Cloth transfer apparatus
AssigneePurex Corporation
InventorsMakoto Yano, Hiroyuki Ideue
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Abstract
A cloth transfer apparatus allows a cloth to be attached to a traveling clamp efficiently without waste even when a corner of the cloth to be attached to the traveling clamp is specified. The cloth transfer apparatus includes: a plurality of independent traveling clamps; and a transfer rail circulating through a supply unit where a corner of the cloth is attached to the traveling clamp and a discharge unit where the cloth is delivered from the traveling clamp and allowing the traveling clamps to independently travel. In the supply unit: a branch point that allows the transfer rail to branch into a first supply rail and a second supply rail and a merge point that allows to the branched first supply rail and second supply rail to be merged.
Claims12
A cloth transfer apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of independent traveling clamps;
- a transfer rail configured so that the plurality of independent traveling clamps circulate through a supply unit while a corner of a cloth is attached to a traveling clamp of the plurality of independent traveling clamps and circulate through a discharge unit where the cloth is delivered from the traveling clamp and configured to allow the traveling clamps to independently travel on the rail;
- and
- in, before or after the supply unit, a branch point where the transfer rail branches into a first supply rail and a second supply rail and a merge point where the first supply rail and second supply rail merge;
- wherein
- the plurality of traveling clamps, the first supply rail and the second supply rail are configured so that the traveling clamp is attached to the corner while the traveling clamp is in the first supply rail and a second traveling clamp of the plurality of independent traveling clamps is attached to a second corner of the cloth while the second traveling clamp is in the second supply rail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.