Classifications

• • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
  • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • D06B—TREATING TEXTILE MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS, GASES OR VAPOURS
  • D06B11/00—Treatment of selected parts of textile materials, e.g. partial dyeing
  • D06B11/0093—Treatments carried out during or after a regular application of treating materials, in order to get differentiated effects on the textile material
  • D06B11/0096—Treatments carried out during or after a regular application of treating materials, in order to get differentiated effects on the textile material to get a faded look
• • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
  • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • D06C—FINISHING, DRESSING, TENTERING OR STRETCHING TEXTILE FABRICS
  • D06C23/00—Making patterns or designs on fabrics
• • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
  • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • D06C—FINISHING, DRESSING, TENTERING OR STRETCHING TEXTILE FABRICS
  • D06C23/00—Making patterns or designs on fabrics
  • D06C23/02—Making patterns or designs on fabrics by singeing, teasing, shearing, etching or brushing

Definitions

• garments include mechanical sandblasting with sand or
• the effects may include local abrasion
• Such a pattern section may even have
• the pattern e.g., the edges and top of the pattern
• the sandblasting process is an abrasive process, which causes wear to the sandblasting equipment.
• top or bottom of the whisker are difficult to
• the sandblast process can also adversely affect
• abrasion is the least to even pass the apparel company
• whiskers on the denim may be too little or too much
• the present assignee has disclosed laser
• One aspect includes using a laser to scribe lines
• the laser causes the garment to change color to varying
• sections of a lazed pattern can have varied energy density per unit time.
• Figure 1 shows an overall lasing system
• Figure 2 shows a controllable laser system
• Figure 3 shows a control screen for a specified
• Figure 4-12 show control screens for different
• Figure 13 shows a material delivery system
• Figure 14 shows a material delivery system with a
• the described system and method teaches a system
• a first technique uses a laser.
• the laser is caused to move across a textile material.
• the line which is scribed can be a straight line or a
• That area can be any size or shape.
• EDPUT depends on power of
• a laser output of the laser is used to scribe
• the line can be any number of lines across the material.
• the line can be any number of lines across the material.
• the EDPUT level is
• the EDPUT is different than it
• the controller system is at either end of the line.
• the EDPUT delivered to the material may be changed
• a first way is to change the
• a laser relies on light
• excitation unit 200 may
• control The control drive 198 to the excitation unit
• the duty cycle may be adjusted
• the laser can also use an adjustable shutter, as
• This shutter may use a fast
• the laser beam is applied to the garment and
• This laser moving element can be any laser moving element 215.
• the controller controls the laser movement.
• the controller controls the laser movement.
• the EDPUT changes along the course of its line
• the controller 199 may produce an output
• This system is used to attempt to mimic naturally-reacted
• feathering or variation of the material (abrasion) , across the edges and top and bottom of a pattern
• the present system stores
• information includes geometric information about the
• the matrix can be an EDPUT
• textiles may change the look in proportion to the
• the look change may also include
• the scanner can evaluate
• the system may evaluate, using the total
• a look up table can be established relating the color
• EDPUT for each area on the jeans can be established.
• This matrix can then be used as the
• controller to drive the laser.
• EDPUT levels can be applied to different sections of
• the user can examine the wear pattern
• existing looks can be edited.
• the look is scanned as noted above to form a matrix.
• the matrix can then be edited to keep the desirable
• single scanned line may look as shown in Table I.
• Second Quarter of Scan 1000 0.30 0.0707 50,000 0.28
• This table shows that the EDPUT varies from about 0.08 watts-sec/mm 3 to about 0.14 watts-sec/mm 3 for the first
• the EDPUT varies from about 0.01 watts-sec/mm 3 to about
• the EDPUT varies from about 0.07 watts-sec/mm 3 to about
• the EDPUT value can vary 40% or so and
• the EDPUT may vary by over
• the EDPUT can be any value. In general, looking at these values, the EDPUT can be any value.
• the EDPUT can change any number of times within a
• the EDPUT control is thus infinite and can
• Table II shows the variation in EDPUT along an
• Worn Pattern #2 Start of Scan 20 0.30 0.0707 10000 0. .03 First Section of Scan 50 0.30 0.0707 10000 0. .07 First Quarter of Scan 500 0.30 0.0707 10000 0. .71 Second Quarter of Scan 500 0.30 0.0707 10000 0. .71 Middle of Scan 500 0.30 0.0707 10000 0. .71 Third Quarter of Scan 300 0.30 0.0707 10000 0, .42 Fourth Quarter of Scan 150 0.30 0.0707 10000 0, .21 End of Scan 20 0.30 0.0707 10000 0.
• the inventors realized that having the ability to
• Table III shows a non-uniform pattern
• Table IV shows a non-uniform pattern with heavier
• the image may be created by using a
• the EDPUT allows the image to assume any shade (after
• the shade is associated with
• indigo blue can be created.
• lasers are used to mark materials such as wood, glass,
• the general EDPUT profile can still be
• the EDPUT profile can include a percent
• 50% values may be chosen for areas requiring
• color contents can be in full power, e.g.,
• the colors are associated with different
• the actual power level or duty cycle associated with a given color may be set by a user, and may be
• the actual pattern 300 is formed of a plurality of
• the outer section 305 defines the
• the innermost shapes such as 325, are
• the sections can be concentric or semi-concentric.
• the sections can be concentric or semi-concentric.
• perimeters defines a section.
• section can define a separate layer.
• Figure 3 also shows a plurality of operating
• scale factor 334 can also be set.
• a boundary length is set in 342.
• This random seed may be necessary. This random seed may be set.
• Typical editing controls such as edit, save, preview,
• the system starts with the user selecting a
• sections can be set as having a specified power profile
• the power profiles represent different
• sections such as 310 and 305 may be associated with a lower power duty cycle level. This creates a more
• look. 325 might represent the part of the pattern that
• the pattern file represents the power profile
• Blend can be carried out either
• a blend computes
• forming the weights can be varied to achieve various
• whisker tool Another tool, shown herein as the whisker tool
• a "grain" tool is shown as part of 360 which
• gray scales can also be used to view the separated
• the sections can also be marked with other
• area delimiters such as hatching, stipling or the
• the pixel or area that is hit adopts the color being
• the blaster tool can also be used in an intensity-
• this tool can be automated to draw
• This system can produce a number of different products
• design computer to the laser control computer may be
• TBF TBF
• the file in the "TBF" format may be a bit-mapped
• the writing laser can write in either the
• the direction of writing can be selected
• the slice 370 shows, in
• each pixel such as
• the EDPUT level is changed as the laser is
• Figure 4 shows a localized worn look which extends
• Figure 6 shows a global worn look from the
• Figure 6 also shows the global worn look from the
• color of the worn look changes from white or gray in the intense areas of the pattern to indigo blue or
• Figures 7 and 8 show a whisker worn look
• the whisker worn look can be along any area
• the EDPUT is of sufficient magnitude to fray the
• holes are provided in the denim.
• the composite image may then be used to
• Whiskers are made using a hand sanding operation where
• Figure 12 shows a composite file including a plurality
• the whisker itself can be different colors to produce
• low power lasers e.g. from 25 to 100 watts, of the
• the laser cutter typically produces much higher
• the inventors is the cycle time for applying the worn pattern.
• cycle time may be on the order of minutes for each
• jeans can be minutes with a 50 watt laser that is
• a 500 watt laser can be used for marking.
• the inventors were able to
• beginning of the scribing of a line can be higher than
• This effect may be strongest when the laser is
• power lasers are used, e.g. 500 watts or higher.
• the desired pattern is given a "boundary" area.
• the laser power is set to a level x that is as high as
• the laser output is
• the effective power level is
• the effective power level is increased less
• properties can include any aspect of the material that
• aspect of this system includes taking into account the
• One other aspect uses a camera vision system pointed to
• the higher power lasers can operate faster, and
• the denim jeans 100 over some form 102.
• the denim jeans are
• Figure 1 also shows an in-line material processing
• an inline laundry device 120 e.g, a
• Figure 1 shows a straight path conveyer system.
• jeans 1300 are located on a form shown as 1302.
• the jeans are conveyed along the conveyer 1312,
• the jeans come into contact with a first laser 1320.
• the second laser 1330 which scribes the rear worn look.
• the jeans are removed from the form after processing,
• An automated system can detect whether
• the front or back is being presented, e.g. by imaging
• a camera vision system can key in on a specific
• FIG 14 shows yet another system.
• the jeans are
• system carries the denim by the clip areas, e.g. by a
• dual lasers are used, with one on the top
• Any free standing conveyer system can be used for this.
• this may also be done with the garment
• the jean wraps around the form in
• the quality of the whisker pattern is a function of the
• any desired whisker pattern could be

Landscapes

• Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
• Textile Engineering (AREA)
• Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
• Materials Engineering (AREA)
• Laser Beam Processing (AREA)
• Treatment Of Fiber Materials (AREA)
• Mechanical Optical Scanning Systems (AREA)

Applications Claiming Priority (3)

Publications (1)

Family

ID=22565812

Family Applications (1)

Country Status (9)

Families Citing this family (20)

Family Cites Families (7)

• 2000
  • 2000-09-28 EP EP00967049A patent/EP1242962A2/de not_active Withdrawn
  • 2000-09-28 AU AU77306/00A patent/AU7730600A/en not_active Abandoned
  • 2000-09-28 CN CNB008166595A patent/CN1271554C/zh not_active Expired - Lifetime
  • 2000-09-28 WO PCT/US2000/026726 patent/WO2001025824A2/en not_active Ceased
  • 2000-09-28 JP JP2001528731A patent/JP2003511242A/ja active Pending
  • 2000-09-28 TR TR2002/01254T patent/TR200201254T2/xx unknown
  • 2000-09-28 KR KR1020027004439A patent/KR100564715B1/ko not_active Expired - Fee Related
  • 2000-09-28 CA CA002386786A patent/CA2386786A1/en not_active Abandoned
  • 2000-09-28 MX MXPA02003486A patent/MXPA02003486A/es active IP Right Grant

Non-Patent Citations (1)

Also Published As

Similar Documents

Legal Events