Loading mechanism for shirts

Apparatus according to any one of the preceding claims, further comprising a knife for splitting said garment from said attachment location at said pallet.

Apparatus according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the garment is a top garment in a stack of garments.

Apparatus for picking a garment having a first side and a second side and fitting the garment on a pallet having a front and a back such that the first side and the second side of the garment are on the front and the back sides respectively of the pallet, the apparatus comprising:

• a picking arm configured to approach the garment and then withdraw towards the pallet;
• at least one adherence location on said picking arm, the adherence location for contacting the garment at a contact location on an outer facing surface of the first side of the garment and causing adherence of the garment, at the contact location, to the adherence location, thereby causing said picking arm to pull said first side over said pallet, wherein said uncontacted second side slides under said first side onto said back side of said pallet, the adherence location comprising a chill point to freeze liquid at said contact location, to attach said contact location by freezing.

Apparatus for providing chilling to mobile chill points, the apparatus comprising:

• a chiller unit configured to provide liquid coolant;
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• at least one flexible tube carrying the liquid coolant to the vicinity of the mobile chill points to evaporate the coolant in the vicinity of the chill points, thereby to chill the chill points, the tube having a first end fixed to the chiller unit and a second end in the vicinity of the mobile chill points.