| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6308602 |
Apparatus for bite cutting made to order garments |
October 30, 2001 |
| An apparatus and method for cutting pattern pieces from a continuous marker are disclosed. According to the invention, pattern pieces comprising made to order garments are cut from successive bites of limp sheet material. Means are provided for creating the continuous marker, labeling th |
| 5875038 |
Facsimile queuing and transmission system |
February 23, 1999 |
| An apparatus for sequentially transmitting a plurality of multipage documents via a facsimile includes an optical scanner, an optical character recognition apparatus, and a feature recognizer apparatus. The present apparatus allows hands-free transmittal of several multipage document |
| 4879935 |
Reciprocating knife cutter with flexible drive portion |
November 14, 1989 |
| A cutter in which a reciprocating knife is driven by an eccentric mechanism. The knife has a drive portion that flexes laterally in a plane perpendicular to the drive axis of the eccentric mechanism. The eccentric drive axis is offset along the perpendicular plane away from the axis on |
| 4843574 |
Apparatus and method for determining a color for use in a fashion design |
June 27, 1989 |
| A computer aided design system includes a means for varying the color of a part of a design created on a visual display screen. A selected color for part of the design is then measured to provide a set of color describing values useful in later reproducing the selected color in an actual |
| 4841822 |
Cutter head and knife for cutting sheet material |
June 27, 1989 |
| A cutting head for cutting spread sheet material and using a vertically reciprocating knife achieves a light-weight, low cost, low maintenance and high stroking speed design through a unique combination and arrangement of parts wherein the knife drive motor is isolated from rotation with |
| 4801810 |
Elliptical reflector illumination system for inspection of printed wiring boards |
January 31, 1989 |
| An elliptical reflector illumination system for inspection of printed wiring boards including an elliptical reflector element for mounting above the board to be inspected with a region of the board generally at a first elliptical focus of the reflector element. There is a light source mo |
| 4768763 |
Sheet material cutting table |
September 6, 1988 |
| In a table for supporting sheet material, such as cloth, in a spread condition while it is cut by a cutter the main structural component of the table consists of a panel having an upwardly facing support surface and made up of upper and lower sheets bonded to a core including at least on |
| 4700598 |
Method for working on woven fabric wound on a supply roll |
October 20, 1987 |
| Programmable apparatus for cutting woven fabric wound on a supply roll includes a fabric spreader which pays-off fabric from the supply roll and onto a cutting table as the spreader moves relative to the table. A vibrating member carried by the fabric spreader and over which the paye |
| 4685363 |
Apparatus and method for supporting and working on sheet material |
August 11, 1987 |
| A bed for supporting sheet material to be cut or otherwise worked on is made of a densely packed array of relatively short, stiff bristles with pointed upper ends which penetrate the sheet material to inhibit it from moving laterally relative to the bed. Vacuum may be used in the space |
| 4675702 |
Photoplotter using a light valve device and process for exposing graphics |
June 23, 1987 |
| A photoplotter supports a sheet of photosensitive material for exposure by an associated light source. A light valve device interposed between the light source and the sheet has a main face parallel to the sheet divided into a plurality of subareas or pixels the light transmissivities of |
| 4667553 |
Notching tool with presser foot |
May 26, 1987 |
| A compact notching device comprises a single piston and cylinder assembly including a piston rod, a shaft axially and rotatably mounted within the piston rod, and means for longitudinally coupling the shaft to the piston rod such that when the piston rod reciprocates, the shaft reciproca |
| 4653373 |
Knife blade and method for making same |
March 31, 1987 |
| A knife blade for cutting sheet material has a cutting portion which includes two adjoining faces defining a cutting edge and comprises a relatively soft or high wear base material and a relatively hard or low wear coating. One of the faces is formed by the relatively hard coating an |
| 4653362 |
Cutting apparatus with heated blade for cutting thermoplastic fabrics and related method of cutt |
March 31, 1987 |
| An apparatus and method for automatically cutting piled or fleecy fabric sheets including thermoplastic fibers uses a heated cutting instrument to inhibit the generation of dust during the cutting process. The heated cutting instrument heats and melts at least some portion of at least so |
| 4643061 |
Rotary blade sheet material cutter with sharpener |
February 17, 1987 |
| A cutter for cutting fabric and similar sheet materials spread on a supporting surface includes a rotary cutting blade and an associated sharpening element in the form of a rotary sharpening disk or similar element. A simplified sharpening apparatus and procedure is obtained wherein |
| 4640222 |
Marking apparatus |
February 3, 1987 |
| An apparatus for annotating a workpiece with powder comprises a writing device which outputs a stream of powder and a mechanism such as an X-Y plotter for moving the device and the workpiece relative to one another to shape the annotation. One such writing device comprises a grinding whe |
| 4616543 |
Apparatus for working on woven fabric wound on a supply roll |
October 14, 1986 |
| Programmable apparatus for cutting woven fabric wound on a supply roll includes a fabric spreader which pays-off fabric from the supply roll and onto a cutting table as the spreader moves relative to the table. A vibrating member carried by the fabric spreader and over which the paye |
| 4587873 |
Apparatus with belt valve vacuum system for working on work material |
May 13, 1986 |
| An apparatus for working on a single layer or a layup of sheet material, or other work material, has a table for supporting the work material with a support surface selected areas of which may be vacuumized. The selective vacuumization of support surface areas is accomplished by a simple |
| 4583181 |
Fabric flaw related system |
April 15, 1986 |
| The disclosed system assists an operator in dealing with flaws encountered during the spreading of web material to be cut in accordance with a marker stored in a computer memory. Information representing the location of the flaw is processed by a computer in conjunction with the marker i |
| 4581965 |
Apparatus and related method for cutting and dedusting sheet material |
April 15, 1986 |
| An automatic cutting and dedusting apparatus for piled or fleecy worksheets comprises an automatic cutting apparatus, a means for applying an electric field to the worksheets to statically charge them, and a dedusting machine including means for agitating and moving air adjacent cut patt |
| 4563605 |
Damping device for rotary stepping motor |
January 7, 1986 |
| A vibration damper for a rotary stepping motor consists of an inertial mass connectible to the shaft of the motor through a viscous coupling comprising a standard rolling element bearing unit filled with a high viscosity material such as a silicone compound. |
| 4561127 |
Making of garment by single ply cutting followed by successive sewing stages |
December 31, 1985 |
| Single sheets of garment material are spread on work tables for cutting by a computer controlled cutter to provide all pattern pieces for assembly into a particular garment. The pieces are selectively picked up for transport in pairs to first stage sewing stations where they are joined t |
| 4558420 |
Computer generated mold for contoured garment piece formation |
December 10, 1985 |
| Three dimensional garment pieces are formed with a computer generated mold produced from pregathered numerical data describing the object or person to be clothed. |
| 4512839 |
Multi-color sign making method and layup |
April 23, 1985 |
| A method of making signs in multiple colors employs an automatically controlled sign making machine and a multi-ply layup of sign material in which the different plies have different colors. The sign making machine has a cutting tool that is moved in the cutting relationship with the |
| 4483472 |
Apparatus and method for indexing sheet material |
November 20, 1984 |
| An apparatus and associated method for indexing a strip of sheet material in fixed amounts along the support surface of a table enable an instrument supported from a carriage spanning the support surface to work on the material in precisely controlled segments and utilize one or two stop |
| 4453477 |
Thread consuming machine with thread coloring device and related process |
June 12, 1984 |
| A sewing machine, or similar machine which consumes thread at a work station, has combined with it a thread color device located between the work station and a thread supply. The color device causes the thread issuing from it to have any one of a number of available colors, allowing |
| 4418990 |
Eyeglasses and other lenses of variable focal length and means and method for varying such focal |
December 6, 1983 |
| An eyeglass apparatus having a variable focal length lens and an associated method for varying the focal length of the lens uses a lens having a focal length which is variable as pressure along the lens is varied. Focal length adjusting mechanisms carried by the eyeglass frames provide f |
| 4363539 |
Photohead with flashing beam |
December 14, 1982 |
| A photoplotter for use in exposing graphics or artworks on a photosensitive surface by directing a small beam of light onto the surface and moving it relative thereto has an output beam which is repetitively flashed as it is moved over the surface to expose a line. The flashing light bea |
| 4133111 |
Apparatus for detecting limits of travel |
January 9, 1979 |
| A motor driven plotter has a plotting head which is translated in two coordinate directions over the work surface of a plotting table. The plotting head is mounted on a first carriage which moves in one coordinate direction and a second carriage is mounted on the first for movement in |
