Adjustable Sleeve Shaping Body for Crease-Free Garment Steaming
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing machines for steaming clothing, particularly jackets, face challenges in adapting to different sizes and shapes, leading to inconsistent fitting and creasing issues due to insufficient adjustability of auxiliary stamps and bodies.
Innovation Solution
The machine features an adjustable side body segment with two movable parts that can spread apart, allowing for flexible adaptation to various sleeve sizes, combined with an interchangeable auxiliary stamp, ensuring precise fitting and crease-free steam treatment by adjusting the auxiliary body to match the garment's shape and size.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If interchangeable auxiliary stamps are used to adapt to different sleeve sizes, then the adaptability to different clothing sizes is improved, but the fitting precision is insufficient causing sleeve sagging or tight fitting
Solution Approach 1:
The auxiliary body is divided into a fixed part and an adjustable auxiliary body segment that can be independently positioned. This segmentation allows the auxiliary stamp to remain fixed while the body segment adapts to different garment sizes, achieving both interchangeability and precise fitting without sleeve sagging or tightness.
Solution Approach 2:
The auxiliary body segment is made adjustable along the longitudinal axis, transforming a static structure into a dynamic one. This allows the distance between the auxiliary stamp and the front surface to be varied according to different sleeve sizes, enabling precise adaptation while maintaining stable steam treatment conditions.
2Manufacturing precision
If the auxiliary body is made adjustable to fit different body areas, then the fitting precision is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Only the auxiliary body segment is made adjustable while the rest of the auxiliary body remains fixed. This localized adjustability provides the necessary fitting precision for different garment sizes without making the entire device complex, maintaining simplicity in the fixed portions.
Solution Approach 2:
The adjustment mechanism uses a simple guide slot with positioning elements rather than complex mechanical systems. The auxiliary body segment can be easily positioned and fixed along the longitudinal axis using basic mechanical guidance, avoiding complicated adjustment mechanisms while achieving precise fitting.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution enables consistent high-quality steaming of clothing of different sizes without sagging or creasing, ensuring precise alignment and crease-free ironing of sleeves, particularly in the armpit area, through discrete and adjustable settings that can be mechanically or pneumatically controlled.
Implementation Method 1
The support surface of the auxiliary body has a number of steam outlet openings, via which the auxiliary ram is acted upon with steam
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AI summary
The garment processing machine (1) shapes garments. It has a shaping body (2) and a shaping punch (3) to receive the sleeve of a garment. The machine body has an adjustable body segment (13) of which the resting surface (5) forms part. The body segment may have two parts which can be spread out relative to each other.