Device and method for automatically binding printed textile panels, or printed textile panels with flexible material strips
AssigneeMeevo—Trading E RepresentaçõEs, Lda
InventorsJorge Filipe Silva Coutinho Martins, Jorge Manuel Pinhal De Barros Nogueira
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a device for automatically binding two or more printed textile panels along a lateral edge of said panels and/or binding a printed textile panel or panels with a flexible material strip along a lateral edge of said panel or panels, said device comprising a sewing head, a puller for pulling the printed textile panel or panels into the sewing head, and a gripper holding system comprising a plurality of grippers for gripping a portion of a lateral edge of the printed textile panel or panels to maintain alignment as the printed textile panel or panels are pulled into said puller.
Claims19
A device for automatically binding two or more printed textile panels along a lateral edge of said panels and/or binding a printed textile panel or panels with a flexible material strip along a lateral edge of said panel or panels, said device comprising a sewing head, a puller for pulling the printed textile panel or panels into the sewing head, and a gripper holding system comprising a plurality of grippers for gripping a portion of a lateral edge of the printed textile panel or panels to maintain alignment as the printed textile panel or panels are pulled into said puller;
- wherein the grippers are linearly slideable in the printed textile panel feed direction into the sewing head,
- wherein said grippers are further arranged to be able to be manually closed onto a portion of a lateral edge of said printed textile panel or panels and each said gripper is arranged to be automatically opened when each said gripper reaches the proximity of said puller, and
- wherein said grippers comprise a pair of opposing fingers and actuator means for opening and closing said pair of opposing fingers for gripping the portion of a lateral edge of said printed textile panels.
A method for operating a device for automatically binding two or more overlaid printed textile panels along a lateral edge of said panels, said method comprising:
- placing the printed textile panels along a feed alignment zone;
- closing grippers of a gripper holding system onto the lateral edges of the overlaid printed textile panels to ensure the alignment of the printed textile panels;
- feeding the overlaid printed textile panels towards a puller by one or two synchronized conveyor belts moving said grippers;
- opening the first gripper of the gripper holding system once the overlaid printed textile panels reach the puller;
- pulling the overlaid printed textile panels by the puller throughout an entire sewing cycle while:
- opening the subsequent gripper or grippers of the gripper holding system once each said subsequent gripper or grippers reaches the proximity of said puller;
- moving of the grippers forward along with the overlaid printed textile panels;
- trimming and sewing the lateral edge of the overlaid printed textile panels by a sewing head;
- after the sewing cycle, returning the grippers of the gripper holding system to their initial position at the feed alignment zone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.