Herbert Kannegiesser Gmbh

Lars Herzog

Engelbert Heinz

Friedhelm Mehrhoff

Jürgen Sielermann

Jörg Sielmann

Christian Herzberg

Alexander Serikow

Rene Pleitner

René Pleitner

A clamp for feeding items of laundry to a laundry treatment machine that can be easily actuated and that can enhance performance and reliability when items of laundry are fed, for example, to a mangle or the like, by configuring at least one clamping element of the clamp as a clamping lever having an insertion aid with a guideway for the sliding insertion of a section of the item of laundry into a clamp mouth.

Clamp for an item of laundry

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

Laundry articles are spread out by input machines in front of a feed conveyor which feeds the spread-out laundry article to a mangle. The respective laundry article is previously fed by a transfer device to a draw-on device onto which the laundry article is drawn. In known input machines, relatively complicated transfer devices are provided. According to the invention, the transfer device is provided with a rectilinear conveying section ascending to the draw-on device. The laundry article is thereby transported to the draw-on device by the transfer device in the plane in which it is transferred to the transfer device. Such a transfer device needs to have only a simple set-up. Since the laundry article remains in the plane in which it is fed to the transfer device, it can be brought by the transfer device into a favorable initial position for being drawn reliably onto the draw-on device.

Method and apparatus for feeding a laundry article to a mangle or the like

An apparatus for feeding items of laundry to a mangle having loading clamps () arranged on conveyors () having endless toothed belts (), the loading clamps () being driven in circulation, and if the respective toothed belts () are assigned a plurality of the loading clamps (), the cycle times can be reduced.

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