US 11,963,564 B2
Automated garment manufacturing using adhesive bonding
Khamvong Thammasouk, San Jose, CA (US); Yongqiang Li, San Francisco, CA (US); Jinhwa Jung, San Jose, CA (US); Benjamin R. Waller, IV, Oakland, CA (US); Heng Li, San Francisco, CA (US); and Brett Jason Stern, Portland, OR (US)
Assigned to CreateMe Technologies Inc., Newark, CA (US)
Filed by CreateMe Technologies LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed on Nov. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/535,464.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/117,942, filed on Nov. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0183411 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. A41D 27/24 (2006.01); A41D 27/10 (2006.01); A41H 43/02 (2006.01); B29C 65/48 (2006.01); B29C 65/52 (2006.01); B29L 31/48 (2006.01)
CPC A41D 27/245 (2013.01) [A41D 27/10 (2013.01); A41H 43/0242 (2013.01); A41H 43/0257 (2013.01); B29C 65/4825 (2013.01); B29C 65/524 (2013.01); A41D 2300/52 (2013.01); B29L 2031/4842 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for automated manufacturing of apparel, the system comprising:
a fabric dispenser operable to dispense a first web of fabric and a second web of fabric, the first web of fabric forming a front of an apparel and the second web of fabric forming a back of the apparel;
an adhesive dispenser configured to apply discrete non-contiguous adhesive masses to the first web of fabric, wherein the discrete non-contiguous adhesive masses are deposited along a trajectory corresponding to side seams and shoulder seams of the apparel located on the first web of fabric;
one or more presses operable to join the first web and the second web along the side seams and the shoulder seams of the apparel;
a cutting tool operable to make partial cuts to the first web of fabric along lines corresponding to a neck hole, bottom hem, and arm holes of the apparel located on the first web of fabric, the cutting tool further configured to cut the apparel out of a joined first web and second web of fabric by cutting along the side seams of the first web of fabric and the second web of fabric and cutting the bottom hem, the neck hole, and the arm holes on the second web of fabric; and
a folding tool for folding the first web or the second web, wherein the folding tool is mounted on a gantry which is operable to move the folding tool to select fold areas of at least one of the first web and the second web to fold the at least one of the first web and the second web.