Laser Finishing of Garments by Mobile Lab
a technology of garment finishing and mobile lab, which is applied in the field of garment manufacturing, can solve the problems of affecting the quality of garments, and affecting the quality of garments, and achieves the effect of short time period and availability for customers
Pending Publication Date: 2020-02-27
LEVI STRAUSS & CO +1
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The patent describes a mobile finishing center that allows customers to see, select, customize, and order apparel products. The center uses lasers to create faded, distressed, or washed looks on garments, which can be done quickly. The finished garments are then ready for pick-up. The center can be moved to any location, and it doesn't need a connection to a water source or drainage. The technical effects of this invention are the ability to offer customers a unique and customizable finishing experience, and the ability to quickly deliver finished garments to customers' locations.
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In the past, jeans became faded or distressed through normal wash and wear.
Despite the widespread success jeans have enjoyed, the process to produce modern jeans with wear patterns takes processing time, has relatively high processing cost, and is resource intensive.
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[0048]FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a system for interacting with customers and designing and producing apparel products with laser finishing using information collected from the customers. The system includes a self-contained mobile finishing center 10 that can be moved to and from various locations that consumers visit for convenient customer access. The mobile finishing center can be setup at a variety of locations, such as stadium 15 where sporting events are played, at concerts, at fairs and festivals, at shopping centers, at shopping malls, at parks, in downtown areas, at beaches, at resorts, at amusement parks, at racetracks, at school campuses, at corporate buildings and campuses, and other locations.
[0049]The mobile finishing center includes a first container 20 and a second container 25. The center can include more or fewer containers, such as 1, 3, 4, 5, or another number. The number of containers can be increased or decreased based on the size and configuration of an o...
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A self-contained mobile finishing garment center includes two containers that include a computer-controlled system that laser finishes garments ordered by customers. A first container includes an order system and a laser that laser forms a customer ordered wear pattern into the fabric of a garment, such as jeans. A second container includes wet processing equipment, such as a clothes washer and a clothes dryer that wash and dry the garment. The self-contained mobile finishing center facilitates the receipt of a custom order for jeans and the laser finishing and delivery of the jeans in a relatively short time, such as in less than an hour. The containers are mobile and can be shipped by truck, rail, or ship to a variety of locations and events for custom finishing garments according to customer's custom orders to provide custom ordered garment in a short time period, such as during an event.
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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This patent application claims the benefit of U.S. patent application 62 / 636,115, filed Feb. 27, 2018. This application is incorporated by reference along with all other references cited in this application.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates to apparel manufacturing and, more specifically, to manufacturing using a self-contained mobile laser finishing center for finishing garments to have a faded, distressed, washed, or worn finish or desired appearance. The mobile finishing center can be driven to a location such as sporting events (e.g., Super Bowl), concerts (e.g., Coachella), or another special event, at which garments can be processed on site.[0003]In 1853, during the California Gold Rush, Levi Strauss, a 24-year-old German immigrant, left New York for San Francisco with a small supply of dry goods with the intention of opening a branch of his brother's New York dry goods business. Shortly after arriving i...
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IPC IPC(8): D06F39/00D06C23/02
CPCD06F39/001D06C23/02G06Q30/0621G06Q30/0643D06M10/005D06B11/0096G06T11/60G06T2210/16G06T11/00G06Q50/04D06F31/00E04H2001/1283G06T19/20G06T2219/2012G06T2219/2024
Inventor SIGHTS, JAMES BARTONO'NEILL, LIZZENS, JEFFBELL, BENJAMINSCHULTZ, JENNIFERMAHANTY, DEBDULALKUZUCU, OZGUR TAYLANSCHULTZ, CHRISTOPHERALBERT, VICENTESANS, ALBERTCARBONELL, JOSEP MARIA
Owner LEVI STRAUSS & CO