Method and device for gripping rectangular textile items and/or for feeding rectangular textile items to a treatment installation

A method for gripping a rectangular textile item,

• wherein the singularized textile item is gripped at one corner (18), the textile item, while configuring regions in which the textile item overlaps so as to form double tiers, hangs freely from this corner (18), and the textile item by a holding means (37) is reoriented so as to configure at least part of a free periphery of the textile item that emanates from the held corner (18),
• wherein the textile item at a spacing from the held corner (18) is pneumatically acquired by a holding means (37) at a location (42), the textile item, while entraining the pneumatically acquired location (42), is initially pulled apart by the holding means (37), the textile item thereafter is gripped in a clamping manner at or in the proximity of the pneumatically acquired location (42), and the textile item by further displacing the holding means (37) while maintaining the clamping hold is further pulled apart until at least part of a periphery of the textile item is configured below the held corner (18), and
• wherein, upon pulling apart the textile item, the textile item is mechanically gripped by the gripper (39) of the holding means (37) at the location (42) that is held by the suction head (38) of the holding means (37), and the suction head (38) is thereafter released from the textile item.

A method for gripping a rectangular textile item, wherein the textile item hanging from a clamp (18) that holds a corner (18) is reoriented so as to form at least part of a freely hanging periphery of the textile item that emanates from the held corner (18), wherein the textile item is reoriented from the held corner (18) thereof in the state hanging in front of a wall (29) by a holding means (37) that acquires at least one location (42, 43) of the textile item, and displacing of said holding means (37) so as to configure at least part of a periphery of the textile item hanging in front of the wall (29) that emanates from the corner (18), and gripping of a portion (46) of the periphery of the textile item hanging in front of the wall (29).

A method for feeding rectangular textile items to a treatment installation, wherein a respective singularized textile item is gripped at a portion (46) of a periphery and pulled onto or over a conveyor (21) of the treatment installation that transports the textile item to the treatment installation, wherein in the case of a textile item having peripheries of unequal length it is determined before or after gripping the portion (46) of the periphery of the textile item whether this is a portion of a short or a long periphery, and as a function of the result of this determination, the textile item by way of the gripped portion (46) of its periphery is pulled onto the conveyor (21) in a targeted manner so as to be transverse or longitudinal on said conveyor, wherein it is determined with the aid of at least one image-generating installation whether the portion (46) of the gripped periphery of the textile item that is acquired by the clamp (45) is a long periphery or a short periphery.

A device for gripping rectangular textile items, having a clamp (19) for holding a corner (18) of the textile item, and a clamp (45) for acquiring a portion of at least part of a periphery of the textile item that hangs from the corner (18), wherein the clamp (19) that holds the corner (18) of the textile item is assigned a displaceable holding means (37) for reorienting the textile item,

• wherein the holding means (37) is displaceable along an oblique path, wherein the holding means (37) has a suction head (38) and a gripper (39),
• wherein the clamp (19) is displaceable along a vertical path, and an end of the oblique path of the holding means (37) that points toward the vertical path of the clamp (19) lies below an opposite end of the oblique path, and
• wherein the vertical path of the clamp (19) and the oblique path of the holding means (37) are disposed on a wall (29) in front of which the respective textile item hangs from the clamp (19).

A device for gripping rectangular textile items, having a clamp (19) for holding a corner (18) of the textile item, and a clamp (45) for acquiring a portion of at least part of a periphery of the textile item that hangs from the corner (18), wherein the clamp (19) that holds the corner (18) of the textile item is assigned a displaceable holding means (37) for reorienting the textile item,

• wherein the holding means (37) is displaceable along an oblique path, wherein the holding means (37) has a suction head (38) and a gripper (39),
• wherein the clamp (19) is displaceable along a vertical path, and an end of the oblique path of the holding means (37) that points toward the vertical path of the clamp (19) lies below an opposite end of the oblique path, and
• wherein the vertical path of the clamp (19) and the oblique path of the holding means (37) are disposed on a wall (29) in front of which the respective textile item is able to be reoriented by the holding means (37).

A device for gripping rectangular textile items, having a wall (29) that is assigned at least one image-generating installation, having a clamp (19) for holding a corner (18) of the textile item, and having a clamp (45) for acquiring a portion of at least part of a periphery of the textile item that hangs from the corner (18), wherein the clamp (19) that holds the corner (18) of the textile item is assigned a displaceable holding means (37) for reorienting the textile item.