A method for manufacturing a firearm cleaning patch includes: providing a sheet of a material; cutting a plurality of hex shaped patches from the sheet of a material; and perforating or marking at least one slit on at least one hex shaped patch. A firearm cleaning patch and a method for cleaning the barrel of a firearm are also described.

A flexible material transport system for fabric and a system for continuous fabric workflow is presented. The flexible material transport system comprises a printing machine, a material web transporter connected to the printing machine, a material accumulator connected to the material web transporter, and a cutting machine connected to the material accumulator, wherein the material accumulator is configured to feed printed fabric from the material web transporter into the cutting machine, and wherein the material web transporter comprises a plurality of rollers configured to control movement of the fabric from the printing machine to the material accumulator and onto the cutting machine. The system can also comprise a heater and/or an image scanner. The system for continuous fabric workflow comprises two or more of the flexible material transport systems. Information regarding the fabric can be tracked for local or centralized reporting and additional data processing.

A garment production system, comprising a virtual development environment configured to receive and store in a database thereof body information relating to a user, establish measurements for the user based on the body information, display, on a display device connected to the virtual development environment, a virtual representation of the user using the established measurements, customize one or more garments for the user based on the established measurements, display, on the display device, a virtual representation of the one or more customized garments on the virtual representation of the user, receive and store in the database personalization information from the user regarding the one or more customized garments, and alter the one or more customized garments and the virtual representation thereof based on the received personalization information for manufacture thereof.

A method for assembling cable wrapping tapes. From an adhesive tape parent roll, strip-like adhesive tapes (11), each having two cut edges (12a) on the sides, are produced from a textile material which has an adhesive coating (12) on one side, by cutting in the drawing direction of the parent roll. The cutting is performed using an ultrasound-excited cutting tool (1) and wherein the cutting is performed using a cooled cutting tool (1). An adhesive tape (11), having a strip-like textile carrier material (13) and an adhesive coating (12) applied to one side and two cut edges (12a) on the sides. The cut edges (12a) are created by ultrasound cutting, and the textile carrier material (13) of the carrier is fused to its cut edges (12a). No adhesive coating (12) exists on the cut edges (12a); which are free of lint and threads.

A piece of fabric for manual sewing projects and method of creating said projects with said fabric, consisting of a piece (1) of cloth that incorporates, with identical or different colors, prints and/or textures, the figures (2) for creating a certain patchwork design (3), each figure (2) being marked with a seam line (4) that defines the outline thereof and a cutting line (5) that defines a perimeter border that is optionally pre-perforated. The method only comprises obtaining said piece (1), cutting the figures (2) along the cutting line (5) and sewing them together. Optionally, the patchwork design (3) is selected and the piece (1) is ordered with the desired figures (2) and colors, prints and/or textures.

A method of scribing abrasion aesthetics, patterns, images, serial numbers, ply markings and/or other information, such as sizing or care information, on fabric such as denim, before or during the fabric cutting process is provided. The method comprises loading the panel abrasion software, pattern marker software, and fabric scribing software; placing the fabric on a flat surface under at least one laser; laser scribing ply numbers, serial labels, fabric markers, and panel abrasions on the fabric; cutting the fabric into fabric lengths; spreading the pre-abraded and pre-marked fabric lengths on top of each other to create multiple plies in precise alignment; cutting shaped panels along the lines of the pattern marker with a conventional knife, laser, or other appropriate cutting tool; and stacking the abraded, labeled and shaped panels robotically or manually for sewing.

A method of scribing abrasion aesthetics, patterns, images, serial numbers, ply markings and/or other information, such as sizing or care information, on fabric such as denim, before or during the fabric cutting process is provided. The method comprises loading the panel abrasion software, pattern marker software, and fabric scribing software; placing the fabric on a flat surface under at least one laser; laser scribing ply numbers, serial labels, fabric markers, and panel abrasions on the fabric; cutting the fabric into fabric lengths; spreading the pre-abraded and pre-marked fabric lengths on top of each other to create multiple plies in precise alignment; cutting shaped panels along the lines of the pattern marker with a conventional knife, laser, or other appropriate cutting tool; and stacking the abraded, labeled and shaped panels robotically or manually for sewing.

The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for producing a quilt block on a single die. According to a preferred embodiment, the die cut assembly of the present invention preferably includes a cutting rule formed into a pattern including a group of geometric cutting elements. According to a further preferred embodiment, the group of geometric cutting elements preferably includes a first set of cutting element including a first pentagon shape, a second pentagon shape, and a first quadrilateral shape which are connected by shared edges. According to a further preferred embodiment, the group of geometric cutting elements of the present invention preferably further includes a second set of cutting elements which includes a third pentagon shape, a fourth pentagon shape and a second quadrilateral shape, which are a mirrored copy of the first set of cutting elements.

A cutting guide having a seam allowance recess and methods of cutting a piece of material with such cutting guide.

A method and an apparatus for the production of fabric or leather articles, particularly articles to be padded, comprising the steps of: automatic sewing, at an embroidery machine (3), of superimposed cloths (20d) according to a stored template that contains a pattern of reference sewing lines (S1-S5); applying a plurality of markings in the form of respective additional seams, according to a corresponding arrangement of reference markings (M1-M4) provided in the stored template; optically capturing (5) a sewn portion of the cloths and determining any displacement of the markings applied with respect to the arrangement of the reference markings (M1-M4); on the basis of the displacement and of the mutual arrangement of the reference markings (M1-M4) and of the pattern of the sewing lines (S1-S5) that are stored, determining by interpolation the actual pattern of the sewing lines that is present on the sewn cloths (20d); automatically cutting (53) along the sewing lines on the basis of the actual pattern obtained with the interpolation.