Pad Printed Apparel
AssigneeHBI Branded Apparel Enterprises, LLC
InventorsEdmund L. Pace, Gregory S. Braxton
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Abstract
A tagless article of apparel formed from a knitted fabric having a selected thickness, the article of apparel having inner and outer surfaces, and a product label pad printed directly on the inner surface from a cliché with an ink composition comprising an ink, a solvent, and a hardener, the cliché having a depth sufficient to cause the ink composition to penetrate the inner surface of the fabric to a depth less than the thickness of the fabric.
Claims29
A tagless article of apparel, comprising:
- an article of apparel formed from a textile substrate having a selected thickness between an inner surface and an outer surface of the textile substrate;
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- a pattern comprising product label information printed directly on one of the inner surface or the outer surface, wherein the pattern penetrates the inner surface or the outer surface of the textile substrate to a depth less than the thickness of the textile substrate, and the pattern is not substantially visible from the other surface of the inner surface or the outer surface, the pattern formed from an ink composition comprising an ink, a solvent, and a hardener.
9-22. (canceled)
A method for pad printing a pattern on a textile substrate with a pad printing machine having a cliché, at least one printing pad, and at least one printing area, the method comprising the steps of:
- positioning a textile substrate on the printing area of the pad printing machine, the textile substrate having a selected thickness and inner and outer surfaces;
- transferring a pattern from the cliché to the at least one printing pad, the pattern having a depth less than the thickness of the textile substrate between the inner surface and the outer surface and formed from a composition including an ink, a solvent, and a hardener, such that the composition dries without penetrating the entire thickness of the textile substrate;
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- transferring the pattern from the at least one printing pad to one of the inner surface or the outer surface of the textile substrate, wherein the pattern penetrates the inner surface or the outer surface of the textile substrate to a depth less than the thickness of the textile substrate, and the pattern is not substantially visible from the other surface of the inner surface or the outer surface.
A tagless article of apparel, comprising:
- an article of apparel formed from a textile substrate having a selected thickness between an inner surface and an outer surface of the textile substrate;
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- a pattern comprising product label information printed directly on one of the inner surface or the outer surface, wherein the pattern penetrates the inner surface or the outer surface of the textile substrate to a depth less than the thickness of the textile substrate, and the pattern is readable following at least fifty launderings of the article of apparel, the pattern formed from an ink composition comprising an ink, a solvent, and a hardener.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.