US 11,326,301 B2Granted

Automatic cloth spreading machine

AssigneePurex Corporation

InventorsMakoto Yano, Yuichiro Yabe

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Abstract

An automatic cloth spreading machine, that keeps the number of pieces processed even in the event of failure in handling, includes a separating device for separating pieces of cloth one by one from a mass of cloth made of a plurality of pieces of cloth by cloth handling devices, an edge locating device for locating an edge of each of the pieces of cloth having been separated one by one, a spreading device for spreading the piece of cloth, the edge of which has been located, and a discharging device for discharging the piece of cloth having been spread to a subsequent step. The separating device includes multiple units of cloth handling devices that perform the same process, and the multiple units of cloth handling devices simultaneously perform at least one of single- or multiple-step processes of separating pieces of cloth one by one from the mass of cloth.

An automatic cloth spreading machine comprising

a separating device for separating a mass of cloth, the separating device having
a first conveyor and a second conveyor in line but configured to convey away from one another, the mass of cloth being provided to the first conveyor and the second conveyor simultaneously,
a first lifting device at an end of the first conveyor opposite the second conveyor,
a first temporary holding device configured to hold a first piece of cloth after the first piece of cloth is lifted by the first lifting device,
a first corner end locating device configured to receive the first piece of cloth from the first temporary holding device and locate a first corner of the first piece of cloth,
a first corner end receiving device configured to receive the first corner,
a second lifting device at an end of the second conveyor opposite the first conveyor,
a second temporary holding device configured to hold a second piece of cloth after the second piece of cloth is lifted by the second lifting device,
a second corner end locating device configured to receive the second piece of cloth from the second temporary holding device and locate a second corner of the second piece of cloth, and
a second corner end receiving device configured to receive the second corner, and
a pulling device configured to pull the first piece of cloth after receipt from the first corner end receiving device and pull the second piece of cloth after receipt from the second corner end receiving device,
the automatic cloth spreading machine further comprising
an edge locating device configured to locate an edge of each of the first piece of cloth and the second piece of cloth, both having been pulled,
a spreading device configured to spread the first piece of cloth and the second piece of cloth, the edge of which having been located, and
a discharging device configured to discharge the first piece of cloth and the second piece of cloth, both having been spread.

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Application

16/641,768Filed 11 Jul 2018

Priority

JP JP2017-16691831 Aug 2017

Published

US 2020/0392665 A117 Dec 2020

Granted

10 May 2022

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Classification6 codes

D06F 67/04
Details of ironing machines provided for in groups D06F61/00, D06F63/00, or D06F65/00: arrangements for feeding or spreading the linen
D06C 3/00
Stretching, tentering or spreading textile fabrics
D06C 2700/10
Finishing or decoration of textile materials, except for bleaching, dyeing, printing, mercerising, washing or fulling: guides or expanders for…
D06F 89/00
Apparatus for folding textile articles with or without stapling

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