Raised embroidery process

• US 6,860,214 B1
• Filed: 09/22/2003
• Issued: 03/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tai Kuang Wang
• Original Assignee: Tai Kuang Wang
• Inventors: Wang, Tai Kuang
• Primary Examiner(s): Izaguirre, Ismael
• Application Number:
  US10/665,068
• Publication Number:
  US 20050061220A1
• Time in Patent Office: 526 Days
• Field of Search: 112/475.18, 112/475.22, 112/439, 112/475.11, 112/470.01, 112/470.05, 112/100, 112/102.5, 112/45, 112/456, 224/4, 224/6, 156/93, 83/23, 83/27, 839/10
• US Class Current: 112/475.22
• CPC Class Codes: D05C 15/00 Making pile fabrics or articles having similar surface features by inserting loops into a base material layered products B32B; non-woven pile fabrics D04H11/00
• CPC Class Codes: D05C 7/00 Special-purpose or automatic embroidering machines

Abstract

A raised embroidery process includes placing a piece of filler on an embroidering background fabric; partially supplementary embroidering by threads of appropriate colors on the short sides and wherever necessary of the embroidering pattern, thereby sewing part of the filler and the corresponding embroidery background fabric together, i.e. affixing the filler on the background fabric; stitching by various appropriate colors along the pre-determined embroidery paths to cover and wrap the whole raised embroidering pattern, including the filler and the embroidering background fabric; removing the outer portion of the filler surrounding the embroidering portion from the embroidering portion, and passing the whole background fabric with the wrapped filler through an oven conveyor at a pre-set temperature to shrink the filler; tucking in the filler stub exposed out of inter-threads by a sharp stick to make the side edges of raised embroidering pattern more aesthetic.

Claims

1. A raised embroidery process, including the following steps:

A. placing a piece of filler on an embroidering background fabric such that the filler, having a size larger than that of the raised embroidery pattern, may cover the pre-determined embroidery pattern;

B. conducting a supplementary embroidering procedure, i.e. sewing by threads of appropriate colors from the edge of short sides (40) of the embroidery pattern toward the inner portion of the pattern, thereby apart of the filler can be sewed and affixed to the corresponding background fabric;

C. entirely wrapping up the embroidering portion of the filler and the background fabric by sewing with treads of various colors along the pre-determined embroidery paths (50a, 50b, 50c); and

D. removing the outer portion of the filler surrounding the embroidering portion from the embroidering portion, and passing the whole background fabric with the wrapped filler through an oven conveyor at a pre-set temperature, so that the filler will shrink to form an aesthetic raised embroidery pattern.

2. The raised embroidery process according to claim 1, wherein the supplementary embroidering process includes sewing the connecting stitches between the short sides of the pattern.

3. The raised embroidery process according to claim 1, wherein any filler stub exposed among the threads can be tucked inside of embroidery threads by a sharp stick, thereby embellishing the embroidery pattern.

4. The raised embroidery process according to claim 1, wherein step B for sewing by threads of appropriate colors from the edge of short sides of the embroidery pattern toward the inner portion of the pattern may include proceeding a supplementary embroidering on the adjoining area (41).

5. The raised embroidery process according to claim 1, wherein the embroidery paths (50a, 50b, 50c) are for stitching threads to cover half of the adjoining area (41), such that filler would not expose from the adjoining area (41) of threads of different embroidery paths (50a, 50b).

6. The raised embroidery process according to claim 1, wherein the supplementary embroidering is processed partially from the edge of the short sides toward the inner portion of the embroidery pattern, while the connecting stitches (42) in-between the short sides and/or the adjoining areas of the pattern are processed inside the edge of the raised embroidery pattern area (30).