Methods of assembling apparel products having boronate adhesives

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11634616-B1
Application number	US-202217810284-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Jun 30, 2022
Priority date	Jun 30, 2022
Publication date	Apr 25, 2023
Grant date	Apr 25, 2023

Abstract

Embodiments provide methods of assembling an apparel product. The methods include applying a composition to a portion of a major component of the apparel product or a portion of a minor component of the apparel product. The portion of the minor component is coupled with the portion of the major component via the composition. The major component forms a base portion of the apparel product and is configured to be supported and worn at least partially over a portion of a wearer. The minor component forms a secondary portion configured to be coupled to the major component with an adhesive. The composition is converted to the adhesive to form the apparel product. The adhesive includes a material having a boronate ester bond.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of assembling an apparel product, comprising:
applying a composition to a portion of a major component of the apparel product or a portion of a minor component of the apparel product;
coupling the portion of the minor component with the portion of the major component via the composition, the major component forming a base portion of the apparel product and configured to be supported and worn at least partially over a portion of a wearer, and the minor component forming a secondary portion configured to be coupled to the major component with an adhesive; and
converting the composition to the adhesive to form the apparel product, the adhesive comprising a material having a boronate ester bond.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein applying the composition comprises applying the composition by a heat gun, printing, spraying, painting, dipping, roll on, screen printing, or combinations thereof.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein a pH of the composition is about 7 to about 10.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the apparel product is selected from the group consisting of a shirt, a pant, a skirt, a coat, a dress, a sweater, a body suit, and combinations thereof.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the major component comprises a material selected from the group consisting of a polyester, a polyamide, a cotton, mixtures thereof, and combinations thereof.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the composition is applied at a thickness of about 0.025 mm to about 5 mm.

7. The method of claim 1 , applying a second composition at least partially between a first and second portion of the apparel product, each of the first and second portion forming a portion of the major component, the minor component, or a second minor component, wherein the second composition has a second pH.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising forming the composition from one or more monomers, the one or more monomers comprising boronic acid moieties bonded to aromatic rings of the one or more monomers.

9. A method of assembling an apparel product, comprising:
applying a first composition to a portion of a major component of the apparel product;
applying a second composition to a portion of a minor component of the apparel product; and
contacting the portion of the major component with the portion of the minor component via the first composition and the second composition, the major component forming a base portion of the apparel product and configured to be supported and worn at least partially over a portion of a wearer, and the minor component forming a secondary portion configured to be coupled to the major component with an adhesive comprising a boronate ester bond, wherein contacting the first and second compositions forms the adhesive and apparel product.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first composition comprises a boronic acid compound and the second composition comprises one or more monomers bonded to at least one oxygen, the monomers selected from the group consisting of an acrylate, a methacrylate, an acrylic, ethylene, propylene, a styrene, a vinyl acetate, a vinyl ester, and combinations thereof.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first composition comprises one or more monomers comprising at least one oxygen, the monomers selected from the group consisting of an acrylate, a methacrylate, an acrylic, ethylene, propylene, a styrene, a vinyl acetate, a vinyl ester, and combinations thereof; and the second composition comprises a boronic acid compound.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein forming the adhesive comprises comingling the first composition and the second composition with one another.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the adhesive comprises a polymer having boron-oxygen covalent bond.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the boron-oxygen covalent bond is a cyclic boronic ester bond.

15. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first composition comprises monomers having two or more boronic acid moieties.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the first composition comprises 1,3-benzenediboronic acid.

17. A method of assembling an apparel product, comprising:
combining a boronic acid containing monomer with a Lewis base containing monomer, the boronic acid including a monomer portion selected from the group consisting of an acrylate, a methacrylate, an acrylic, ethylene, propylene, a styrene, a vinyl acetate, a vinyl ester, and combinations thereof, the Lewis base containing monomer including a monomer portion selected from the group consisting of an acrylate, a methacrylate, an acrylic, ethylene, propylene, a styrene, a vinyl acetate, a vinyl ester, and combinations thereof;
applying the composition to a major component of the apparel product or a minor component of the apparel product, the major component forming a base portion of the apparel product and configured to be supported and worn at least partially over a portion of a wearer, and the minor component forming a secondary portion configured to be coupled to the major component with an adhesive;
contacting the portion of the minor component of the apparel product with the portion of the major component of the apparel product via the composition; and
converting the composition to form the adhesive and the apparel product, the adhesive having a boronate ester bond.

18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising introducing one or more additives to the composition in an amount of about 1 wt. % to about 40 wt. % of total additives on a basis of total weight of the adhesive.

19. The method of claim 17 , wherein the adhesive is a reaction product of a compound having the structure:

wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , X and W are each independently hydrogen, a linear hydrocarbon, a cyclic hydrocarbon, or a branched hydrocarbon, wherein each of n and m are independently integers between 1 and 1000.

20. The method of claim 17 , wherein the Lewis base containing monomer is a diol.

Assignees

• CreateMe Technologies LLC

Inventors

• Becer Caglar Remzi
• Mackinnon Daniel John
• Li Yongqiang

Classifications

• C08G75/14 Primary

  Polysulfides · CPC title

• A41H43/04

  Joining garment parts or blanks by gluing or welding (mending garments by adhesives or adhesive patches A41H27/00) {; Gluing presses} · CPC title

• C09J185/04 Primary

  containing boron · CPC title

• C09J2203/358

  for garments and textiles · CPC title

• C09J5/00

  Adhesive processes in general; Adhesive processes not provided for elsewhere, e.g. relating to primers · CPC title