FOOTWEAR AND METHOD FOR KNITTING FOOTWEAR ARTICLES

    公开(公告)号:EP3564422A2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-06

    申请号:EP19172255.2

    申请日:2019-05-02

    申请人: Fabdesigns, Inc.

    IPC分类号: D04B1/22 D04B1/10 D04B7/30

    摘要: Footwear (50) and methods for manufacturing knitted footwear articles (50). An article of fully finished three-dimensionally weft knitted footwear (50) is manufactured through a knitting process which can be performed by an automated V-bed flat knitting machine. The knitting process includes manipulating one or more double-knit stitch types and joining the stitches exclusively in the knitting process to create a seamless upper (12) to fit a foot. A resulting upper (12) advantageously has no sewn seams and requires no manual post process to cut or sew the upper (12) to create the dimensional shape. The process creates a seamless, full gauge, dimensionally stable footwear upper (12), as a unitary textile construction with an integrated anatomically appropriate heel (2). The entire upper (12), including the closure element of the upper (12), may be completed exclusively by the knitting machine, ready for the following shoe making process.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UNSPOOLING A MATERIAL INTO A TEXTILE MACHINE

    公开(公告)号:EP3569750A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-20

    申请号:EP19174903.5

    申请日:2019-05-16

    申请人: Fabdesigns, Inc.

    IPC分类号: D04B15/50 D04B15/44 D04B27/12

    摘要: An automated unspooling mechanism capable of dispensing of knitting material strands in a dynamically-controlled tension on a knitting machine. An unspooling device is configured to sense the tension of a strand fed to the knitting machine, and responsively adjust the strand deployment speed to avoid too little or too much strand dispensing without interrupting the knitting process. The unspooling device includes a variable motor drive that can rotate the strand package in various speeds, and a spring arm trigger that can sense the current tension of the dispensed material. The spring arm trigger can vary its arm position based on the sensed tension. The arm position is then processed and converted to a signal to vary the motor speed. Therefore, the deployment speed of the strands can be dynamically controlled based on a sensed tension of feeding the strand.

    FOOTWEAR AND METHOD FOR KNITTING FOOTWEAR ARTICLES

    公开(公告)号:EP3564422A3

    公开(公告)日:2020-04-01

    申请号:EP19172255.2

    申请日:2019-05-02

    申请人: Fabdesigns, Inc.

    IPC分类号: D04B1/22 D04B1/10 D04B7/30

    摘要: Footwear (50) and methods for manufacturing knitted footwear articles (50). An article of fully finished three-dimensionally weft knitted footwear (50) is manufactured through a knitting process which can be performed by an automated V-bed flat knitting machine. The knitting process includes manipulating one or more double-knit stitch types and joining the stitches exclusively in the knitting process to create a seamless upper (12) to fit a foot. A resulting upper (12) advantageously has no sewn seams and requires no manual post process to cut or sew the upper (12) to create the dimensional shape. The process creates a seamless, full gauge, dimensionally stable footwear upper (12), as a unitary textile construction with an integrated anatomically appropriate heel (2). The entire upper (12), including the closure element of the upper (12), may be completed exclusively by the knitting machine, ready for the following shoe making process.

    METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A POLYMER REINFORCING PANEL AND A POLYMER REINFORCING PANEL

    公开(公告)号:EP3567147A2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-13

    申请号:EP19173641.2

    申请日:2019-05-09

    IPC分类号: D04B1/22

    摘要: A knitting method for knitting a polymer reinforcing panel structure to a shape as predefined for a final product. Stiff materials in the form of knitting yarns are knitted on a V-bed weft knitting machine to create a polymer reinforcing panel structure and any additional knitted textile elements with completely finished the edges. The resulting three-dimensional textile element is a unitary construction completed entirely by the knitting machine in the knitting process, and is ready for a subsequent polymer resin application and/or a molding process.

    KNITTING MACHINE, TEXTILE ARTICLE AND METHOD OF KNITTING A TEXTILE ARTICLE ON A FLAT KNITTING MACHINE

    公开(公告)号:EP3575462A3

    公开(公告)日:2020-04-22

    申请号:EP19175901.8

    申请日:2019-05-22

    申请人: Fabdesigns, Inc.

    IPC分类号: D04B1/12 D04B7/14

    摘要: Weft knit article and method of manufacturing a unitary construction of a weft knit article with one or more warp insert in an integrated knitting process by using a weft knitting machine. The unitary construction comprises one or more yarn materials, which are incorporated into one or more weft and warp stitch structures. The knitting machine is equipped with a warp feeder assembly, including a weft knit warp feeder (40), a warp knitting guide needle block (41) operable to hold a plurality of warp strands, a strand guide bar (35) configured to guide the plurality of warp strands to the weft knit warp feeder (40), and a cam box (12). The cam box (12) includes at least a weft stitch cam, a weft guard cam, a warp stitch cam, and a warp guard cam.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KNITTING A POLYMER REINFORCING FIBER FOOTWEAR UPPER

    公开(公告)号:EP3567146A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-13

    申请号:EP19173335.1

    申请日:2019-05-08

    申请人: Fabdesigns, Inc.

    摘要: Systems and methods for manufacturing knitted shoe uppers. An article of fully finished three-dimensionally weft knitted footwear is manufactured through a knitting process which can be performed by an automated V-bed flat knitting machine. The knitting process includes manipulating one or more double-knit stitch types and joining the stitches exclusively in the knitting process to create a seamless upper to fit a foot. The process creates a seamless, full gauge, dimensionally stable footwear upper, as a unitary textile construction with an integrated anatomically appropriate heel. The entire upper, including the closure element of the upper, may be completed exclusively by the knitting machine, ready for the following shoe making process. The knitting process includes knitting one or more reinforcement knitting yarns into one or more portions of the upper. These portions are then transformed into fiber-reinforced polymer composite fabric sections of the upper in a post process.