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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a method for continuously manufacturing a small number of woven labels by means of a control computer which previously stores patterns such as letters and figures. , relates to a method for manufacturing woven labels suitable for personal name labels, etc.

(Prior art) To manufacture woven labels, it is common to use a narrow loom with a jacquard machine installed above.
Pattern paper is required to weave patterns using a jia card machine. As the speed of looms increased, research into increasing the speed of the jacquard machine progressed, and after the Bendall jacquard machine and the endless paper jacquard machine,
Recently, electromagnetically controlled jiacquard machines such as those disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-open Nos. 58-104241 and 58-186638 have been put into practical use. On the other hand, since it is necessary to create a pattern paper by going through a full-size design, that is, an original drawing, and a design drawing of an enlarged drawing, an automatic pattern paper creation system using a computer is being used to speed up the process and save labor. In this system, an electronic color separation device reads the colors of the design drawing, a card reader automatically reads the pattern structure, etc., inputs it into a computer, and a typewriter specifies the textile design. The colors and fabric patterns stored in the computer are combined according to the design instructions, and then the paper tape is punched. This paper tape is read by a tape reader and an input signal is sent to a punching machine to punch holes in the pattern paper. Some modern electromagnetically controlled jacquard machines have a paper tape reader directly connected to them, which reads the paper tape and immediately drives the jacquard machine. It is also possible to connect a magnetic disk device or the like to the jacquard machine; for example, in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 57-183436, a video disk device is connected to avoid the complexity of creating stamp paper.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) In the above-mentioned automatic paper pattern creation system, the pattern structure is input into the computer using a card reader for each fabric design, so it is not easy to change the pattern on the perforated paper tape. The same holds true even when magnetic disks or video disks are used. Therefore, when conventional woven labels are woven using high-speed narrow looms, the production quantity is in the order of 10,000 units, and if only a small number of labels are produced, the unit price becomes extremely high. As a result, no matter how aesthetically pleasing and durable woven labels are, it is difficult to use them as personal name labels at schools, workplaces, local sports clubs, etc. It is also practically impossible to sell custom-made woven labels with phone numbers and other information woven into them.

(Means for solving the problem) As a result of various studies in order to weave a small number of woven labels at high speed and at low cost, the inventor connected a control computer to a high-speed jacquard machine and a narrow loom. It has been found that by doing so, individual woven labels can be continuously woven in small numbers.

In the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, a control computer 1 is connected to a high-speed jacquard machine 2 and a narrow loom 3, and the jacquard machine is installed above the narrow loom 3. In the memory 4 of the control computer 1, digitized patterns of letters, symbols, figures, etc. are written in advance. This pattern includes all kana or alphabetic characters as a minimum, and patterns include kanji, numbers, telephone marks, outer frames, etc. as desired, and furthermore, various typefaces, uppercase and lowercase letters, etc. are added. and preferable. It is preferable that the jacquard machine 2 is an electromagnetically controlled jacquard machine that can be controlled by a computer, and an ordinary high-speed jacquard machine may be made computer controllable using a relay or the like. As the narrow loom 3, a high-speed non-threaded loom is used, preferably a needle type loom, for example.

Input data to the control computer 1 is sent, for example, from a host computer 5 in FIG. 1, to which an optical character reader (OCR) is connected. This type of input device may additionally be a typewriter or a light pen, but it is desirable to have one that can read individual data quickly, and most preferably OCR, which can easily recognize handwritten characters. The data read by this input device may be temporarily stored in the memory of the host computer 5, and then sent all at once to the control computer 1, or may be sent to the computer 1 at the same time. Therefore, the input device described above can also be directly connected to the control computer 1 via a suitable interface or the like. Although the computers 1 and 5 perform data communication using a normal modem interface (RS232C),
It is also possible to record individual data on a magnetic disk, magnetic tape, etc. in the host computer 5, and to read this with a magnetic disk device or tape recorder connected to the control computer 1. As shown in FIG. 2, the host computer 5 can also read a plurality of control computers via a controller 7, and a jacquard machine and a narrow loom are respectively connected to each control computer. For these narrow looms, items that cannot be easily changed using pattern signals are set for each woven label width, woven structure, weft and warp type, etc., and the control computer of each narrow loom is configured to Only the individual data is sent to the host computer 5.
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(Function) The woven label 8 manufactured by the method of the present invention is illustrated in FIG. is generally white in color. Using a needle-type loom that can weave 12 narrow tapes at the same time,
The minimum number of woven labels 8 is 12. By the method of the present invention, approximately 3,000 sheets can be processed in one day using 12 sheets as a set.
A woven label 8 can be produced. As a result, even a small number of woven labels 8 can be manufactured at relatively low cost, making it possible to use beautiful woven labels as personal name labels.

(Example) As shown in FIG. 1, the control computer 1
It has a memory 4 in which digitized patterns of characters, symbols, figures, etc. are written, and the character patterns are, for example, two types for all Hiragana characters, two types for all English characters, Gochitsu type and Italic type, and typefaces. Some of them are classified into large, medium and small (see Figure 4).
There are also patterns for numbers, and the numbers are divided into large, medium and small. Symbol patterns include a cutlet, comma, and dash, and graphic patterns include a telephone mark and several types of outer frames.
The control computer 1 is connected to a host computer 5 via a modem interface 11, and a RAM 12 for temporarily storing input data and an OCR 6 for reading the contents of a personal card 13 are connected to the computer 5. This card 13 has
All you need to do is handwrite your name, phone number, address, blood type, etc., and use OCR6 to check the shape and position of these characters.
automatically recognized. Further, the type of font, the size of the characters, the type of outer frame, the color of the characters and outer frame, the required number of sheets, etc. can be specified by selecting an appropriate mark position.

The electromagnetically controlled jacquard machine 2 and the needle-type narrow loom 3 are equipped with a buffer memory 14 into which pattern signals from the control computer 1 are input. The operation signal output from the buffer memory 14 is transmitted to the solenoid coil 1 via the AND element 15 of the Jia Card machine 2.
The switch member 17 of 6 is opened and closed. An iron core 18 is housed in the solenoid coil 16 so as to be able to move back and forth, and a horizontal needle 19 connected to the iron core is connected to a coil spring 20.
is pulled towards the right side of the drawing. In the jacquard machine 2, one horizontal needle 19 corresponds to one vertical needle 21.
Usually, this set acts on one warp yarn, and the number of stitches used reaches several hundred, so it is necessary to install excitation circuits corresponding to the number of needles used. The other part of the operation signal from the buffer memory 14 is used to energize each relay (not shown) of the loom 3 to select an appropriate color yarn by a weft selector, or to stop sending out and winding the warp and weft yarns. etc.

The individual input data read by the OCR 6 is accumulated in the RAM 12 of the host computer 5, and sent in at any time in response to an output command from the control computer 1. The input data to the control computer 1 may be individually processed by executing a processing program as illustrated in FIG. 3, and the shapes and positions of all characters are already determined in the input data. First, the address of the designated character in the memory 4 is calculated based on the font and size specifications of the character, and the corresponding character is converted into a designated character pattern. Once this conversion is complete,
When an appropriate figure or symbol is specified, the address of the specified figure is calculated and the specified figure pattern is set at a predetermined position. Finally, the address of the specified outer frame is calculated, and both vertical frame patterns of the specified outer frame are automatically positioned and set according to the positions of all characters and figures. At the same time, horizontal line patterns corresponding to the vertical frame portions are continuously set above and below between both vertical frame portions to form a horizontal frame pattern, thereby creating a desired pattern on the woven label 8 as shown in FIG. A rectangular annular outer frame can be obtained. The woven label pattern obtained in this way forms an individual pattern signal S1 together with the color thread selection information and sheet number information from the input data, and is immediately sent to the buffer memory 14. The operation signal S2 output from the buffer memory 14 enters the AND element 15, and another part of the operation signal S3 from the memory is transmitted to the loom 3 to control color thread exchange, weft insertion, etc. Loom 3
The rotation of the crankshaft (not shown) is sensed by a sensor, and a negative synchronizing signal S4 is generated every rotation, and upon input of this signal, the switch element 22
A trigger signal S5 is generated from the buffer memory 14, which signal S5 enters the buffer memory 14. By inputting the trigger signal S5, the operation signal S2 is output, and the negative synchronization signal S
4 and passes through an AND element to form an open/close signal S6. When the opening/closing signal S6 is positive, the switch member 17 closes and current flows through the solenoid coil 16, absorbing the iron core 18 and moving the horizontal needle 19 to the left. By this movement, a specific vertical needle 21
can be tilted so that only the warp threads associated with the warp needles are opened. When the opening/closing signal S6 becomes negative, the switch member 17 opens and the coil spring 20
to return the horizontal needle 19 to the right.

The manufactured woven label 8 is illustrated in FIG. 4, and the width of the label can be up to 18 mm and the length can be up to about 20 cm. The letters 9, figures 10, etc. on the woven label 8 are red, blue,
It can be arbitrarily selected from four colors, green and gray, and the ground color is white. Although the illustrated woven label 8 has a plain weave structure using polyester fiber yarn,
Naturally, it is also possible to use other natural or synthetic fiber yarns to create a bonito weave, satin weave, or the like.

(Effect of the invention) When woven labels are manufactured by the method of the present invention, even if the number of labels manufactured is small, the woven labels can be woven continuously at high speed using a high-speed jacquard machine and a narrow loom. Can be done. At this time, there is no need to stop the weaving equipment to replace paper patterns, paper tape, etc., and the pattern is automatically changed in the jiacard machine. Therefore, according to the method of the present invention, when the number of woven labels to be manufactured is not in the tens of thousands, but in the case where a small number of woven labels are woven in a wide variety of types, the unit manufacturing cost of the woven labels can be significantly lower than in the past. Moreover, it becomes possible to weave the woven label in a short time. By the method of the present invention, the woven label is
In addition to being used in large quantities by clothing manufacturers, they can also be used as personal name labels at schools, workplaces, etc. These woven labels are not only aesthetically superior but also superior in durability compared to handwritten or printed labels.
By using the method of the present invention, you can sell custom-made woven labels with your full name, phone number, blood type, etc., or create a unique fashion by using woven labels that combine appropriate symbols and shapes. It is possible.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram schematically explaining the woven label manufacturing method according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is a partial block diagram showing a modification of the woven label manufacturing method, and Fig. 3 is a block diagram used in the control computer in the method of the present invention. Flowchart schematically showing the processing program, No. 4
1 to 6 are plan views each illustrating a woven label manufactured by the method of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Control computer, 2... Jia card machine, 3... Loom, 4... Character/figure pattern memory, 5... Host computer, 6... Optical character reading device, 8... Woven label.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. Individual input data written in handwritten characters is read from a personal card by an optical character reader, the input data is temporarily stored in the memory of a host computer, and the input data is read as an output command from a control computer. On the other hand, a texture pattern in which various characters, symbols, and figures are digitized is written in advance into the memory of the control computer, and data is input from the pattern memory based on the input data to the control computer. Reads the specified pattern information and automatically converts it into a pattern for woven labels,
Furthermore, by forming individual pattern signals along with information on color thread selection and number of pieces, and sequentially outputting these pattern signals to a high-speed jacquard machine and a narrow loom, personal name labels can be continuously woven in small numbers at a time. A method for producing a small number of woven labels. 2. The method according to claim 1, in which a needle loom is used as the narrow loom.