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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 1991
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1989
Rolf Jung, Waiblingen, DE;
Andrew A Nalecz, Williamsville, NY (US);
Eastman Machine Company, Buffalo, NY (US);
Abstract
A cloth-spreading apparatus having an improved control for controlling the movement of a carriage assembly across an elongated table. The control includes one or more sensors in the form of photoelectric eyes (52-58) which are capable of sensing a light-reflective medium (60, 76) and nonreflective surfaces (72, 74 or 78), which sensed positions are processed by a controller (50) to cause an electric motor (42) to be slowed down when the carriage assembly (24) reaches a slowdown position and to be stopped or reversed when a stop position is attained. The sensors are in an 'on' state when the carriage assembly is moving and in an 'off' state when the carriage assembly is not moving.