EP1671556A1 - Method of decorating a textile article - Google Patents

Abstract

The method involves providing a textile article (10) before being decorated based on a logo (1). The article is constituted of a material (11) with an outer side (12) and an inner side (13). A cut (14) is made on the article along contour of the logo. A base (20) to cover the cut is made. The base is adhered on the inner side (13) using an adhesive film. Thermoplastic material of the film is crept inside holes of the cut. An independent claim is also included for a textile type article.

Description

The present invention relates to a method of decorating a textile article and a textile article decorated using this method.

It is known to decorate textile articles and in particular clothing or other clothing items with tags or patterns larger or smaller, stitched or glued on said articles.

These labels or designs may have different designs, the trade name or logo representative of the company that manufactures and / or markets the product in question. Depending on the size of the pattern, the addition of a label may stiffen the garment at the location of said pattern.

It is also known to make decorations by applying embroidery made directly on the article. These embroidery can also stiffen the garment according to their size.

US 5,914,176 discloses a decoration label having a three-dimensional appearance by the application of different layers of ink and which is sewn onto the garment.

JP 8060417 discloses a decorative method in which the fabric of the article is cut into a particular letter pattern, and wherein an airy fabric is sewn into said cutouts to form a decorative pattern to ensure the passage of air even through the decorative pattern. Such a method is not suitable for a waterproof garment construction.

US 5,347,658 teaches to make in a jersey type garment slits having different orientations and behind which is sewn a decorative pattern whose appearance may change depending on the different orientations taken by the slots when the fabric constituting the garment is stretched . Like the previous, this method is not suitable for the decoration of an article of clothing or waterproof clothing.

In the known methods, the decorative pattern is and / or generally defines an excess thickness that may be detrimental to the longevity of the decor, the thickened portions may be hung and cause tearing said decor.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a novel method of decorating a textile type article.

An object of the present invention is in particular to provide a decoration method which preserves the sealing qualities of a garment and does not involve sewing operations.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a decoration method respecting the flexibility of the material and allowing a solid marking.

• fournir un premier article textile devant être décoré selon un motif déterminé, cet article étant en un premier matériau ayant une face externe et une face interne,
• réaliser sur ledit premier article une découpe selon le contour du motif déterminé,
• réaliser un fond ayant un contour légèrement supérieur à la découpe du motif déterminé,
• appliquer par collage le fond sur la face interne de l'article textile.

This or these objects are achieved in the decoration method according to the invention in that it comprises the steps of:

• supplying a first textile article to be decorated according to a given pattern, this article being made of a first material having an outer face and an inner face,
• producing on said first article a cutout according to the outline of the determined pattern,
• make a bottom having an outline slightly greater than the cut of the determined pattern,
• apply by gluing the bottom on the inner face of the textile article.

Such a decoration method is compatible with a waterproof garment construction since the cut is covered by a bottom and the latter is assembled by gluing to the material of said garment.

On the basis of the same pattern cut, it allows many decorative effects, simply by varying the material and / or the color of the background.

It offers for example all possibilities to play with the optical effects (transparency, translucence, luminescence, trompe l'oeil, reflective, ...) depending on the chosen background.

Finally, it does not stiffen the garment in the area of the pattern since the material constituting the bottom does not add extra thickness at the cut and therefore respects the flexibility of the material.

• la figure 1 est une vue en perspective éclatée illustrant la réalisation d'une ébauche selon le premier aspect de l'invention,
• la figure 2 est une vue en perspective illustrant la découpe d'un fond,
• la figure 3 est une vue en perspective illustrant la découpe du tissu selon un motif déterminé,
• la figure 4 est une vue en perspective éclatée illustrant l'étape d'application du fond,
• la figure 5 est une vue en perspective d'un article de type textile décoré selon le procédé selon l'invention,
• la figure 6 est une vue en coupe selon VI VI de la figure 5,
• la figure 7 est une vue similaire à la figure 6 illustrant un autre mode de réalisation,
• la figure 8 est une vue similaire à la figure 5 illustrant la découpe du tissu selon un autre motif déterminé ; et
• les figures 9 et 10 sont deux vues en perspective éclatée illustrant deux autres modes de réalisation de l'invention.

In any case the invention will be better understood and other characteristics thereof will be highlighted with the aid of the description which follows with reference to the appended schematic drawing in which:

• FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view illustrating the production of a blank according to the first aspect of the invention,
• FIG. 2 is a perspective view illustrating the cutting of a bottom,
• FIG. 3 is a perspective view illustrating the cutting of the fabric in a given pattern,
• FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view illustrating the step of applying the bottom,
• FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a textile-type article decorated according to the method according to the invention,
• FIG. 6 is a sectional view along VI VI of FIG. 5,
• FIG. 7 is a view similar to FIG. 6 illustrating another embodiment,
• Figure 8 is a view similar to Figure 5 illustrating the cutting of the fabric according to another specific pattern; and
• Figures 9 and 10 are two exploded perspective views illustrating two other embodiments of the invention.

Figures 1 to 5 illustrate the application of the decoration method according to the invention to the realization of a logo 1 on a textile article 10 of which only a portion bearing the logo is shown.

Of course, the decoration method according to the invention can be applied to any other textile article. In the remainder of the description it is considered that the terms textile article, clothing, article of clothing are equivalent.

By article of textile type is meant more broadly related articles such as backpacks, shoes, etc., comprising flexible materials based on woven fibers or not (textiles), but also those comprising flexible materials of film type (PVC, PU) or leather type.

As the figures show, the garment or textile article 10 consists of a first material 11 having an outer face 12 and an inner face 13.

This material 11 can be any type of textile material. According to an exemplary embodiment, it is a waterproof material, such as coated textile, multilayer laminated textile or a material of a type known under the trade name "three-ply Gore-Tex®", namely a laminated material of 3 layers whose intermediate layer is constituted by a membrane "respiro-tight" that is to say, waterproof but permeable to water vapor laminated between two other outer and inner layers. It may also be a knitted material, woven, with or without a waterproof, monolayer or multilayer (for example laminated) membrane. As seen above, it can be a flexible film type material or leather type.

FIG. 5 shows the desired result, namely the realization of the marking in this case a logo or drawing 1 on the textile article 10.

As shown in FIG. 3 in a step of the method according to the invention, a cutout 14 corresponding to the pattern, in this case a logo 1 that one wishes to obtain on the subject, is produced on the garment 10 at the desired location. clothing.

The cutout 14 therefore exactly follows the contour of the pattern 1 in this case consisting of two holes 17 in the form of a half portion of ellipses nested one inside the other, and is performed over the entire thickness of the material 11 constituting the garment, for example by laser cutting, die cutting, etc. The tool and / or the cutting method are adapted to the material 11 so that the edges of the cutout 14 remain sharp and do not fray.

In parallel or beforehand, in another step of the method, funds 20 are made to cover the blank 14.

First of all, blanks 21 are formed in which each bottom 20 will be cut.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the method shown in Figures 1 and 2, the blanks 21 are constituted by a layer of contrast material 24, bonded between two thermoplastic adhesive films respectively lower 23 and upper 22. In the example shown film lower glue 23 is doubled, that is to say made of two layers of film, it could also consist of a single layer of film or a film of greater thickness than that of layer 22. Similarly depending on the chosen contrast material 24 and / or if the sealing function is not necessary there could be only a single layer of adhesive between the contrast material 24 and the inner face 13 of the textile article .

The thermoplastic adhesive films 22, 23 may be polyurethane, polyamide, polyester, polyolefin or polyvinyl chloride films.

The bonding temperature depends on the nature of the thermoplastic film used.

By way of example, for a polyurethane, the bonding temperature varies between 100 and 175 ° C. For a polyamide, the bonding temperature will be between 140 ° C and 200 ° C. For a polyester the bonding temperature will be between 130 and 220 ° C. For a polyolefin the bonding temperature will be between 80 and 150 ° C and for a polyvinyl chloride the bonding temperature will be between 80 ° C and 144 ° C.

Such films are sold by Bemis, West Bridford Machine and Ardmel.

The bonding film used will therefore also be chosen as a function of the material 11 constituting the garment, the latter having to withstand the bonding temperatures.

In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, each bonding film 22, 23 is constituted by a Bemis film ref-3405 6mil. As the case may be, this film may be of a different and / or thicker material.

Bonding of the layer of contrast material 24 between the two thermoplastic adhesive films 22, 23 is effected, in a manner known per se, with the aid of a heating press at the temperature of bonding of the films 22, 23 used.

In the embodiment of Figures 1 to 6, the contrast material 24 is a mesh material or mesh (mesh) metallized appearance.

Of course any other material could be used (fabrics, nonwoven, film, leather, etc ...), this contrast material could even be deleted as will be seen later with reference to Figure 7.

The use of a mesh material 24 makes it possible to have a transparency effect, the use of a metallized material or having a metallized appearance makes it possible to obtain a metallized decorative effect.

The contrast material 24 could also be chosen in a similar or different color, or even radically different from that of the material 11 so as to provide a radical contrast. It may be the same material as that of the textile article. It can be chosen to give particular optical effects (transparency, translucency, luminescence, trompe l'oeil, reflective, etc.).

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, each bottom 20 is then produced by cutting by means of a suitable tool, for example by punch, in a blank 21.

The contour 25 of each bottom corresponds to the outer contour of the blank 14 but with slightly larger dimensions (see Figure 4).

In an exemplary embodiment, the contour 25 of each bottom 20 corresponds to a contour of the cut-out 14 increased by 3 mm, that is to say that the bottom 20 overflows by a value d of 3 mm with respect to said contour (cf. : d on figure 4).

The final operation of the decoration process according to the invention consists in applying and adhering the bottom 20 against the internal face 13 of the garment at the location of the cutout 14.

It is the underside 23 of the bottom 20, which comprises several films of thermoplastic glue, or a more or less thick glue film as the case, which is applied against the inner face 13 of the garment.

During the gluing operation, at a temperature and pressure selected according to the adhesive film and the material 11, the thermoplastic material of the film 23 of the bottom 20 softens and flows inside the cutout 14 to fill the holes 17, as shown in Figure 7.

Thus, and despite the cutting of the material 11 of the garment, a smooth external appearance is obtained, that is to say that the glue comes roughly edge to edge with the edges of the cutout 14 and avoids any risk of fraying the material 11, or delamination when it is multilayer, which is particularly important in this case.

Of course, the degree of creep of the adhesive inside the cutout 14 can be chosen according to the fabric 11 and the desired effect, this creep can be total or only partial. Depending on the degree of glue creep desired we can choose the glue film of the lower layer thicker or consisting of two or more layers of film of the same thickness.

Moreover, as shown particularly in FIG. 7, practically all of the thermoplastic material of the bottom 20 flows inside the hole or holes in the blank 14 and thus a decorative pattern is obtained which stiffens only very little or no all the material 11 constituting the garment.

Furthermore, the marking is essentially performed by the inside of the garment, it is very strong and can not be torn off or taken off. As the bottom is applied by gluing, the tightness of the garment is guaranteed, if it is a waterproof material 11. Even if the garment is not waterproof, the use of gluing for the application of the bottom is nevertheless interesting because this process allows to obtain a beautiful aesthetic effect very sober and stripped, without visible seams.

Moreover, as previously described, the edges of the cut are reinforced by the creep of the glue inside the cut.

The contrast material 24 used can be used in a very thin layer because of the use of the adhesive films 22, 23.

This contrast material 24 could also be suppressed, and in this case (or more depending on the desired thickness), a single film of glue 23 is used for the realization of the lower layer of the bottom 20. This gives a transparent or translucent effect depending on the thickness of the glue film.

This production method is particularly suitable for producing plain or two-tone patterns with fairly simple contours, such as name or logo markings, but it can of course be used for the realization of any other type of decor.

In the case where the cutout 14 requires the production of annular-type shapes, for example the production of an O as shown in FIG. 8, hooking tabs 27 will be produced, that is to say that the O will not be completely cut out.

In the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 9, there is found the first material 11 comprising an outer face 12 and an inner face 13, as well as a cutout 14. The first material 11 is for example a fabric whose outer face 12 has has undergone a water repellent treatment which makes it hydrophobic, and whose inner face 13 is coated with a sealing coating, for example based on polyurethane.

To close the cutout 14, a bottom 20 is provided which has a contrast layer 24. In this example, the contrast layer is a fabric which is not treated for water repellency, and which has no coating. Therefore, it can easily be decorated by a sublimation technique on its outer face 28 which is intended to be visible through the cutout 14. According to the invention, the contrast layer is intended to be assembled to the face internal part 13 of the first material 11 by a first bonding film 23. In this example, this first bonding film 23 has a cutout 30 which corresponds exactly to the cutout 14, so, after assembly, this first glue film 23 does not come not cover the part of the contrast layer 24 which is visible through the cutout 14. It may however be provided that the cut 30 of the glue film 23 is slightly smaller than that of the cutout 14 of the first material 11, this so that the adhesive film 13 comes to cover and "encapsulate" the edges of the cutout 14, thus avoiding any risk of fraying of these edges, and limiting the risk of delamination between the adhesive film 23, the layer contrast medium 24 and the first material 11.

To seal the assembly, it is intended to cover the inner face of the contrast layer with a second adhesive film 22.

Preferably, both the first and the second glue film are larger than the contrast material layer 24 so that the edges of this contrast layer are covered and encapsulated between these two glue films.

Finally, it can be provided that the second adhesive film 22 is in turn covered, on its inner face, by an inner protective layer 26, for example fabric. Of course, the inner protective layer 26 is adhered by the adhesive film 22.

The construction of this assembly can be organized in different ways and can either be separated into different steps, or performed in a single operation after stacking each of the components.

This construction makes it possible to decorate the external face 28 of the contrast layer 24 by a sublimation technique which makes it possible very easily to obtain a very large variety of patterns and decorative effects. Furthermore, by providing that the first adhesive film 23 has a cutout 30 at least as large as the cutout 14, it prevents the glue is visible from outside the article.

FIG. 10 illustrates a variant of the previous embodiment in which the first material 11 is identical to the previous one, as is the first glue film 23 which also has a cutout similar to that of the cutout 14. On the other hand, the layer 24 is in this variant a fabric which is covered with a waterproof coating on its face internal. Therefore, it is no longer necessary to use a second glue film to seal. The presence of the coating on the inner face of the fabric can prevent the use of a sublimation technique to decorate the outer face 28 of the contrast layer, but nothing prevents that it is decorated by a printing technique classic. This embodiment is therefore particularly simple and inexpensive to implement

Of course, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described here by way of nonlimiting examples, but encompasses all similar or equivalent embodiments.

It is not limited in particular to an application to textile articles or clothing (including gloves) but can also be used for marking any other textile-type product that is to say of flexible material, such as bag , backpack, footwear, etc.

Since this method provides a decorative effect without seams, it is particularly suitable and advantageous in the context of the manufacture of waterproof articles or at least moisture resistant.

Claims (19)

A method of decorating a textile article comprising the steps of: - providing a first article of the textile type (10) to be decorated in a given pattern, this article (10) being made of a first material (11) having an outer face (12) and an inner face (13), performing on said first article a cutout (14) according to the contour of the determined pattern (1), - Make a bottom (20) having a contour (25) slightly greater than the cutout (14) of the determined pattern (1), - Apply by gluing the bottom (20) on the inner face (13) of the textile article. Decorating method according to claim 1, characterized in that it comprises a step of producing a blank (21) of the base (20) by assembling a layer of a second material (24) with a layer ( 22, 23) of a thermoplastic material bonding film. Decorating process according to claim 1, characterized in that the base (20) consists of a bonding film (23). A method of decoration according to claim 2, characterized in that the second material (24) is a material similar to the first material (11). Decorating process according to claim 2, characterized in that the second material (24) is different from the first material (11). A method of decoration according to any one of claims 2 or 5, characterized in that the second material (24) is of a contrasting color relative to the first material (11). Decoration process according to any one of claims 2, 5 or 6, characterized in that the second material (24) is a mesh type material. Decorating process according to claim 7, characterized in that the second material (24) is a metal mesh type material. Decoration process according to any one of claims 2, 5 or 6, characterized in that the second material (24) is a textile-type material. Decorating method according to any one of claims 5 to 9, characterized in that the blank (21) of the bottom comprises a layer of second material (24) interposed covered on both sides by at least one layer of film glue (22, 23). Article of textile type, characterized in that it comprises a decorative pattern defined by: - A cutout (14) according to the decorative pattern made of a first material (11) of the article having an inner face and an outer face. - This cutout (14) being highlighted by a bottom (20) reported by bonding on the inner face of the first material. Textile article according to claim 11, characterized in that the bottom (20) has a second material similar to the first material (11) of the article. Textile article according to claim 11, characterized in that the bottom comprises a second material different from the first material (11) of the article. Textile article according to one of claims 11 to 13, characterized in that the base (20) comprises a mesh material (24). Textile article according to one of Claims 11 to 13, characterized in that the base (20) comprises a textile material. Textile article according to one of claims 11 to 13, characterized in that the bottom (20) comprises leather. Textile article according to one of Claims 10 to 16, characterized in that the base (20) is joined to the article by at least one adhesive film (22, 23). Textile article according to claim 17, characterized in that the adhesive film (22, 23) has a cutout (30). Textile article according to claim 17, characterized in that the adhesive film (22, 23) at least partially fills the volume of the cut (14) of the first material.

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