Seamless clothing

ABSTRACT

Seamless garments are created ina single and continuous knitting process that eliminates side seams. This gives more comfortable andbetter-looking clothes lead to the production of seamless garments. There aresome problems in seams. Seams tend to pucker up. Seamless garments are moreadvantage, which is the garment do not have to be cut and sewn. The seamlessmachines produce individual garments. There are more than 10 differentoperations involve in producing a basic garment with seams, but for seamlessgarments the process involves only one or two operations. At present 8-10percent of Lingerie products made by seamless methods. Seamless method isimproving day to day, its take 25 to 35 % less time to make than cut-and-sewmethods. In this method complete garment based on computer programming, thatallow different stitching patterns.

INTRODUCTION

The cutting and sewing process is utilized to produce garments, but seamless garments technology creates one entirecomplete garment with minimal or no cutting and sewing process. As consumersdemand more comfortable and better fitting clothes. There are a number ofdifferent methods that can be used to produce seamless products. The seamless knits are in tubularshape, which is produce by high elongation yarns, Circular knitting machineswere mostly used to make seamless cloths. This leads to saving of production costs up to 35 percent compared to the cut and sew method.

METHODS OF PRODUCTION

Seamless clothing can beproduce by following methods:

Partially machine process (Pasting method)
Fully machine process

PASTING METHOD

This method andsystem makes possible a seamless garment finish that is more comfortable than afinish having seams and other imperfections due to the need to tuck/sew edgesand joints. The disclosed seamless technology employs a thin film of adhesivethat is preferably ether-based polyurethane although other adhesives areacceptable. This adhesive is pre-laminated on at least one surface prior tolamination to another surface under conditions to control adhesion, stretch,breathability, and longevity of the garment.

A fabriclaminate comprising at least a first fabric, a second fabric and a heatsensitive adhesive layer, the adhesive layer pre-laminated on the first fabricin the form of a film tacked on the first fabric by application of pressure andtemperature less than that required for lamination followed by placement of theadhesive layer between opposed surfaces of the first and second fabrics foradhesively securing said first and second fabrics together along their opposedsurfaces in a lamination step by positioning the second fabric on the pre-laminatedfirst fabric and applying sufficient pressure and temperature.

FULLY MACHINE PROCESS

Seamless garment can be produce by following Machines.

V-bed flat knitting machines
Circular knitting machines

Seamless clothing machine manufacturing company, Santoni in Brescia is currently leading the market; although other companies like Sangiacomo, Italy and Merz, Germany are also famous players in similar knitting machine technologies.

LATEST DEVELOPMENT: DIGITAL STITCH CONTROL SYSTEM

With the advent of the computer age, the advantages of digitizing knit data became apparent. Moreover, because of the inherent problems of inconsistent loop formation associated with analogue knitting, digital knitting was an obvious necessity for the precision required in shaping. Shima Seiki seized the opportunity by patenting the world's first digital stitch device, the Digital Stitch Control System (DSCS), which was first featured on the SET091FF computerized flat knitting machine back in 1982.

With DSCS, it is possible to control loop length digitally and on-the-fly. Once the DSCS-equipped machine is programmed with the desired loop length, it continuously monitors yarn consumption and adjusts yarn feed and tension through each course to yield consistency throughout the fabric with tolerance to within 1%. Such accuracy achieved by DSCS becomes absolutely crucial to WHOLEGARMENT production.

APPLICATIONS

Sleeveless Shirt
Inner wears
Air bags
Hand gloves
Hats
Socks
Sweaters
Trousers
Skirts
Bandages

CONCLUSION

The development and production of seamless products provides a special performance as comfortable to body and save the production time. Now a days most of the customers want to buy seamless products. Images But these methods have limitations i.e. limited production speeds and product has structural limitations.

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