Patent ID: 7559954
Filing Date: 2009-07-14
Classification: B41J,D06B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. Method for upgrading textile articles made from cloth, using an upgrading device, the device comprising a number of digitally controlled nozzles for applying jets of droplets of one or more substances to the textile articles, in addition to a conveyor for transporting the textile articles past the nozzles, wherein the nozzles are ordered in a number of successively placed rows extending transversely of the transporting direction of the textile article, the method comprising the steps of: a) affixing a first textile article to the conveyor to substantially prevent relative movement there-between; b) guiding the first textile article past a first row of nozzles; c) performing with the first row of nozzles one of the operations of painting, coating or finishing of the first textile article carried there-past; d) subsequently guiding the first textile article past a second row of nozzles; e) performing with the second row of nozzles another of the operations of painting, coating or finishing of the first textile article carried there-past; and repeating steps a to e for a second textile article wherein the operation carried out in step c) or e) does not comprise printing and is different for the first and second articles.