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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 14, 1993
Akio Yunoki, Toyama, JP;
Kazunori Anda, Toyama, JP;
Tsutomu Fudaki, Toyama, JP;
Toru Shimizu, Toyama, JP;
Yoshida Kogyo K.K., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cloth pick-up apparatus is used which comprises pressing mechanism for a pressing one end of the top cloth piece from the upper side, a catch roller having on a part of its circumferential surface catch needles and movable toward and away from the other end of the top cloth piece, the catch roller being adapted to be driven for rotation to feed the top cloth piece in a direction remote from the pressing mechanism, a feed roller rotatable in timed relation with the catch roller, and a pressure roller movable toward and away from a cloth-piece-feed surface of the feed roller and rotatable in cooperation with the feed roller. The catch roller is rotated touching one end of front face of the cloth pieces with the other end of the cloth piece pressed by the pressing roller so that the upper most cloth piece is caught by the catch needles and, at the same time, is raised. Then the cloth pieces are fed one by one to the next station as the individual cloth piece is clamped between the feed surfaces of the feed roller in driven rotation and the pressure roller.