US 4,526,116 AGranted

Method and arrangement to control an automatic embroidery machine

AssigneeGVT Gesellschaft fur Verfahrenstechnik der garnverarbeitenden Industrie mbH

InventorFriedrich Mannel

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Abstract

For a method to control an automatic embroidery machine, the individual picture elements are copied from a motif carrier at hand and are transferred as an embroidery program to a storage element. To control the automatic embroidery machine automatically, according to the motif, it is provided that the motif, which has been converted to half-tones, is recorded line-by-line as a scannable picture, wherein, if need be, a color-specific picture with scannable half-tones is recorded for each color with color motifs; each picture is line-scanned, and each picture element, which represents a half-tone of optional intensity, is compared to an adjustable half-tone barrier or a fixed half-tone window, and is thus classified as being either lighter or darker and/or inside or outside of the half-tone window and is thus converted to a binary value; these binary values are stored and fed into a digital computer, which stores conversion programs for embroidery techniques, the motif, which has been converted to binary values, is composed section-by-section from the stored picture forms and the embroidery program, set up by the digital computer, is output to the automatic embroidery machine.

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Dependent claims

A method for controlling an automatic embroidery machine wherein individual scanning elements are copied from a displayed motif carrier and are transferred in the form of an embroidery program to a storage element, said embroidery program controlling at least one automatic embroidery machine by the coordinate displacement of its embroidery frame, comprising the steps of:

recording said motif as a line-scanned picture, which is converted to picture half-tones;
wherein, in the case of color motifs, and line-scanned color-specific picture with scannable picture half-tones is recorded for each color of said color motif;
each picture is line-scanned;
each scanning element, which represents a picture half-tone of an intensity between black and white is compared with an adjustable half-tone barrier and is accordingly classified as either lighter or darker than said barrier and thereby converted to a binary value corresponding thereto, said binary values being stored within a digital computer which stores conversion programs for embroidery techniques which are allocated to a plurality of preselected geometric picture forms including lines and areas that are repeated in each embroidery pattern;
an embroidery program stored in the digital computer and corresponding to said displayed motif carrier is output to at least one automatic embroidery machine so as to control the operation thereof, said computer having stored said motif in a binary form in a section-by-section form from said geometric picture forms.

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