Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
414013000 | LAUNDRY HANDLING DEVICE | 10 |
20080298930 | LINEN SPREADER APPARATUS AND METHOD - An article is selected and spread from a load of articles. A first clamp moves along a run to remove an article. By changing orientation of the run, articles may be removed from different locations. A second clamp rotates while holding the article. The rotation generally flattens out the article. A third clamp grabs a portion of the article and further spreads the article. This process may detangle or untwist the article. The untwisted article is dragged over a belt. The belt adjusts the amount of overhang on each side. A plate lifts a resulting edge. The article is clamped at that edge and dragged over a roller. The roller moves into contact with a conveyor. The conveyor conveys the article to find a leading edge. The article is then conveyed in a spread position. | 12-04-2008 |
20080304937 | Clothing Managing Apparatus - A clothing managing apparatus is provided. In the clothing managing apparatus, a panel coupling protrusion ( | 12-11-2008 |
20090092464 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FEEDING ITEMS OF LAUNDRY TO A LAUNDRY TREATMENT DEVICE, IN PARTICULAR A MANGLE - Items of laundry have to be stretched out by a spreading device ( | 04-09-2009 |
20110076115 | Laundry Shuttle System - A conveyor shuttle having a conveyor belt for conveying textiles across a wash alley from a washing machine (selected from among a plurality of washing machines) to a drying machine (selected from among a plurality of drying machines). The shuttle travels along the work alley among and between the washing machines and the drying machines. Some embodiments further include guide hardware to help guide soiled laundry into the washing machine. Some embodiments include an operator platform and an operator control system so that a human user can ride on the shuttle and help control various wash alley functions. | 03-31-2011 |
20120099947 | METHOD OF, AND APPARATUS FOR, SEPARATING AND/OR MEASURING ITEMS OF LAUNDRY - A reliable operation for sorting items of laundry automatically. For this purpose, provision is made for a plurality of simultaneously gripped items of laundry to be separated once they have been gripped by a gripping arrangement ( | 04-26-2012 |
20120308339 | SEPARATOR FOR ARTICLES OF LAUNDRY - A separator separates sheets from a bundle. Slack in the strap used to raise and lower a clamp is used to determine when the clamp reaches the bundle. A non-horizontal conveyor tilts beneath the clamp to receive multiple articles, and then tilts over another bin to deposit the articles. The second bin includes an angled surface, which is straightened to shift the articles for clamping. The clamp is supported by, but not attached to, a support connected with the drive. When the clamp reaches the pile, the clamp stops but the support may continue to move. The clamp is tillable. The article is transferred by an air jet onto a surface with a roller separated from the surface. Upon transfer, the roller forms a nip with the surface. The article is deposited on an exit conveyor having a flexible, raised portion. | 12-06-2012 |
20140193224 | Separator for Articles of Laundry - A separator separates sheets from a bundle. Slack in the strap used to raise and lower a clamp is used to determine when the clamp reaches the bundle. A non-horizontal conveyor tilts beneath the clamp to receive multiple articles, and then tilts over another bin to deposit the articles. The second bin includes an angled surface, which is straightened to shift the articles for clamping. The clamp is supported by, but not attached to, a support connected with the drive. When the clamp reaches the pile, the clamp stops but the support may continue to move. The clamp is tiltable. The article is transferred by an air jet onto a surface with a roller separated from the surface. Upon transfer, the roller forms a nip with the surface. The article is deposited on an exit conveyor having a flexible, raised portion. | 07-10-2014 |
20150071736 | Method of Transferring a Piece of Cloth and a Laundry Apparatus for Performing the Method - The invention concerns a method and corresponding apparatus of transferring a piece of cloth from a pair of spreader clamps to a conveyor via a transverse boom, where the piece of cloth is first suspended and straightened between the spreader clamps, then delivered to the transverse boom, and subsequently delivered from the transverse boom to the conveyor. Apart from that, a straightening of the fore edge of the piece of cloth is performed, seen in the direction of conveyance of the conveyor, after its delivery from the clamps to the transverse boom has been initiated, but before it is delivered to the conveyor. | 03-12-2015 |
20150361610 | CLOTHS SEPARATING DEVICE - Reduction of time and labor required for manually disentangling the bundle of cloths to some extent beforehand. A cloths separating device for disentangling a bundle of cloths consisting of a plurality of cloths tangled with one another includes: a cloths pick-up mechanism which holds a part of cloths on a cloths transport conveyor and picks the part of cloths, in a hanging state, obliquely upward; a pair of upper and lower compression conveyors, whose entrance is located so as to face a middle part of the cloths picked up in a hanging state, the clearance between the compression conveyors becoming narrower from the entrance toward an exit; and a cloths push-in mechanism which pushes the middle part of the cloths into the entrance of the compression conveyors. | 12-17-2015 |
20160024706 | Machine for spreading out and loading flat clothing articles with an auxiliary device that deposits and feeds flat clothing articles on a conveyor belt - A machine that spreads out and loads flat clothing articles with an auxiliary device that deposits and feeds the flat clothing articles on a conveyer belt. The auxiliary device is located above loading end ( | 01-28-2016 |