Purex Co., Ltd.

Yoo Hayashida

Hiroyuki Ideue

Masanori Kondo

Shinji Kato

To provide a cloth spreading device capable of shortening the waiting time until inputting work of a worker and achieving high production efficiency. A cloth spreading deviceincludes: a plurality of input units; a plurality of relay unitsprovided corresponding to the input units; and an extension unit. Each of the input unitsincludes: an input chuck; and an up-down moving machinethat moves the input chuckup and down. Each of the relay unitsreceives a cloth C from the input chuckhaving moved up to a transfer position and transfers the received cloth C to the extension unit. The input chuckhaving transferred the cloth C to the relay unitmoves down to an input position. Standby time of the input chuckuntil the relay unitbecomes ready to receive the cloth C can be shortened so that the input chuckcan be moved down without delay to the input position.

Cloth spreading device

A cloth spreading apparatus has a spread the remainder of a piece of cloth to smooth out every wrinkle, without requiring a dedicated assistant worker, including: a conveyor belt receiving an upper side portion of a piece of cloth having been spread in a right-left direction, pulls the upper side portion rearward, sequentially pulls up the remainder from a middle to a lower side portion, and ejects the entire cloth rearward. Also, a wrinkle smoothing unit that smooths out wrinkles in the remainder while the conveyor belt pulls up the remainder. The wrinkle smoothing unit has a pair of wrinkle smoothing clamps that clamp right and left side portions of the remainder being pulled up by the conveyor belt, and wrinkle smoothing clamp moving mechanisms that move the clamps upward and apart from each other in the right-left direction while the cloth is pulled up by the conveyor belt.

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Kagawa, Japan

Yoo Hayashida