US 11,931,948 B2
Device and method for thermosetting a knitted fabric
Thomas Aumann, Buch am Erlbach (DE); Florian Dechant, Adlkofen (DE); and Johann Gasslhuber, Buch am Erlbach (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Filed on Jul. 30, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/526,619.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 212 743.3 (DE), filed on Jul. 31, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0040502 A1, Feb. 6, 2020
Int. Cl. B29C 51/00 (2006.01); B29C 70/46 (2006.01); D06C 7/02 (2006.01)
CPC B29C 51/004 (2013.01) [B29C 70/46 (2013.01); D06C 7/02 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for thermosetting and calibrating a knitted fabric, comprising the steps of:
disposing the knitted fabric on an effective surface of a first tool half of a calibration tool that has a second tool half and thermosetting the knitted fabric by impinging the knitted fabric via temperature when the knitted fabric is disposed on the effective surface of the first tool half of the calibration tool that has the second tool half;
after the thermosetting, closing the calibration tool such that a cavity in which the knitted fabric is disposed is generated between the first tool half and the second tool half of the calibration tool and calibrating the knitted fabric between the closed first tool half and second tool half of the calibration tool;
opening the calibration tool; and
demolding the knitted fabric from the first tool half.