PROCEDURES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CLOTHING OR BANDAGES

• US 20170151770A1
• Filed: 12/18/2015
• Published: 06/01/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT New Textile Technologies GmbH
• Original Assignee: NTT New Textile Technologies GmbH
• Inventors: Bauer, Hans
• Application Number:
  US14/974,470
• Publication Number:
  US 20170151770A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A41C 3/0014 made from one piece with one or several layers
• CPC Class Codes: A41C 5/00 Machines, appliances, or methods for manufacturing corsets or brassieres
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/00987 Apparatus or processes for manufacturing non-adhesive dressings or bandages
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2305/72 Cured, e.g. vulcanised, cross-linked
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2437/00 Clothing anti-ballistic clothing B32B2571/02
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2535/00 Medical equipment, e.g. bandage, prostheses, catheter medical patches B32B2556/00
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 37/14 characterised by the properties of the layers
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 38/0004 Cutting, tearing or severing, e.g. bursting; Cutter details cutting in general B26D; laminating combined with punching or perforating B32B38/04; removing all or part of the layers B32B38/10; cutting in combination with laying up and registration B32B38/185 takes precedence

Abstract

In a method for the manufacture of garments or bandages, a fabric layer is bonded with a composite of elastomer and reinforcement material, which is produced in that on an elastomer layer is applied the reinforcement material in liquid or soft, deformable state, which hardens after application.

Claims

1. A method for producing garments or bandages having a fabric layer which is connected to a composite of elastomer and reinforcement material, wherein the composite is formed by applying on an elastomer layer the reinforcement material in liquid or soft, deformable state, which hardens after application.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the elastomer layer and the reinforcement material are applied by a respective nozzle, whose position is adjustable in three spatial directions, wherein the quantity of the elastomer material and reinforcement material exiting through the respective nozzle is in each case adjusted.

3. The method of claim 1, characterized in that the reinforcement material is applied in several layers.

4. The method of claim 3, characterized in that at least two superposed layers of reinforcement material differ in their width and/or height.

5. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the nozzle, through which the reinforcement material is applied, is formed as a 3-D printing head.

6. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the reinforcement material has a higher melting point than the elastomer.

7. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the reinforcement material is completely enveloped by the elastomer layer.

8. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that on the elastomer layer is applied the second elastomer layer enveloping the reinforcement material.

9. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the elastomer layer is applied directly to the fabric layer.

10. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the elastomer layer is placed into a mold part and the reinforcement material is applied onto the elastomer layer in the molding.

11. The method according to claim 10, characterized in that the composite of elastomer and reinforcement material is connected after curing to the fabric layer.

12. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that several track-like elastomer layers with or without reinforcement material are applied onto the fabric layer, wherein the fabric layer is subsequently cut within the track-shaped elastomer layers corresponding to the edge contour of the garment or the bandage.

13. The method according to claim 12, characterized in that the track-shaped elastomer layers are applied onto precisely one fabric layer.

14. The method according to claim 12, characterized in that the track-shaped elastomer layers are applied onto a fabric layer and then a second fabric layer is applied.

15. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that both elastomer layers with reinforcement material and elastomer layers without reinforcement material are applied onto the fabric layer.

16. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the elastomer with or without reinforcement material is provided with flock coating.

17. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the reinforcement material is made of a plastic material such as PLA (polylactide) or ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer).

18. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that a thermoplastic elastomer is used.

19. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that a silicone is used as the elastomer.

20. The method of claim 2, characterized in that the reinforcement material is applied in several layers.