D06F 89/02
Apparatus for folding textile articles with or without stapling: of textile articles
Official title: of textile articles to be worn, e.g. shirts
D06F89/02 (Apparatus for folding textile articles with or without stapling: of textile articles) appears on 95 US grants and 97 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- 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.
- Planning apparatus for determining an ablation probe parameter for a single ablation probe or for multiple ablation probes4 Nov 2025US 12,458,091 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- 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.
- Tidying robot for folding laundry5 Mar 2026US 2026/0062856 A1Clutterbot, Inc.
- Autonomous tiered laundry folding devices, systems, and methods of use11 Dec 2025US 2025/0376801 A1
- An adaptive fabric folding end-effector system18 Sep 2025US 2025/0290247 A1Centre for Garment Production Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Folded surgical gown for aseptic donning, apparatus and method for producing same42US 5,862,525 AKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. · 1999
- Clip for retaining a shirt or similar article of clothing in folded position on an insert33US 3,962,758 AHerbert Kannegiesser Kommanditgesellschaft · 1976
- Folded surgical gown for aseptic donning apparatus and method for producing same30US 6,062,444 AKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. · 2000
- Garment folding apparatus29US 6,360,927 B12002
- Folding device for apparel26US 5,011,052 A1991