Apparatus to manufacture a garment from a single web
AssigneeCreateMe Technologies LLC
InventorsMichael Corliss, Nicholas Chope, Michael William Tanguay, Marietta Greene
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Abstract
A garment station including a frame, a conveyor coupled to the frame, a gantry, and a folding assembly. The gantry is disposed over the conveyor and includes a tool head moveable over the conveyor. The folding assembly includes a first platen moveable relative to a second platen between a folded position and an unfolded position. The first platen is substantially co-planar with the second platen in the unfolded position. The first platen is disposed above the second platen in the folded position.
Claims19
A method of making a garment component from a single web of fabric, comprising:
- moving a length of a web of fabric onto a conveyor of a garment station to make a garment component;
- cutting a first cut pattern in the web disposed on the conveyor with a cutting device of the garment station;
- applying an adhesive to the web to disposed on the conveyor with an adhesive dispenser of the garment station;
- transporting the web from the conveyor to a folding assembly of the garment station;
- cutting a second cut pattern in the web with the cutting device;
- moving a first platen of the folding assembly from an unfolded position to a folded position to place a first portion of the web onto a second portion of the web to form an intermediate garment;
- treating the intermediate garment;
- moving the first platen of the folding assembly from the folded position to the unfolded position;
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- cutting the intermediate garment free from the web with the cutting device to form the garment component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.