Patent ID: 6517659
Filing Date: 2003-02-11
Classification: A41D,B23K,B29C,B29L,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of constructing a flexible object formed of a plurality of mutually conjoined layers, said method comprising:a) positioning a first layer of a woven fusible sheet material over a work surface, wherein an outer surface of said first layer comprises a first surface of said flexible object; b) positioning a second layer of a woven fusible sheet material over said first layer, wherein an outer surface of said second layer comprises a second surface of said flexible object; c) cutting a layer periphery of each of said first and second layers by moving said first and second layers relative to a laser cutting head; d) fusing, coincidentally with said cutting activity c), said layer peripheries with said laser cutting head to form an object periphery, wherein said fusing activity d) produces a substantially ridgeless juncture between said object periphery and one of said first and second surfaces; and e) maintaining said first and second layers stationary relative to each other during said coincident cutting and fusing activities.