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US 4,640,529 AGranted
Flexible non-distortable handcraft sheet material and method of applying printed designs thereto
OwnerMarcella M. Katzinventor
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Flexible non-distortable handcraft sheet materials, including needlework fabrics, adaptable for receiving printed designs, patterns, photographs and craft instructional information and the methodology for producing the materials with the designs, patterns and photographs and instructional information printed thereon. Material alignment and feed features are located along the parallel edges of the materials for moving same through a computer-directed printer. In accordance with the methodology visual information in the form of designs, patterns, photographs, flat art work, still objects, live objects, etc. is converted into digital information through a digitizer with the digitized image information thereafter fed to a computer for manipulation and editing by software and keyboard direction and for conversion to visual image information for CRT display and for utilization by a computer printer as imprinted graphic information. The flexible handcraft sheet materials bearing printer feed features include: paper and paper laminates; leather, suede, simulated leather, paper-leather and plastic-leather laminates; paper-thin woods, wood veneers and wood alminates with paper or plastic; laminates including non-woven, spun-bonded random fiber plastic sheet; plastic and paper-plastic laminates; foils and foil laminates; and like craft materials.
A flexible non-distortable handcraft sheet material having a print surface on at least one side thereof for receiving computer-generated print designs, patterns, and photographs as craft instructional or decorative visual information for use in creating finished handcrafted items incorporating the printed areas of said sheet material, said handcraft sheet material having alignment and feed means located along the edges thereof for moving said material through a computer-directed printer for imprinting a design, pattern or photograph on the print surface thereof.
A non-distortable needlework material having a uniform pattern of apertures forming a symmetrical gridwork for receiving needlework yarn and having a print surface adaptable for receiving computer-generated printed needlework designs, patterns and photographs, said needlework material having alignment and feed means located along the edges thereof for moving said material through a computer-directed printer for imprinting a design, pattern or photgraph on the print surface of said material in needlework stitchery alignment with the symmetrical gridwork of said material.
A composite laminated, non-distortable needlework material adaptable to the imprinting thereon of a needlework design, pattern or photograph by a computer-directed printer comprising:
A method of producing handcraft sheet materials bearing imprinted designs, patterns or photographs as craft instructional or decorative visual information for use in creating finished handcraft items incorporating the printed area of said sheet materials comprising the steps of:
A method of producing a needlework canvas material bearing an imprinted design, pattern or photograph in stitch application alignment with the symmetrical thread-defining gridwork of said material comprising the steps of:
A method of producing handcraft sheet material bearing imprinted designs, patterns or photographs as craft instructional or decorative visual infomration for use in creating finished handcraft items incorporating the printed areas of said sheet materials comprising the steps of:
A method of producing a needlework canvas material bearing an imprinted design, pattern or photograph in stitch application alignment with the symmetrical thread-defining gridwork of said material comprising the steps of:
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