Invention Grant
- Patent Title: High-turnaround, closed-loop, direct to garment printing
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Application No.: US16235609Application Date: 2018-12-28
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Publication No.: US10532585B2Publication Date: 2020-01-14
- Inventor: Kris Otto Friedrich , Blair Kristine Dorsey , Qixiang Li , Tongze Tang , Shuzhang Liao , Chao Zhang
- Applicant: 240 Tech LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Ana
- Assignee: 240 Tech LLC
- Current Assignee: 240 Tech LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Ana
- Agency: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Main IPC: B41J13/00
- IPC: B41J13/00 ; B41J11/00 ; B41J3/407 ; B41J2/01

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a high-speed, closed-loop fabric printer comprises a plurality of consecutive stations that can be managed by a single operator. In particular, shirts or other fabric garments may be individually loaded and secured on a pallet by an operator, and the loaded pallets may then cycle through a plurality of unmanned stations positioned along a contiguous path (e.g., oval). The stations may be configured for pretreating the fabric surface, drying and pressing the pretreated fabric with heat, and then inkjet printing a selected image, among others. In this manner, a “wet-to-dry-to-wet” direct to garment (DTG) printing process may thus be achieved, along with optimal controls for maximum adaptability. Furthermore, due to the closed-loop design, a recently printed fabric product returns to the operator to be unloaded at the position in which a new unprinted fabric is loaded, allowing for increased throughput and minimal operator requirements.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190217632A1 HIGH-TURNAROUND, CLOSED-LOOP, DIRECT TO GARMENT PRINTING Public/Granted day:2019-07-18
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