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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2003
Filed:
May. 28, 1998
Yoshizou Nakamura, Kagawa, JP;
Tokai Co., Ltd., Takamatu, JP;
Abstract
Cleaning of dirty rectangular sheets of fabric must proceed through such steps as laundering, dewatering, drying, spreading, and ironing. At present, the spreading step remains yet to be automated and, therefore, must be manually carried out. Several methods and apparatuses are disclosed which enable a rectangular sheet of fabric to be spread by gripping the rectangular sheet of fabric at one corner thereof and another corner diagonals to the one corner and suspending the rectangular sheet of fabric in the shape of an inverted triangle and, after the edge of the rectangular sheet of fabric is deprived of a twist and is consequently straightened, gripping the rectangular sheet of fabric at an arbitrary corner and a point terminating an arbitrary width of an edge extended from the arbitrary corner and spreading the rectangular sheet of fabric by means of the grips. The methods and apparatuses enable the spreading step to be automated. Thus the whole process for cleaning dirty rectangular sheets of fabric is automated by this invention.
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