The invention relates to a sewing structure for fixing a thread body to prevent the thread body from being damaged and reducing its functions.
Clothes are necessities for people. Clothes can be made with light-reflective function, such as sticking light-reflective strips or light-reflective sheets on clothes to reflect light is capable of improving the safety of people's activities at night and reducing the probability of accidents.
In terms of providing light-reflective effect, in addition to sticking light-reflective strips or light-reflective sheets mentioned above, another method is to sew light-reflective yarns on clothes, the surface of the light-reflective yarn is adhered with numerous tiny glass beads, and the light-reflective yarn can provide light-reflective effect to the clothes through the glass beads.
Because the light-reflective yarn is embedded with the glass beads, it is easy to break, so the bare light-reflective yarn cannot be sewn by a sewing machine directly. The light-reflective yarn must be twisted with other yarns into two or three strands of yarn before the light-reflective yarn can be sewn on clothes. However, the yarn diameter of the above-mentioned twisted multi-strand yarn is too thick and not fine, which increases the resistance of sewing.
Furthermore, although the light-reflective yarn can be sewn on clothes by twisting it with other yarns into multiple strands, the glass beads on the surface of the light-reflective yarn will fall off and damage the light-reflective yarn due to rubbing against the fabric during the process of passing through the fabric, and the glass beads on the surface of the light-reflective yarn are imperfect, which affects the light-reflective performance of the light-reflective yarn and causes defects in light-reflective clothing. The glass beads of the light-reflective yarn falling off during the sewing process is a problem that the industry cannot solve.
Other functional yarns, such as luminescent yarns with luminescent particles, yarns with metallic luster on the surface, or threads with conductive materials on the surface, if they are disposed on clothes by sewing, also have the same problem that the substances on the surface will fall off or be damaged due to the friction during the sewing process, causing the clothes to become defective products.
The invention aims to solve the above drawbacks, and its object is to provide a thread body sewing structure, through the sewing structure, the thread body can be fixed on an object without passing through the object to prevent the thread body from being damaged and affecting its functions.
The thread body sewing structure provided by the invention comprises: a sheet-shaped object provided for a sewing thread to be sewn thereon, the sheet-shaped object is a material that can be sewn with a sewing thread;
at least one upper thread sewn on the sheet-shaped object and located on a front side of the sheet-shaped object;
at least one lower thread disposed on the bottom side of the object, the lower thread and the upper thread are connected with each other; and
at least one thread body disposed on the front side of the sheet-shaped object and disposed along a sewing direction of the upper thread, and the thread body is fixed on the front side of the sheet-shaped object by the upper thread without passing through the object.
With the above-mentioned sewing structure, the thread body is fixed on the front side of the sheet-shaped object by the upper thread, and does not need to pass through the object, so the thread body will not be damaged, and an integrity of its structure and existing functions can be maintained. Furthermore, since the thread body remains normal, the object containing the thread body will not become a defective product.
In addition, the thread body can be fixed without passing through the object, and can be used directly as a bare thread, which can reduce manufacturing costs, and because it does not need to be twisted together with other yarns to form a multi-strand thread, a thread diameter of the thread body will not become thicker and its original thread diameter can be maintained.
In one embodiment, the upper thread forms a plurality of seam sections on a surface of the sheet-shaped object along the sewing direction of the upper thread, and the thread body is fixed by the seam sections of the upper thread.
In one embodiment, the thread body passes/passes through the upper thread from two sides of the upper thread alternately.
In one embodiment, the thread body passes the adjacent seam sections in sequence and is pressed by the seam sections.
In one embodiment, the thread body passes the separated seam sections and is pressed by the separated seam sections.
In the above-mentioned embodiment, one the seam section or multiple the seam sections that does/do not press the thread body is/are disposed between two said separated seam sections that press the thread body.
In one embodiment, the thread body sewing structure has a plurality of thread bodies disposed along the sewing direction of the upper thread and pressed by at least one of the upper threads.
In one embodiment, it comprises two thread bodies and an upper thread, and the two thread bodies are symmetrically disposed on two sides of the upper thread.
The thread body can be various thread bodies, such as light-reflective yarn, luminescent yarn, thread body with metallic luster or thread body with conductivity. When the thread bodies are sewn on the object, they can be thread bodies with different functions.
The upper thread and the thread body form a composite sewing thread capable of being used as a sewing thread for the sheet-shaped object or as an embroidery thread for embroidering various embroidery patterns on the object.
The objects, features, and achieved efficacies of the invention can be understood from the description and drawings of the following preferred embodiments, in which:
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The sheet-shaped object 20 is a material that can be sewn with a sewing thread, and is flexible, such as fabric (cloth), leather (artificial or natural leather), plastic, paper, etc. The sheet-shaped object 20 in this embodiment is a fabric, the sheet-shaped object 20 has a front side 22 and a bottom side 24 on a side opposite to the front side 22. The sheet-shaped object 20 in this embodiment is exemplified as a fabric, which can be clothing, pant, shoe, sock, glove, hat, tie, scarf, handkerchief, silk scarf, neckerchief, or the like.
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The thread body 40 is disposed on the front side 22 of the sheet-shaped object 20, and is pressed and fixed on the front side 22 of the sheet-shaped object by the upper thread 30 without passing through the sheet-shaped object. The thread body 40 can be a light-reflective yarn, a luminescent yarn, a thread body with metallic luster, or a thread body with conductivity. A surface of the light-reflective yarn has fine micro-glass beads, which are light-reflective. A surface of the luminescent yarn has luminescent particles capable of emitting luminescence in dark environment or environment with dim light. The thread body with metallic luster is composed of tiny substances of aluminum or silver mixed into the thread body of polymer material, which make an exterior of the thread body produce metallic luster, and can be made with metallic luster of different colors. The thread body with conductivity is made by mixing conductive materials into a polymer thread body to have conductivity; a metal thread body, such as a copper thread, can also be used as the conductive thread body of the invention. In this embodiment, the light-reflective yarn is used as the thread body 40.
In the embodiment, the two sewing threads 30, 36 are sewn on the object 20 in a lockstitch sewing manner, and the thread body 40 is fixed by the upper thread 30 during a sewing process. A sewing machine is used to sew the two sewing threads 30, 36 and the thread body 40 on the object 20, and a structure for laying the thread body 40 is a mechanism additionally installed on the sewing machine, the mechanism is not a subject matter of the invention and thus will not be described herein.
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The thread body 40 is laid along a routing direction of the upper thread 30, that is, a laying direction of the thread body 40 is disposed along a sewing direction of the upper thread 30, the thread body 40 is pressed by the seam sections 32 of the upper thread 30, and thus is fixed on the front side 22 of the object 20. During a sewing process, in addition to continuous release of the sewing threads 30, 36, the thread body 40 is also continuously released, and the thread body 40 is threaded under the seam sections 32 in sequence and is pressed by the seam sections 32.
The upper thread 30 and the thread body 40 form a composite sewing thread 50, which is sewn onto the object 20 and is arranged on the front side 22 (outwardly facing surface) of the object.
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In this embodiment, the thread body 40 does not pass under all the seam sections 32, but regularly passes under the separated seam sections 32 and is pressed by the separated seam sections 32. As shown in
The thread body 40 and the upper thread 30 pressing the thread body 40 form the composite sewing thread 50 of this embodiment, which is sewn on the object 20 and located on the front side 22.
This embodiment shows that two thread bodies 40a, 40b are disposed on the front side 22 of the sheet-shaped object 20 and are pressed by the seam sections 32 of the upper thread 30. The two thread bodies 40a, 40b can be symmetrically disposed on the object 20 and on two sides of the upper thread 30 as shown in
The two thread bodies 40a, 40b can be thread bodies with a same function or thread bodies with different functions, for example, the two thread bodies 40a, 40b are both light-reflective yarns, luminescent yarns, thread bodies with metallic luster, or thread bodies with conductivity; when the two thread bodies 40a, 40b are thread bodies with different functions, one of the thread bodies 40a, 40b is a light-reflective yarn, and the other thread body (40a or 40b) can be a luminescent yarn, a thread body with metallic luster or a thread body with conductivity, and so on.
The two thread bodies 40 and the upper thread 30 pressing the two thread bodies 40 form the composite sewing thread 50 of this embodiment, which is sewn onto the object 20. It can be seen from the above figures that the composite sewing thread 50 of the invention can be used as a sewing thread for sewing on the object 20, for example, as shown on a lower left side of the object (e.g., cloth) 20 in
A four-needle six-thread flatlock sewing thread structure has four upper threads 30 disposed on the front side 22 of the object 20; and one thread body 40 or four thread bodies 40 can be fixed by the seam sections 32 of the upper threads 30.
Through the invention, the upper thread 30 sewn on the front side 22 of the object 20 can be used to fix the specific thread body (such as a light-reflective yarn) 40 on a surface of various articles, and the specific thread body 40 does not pass through the article, an integrity of its structure and functions can be maintained without detracting from its functionality. The composite sewing thread 50 formed by the upper thread 30 and the thread body 40 of the invention can be used as a sewing thread for clothing, trouser, hat; a sewing thread for leather goods; a sewing thread for school bag, backpack, briefcase, handbag and other bags; a sewing thread for footwear. The composite sewing thread 50 can also be used as an embroidery thread, which can be embroidered on a surface of an article, so that the specific thread body 40 is fixed on a front side of the article by the sewing thread 30. People can see the complete thread body 40 from the front side of the article, such as the thread body 40 with metallic luster can be seen. Functions of the thread body 40 can be directly displayed on the front side of the article, for example, a light-reflective function provided by a light-reflective yarn to clothing; a luminescent function provided by a luminescent yarn to clothing.
Taking the thread body 40 as a light-reflective yarn as an example, structural features of the invention lie in sewing the light-reflective yarn on a surface of a garment, and the light-reflective yarn does not need to penetrate through a fabric of the garment, so micro-glass beads on a surface of the light-reflective yarn can be maintained intact without detracting from a light-reflective function of the light-reflective yarn, thereby clothes sewn with the light-reflective yarn will not have defective products, and a manufacturing yield can be improved.
When the invention is used, the light-reflective yarn can be sewn on the object, because the light-reflective yarn does not need to pass through the object (fabric), the bare light-reflective yarn can be directly used, and the light-reflective yarn does not need to be twisted with other yarns or threads into a yarn with multiple strands. Compared with the prior art, the invention enables the bare light-reflective yarn to be used directly, in addition to be capable of reducing manufacturing costs and time of the light-reflective yarn, a thread diameter of the light-reflective yarn will not be increased owe to directly using the bare light-reflective yarn.
The above-mentioned embodiments are merely used to illustrate the technical ideas and features of the invention, with an object to enable any person having ordinary skill in the art to understand the technical content of the invention and implement it accordingly, the embodiments are not intended to limit the claims of the invention, and all other equivalent changes and modifications completed based on the technical means disclosed in the invention should be included in the claims covered by the invention.
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