Connected Fabric Label Arrays for Multi-Language Orientation Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Fabric labels on garments often get mixed up or misoriented when multiple labels are used, especially when carrying different language information, leading to confusion and inefficiencies in manufacturing and sales.
Innovation Solution
A fabric web of labels with longitudinally extending lines of partial severing allows for connected labels to be printed on both sides, enabling them to be folded and attached as a set, ensuring correct orientation and easy separation for reading, while also allowing for selective removal of labels with different logos or languages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple separate fabric labels are used on garments, then information-carrying capacity is improved (multiple languages, warranties, care instructions), but the risk of label mix-up and misorientation increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple separate fabric labels are merged into a single integrated label structure where multiple care instruction labels are connected through frangible lines. This combining approach maintains the information-carrying capacity of multiple labels while preventing mix-up and misorientation by ensuring they remain connected as a set during attachment to the garment.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated label is segmented into multiple connected care instruction labels that can be separated along frangible lines after attachment. This segmentation allows the labels to be divided for readability while maintaining their connection during the critical attachment phase, thus preventing mix-up while enabling information access.
2Ease of manufacture
If labels are sewn or heat sealed separately onto garments, then manufacturing flexibility is improved, but the time and labor required for attachment increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple care instruction labels are merged into a single attached unit with frangible connections, allowing the entire set to be sewn or heat sealed as one piece. This reduces the number of separate attachment operations needed while maintaining the ability to separate labels later for readability, thus improving productivity without sacrificing manufacturing flexibility.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the same information is printed on multiple labels in different languages, then adaptability is improved, but the complexity of managing multiple label sets increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple language versions of care instructions are merged into a single connected label structure where each language version is printed on a different connected label. This allows the garment to accommodate multiple languages without requiring separate label sets for each language, reducing management complexity while maintaining adaptability.
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AI summary
There are disclosed several embodiments of label sets or arrays (67) having a substantial capacity for printed information (I) while maintaining all the labels (69-72;76,77;89-91) of the array associated and properly oriented with respect to each other, wherein all the labels of each set or array can be printed in a printer. The labels of the array are preferably printed in transverse rows across a label web to increase the number of labels that can be carried on a roll.