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US 12,540,430 B2Granted
Various attachments for additive textile manufacturing machines
AssigneeArachne Labs LLC
InventorChristopher Anderson
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Abstract
Various attachments for additive textile manufacturing machines are disclosed. In one example, an apparatus is provided which comprises a connector component and a liquid deposition component. The connector component is configured to attach to an additive textile manufacturing machine that produces a textile product. The liquid deposition component is configured to deposit a liquid on one or more materials of the textile product.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- attaching a 3D printing attachment to a mechanical connector extending from a needle bar box of an embroidery head of an embroidery machine to mechanically fix the 3D printing attachment to the embroidery head, wherein the needle bar box holds an embroidery needle of the embroidery head such that mechanically fixing the 3D printing attachment to the embroidery head maintains a spatial alignment between the embroidery needle and the 3D printing attachment, and the embroidery machine comprises a frame and a pantograph connected to the frame, the frame and the pantograph being configured to move relative to the embroidery head and the 3D printing attachment mechanically fixed to the embroidery head;
- outputting, via the embroidery head, a textile material to embroider a textile product secured to the frame with the embroidery needle;
- depositing, via the 3D printing attachment mechanically fixed to the embroidery head, a 3D printing material on the textile product secured to the frame;
- and
- moving the pantograph continuously along multiple axes relative to the embroidery head and the 3D printing attachment during embroidery and deposition operations to distribute the 3D printing material in registration with at least a portion of the textile material output by the embroidery head.
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A method comprising:
- outputting, via an embroidery head of an embroidery machine, a textile material to embroider a textile product secured to a frame via an embroidery needle of the embroidery head;
- depositing, via a 3D printing attachment, a 3D printing material on the textile product secured to the frame, wherein the 3D printing attachment is attached to a mechanical connector extending from a needle bar box of the embroidery head to mechanically fix the 3D printing attachment to the embroidery head, the needle bar box holding the embroidery needle such that mechanically fixing the 3D printing attachment to the embroidery head maintains a spatial alignment between the embroidery needle and the 3D printing attachment;
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- moving a pantograph of the embroidery machine continuously along multiple axes relative to the embroidery head and the 3D printing attachment during embroidery and deposition operations to distribute the 3D printing material in registration with at least a portion of the textile material output by the embroidery head.
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A method comprising:
- attaching a 3D printing attachment to a mechanical connector extending from a needle bar box of an embroidery head of an embroidery machine to mechanically fix the 3D printing attachment to the embroidery head, wherein the needle bar box holds an embroidery needle of the embroidery machine such that mechanically fixing the 3D printing attachment to the embroidery head maintains a spatial alignment between the embroidery needle and the 3D printing attachment, and the embroidery machine comprises a frame and a pantograph connected to the frame, the frame and the pantograph being configured to move relative to the embroidery head and the 3D printing attachment mechanically fixed to the embroidery head;
- depositing, via the 3D printing attachment mechanically fixed to the embroidery head, a 3D printing material on a textile product secured to the frame;
- and
- moving the pantograph continuously along multiple axes relative to the embroidery head and the 3D printing attachment during embroidery and deposition operations to distribute the 3D printing material in registration with at least a portion of textile material output by the embroidery head to the textile product.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.