Badge structure of a portable item

Abstract

The present invention discloses a badge structure of a portable item, and the badge structure includes a portable item, and at least one badge unit connected to at least one predetermined position of the portable item. The badge unit includes a first carrier fixed to the portable item, a second carrier fixed to a carrying surface of the first carrier, and a badge pattern printed on a transfer paper and transferred onto at least one surface of the second carrier by thermal transfer and thermal printing technologies.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to a badge structure of a portable item, and more particularly to a badge structure having a full color visual effect or a non-full color badge pattern without stitching or printing the badge on a portable item such as a cap and a handbag, and customized badge patterns can be made according to the customized requirements of characters or a low cost for an industrial mass production of portable items.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Besides the functions of shading sunshine (or rain) or carrying different items, a cap or a handbag also can be a personalized decoration. As the quality of our life is improved and people including baseball fans and movie star fans who love sports and performances such as baseball, manufacturers, team owners and agency usually produce various different products related to ballplayers and movie stars, and their fans love to collect such kinds of products.[0003]A cap or a handbag sewed or printed wi...

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Benefits of technology

[0009]Therefore, it is a primary objective of the present invention to provide a simple structure that prints customized or predetermined patterns or characters on a transfer paper to be transferred onto a surface of at least one carrier by thermal transfer and thermal printing technologies, and then the carrier is connected to a predetermined position of a portable item such as a cap or a handbag, so as to improve a low efficiency of sewing the badge directly onto the cap or handbag, and overcome the shortcoming that the carrier may fall of easily if the carrier is transferred onto the cap and the handbag by thermal transfer. In addition, the invention also overcomes the limitation of the printing color of the conventional badge being sewed directly onto the cap and handbag.

Problems solved by technology

However, the sewing of such pattern takes long time, and the curvature of a crown of the cap further makes the sewing more difficult and takes much longer time for the sewing.

As it is necessary to change the color of threads, the manufacturing efficiency is low and the manufacturing cost is high.

With these limitations of changing the color of the sewing threads and incurring a high cost, a full color visual effect cannot be achieved.

What is more, the manufacturing is limited to mass production only, but cannot be adopted in single customized productions or a small number of customized productions for combining a badge onto a cap.

Even in computer sewing, it is necessary to design, code and input a program for the badge pattern, and thus the badge pattern is limited to a simple badge pattern or name that can be sewed easily.

However, it is not easy to print the pattern or character directly onto a surface of the cap or a handbag made of fabrics by the thermal transfer printing method, because the printing is affected by the grids produced by the intersection of warps and wefts.

As a result, the pattern transferred by the thermal transfer printing method may fall off easily; the integrity and visual effect of the pattern may be affected adversely; and the value of keepsake and collection may be reduced.

Further, the present thermal transfer printing technology used for combining the pattern on a cap or a handbag limits the color performance of the pattern, and thus a full color visual effect and texture cannot be achieved.

Although the badge can be changed easily, the pattern of the badge still cannot achieve a fall color visual effect and texture.

The badge is attached onto the badge base by magnetism, but the fixing effect is not as good and the badge may fall off or missing easily.

In other words, such technology can be applied for mass production only, but not for the manufacture of single unique customized patterns.

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