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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2000
Richard N. Codos, Warren, NJ (US);
M. Burl White, Jacksonville Beach, FL (US);
L&P Property Management Company, South Gate, CA (US);
Abstract
Ticking for the production of mattress covers is preprinted with a plurality of different patterns by a computer controlled printer that prints in response to pattern data communicated from a control computer. The pattern data is organized and communicated by the computer so that a print head, for example, can scan the ticking material, such as in rows across the width of a web, and print different patterns. For example, different border panels can be oriented along a web and positioned side-by-side across a web and each printed with a different pattern. Top and bottom panels having corresponding patterns can be printed on the same or a different web. Identifying data for matching the panels of a mattress product can be provided in data files in the same or a different computer or can be printed on the fabric along with the patterns on the panels. The printed data can be manually or machine readable so that cutting and slitting of the panels from each other and the quilting and combining of the panels for assembly of a mattress product can be carried out manually or automatically.