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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2017
Method and apparatus for feeding items of laundry to a laundry treatment device, preferably a mangle
Herbert Kannegiesser Gmbh, Vlotho, DE;
Wilhelm Bringewatt, Porta Westfalica, DE;
Thomas Klarhorst, Vlotho, DE;
Arthur Malikowski, Detmold, DE;
Engelbert Heinz, Vlotho, DE;
Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH, Vlotho, DE;
Abstract
Items of laundry are fed to mangles by insertion machines, which have a spreading device with moveable spreading clips which spread out and center a front transverse edge of the item of laundry upstream of a feed conveyor. A plurality of loading stations are located upstream of the spreading device. The spreading clips retrieve an item of laundry from the loading stations, which, in the case of outer loading stations, requires long movement distances of the spreading clips, which reduces the cycle time of the insertion machine. The invention makes provision to transfer items of laundry from outer loading stations to transfer clips which move the items of laundry from the outer loading stations into the vicinity of the center of the feed conveyor, then transfer the item of laundry to the spreading clips in the center of the feed conveyor, thus reducing the travel distances of the spreading clips.