Quilting material handling and feeding method and apparatus
    11.
    发明授权
    Quilting material handling and feeding method and apparatus 失效
    绗缝材料处理和送料方法及装置

    公开(公告)号:US5603270A

    公开(公告)日:1997-02-18

    申请号:US441607

    申请日:1995-05-15

    IPC分类号: D05B11/00 D05B35/04 D06H5/00

    摘要: A quilting method and apparatus in which ticking or facing material changes are effected, preferably under the control of a programmed computer or controller, by automatically retrieving, and preferably also splicing onto a web, selected materials from a facing material supply. The controller preferably also controls a quilter in the stitching of selected patterns along a web, and coordinates the positions of the patterns and material splices between the patterns, in response to measurements and calculations of dimensional changes between infeed webs, quilted tensioned web and cut untensioned panels. Storage compartments are provided for a variety of facing materials, preferably rolls thereof. A retrieval mechanism moves webs selected by the programmed controller to a feed position adjacent the quilter. Preferably, the storage compartments are moveable and suspended from an endless conveyor, and the retrieval mechanism also includes a two holder transfer arm that can exchange webs between the conveyor and a quilter feed position. In a fully automated embodiment, the transfer arm includes V-shaped troughs formed of moveable belts that unwind and rewind the ticking supply rolls.

    摘要翻译: 优选地在编程的计算机或控制器的控制下,通过自动地从面对的材料供给中自动地检索并且优选地将所述材料拼接到卷材上,进行滴答或面对材料变化的绗缝方法和装置。 控制器还优选地控制沿着幅材缝合所选择的图案的绗缝机,并且响应于进料幅材,绗缝张紧卷材和未剪切切割之间的尺寸变化的测量和计算来协调图案之间的图案和材料接合位置 面板。 为各种面向材料,优选其辊提供储存隔室。 检索机构将由编程的控制器选择的纸幅移动到与绗缝机相邻的进给位置。 优选地,存储隔间可从环形输送机移动和悬挂,并且回收机构还包括两个保持器传送臂,其能够在输送机和绗缝器进给位置之间交换腹板。 在完全自动化的实施例中,传送臂包括由可移动的皮带形成的V形槽,该皮带能够卷绕和倒带滴答提供辊。

    Composite pattern multiple needle quilting method and apparatus
    12.
    发明授权
    Composite pattern multiple needle quilting method and apparatus 有权
    复合图案多针绗缝方法及装置

    公开(公告)号:US6026756A

    公开(公告)日:2000-02-22

    申请号:US259483

    申请日:1999-02-26

    IPC分类号: D05B11/00 D05B19/10

    CPC分类号: D05B11/00 D05B19/10

    摘要: A method of quilting patterns is provided in which pattern files are generated containing quilting machine control data for use by a controller of a quilting machine to produce different quilted patterns. Product information is generated that identifies pluralities of patterns. In response to the product information, the quilting machine controller sequentially reads the pattern files for each of the patterns of the identified plurality and sequentially quilts the plurality of patterns in the form of sub-patterns on the same panel of multi-layered material to form a combination pattern. A multi-needle quilting apparatus is provided with a controller programmed to carry out the method as part of a quilting system in which pattern and product databases are generated and linked for the production of a variety of individual and combination patterns.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种绗缝图案的方法,其中生成包含绗缝机控制数据的图案文件,供绗缝机的控制器使用以产生不同的绗缝图案。 产生识别多个模式的产品信息。 响应于产品信息,绗缝机控制器顺序地读取所识别的多个图案中的每个图案的图案文件,并且以相同的多层材料面板上的子图案形式顺序地将多个图案形式 组合模式。 多针绗缝装置设置有控制器,其被编程为执行该方法作为绗缝系统的一部分,其中生成图案和产品数据库并链接以生产各种单独和组合模式。

    Method and apparatus for facilitating loop take time adjustment in
multi-needle quilting machine
    13.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for facilitating loop take time adjustment in multi-needle quilting machine 失效
    用于多针绗缝机中的循环花费时间调整的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US5505150A

    公开(公告)日:1996-04-09

    申请号:US259505

    申请日:1994-06-14

    摘要: A multiple needle double lock chain stitch quilting machine is provided with an adjustment or calibrating system by which the positions of loopers relative to the corresponding needles of each of a plurality of sets of stitching elements of a ganged array are capable of being precisely set. A control actuator is provided by which an operator, after observing the quality of the product and stopping the machine, actuates an adjustment control system. In response to the a signal from the actuator, a motor precisely advances the stitching mechanism. A sensor monitors the stitching mechanism position, for example, by reading indicia on the needle drive shaft, and generates a position signal when the stitching mechanism precisely in the loop-take-time position of its cycle. A controller stops the motor and activates a brake in response to the position signal locking the mechanism, including the needles and loopers, in the loop-take-time position. Simultaneously, the controller disables the stitching capability of the machine and releases service door locks to allow looper and needle adjustment, which the operator may perform. When the adjustment is complete and the doors are closed, a further operation of the actuator causes the controller to lock the service access doors and enable the machine to resume stitching.

    摘要翻译: 多针双锁链式绗缝机设有调节或校准系统,通过该调节或校准系统,可以精确地设置组合器相对于组合阵列的多组拼接元件中的每一组的相应针的位置。 提供了一种控制致动器,通过该控制致动器,操作者在观察产品的质量并停止机器之后致动调节控制系统。 响应于来自致动器的信号,马达精确地前进缝合机构。 传感器例如通过读取针驱动轴上的标记来监视缝合机构位置,并且当缝合机构精确地处于其循环的循环取出时位置时产生位置信号。 控制器停止电动机并响应于位置信号锁定包括针和环路的机构在环路取出位置的位置信号。 同时,控制器禁止机器的缝合能力,并释放维修门锁,以便操作者可以执行弯针和针头调整。 当调整完成并且门关闭时,执行器的进一步操作使得控制器锁定维修检修门并使机器能够恢复缝合。

    Batchwise quilting of printed materials
    14.
    发明授权
    Batchwise quilting of printed materials 有权
    印刷材料的分批绗缝

    公开(公告)号:US06796254B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-09-28

    申请号:US10374577

    申请日:2003-02-26

    IPC分类号: D05B1100

    CPC分类号: D05B11/00 D05C5/04

    摘要: The order in which panels 13 are to be quilted, the amount of quilting-induced shrinkage, and the amount of crop between adjacent panels 13 are stored in a machine readable file 13 for use in operating a print line 10. Such information 13 is printed or otherwise placed on the material 11 at the print line 10 so as to be readable by a sensor 22 at a quilting station, where the information 13 is read and used to control the quilter 21. Panels 15 are quilted according to a schedule and in batches in the most efficient manner, and panels are cut according to information read from records on the material. Shrinkage is compensated for and appropriate crops are made between panels. The printing line prints series of panels on a web 11 in rolls 14 that can be fed, last-printed panel first, into the quilter.

    摘要翻译: 面板13要被绗缝的顺序,绗缝引起的收缩量以及相邻面板13之间的裁剪量被存储在用于操作打印线10的机器可读文件13中。这样的信息13被打印 或以其他方式放置在打印线10上的材料11上,以便在绗缝站处的传感器22可读取,其中信息13被读取并用于控制绗缝机21.面板15根据时间表绗缝并在 以最有效的方式进行批次,并且根据从材料上的记录读取的信息切割面板。 收缩率得到补偿,合适的作物在面板之间进行。 印刷线将卷筒纸11上的一系列面板打印在卷筒14中,卷筒14可以先将最后印刷的面板送进绗缝机。

    Quilt making automatic scheduling system and method
    15.
    发明授权
    Quilt making automatic scheduling system and method 有权
    被套自动调度系统及方法

    公开(公告)号:US6105520A

    公开(公告)日:2000-08-22

    申请号:US301653

    申请日:1999-04-28

    IPC分类号: D05B11/00 D05B19/00 D05B19/12

    CPC分类号: D05B19/12 D05B11/00 D05B19/00

    摘要: A quilt manufacturing facility having a plurality of quilting machines is provided with an automated scheduling system which automatically generates and distributes schedules for the making of quilted products listed in input customer orders. The generated schedules are distributed in the form of computer files downloaded to the controllers of the machines. The generation of schedules is carried out by a programmed central scheduling computer which considers stored data identifying each of the machines and their capabilities, the materials available for production of the products and the product specifications, and determines the machine setting and material requirements for each product on the customer order list as well as the required completion times for each of the ordered products. Schedules for each machine are generated so as to schedule each product with other products having similar machine setting or material requirements in a manner that is consistent with the required completion or delivery times for each product. The scheduling optimizes the use of the quilting machines and operator time by reducing the number of machine setups and material changes. Information is collected from each machine which records all downtime of the machines and the reasons therefor and which records a history of the actual performance of the machines for use by the scheduling computer in more accurately evaluating future schedules.

    摘要翻译: 具有多个绗缝机的被褥制造设备具有自动调度系统,该自动调度系统自动生成并分配用于制作输入客户订单中所列绗缝产品的时间表。 生成的计划以下载到计算机的控制器的计算机文件的形式分发。 计划的生成由编程的中央调度计算机执行,该计算机考虑存储的数据来识别每个机器及其能力,可用于生产产品的材料和产品规格,并确定每个产品的机器设置和材料要求 在客户订单列表以及每个订购产品所需的完成时间。 生成每个机器的时间表,以便以与每个产品的所需完成或交付时间一致的方式安排每个产品与具有类似机器设置或材料要求的其他产品。 调度通过减少机器设置和材料变化的数量来优化绗缝机和操作员的使用时间。 从记录机器的所有停机时间和其原因的每台机器收集信息,并记录计划机器的实际性能的历史,以便更精确地评​​估未来的进度。