EP3491951B1 - Procédé pour la fixation de chaînes à caractères alphanumériques ou symboles sur des tissus - Google Patents

Procédé pour la fixation de chaînes à caractères alphanumériques ou symboles sur des tissus Download PDF

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EP3491951B1
EP3491951B1 EP18208483.0A EP18208483A EP3491951B1 EP 3491951 B1 EP3491951 B1 EP 3491951B1 EP 18208483 A EP18208483 A EP 18208483A EP 3491951 B1 EP3491951 B1 EP 3491951B1
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Franco Ennio
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41—WEARING APPAREL
    • A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
    • A41D27/00—Details of garments or of their making
    • A41D27/08—Trimmings; Ornaments
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F7/00—Signs, name or number plates, letters, numerals, or symbols; Panels or boards
    • G09F7/02—Signs, plates, panels or boards using readily-detachable elements bearing or forming symbols
    • G09F7/06—Signs, plates, panels or boards using readily-detachable elements bearing or forming symbols the elements being secured or adapted to be secured by means of pins and holes
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F21/00—Mobile visual advertising
    • G09F21/02—Mobile visual advertising by a carrier person or animal
    • G09F21/023—Mobile visual advertising by a carrier person or animal fixed on clothing

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  • the present invention relates to a method for affixing strings of alphanumeric characters, symbols or the like to fabrics and the like, and the corresponding string.
  • alphanumeric codes typically consist of a set of letters, numerals and symbols which are made, according to requirements, of metal or of plastic material and which can be affixed to the fabric according to many and varied conventional methods.
  • these conventional methods can comprise the affixing of the entire string to the fabric in a single operation by way of conventional techniques such as, for example, punching or riveting.
  • this method of affixing has the drawback of locally nullifying the elasticity and flexibility of the fabric where the string has been affixed, since the string is a rigid element or in any case is less flexible than the fabric on which it is applied.
  • An alternative to this method for affixing can, for example, consist of sewing or in any case affixing one character at a time, if the string is not in a single piece, so as to render the characters mutually independent.
  • the fabric keeps its elasticity and its flexibility substantially unaltered.
  • Both the string of characters and the string of corresponding supporting elements are held in position by positioning means which are constituted by a pair of longitudinal bars that are arranged facing each other and between which the characters (or the supporting elements) are arranged.
  • the characters are then connected to the bars by way of feet or tabs which, once the string of characters has been affixed, will be broken so as to separate the string of characters or of supporting elements from the respective bars.
  • the supporting structure in order to prevent the characters from escaping, is assisted by retaining means, which make it possible to retain the characters inserted in such supporting structure.
  • Another conventional solution entails the use of a supporting structure adapted to arrange the characters at their legs or pins, with the pins of the characters protruding from the opposite face of the supporting structure and retained by retaining means, which therefore make it possible to handle the supporting structure with the characters arranged in it without these characters escaping from the supporting structure.
  • the aim of the present invention is to eliminate the above mentioned drawbacks by providing a method for affixing strings of alphanumeric characters, symbols or the like to fabrics and the like, which allows the characters that define the string to be affixed in a single operation, even though they remain separate from and independent of each other, without thus altering the elastic characteristics of the fabric, and which at the same time makes it possible to avoid the presence of means for retaining the alphanumeric characters, symbols or the like.
  • an object of the present invention is to provide a method that avails of equipment and machines that are typical of the sector.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for affixing strings of characters that enables an optimal alignment of the affixed characters.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for affixing that is highly reliable, easily and practically implemented and at low cost.
  • the method according to the present invention firstly entails providing a supporting element, generally designated by the reference numeral 1, which is better illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 .
  • the supporting element 1 is constituted by a frame 2 which is provided with a plurality of through holes 3 in which alphanumeric characters, symbols or the like, designated by the reference numeral 4, are arranged.
  • the alphanumeric characters, symbols or the like are arranged in the holes 3 by way of a pin 5 thereof that protrudes from the side opposite the face of the character that needs to be visible once the characters are applied to a fabric or the like.
  • the supporting element 1 supports the characters 4 which protrude completely from the upper face of the supporting element, and in particular from the frame 2, with the pins 5 of the characters being arranged in the holes 3 of the frame 2.
  • the frame 2 has, at least each one of two edges thereof, at diagonally opposite corners, a stacking pin 6 that makes it possible to mutually couple a supporting element to a similar supporting element 1.
  • the frame 2 is in fact provided, in a lower region, at the face opposite to the face from which the alphanumeric characters 4 protrude, with protrusions 8 for engaging stacking pins 6 of an underlying supporting element 1.
  • the protrusions 8 are internally hollow in order to arrange the pins 6 and they are diagonally opposite.
  • the supporting elements 1 can be mutually stacked as shown in Figure 1 and in Figure 2 .
  • Figure 2 shows the detail in cross-section of a supporting element 1 and it can be seen that the supporting element 1 has, at its face arranged opposite to the face from which the alphanumeric characters 4 protrude, a recessed portion that, when a supporting element 1 is stacked on the underlying supporting element 1, allows the uppermost supporting element 1 to lean against the alphanumeric characters 4 of the underlying supporting element 1 or in any case substantially to approach them very closely, so as to prevent such characters 4 from protruding from the holes 3 if the two mutually coupled and stacked supporting elements 1 were to be handled by the user.
  • the supporting elements 1 do not require any retaining element adapted to retain the alphanumeric characters 4 in their seat, if the supporting element 1 is to be moved, even overturned, by a user.
  • Supporting elements 1 are therefore loaded in advance with the alphanumeric characters 4 and the supporting element 1 is then positioned at the upper punch 11 which has special seats 13 that are adapted to arrange the alphanumeric characters 4.
  • suction means 14 are provided which create a suction in the upper punch 11, which makes it possible to retain the characters 4 in the seats 13 of the upper punch 11, therefore disengaging them from the supporting element 1 in which the characters are arranged by way of their pins 5.
  • Figure 5 a fabric or the like, 16 is inserted between the lower punch 12 and the upper punch 11 and the press 10 is then closed, as shown in Figure 6 , in order to obtain, after reopening the press, a situation as shown in Figure 7 , where the alphanumeric characters 4 have been applied to the fabric or the like 16.
  • the lower punch 12 is in this case provided with an overturnable portion 12a, which is provided with seats for the alphanumeric characters 4.
  • the alphanumeric characters 4, again loaded on the supporting element 1, are positioned manually in the seats of the portion 12a, again using the supporting element 1.
  • the suction means 14 suck the characters in order to keep them firmly in the seats of the portion 12a and at this point the supporting element 1 can be removed and the portion 12a of the lower punch 12 can be closed, by overturning it, on the base portion 12b of the lower punch.
  • the characters are, as shown in Figure 9 , arranged in the lower punch 12 with the pins 5 protruding upward.
  • the strike plate is evidently arranged in the upper punch 11 and the press is closed after the interposition, between the two punches, of a fabric 16, in order to transfer the alphanumeric characters 4 to the fabric 16.
  • the difference from the previous embodiment consists in that it does not have suction means 14 but simply a manual positioning of the characters, by way of the same supporting element 1, at the overturnable mobile portion 12a of the lower punch 12.
  • the supporting element 1 is not removed until the portion 12a is overturned onto the portion 12b, closing it.
  • the supporting element 1 can be taken away so as to maintain the characters in the same condition shown in Figure 9 .
  • the method and the supporting element according to the invention fully achieve the set aim and objects, in that the supporting element that supports the alphanumeric characters does not require any retaining element or locking means in order to retain the alphanumeric characters in the seats defined in the supporting element. This allows to simplify the operation of loading the supporting element into the press and of providing the supporting element proper.
  • the materials used, as well as the contingent shapes and dimensions may be any according to the requirements and to the state of the art.

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  1. Procédé pour fixer des chaînes de caractères alphanumériques ou de symboles à des tissus, comportant les étapes consistant à :
    - fournir un élément de support (1) comportant un châssis (2) pourvu d'une pluralité de trous (3) pour agencer des broches (5) de caractères alphanumériques ou de symboles (4), au moins une paire de pions d'empilement (6) qui sont agencés à des coins mutuellement opposés dudit châssis (2) étant prévues pour l'empilement d'éléments de support (1) similaires, ledit châssis (2) étant muni, dans une zone inférieure, de saillies (8) pour agencer lesdits pions d'empilement (6), lesdites saillies (8) étant agencées à des coins diagonalement opposés dudit châssis (2)
    - monter les caractères alphanumériques ou les symboles (4) sur ledit élément de support (1) qui est adapté pour permettre d'agencer des broches (5) desdits caractères alphanumériques ou symboles dans des trous (3) dudit élément de support (1), de sorte que la partie de caractère desdits caractères alphanumériques ou symboles fait saillie à partir dudit élément de support (1),
    - charger ledit élément de support (1), avec lesdits caractères alphanumériques ou symboles (4) fixés à celui-ci, sur un poinçon (11, 12) d'une presse (10),
    - monter une plaque de frappe (15) pour lesdits caractères alphanumériques ou symboles (4) sur un contre-poinçon (12, 11),
    - retirer ledit élément de support (1) de manière à laisser lesdits caractères alphanumériques ou symboles (4) agencés dans ledit poinçon (11, 12),
    - intercaler une couche de tissu (16) entre lesdits deux poinçons (11, 12) et réaliser une étape de pression, et
    - ouvrir la presse (10) et extraire le tissu (16) avec les caractères alphanumériques ou symboles (4) fixés à celui-ci, ladite étape de chargement desdits caractères alphanumériques ou symboles (4) dans ledit poinçon (11, 12) comporte le chargement desdits caractères alphanumériques ou symboles (4), montés sur ledit élément de support (1), sur un poinçon inférieur (12), ladite étape de chargement desdits caractères alphanumériques ou symboles (4) dans ledit poinçon inférieur (12) comportant le chargement desdits caractères alphanumériques ou symboles (4) dans une partie mobile pouvant être retournée (12) dudit poinçon inférieur (12), ladite plaque de frappe (15) étant montée sur un poinçon supérieur (11).
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ladite étape de chargement desdits caractères alphanumériques ou symboles (4) sur le poinçon inférieur (12) comporte l'utilisation de moyens d'aspiration (14) qui sont agencés sur le poinçon inférieur (12), afin de maintenir lesdits caractères agencés dans des logements définis dans ledit poinçon inférieur (12).
  3. Procédé selon une ou plusieurs des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que lesdits caractères alphanumériques ou symboles (4) sont agencés dans ledit poinçon inférieur (12) avec leurs broches (5) faisant saillie vers le haut.
  4. Élément de support (1) pour monter des caractères alphanumériques ou symboles (4) sur un tissu, l'élément de support comportant un châssis (2), dans lequel ledit châssis (2) est pourvu d'une pluralité de trous (3) pour agencer des broches (5) desdits caractères alphanumériques ou symboles (4), caractérisé en ce que ledit châssis (2) est pourvu d'au moins une paire de pions d'empilement (6) qui sont agencés à des coins mutuellement opposés dudit châssis (2) permettant l'empilement d'éléments de support (1) similaires, ledit châssis (2) étant muni, dans une zone inférieure, de saillies (8) pour agencer lesdits pions d'empilement (6), lesdites saillies (8) étant agencées à des coins diagonalement opposés dudit châssis (2).
  5. Élément de support selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que lesdits éléments de support (1) peuvent être empilés les uns sur les autres, chaque élément de support (1) étant pourvu d'une partie centrale évidée (20) adaptée pour faire contact avec les caractères alphanumériques ou symboles (4), ou pour se rapprocher sensiblement de ceux-ci, qui sont montés sur un élément de support (1) sous-jacent, afin d'empêcher lesdits caractères alphanumériques ou symboles (4) de pouvoir s'échapper des trous (3) dudit élément de support (1) sous-jacent.
  6. Élément de support selon la revendication 4 ou 5, caractérisé en ce qu'il est configuré pour être empilé sur d'autres éléments de support (1) identiques afin de permettre le transport d'une pluralité correspondante de caractères alphanumériques ou symboles (4), en empêchant lesdits caractères alphanumériques ou symboles de pouvoir s'échapper de chaque élément de support (1), lesdites parties évidées (20) de chaque élément de support (1) agissant comme des moyens pour retenir des caractères alphanumériques ou des symboles d'un élément de support (1) sous-jacent.
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