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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 1992
Filed:
Apr. 09, 1990
Heinz J Gerber, West Hartford, CT (US);
Gerber Garment Technology, Inc., Tolland, CT (US);
Abstract
In a method and apparatus for cutting parts from hides from different shapes and sizes a digitizer and a cutter are provided which make it possible to digitize a hide at one time on the digitizer and to then cut it at a later time on the cutter with the hide when spread on the supporting surface of the cutter being given a shape and location exactly corresponding to its shape and location on the supporting surface of the digitizer. Therefore, the digitized representation of each hide may be used to create an efficient cuting marker for the hide which marker can then be used to cut the hide on the cutter without producing rejects or other cutting errors due to the location and shape of the hide on the supporting surface of the cutter not agreeing with those of the hide on the supporting surface of the digitizer. This arrangement allows keeping a large number of digitized hides in inventory and selecting from this inventory those hides which can be used most efficiently to produce the parts required to fill a given parts request.