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US 12,091,794 B2Granted
Systems and methods for producing textiles
OwnerCarl Thomas Inglinginventor
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Abstract
Systems and methods for producing printed goods from textile material to address shortcoming of existing approaches for article production. According to the systems and methods described herein, the harvested and woven cotton may be shipped directly to garment decorators who may perform all remaining steps to provide customers with finished goods. As such, the systems and methods herein may eliminate the steps of the blank goods trade and current manufacturing processes.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, at a management tool, image data, wherein the image data comprises a colorization of all elements of a textile product in a shape of a sewing pattern for the textile product;
- transmitting the image data to a digital textile printer;
- creating, at the digital textile printer, prints and colorization on textile material concurrently to generate printed textile material based on the image data, wherein the printed textile material comprises the shape of the sewing pattern;
- providing, at the digital textile printer, the printed textile material to a numeric control textile cutter;
- registering cuts made by the numeric control textile cutter to the shape of the sewing pattern;
- cutting, at the numerical control textile cutter, the shape of the sewing pattern to create cut sewing pattern pieces;
- transferring the cut sewing pattern pieces to a robotic sewing system;
- receiving, at the robotic sewing system, information for assembling a sewn textile product based on the cut sewing pattern pieces;
- and
- assembling, by the robotic sewing system, the textile product based on the cut sewing pattern pieces to create the sewn textile product corresponding to a finished article.
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A system, comprises:
- a digital textile printer configured to create prints and colorization on textile material concurrently;
- a management tool connected with the digital textile printer, the management tool configured to load image data to the digital textile printer;
- a numeric control textile cutter connected with the digital textile printer;
- a means for connecting an output of the digital textile printer to an input of the numeric control textile cutter;
- a robotic sewing system connected with the numeric control textile cutter;
- and
- a means for transferring cut sewing pattern pieces output from the numeric control textile cutter to the robotic sewing system, wherein the robotic sewing system is configured to assemble the cut sewing pattern pieces output based on receiving information for assembling.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.