# US 10,246,814 B2 · Buffering device in automatic cloth feeder

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- Number: US 10,246,814 B2
- Document ID: US10246814B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/525,619
- Filed: 2015-04-17
- Published: 2017-11-23
- Granted: 2019-04-02
- Earliest claimed: 2014-11-25
- Assignees: Totofolder Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Totofolder Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Yozo Maejima
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10246814B2

## CPC

- D06F 67/04: Arrangements for feeding or spreading the linen
- D06F: LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES

## Abstract

A buffering device in an automatic cloth feeder that includes a cloth standby section which accumulates the cloth. There is provided a cloth supply section 11 that can supply a quantity of cloth exceeding a processing quantity of feeding so as to proceed with feeding in an automatic cloth feeder without congestion in the automatic cloth feeder performing a process in which the cloth is introduced to a feeding conveyor at a substantially central portion in a carrying direction, right and left trailing end portions are altered by crumpling the cloth from the right and left sides, the cloth is held in a deposition section, and the cloth is fed into a process. A cloth standby section 14 in which the cloth to be carried stands by temporarily is set at a preceding stage of a feeding conveyor 20 or at a following stage thereof.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A buffering device in an automatic cloth feeder comprising:
a cloth supply section that can supply a quantity of cloth exceeding a processing quantity of feeding so as to proceed with feeding in the automatic cloth feeder without congestion in the automatic cloth feeder performing a process in which the cloth is introduced to a feeding conveyor at a substantially central portion in a carrying direction, right and left trailing end portions of the cloth are crumpled from the right and left sides by guide members, the cloth is held in a deposition section, and the cloth is fed into the process,
wherein a cloth standby section in which the cloth to be carried stands by temporarily is set at a preceding stage of the feeding conveyor and at a following stage thereof; and
wherein a straightening unit is provided at the following stage of the feeding conveyor in order to cause the cloth held in the deposition section to be in a straightened state by pulling the cloth to the right and left sides, and the straightening unit is arranged at a plurality of places so as to be the cloth standby section.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The buffering device in an automatic cloth feeder according to claim 1,
wherein the cloth supply section which is equipped with a clamp holding cloth at a substantially central portion between the right and left sides in a movement direction and moving upward to the feeding conveyor from below is arranged at the preceding stage of the feeding conveyor as the cloth standby section.

### Claim 3

A buffering device in an automatic cloth feeder comprising:
a cloth supply section that can supply a quantity of cloth exceeding a processing quantity of feeding so as to proceed with feeding in the automatic cloth feeder without congestion in the automatic cloth feeder performing a process in which the cloth is introduced to a feeding conveyor at a substantially central portion in a carrying direction, right and left trailing end portions of the cloth are crumpled from the right and left sides by guide members, the cloth is held in a deposition section, and the cloth is fed into the process,
wherein a cloth standby section in which the cloth to be carried stands by temporarily is set at a preceding stage of the feeding conveyor or at a following stage thereof, A buffering device in an automatic cloth feeder comprising:
a cloth supply section that can supply a quantity of cloth exceeding a processing quantity of feeding so as to proceed with feeding in the automatic cloth feeder without congestion in the automatic cloth feeder performing a process in which the cloth is introduced to a feeding conveyor at a substantially central portion in a carrying direction, right and left trailing end portions of the cloth are crumpled from the right and left sides by guide members, the cloth is held in a deposition section, and the cloth is fed into the process,
wherein a cloth standby section in which the cloth to be carried stands by temporarily is set at a preceding stage of the feeding conveyor and at a following stage thereof, and
wherein the cloth standby section includes a circulation carrying device which is a dedicated portion for buffering, is equipped with multiple clamps which hold the cloth along a circulation route of the circulation carrying device, and has a configuration in which the cloth is attached to the clamp at the substantially central portion between the right and left sides in the movement direction.