Pattern Development

Engineering Applications Level 1

Explain Pattern Development

Where are patterns used?

• Sheet metal industry

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• Packaging Industry

Sheet Metal Industry

• Many metal objects are made from sheet of metal that are laid out, cut, and formed into required shapes and fastened together.

i) Shaped by bending, folding, die stamping or rolling.

ii) Fastened by riveting, seaming, soldering, or welding.

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• Examples of surface developments from sheet metal would be air conditioning ducts, boxes, buckets, filing cabinets and household utensils like metal spatulas, pot and pans.

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Packaging Industry

• Packaging is a very large industry that uses pattern development.
• Both engineering and artistic skill are needed when creating packages, because each package design must meet many requirements.

i) To protect the contents during shipping of fragile objects.

ii) Be attractive for sales appeal.

iii) For durability—some packages are meant to be used for a short time then thrown away, others are made to last a long time.

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Materials used in Surface Development

• Designers use many different materials and varying thickness.

i) Thin or medium –thick stock paper. This material can be folded easily for items like boxes; others may need glue on their tabs. For example: book covers, envelopes, juice cartons and paper cups.

ii) Cardboard, corrugated board and other materials require an allowance for thickness. For example: boxes that have a separate cover or boxes made of two parts that slide together.

iii) Most patterns for surface developments are made from plastic.

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Terms

• Pattern – The development of an object that is rolled or folded.
• Surface developments -- also known as stretchouts
• Stretchout– A flat pattern or development used in laying out, cutting and folding lines on flat stock.
• Circumference – The distance around a circle. The stretchout line is equal in length to the circumference of a cylinder.

Terms

• Truncated cylinder – A cylinder that has the end cut off by an inclined surface.
• Parallel line development – A pattern created by drawing the edges of an object as parallel lines.
• Radial line development – A pattern created by drawing the edges of an object radiating from a single point.

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Cylinder

• Rectangular View
• Circular View
• Pattern View

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Truncated Cylinder

• Top View (circular)
• Front View (rectangular)
• Truncated Pattern Development

Box

• This would be the pattern for a box with all sides and including the tabs and folds.

Cone

• Create measuring lines that radiate from a single point using a radial-line development typically makes developments of pyramids and cones
• The tip of a cone is called the apex.
• A cone consists of planar and single-curved surfaces.

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Pyramid

• Tetrahedron or Triangular Pyramid

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• Oblique Pyramid

Elbows

• When two truncated prisms or cylinders meet at an angle other than 180 degrees, an elbow is formed.
• The type of elbow depends on the number of surfaces you have.
• For example this one has surfaces A,B,C,D therefore it is considered a Four-piece Elbow.

Stretch Out Line

• The full length of a pattern when completely unfolded is represented by the stretch-out line.
• Another name given to surface developments by industry is stretchouts.

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Crease Lines

• The lines representing the location of folds or bends are called crease-lines.
• Crease, also called fold or bend lines, are represented by a small circle or an X.

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Tabs and Laps

• A tab or lap is where additional material is added to surface developments for the purpose of assembly.

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Finishing techniques in pattern development

• Hemming and Seaming– folding edges to make them stiffer
• Wiring – process of reinforcing the open ends of articles by enclosing a wire. Here the drafter must add a band of material 2.5 times the diameter of the wire

Types of wiring, seaming and hemming

Double flange

Rolled Edge

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Wired Edge

Single Hem

Single Flange

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