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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2014
Herbert Kannegiesser Gmbh, Vlotho, DE;
Jorg Sielmann, Bielefeld, DE;
Christian Herzberg, Bad Salzuflen, DE;
Alexander Serikow, Bunde, DE;
Lars Herzog, Bielefeld, DE;
Rene Pleitner, Bielefeld, DE;
Engelbert Heinz, Vlotho, DE;
Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH, Vlotho, DE;
Abstract
In apparatuses for automatically folding items of laundry, items of laundry of different lengths usually are folded in an irregular sequence, resulting in idling and/or delays in particular in the longitudinal-folding station (). The invention provides for determining the length of each item of laundry () upstream of the longitudinal-folding station () and for accelerating short items of laundry as they are transported through the longitudinal-folding station (), whereas larger items of laundry are slowed down in the longitudinal-folding station (). Following completion of the longitudinal-folding operation, the respectively folded item of laundry is located at the end of the longitudinal-folding station () and, immediately following completion of the longitudinal folding, is transported away out of the longitudinal-folding station (). This avoids unnecessary idling times, and for relatively long items of laundry to be folded longitudinally during continuous, relatively slow onward transportation through the longitudinal-folding station ().