Garment sorter

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1997-03-31

1999-10-12

Terrell, William E.

Classifying, separating, and assorting solids

Precedent preparation of items or materials to facilitate...

Sorting special items or sorting by methods and apparatus...

209583, 1984654, B07C 502

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059643544

ABSTRACT:
A garment sorting apparatus has a screw conveyor, a flexible chain, a steel frame and a garment identifier. The screw conveyor supplies hanger-supported shirts and pants to the chain which moves the garments to sorting and receiving stations. Each shirt and pant has a visibly coded label which provides customer and routing information. The garment identifier has two visual readers, one above the other, which provide information read from the labels to a computer. The readers may comprise conventional optical character recognition devices or digital bar code scanners, depending upon the code contained in the labels. The garment identifier also comprises two sensors for determining the presence and type of garment on the screw conveyor. If the garment is a shirt, the first sensor signals the computer to prepare the upper reader. If the garment is a pant, the computer prepares the lower reader. A stabilizer restrains swinging motion while the garment is in the field of view.

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