System and method for colored woven label fabrication
AssigneeFu-Hua Pai
InventorHong-Ming Wei
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Abstract
A system for colored woven label fabrication includes an image processing device, a yarn coloring mechanism and a weaving machine. The yarn coloring mechanism colors a yarn to be woven into a colored woven label by the weaving machine according to a weaving electronic file generated by the image processing device.
Claims15
A system for colored woven label fabrication, comprising:
- an image processing device that is adapted to be communicatively connected to a database storing a plurality of data files which are respectively indicative of a plurality of labels, and that is configured to generate a weaving electronic file according to one of the data files indicative of the respective one of the labels to be fabricated;
- a yarn coloring mechanism adapted for coloring a yarn to be woven into a colored woven label according to the weaving electronic file, and including
- a heating roller that is rotatable about its axis, that has an outer circumferential surface, and that includes a heater element heating said outer circumferential surface,
- an inner winding device that is adapted to wind an inner colored paper thereon, and to guide the inner colored paper toward said heating roller such that a portion of the inner colored paper is pressed against and covers a portion of said outer circumferential surface,
- a yarn winding device that is adapted to wind a yarn thereon, and to guide the yarn toward said heating roller such that a portion of the yarn is pressed against the portion of the inner colored paper covered on the portion of said outer circumferential surface,
- an outer winding device that is adapted to wind an outer colored paper thereon, to guide the outer colored paper toward said heating roller such that a portion of the outer colored paper is pressed against and covers the portion of the yarn pressed against the portion of the inner colored paper,
- a liner paper winding device that is adapted to wind a liner paper thereon, and to guide the liner paper toward said heating roller such that a portion of the liner paper is pressed against and covers the portion of the outer colored paper covered on the portion of the yarn, and
- a pressing device that includes a pressing belt looped over said heating roller, circulating continuously, and adapted to press the portion of the liner paper covered on the portion of the outer colored paper pressed against said heating roller so as to transfer the colors of the inner and outer colored papers onto the yarn;
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- a weaving machine electrically connected to said image processing device and adapted to weave the portion of the yarn being transferred with the colors into a colored woven label according to the weaving electronic file.
A method for colored woven label fabrication to be implemented by a system for colored woven label fabrication, the system including an image processing device, a yarn coloring mechanism, a weaving machine, a heating roller that is rotatable about its axis, that has an outer circumferential surface, and that includes a heater element for heating the outer circumferential surface, an inner winding device that is wound by the inner colored paper, a yarn winding device that is wound by the yarn, an outer winding device that is wound by the outer colored paper, a liner paper winding device that is wound by a liner paper, and a pressing device that includes a pressing belt looped over the heating roller, circulating continuously, and pressing the liner paper covered on the outer colored paper toward the heating roller so as to transfer the colors of the inner and outer colored papers onto the yarn, the method comprising:
- providing a database that stores a plurality of data files respectively indicative of a plurality of labels;
- generating, by the image processing device, a weaving electronic file according to one of the data files indicative of the respective one of the labels to be fabricated;
- transferring, by the yarn coloring mechanism, colors of inner and outer colored papers onto a yarn such that the yarn is sandwiched between the inner and outer colored papers;
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- weaving, by the weaving machine, the yarn being transferred with the colors into a colored woven label according to the weaving electronic file,
- wherein the step of transferring the colors of the inner and outer colored papers onto the yarn includes:
- guiding, by the inner winding device, the inner colored paper toward the heating roller to cover a portion of the outer circumferential surface;
- guiding, by the yarn winding device, the yarn toward the heating roller to press against a portion of the inner colored paper covered on the outer circumferential surface;
- guiding, by the outer winding device, the outer colored paper toward the heating roller to cover a portion of the yarn on the portion of the inner colored paper;
- guiding, by the liner paper winding device, the liner paper toward the heating roller to cover a portion of the outer colored paper covered on the portion of the yarn;
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- pressing, by the pressing belt of the pressing device, the portion of the liner paper covered on the portion of the outer colored paper, the portion of the outer colored paper covered on the portion of the yarn, the portion of the yarn covered on the portion of the inner colored paper, and the portion of the inner colored paper against the heating roller so as to transfer the colors of the inner and outer colored papers onto the yarn.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.