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US 12,480,242 B2Granted
System and method for customized synthetic turf design, manufacturing and installation
OwnerReed J. Seatoninventor
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Abstract
A system for manufacturing synthetic turf is disclosed that includes an indexing system configured to affix an indexing device to a backing material, a tufting machine configured to receive the backing material and yarn and to fabricate the synthetic turf by tufting the yarn in the backing material and a controller configured to read the indexing device and to post-process the synthetic turf as a function of the indexing device.
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A system for manufacturing synthetic turf, comprising:
- an indexing system configured to affix an indexing device to a backing material;
- a tufting machine configured to receive the backing material and background yarn and to fabricate the synthetic turf by tufting the background yarn in the backing material;
- a controller configured to read the indexing device and to post-process the synthetic turf as a function of the indexing device;
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- a design cut system coupled to the controller, wherein the controller generates control data to cause the design cut system to cut the background yarn from the backing material at predetermined locations.
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A method for manufacturing synthetic turf comprising:
- affixing an indexing device to a backing material;
- fabricating the synthetic turf by tufting background yarn in the backing material;
- reading the indexing device on the synthetic turf using a machine vision device;
- generating post-processing control data with a controller to post-process the synthetic turf as a function of the indexing device;
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- generating control data to cause a design cut system to cut the background yarn from the backing material at predetermined locations.
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A method for manufacturing synthetic turf comprising:
- affixing an indexing device to a backing material;
- fabricating the synthetic turf by tufting background yarn in the backing material;
- reading the indexing device on the synthetic turf using a machine vision device;
- generating post-processing control data with a controller to post-process the synthetic turf as a function of the indexing device;
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- generating control data using the controller to cause a robotic tufting system to tuft colored yarn at one or more predetermined locations.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.