Method and apparatuses for supplying items of laundry to a feeding machine

US11174588B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Wilhelm Bringewatt · Porta Westfalica, DE
• Markus Nolte · Hille, DE
• Engelbert Heinz · Vlotho, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 19, 2019
• Grant date: Nov 16, 2021
• Expiry date: Nov 19, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G2201/0229
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The automatic supply of items of laundry to a feeding machine for supplying the items of laundry to a mangle requires the formation of adjacent corners of an edge of the item of laundry, which edge is to be spread upstream of the feeding machine, which hitherto has not been able to be achieved automatically with sufficient reliability. The invention brings the respective item of laundry into a U-shaped configuration before same is supplied to the feeding machine and, starting from said configuration, to stretch apart said item of laundry with a spreading device having a conveyor cascade. This reliably forms the adjacent corners of the edge, which is to be stretched out, of the item of laundry, said corners being required for automatically feeding the item of laundry into the feeding machine. A reliable automatic supply of the respective item of laundry to the feeding machine is therefore ensured.