile tools is assigned to the identification code.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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