US 2020/0090556 A1Published application

Customizing Messages Using Character Patches

AssigneeFox LLC

InventorsJustin Cole Fox, Kurt Sebastian Walter

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Abstract

Customizing messages using character patches, by attaching a set of character patches to a substrate, using hook and loop fasteners. An assortment of character patches is selected and provided by a supplier. The user selects which ones, but not all, of the assortment to use, as a set, and arranges the set in a desired order to create a user-determined message. The selected character patches are mounted to one or more receptive patches on the substrate, in the arranged order, displaying the user-determined message. A sheet of the assortment of character patches, die-cut in a character patch layer, can be supplied mounted on a backing layer. As the user selects and removes character patches, the remaining character patches remain all together, mounted on the backing layer. The characters include at least one of numbers, letters, or other readily-recognized non-artistic characters, and can include characters which contain only artistic expressions.

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Dependent claims

In combination,

(a) an article of clothing or a clothing accessory, said article of clothing or clothing accessory comprising one or more receptive portions thereof adapted to receive and to hold one or more character patches which bear either hook-type fasteners or loop-type fasteners;
and
(b) an assortment of at least first, second, and third character patches hearing at least first and second different readily-recalled characters, including at least one of letters, numbers, or other readily-recalled characters, said character patches having fronts and rears, each said character patch bearing a hook-type fastener area or a loop-type fastener area on the rear of the respective said character patch adapted to cooperate with the respective one or more receptive portions on said article of clothing or clothing accessory,
wherein said character patch assortment is adapted to a user of such character patches
(i) selecting a first set of at least first and second, but not all, of said character patches from said assortment of character patches, wherein a wide variety of user-determined messages can be created using said assortment of characters, and
(ii) arranging the first set of character patches in such an order as to create a user-determined message, and attaching the first set of character patches to said article of clothing or clothing accessory at the respective one or more receptive portions in the arranged order by attaching the respective hooks or loops on the character patches to the cooperating one or more receptive portions, and thereby fastening the created message to said article of clothing or clothing accessory.

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A method of creating a personalized article of clothing or a clothing accessory, comprising

(a) providing an article of clothing or a clothing accessory wherein the article of clothing or clothing accessory comprises one or more receptive portions thereof adapted to receive and to hold one or more character patches which bear either hook-type fasteners or loop-type fasteners;
(b) providing an assortment of at least first, second, and third character patches bearing at least first and second different readily-recalled characters, including at least one of letters, numbers, or other readily-recalled characters, the character patches having fronts and rears, each character patch bearing a hook-type fastener area or a loop-type fastener area on the rear of the respective character patch adapted to cooperate with the respective one or more portions on such article of clothing or clothing accessory;
(c) selecting a first set of at least first and second, but not all, of the character patches in the assortment of character patches;
and
(d) arranging the first set of character patches in such an order as to create a user-determined message, and attaching the first set of character patches to the article of clothing or clothing accessory at the respective one or more receptive portions in the arranged order by attaching the respective hooks or loops on the character patches to the receptive portions on the article of clothing or clothing accessory.

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A method of making a character patch sheet having a backing layer and an overlying layer of removably attached character patches, the method comprising:

(a) providing a backing layer having a first length and a first width, a first front side and a first rear side, the front side and being adapted to receive and hold hook-type fasteners and/or loop-type fasteners;
(b) attaching, to the backing layer, an overlying character patch layer having a second front side and a second rear side, and a thickness between the second front side and the second rear side, the overlying character patch layer having a second length and a second width defining an outer perimeter of the overlying character patch layer, the second length of the overlying layer overlying at least a portion of the first length of the backing layer, and the second width of the overlying layer overlying at least a portion of the first width of the backing layer;
(c) cutting an assortment of character patches through the thickness of the overlying layer from the second front side to the second rear side, but not through the backing layer, and inward of the perimeter of the overlying character patch layer, so as to define, within the outer perimeter of the overlying character patch layer, an array of removable character patches, a given character patch having hook-type fasteners or loop-type fasteners, at the second rear side, attaching the respective character patch to the backing layer.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.