Herbert Kannegiesser Gmbh

Alexander Serikow

Engelbert Heinz

Lars Herzog

Jörg Sielmann

Christian Herzberg

Rene Pleitner

Soenke Dethlaff

René Pleitner

In apparatuses for automatically folding items of laundry, items of laundry of different lengths usually are folded in an irregular sequence, resulting in idling and/or delays in particular in the longitudinal-folding station (). The invention provides for determining the length of each item of laundry () upstream of the longitudinal-folding station () and for accelerating short items of laundry as they are transported through the longitudinal-folding station (), whereas larger items of laundry are slowed down in the longitudinal-folding station (). Following completion of the longitudinal-folding operation, the respectively folded item of laundry is located at the end of the longitudinal-folding station () and, immediately following completion of the longitudinal folding, is transported away out of the longitudinal-folding station (). This avoids unnecessary idling times, and for relatively long items of laundry to be folded longitudinally during continuous, relatively slow onward transportation through the longitudinal-folding station ().

Method of folding items of laundry

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Alexander Serikow