Method and apparatus for feeding items of laundry to a laundry-treatment device, in particular to at least one loading conveyor
AssigneeHerbert Kannegiesser GmbH
InventorsWilhelm Bringewatt, Engelbert Heinz, Jürgen Sielermann
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for a transfer operation of items of laundry to be automated by a handling device, which is designed for example in the form of a handling robot. Up until now, items of laundry have been transferred usually manually from a supply conveyor to loading conveyors of, for example, feeding machines. This is work-intensive and time-consuming.
Claims20
A method for feeding items of laundry to at least one loading conveyor, comprising transferring a respective separated item of laundry to the at least one loading conveyor, wherein the respective item of laundry is transferred to the respective loading conveyor by a handling device.
An apparatus for feeding items of laundry to a laundry-treatment device having a supply conveyor and a feeding machine, the feeding machine having at least one loading conveyor, and further comprising a handling device arranged between the supply conveyor and the at least one loading conveyor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.