This invention relates to woven cloth. particularly to a kind of woven cloth, and a method able to integrally form a three-dimensional pattern on the woven cloth and its finished product.
Generally, for enhancing effect of conspicuous decorative patterns on the fabric of clothes or shoes, ornaments will be combined on the fabric of clothes or shoes for matching. The ornament can be a pattern, a fastener, a logo or other fabric of same or different materials. At present, the method of combining the ornament with the fabric is mainly by machine sewing or sticking; therefore, the process of operation is complicated and it is necessary to consume much manpower, thus increasing manufacturing cost and not conform to economic gains. In addition, if the overlapping part of two pieces of fabric is jointed by sticking, the flexibility resistance is poor and, if the overlapping part is bent repeatedly, the two pieces of fabric are apt to disengage from each other or break apart, thus influencing quality of product.
In recent years, sports shoes market has developed a manufacturing method of woven shoes. For instance, the woven shoes ┌Flyknit┘ produced by the Nike company is woven with general yarns, and such woven shoes can use woven cloth as the vamp of a shoe, able to reduce manpower needed for producing shoes formerly, and such woven shoes can be formed integrally and can reduce one third of cloth, tallying to environmental protection and further, such woven shoes are light in weight, high in cladding and comfort in wearing. However, if the woven cloth of woven shoe is to form patterns or grain at outward appearance, special knitting manufacturing method has to be employed for directly forming patterns on the woven cloth, or other articles formed with patterns have to be combined with the woven cloth by machine sewing or sticking, but patterns formed by knitting is high in cost and little in change and further, having patterns combined with the woven cloth through machine sewing or gluing still have shortcomings.
In view of the above-mentioned drawbacks, the inventor of this invention thinks that the conventional method of forming patterns on the woven cloth is necessary to be ameliorated and hence devises this invention.
The objective of this invention is to offer a kind of woven cloth and a method able to integrally form a three-dimensional pattern on the woven cloth and its finished product. The woven cloth can be formed integral with a three-dimensional pattern without employing a method of machine sewing or sticking, able to simplify manufacturing process, lower cost, reinforce strength, avoid woven cloth disengaging and breaking apart and further able to be produced fully automatically.
The woven cloth in the present invention is composed of lots of yarns and each yarn is made from several monofilaments, which have their outer circumferences respectively formed with a thermoplastic polymer layer.
The method able to integrally form a three-dimensional pattern on the woven cloth includes the following steps:
A first step is preparation of woven cloth. The woven cloth is composed of lots of yarns and each yarn is made from several monofilaments and further, each monofilament has its outer circumference coated with a thermoplastic polymer layer;
A second step is preparation of a hot compression mold having hot pressing function. The hot compression mold has its inner surface preformed with a protruding three-dimensional pattern;
A third step is hot compression molding. The woven cloth is placed in the hot compression mold to carry out heating and compressing; and
A fourth step is obtaining of a finished product. After the woven cloth is hot compressed, the woven cloth will produce a depressed three-dimensional pattern corresponding to the hot compression mold through the hot compressing or heat melting of the thermoplastic polymer layer.
The woven cloth formed with a three-dimensional pattern of this invention is to make use of the above-mentioned method to have the woven cloth hot compressed in a mold, which is preformed with a three-dimensional pattern, and integrally formed with a three-dimensional pattern through compressing or hot melting of the thermoplastic polymer layer.
The woven cloth and the method able to integrally form a three-dimensional pattern on the woven cloth and its finished product in the present invention is to have the woven cloth made from special yarns placed in a special hot compression mold to be hot compressed and integrally formed, thereon with a three-dimensional pattern, needless to use the method of machine sewing or sticking, able to enhance combination strength, reduce labor and cost and then elevate market competitive force.
This invention will be better understood by referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
A preferred embodiment of a kind of woven cloth 10 in the present invention, as shown in
A method able to integrally form a three-dimensional pattern on the woven cloth, as shown in
A first step is preparation of woven cloth 10. The woven cloth 10 is the composed of lots of yarns 11 and each yarn 11 is made from several monofilaments 111 and further, each monofilament 111 has its outer circumference coated with the thermoplastic polymer layer 112, which is thermoplastic polyurethan;
A second step is preparation of a hot compression mold 20. The hot compression mold 20, as shown in
A third step is hot compression molding. The woven cloth 10 is placed in the hot compression mold 20 to be heated and compressed; and
A fourth step is obtaining of a finished product. Referring to
A second preferred embodiment of a method able to integrally form a three-dimensional pattern on the woven cloth in the present invention, as shown in
A third preferred embodiment of a method able to integrally form a three-dimensional pattern on the woven cloth in the present invention, as shown in
A fourth preferred embodiment of a method able to integrally form a three-dimensional pattern on the woven cloth in the present invention, as shown in
What is worth mentioning is that after the woven cloth 10 of this invention is hot compressed, the woven cloth 10 will be hardened because of hot melting of the thermoplastic polymer, able to enhance hardness of the woven cloth 10. Therefore, the woven cloth 10 can present different hardness through hot pressing of the hot compression mold 20.
The special feature of this invention is that the woven cloth of this invention can be integrally formed with a three-dimensional pattern through hot compressing of a hot compression mold, needless to use the method of machine sewing or sticking. Therefore, this invention not only can save time and labor and lower manufacturing cost, but also can cope with the coming of industry 4.0 without need of manpower to be a participant of full automation.
To sum up, the same woven cloth of this invention can be integrally formed with various weaving effects, or integrally formed with height difference patterns, or integrally formed with penetrating patterns and further can form various hardness through hot pressing of the hot compression mold; therefore, this invention is really extensive in application, able to attain various effects.
While the preferred embodiments of the invention have been described above, it will be recognized and understood that various modifications may be made therein and the appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications that may fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.