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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2023
Monotony.ai, Inc., Watertown, MA (US);
Madeline R. Hickman, Arlington, MA (US);
Samuel Duffley, Somerville, MA (US);
Noa M. Rensing, West Newton, MA (US);
Kayla M. Swiston, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Jesse Sielaff, Norfolk, MA (US);
Benjamin D. Bixby, Newton Highlands, MA (US);
Monotony.ai, Inc., Watertown, MA (US);
Abstract
Autonomously operated systems and methods of packing unbound folded laundry articles are described. A system of stacking a plurality of folded laundry articles onto a receiving surface includes two or more side-by-side parallel extendable surfaces configured to extend at least one of independently and simultaneously, at least one sensor configured to detect a presence of one or more folded laundry articles on at least one of the surfaces, and a controller in operative communication with at least one drive of the two or more surfaces and the at least one sensor. The controller is configured to extend a loading end of at least one of the surfaces out upon receiving a signal from the at least one sensor, and retract the loading end to deposit the one or more folded laundry articles atop at least one of the receiving surface and one or more previously deposited folded laundry articles.