Apparatus for feeding flatwork articles to a laundry processing

Details Apparatus for feeding flatwork articles to a laundry processing Apparatus for feeding flatwork articles to a laundry processing

1993-01-27

1995-05-23

Crowder, Clifford D.

Textiles: ironing or smoothing

Accessories

Sheet shake out or spreader devices

D06F 6902

Patent

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054169917

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for feeding flatwork articles to a laundry processing unit, comprising a conveyor belt, at the front end of which flatwork articles can be transferred from a spreading arrangement comprising a pair of carriages running transversely to the longitudinal direction of the conveyor belt, each carriage being provided with a releasable clamp, into which a corner of a flatwork article is inserted, the pair of carriages provided with drives to move the carriages away from each other from a point opposite to the middle of the front end of the conveyor belt to an extended position, in which the upper edge of the flatwork article is spread out, transfer apparatus for the flatwork article to the front end of the conveyor belt, including a pair of rollers, one of which is movable from a retracted position under the upper roller of the conveyor belt and from an advanced position preferably in contact with the spread flatwork article at a short distance from its spread leading edge, and in which the other roller is movable between two positions in such a way that the belt is tight in the two positions taken up by the first roller, and a suction box thereunder.

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