Process for aligning a laundry article and device for...

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2006-02-15

2008-08-19

Izaguirre, Ismael (Department: 3765)

Textiles: ironing or smoothing

Accessories

Sheet shake out or spreader devices

Reexamination Certificate

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07412789

ABSTRACT:
A laundry article is drawn over a support surface by a positioning gripper and is set down there so that the rearmost tip comes to rest on an edge plate and the remainder on a transverse conveyor which moves the laundry article to a corner gripping apparatus. The latter is then moved to the edge plate, optical sensors located above said edge plate registering edge points of the laundry article. The position of the corner is determined whereupon the corner gripping apparatus approaches the tip determined and a corner gripper is advanced from the gripping edge so that a lower jaw thereof grips under the edge plate. An upper jaw is then lowered onto the corner of the laundry article. The corner gripper is then withdrawn so that the corner is clamped between the upper jaw and the lower jaw of the corner gripper.

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