Manufacturing Woven Textile Products on Demand
AssigneeUnspun, Inc.
InventorsStephen E. THOMA, Oras PHONGPANANGAM, Kevin P. MARTIN, Brian J. GORMLEY
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Abstract
An overall process of providing information needed for a circular loom to produce articles of clothing on demand is disclosed. Initially body data or measurements are generated for a person by scanning with a camera or other image capture device or estimated based on user-input body parameters. Measurements are extracted from the body data which are then processed with linear regression and other parameter extraction techniques. The extracted measurements are then processed. The resulting panel shapes are used to automatically produce the article of clothing as woven output with the loom.
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A method for manufacturing apparel, comprising:
- receiving body data;
- producing weave shape data based on the body data, wherein producing the weave shape data includes combining order information details with the received body data;
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- automatically producing a woven article of clothing on a variable diameter circular loom based on the weave shape data, with the weave shape data being translated into computer-readable instructions that define control parameters for the loom.
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