Abstract: A tool allows a user to create new designs for apparel and preview these designs before manufacture. Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. Based on a laser input file with a pattern, a laser will burn the pattern onto apparel. With the tool, the user will be able to create, make changes, and view images of a design, in real time, before burning by a laser. Input to the tool includes fabric template images, laser input files, and damage input. The tool allows adding of tinting and adjusting of intensity and bright point. The user can also move, rotate, scale, and warp the image input.

Abstract: In a first aspect, a first apparatus is provided for a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process. The first apparatus includes (1) a rotatable member; (2) an end effector adapted to receive and retain a conditioning disk; and (3) an elastic device disposed between the rotatable member and the end effector. The elastic device is (a) adapted to rotate the end effector via a torque from the rotatable member, and (b) flexibly extensible so as to impart a force to the end effector while permitting the end effector to deviate from a perpendicular alignment with the rotatable member in order for a conditioning surface of the conditioning disk to conform to an irregular polishing surface of a pad being conditioned. Numerous other aspects are provided, including methods and apparatus for using liquid or gas to deter polishing slurry or debris from entering the conditioning head.

Abstract: A garment image abrasion system and method for abrading an image into a garment is disclosed. The garment image abrasion system includes a template member having a template surface in the shape of an image desired to be abraded into a garment. In the disclosed method, the template member is placed under the fabric of the garment and an abrading tool is used to apply pressure between the abrading tool and the template surface to abrade the fabric.

Abstract: A system and method for chemical mechanical polishing of a substrate is disclosed in which a polishing pad is conditioned by directing a fluid jet to the surface of the polishing pad. Thus, the use of expensive consumables, like conditioning pads comprising diamonds, can be avoided. Furthermore, the risk of substrates being scratched by diamonds lost from the conditioning pad is avoided.

Abstract: A carding machine includes a main carding cylinder having a circumferential surface carrying a cylinder clothing thereon; and a cooperating with the main carding cylinder. The traveling flats assembly includes a plurality of clothed flat bars arranged in a series and a flat drive for moving the clothed flat bars in an endless path having a working path portion along which the flat bar clothings cooperate with the cylinder clothing and a return path portion; and a grinding assembly for sharpening the cylinder clothing. The grinding assembly includes a grinding flat bar adapted to be positioned in the series of clothed flat bars to be moved by the flat drive in unison with the clothed flat bars; and a grinding element mounted on the grinding flat bar. The grinding element is in a contacting relationship with the cylinder clothing along the working path portion of the traveling flats assembly.

Abstract: A method of shaping a friction facing or lining is disclosed. A lining blank is positioned on a core member and a template having the desired groove patterns and periphery is mounted on the blank. Particles are directed against the template and the blank to form the lining grooves and peripheries. The particles also remove hanging fibers. In another embodiment, a template is placed over a friction facing or lining which has grooves formed by other methods. The particles remove any undesired material or hanging fibers from either the grooves or periphery or both.