D06F 89/00
Apparatus for folding textile articles with or without stapling
D06F89/00 (Apparatus for folding textile articles with or without stapling) appears on 163 US grants and 147 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D06F- Granted patents
- 163
- Published applications
- 147
- Assignees
- 77
- Inventors
- 301
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2021 | 7 | 15 |
| 2022 | 15 | 21 |
| 2023 | 9 | 12 |
| 2024 | 18 | 6 |
| 2025 | 10 | 12 |
| 2026 | 3 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Robotic laundry devices and methods of use22 Sep 2026US 12,741,385 B2
- Folding assistance device and folding apparatus including folding assistance device14 Jul 2026US 12,680,225 B2Totofolder Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- System for indexing and orienting garments7 Apr 2026US 12,595,620 B2
- Method for treating laundry items30 Dec 2025US 12,509,815 B2Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH
- Clothes folding machine18 Nov 2025US 12,473,687 B2LG Electronics Inc.
- Systems, methods and suspendable robotic devices for manipulating objects30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216863 A1Foldibot Solutions Ltd
- Clothes-folding machine, and method for controlling clothes-folding machine11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160015 A1LG Electronics Inc.
- Sheet Folding Device7 May 2026US 2026/0125846 A1
- Distributed networked laundry machine control and operation using laundry robotics systems26 Mar 2026US 2026/0085466 A1Clarified Inc.
- Tidying robot for folding laundry5 Mar 2026US 2026/0062856 A1Clutterbot, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- High production folder construction91US 5,556,360 AChicago Dryer Company · 1996
- Folder construction85US 5,435,802 AChicago Dryer Company · 1995
- Folding apparatus for automatic folding of flatwork84US 5,540,647 AJensen AG Burgdorf · 1996
- Apparatus for folding a portion of a textile length80US 6,309,336 B1Texpa Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. · 2001
- Folder construction46US 5,300,007 AChicago Dryer Company · 1994