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AssigneeAutomated Components Inc.
InventorHarold Preston
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A method and apparatus are disclosed for forming and maintaining a fold or crease or a formed shape in or on a fabric piece while a product is being manufactured comprising the fabric. The method comprises the steps of applying an adhesive to selected locations on the fabric piece, forming the fabric piece into the desired configuration, compressing the fabric piece at the selected locations to adhere the selected locations thereof whereby the fabric piece is maintained in the formed, desired configuration during at least part of the manufacture of the product, and thereafter dissipating the adhesive. The method is especially suited to the manufacture of garments having separately attached pieces such as pockets, facings, cuffs, yokes, and the like, wherein to faciliate manufacture, the folds and creases are temporarily made in the pieces and are maintained during manufacture by the adhesive, which is dissipated in the final stages of manufacture of the garment, typically during steam pressing of the garment. The invention also includes a method for automatically picking up and discharging the fabric piece.
A method for forming and maintaining a fabric piece in a desired configuration during manufacture, comprising the steps of applying adhesive to at least one surface of the fabric piece at least at selected locations thereof, forming the fabirc piece into the desired configuration in which parts of said surface including said selected locations with adhesive thereon are opposed and bringing together at least said parts of said surface which are opposed under sufficient pressure to cause said adhesive to adhere said parts of said surface together, and thereafter dissipating the adhesive.
A method for automatically picking up and discharging a fabric piece comprising applying an adhesive to selected locations on the fabric piece, contacting the selected locations by a pick-up surface to adhere the fabric piece to the pick-up surface and separating the fabric piece from the pick-up surface by applying sufficient force therebetween to overcome the adhesive force adhering the fabric piece to the pick-up surface to discharge the fabric piece.
A method for forming and temporarily maintaining a fabric piece in a folded configuration comprising the steps of applying liquid glue to a selected surface of the fabric piece at selected locations thereof, folding the fabric piece into the folded configuration so that at least the selected locations of the selected surface having glue applied thereto oppose other parts of the selected surface, and bringing together the parts of the selected surface that are opposed under sufficient pressure to cause the glue to adhere those parts of the folded, selected surface in contact with the glue, and thereafter dissipating the glue with steam.
A method for forming and maintaining a fabric piece in a desired configuration during manufacture, comprising the steps of applying a dissipable adhesive to at least one surface of the fabric piece at least at selected locations thereof, forming the fabric piece into the desired configuration in which parts of said surface including said selected locations with adhesive thereon are opposed and bringing together at least said parts of said surface which are opposed under sufficient pressure to cause said adhesive to temporarily adhere said parts of said surface together during manufacture of the fabric piece.
A method for forming and temporarily maintaining a fabric piece in a folded configuration comprising the steps of applying liquid glue dissipable by steam to a selected surface of the fabric piece at selected locations thereof, folding the fabric piece into the folded configuration so that at least the selected locations of the selected surface having glue applied thereto oppose other parts of the selected surface, and bringing together the parts of the selected surface that are opposed under sufficient pressure to cause the glue to adhere those parts of the folded, selected surface in contact with glue.
Apparatus for forming and maintaining a fabric piece in a desired configuration comprising:
Apparatus for forming and temporarily maintaining a fabric piece in a desired configuration during manufacture of the fabric piece comprising:
Die apparatus comprising opposed die members disposed along a common plane and die member moving means for moving said members along the plane, said die member moving means comprising actuator means including a member movable in a first direction and linking means linking said member and said die members for moving said die members in a direction substantially transverse to the first direction, said linking means comprising a plurality of linking members, first pivot means pivotally connecting at least one linking member with each of said die members and second pivot means pivotally connecting said members with each of said at least one linking member.
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