Feeding machine for sheets
AssigneeAmko B.V.
InventorsJacob van Rumpt, Martinus T. Vorstenbosch
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Abstract
Inserting machine destined to stretch and lay down washed sheets and the like wettish articles to be loaded in a mangle. Two corners of those sheets are attached to clamps connected to carts for movement in a continuous path. Conveyor mechanisms and belonging switches are provided to minimize the number of manipulations of the washed sheets and to take full advantage of the capacity of the mangle.
Claims19
Inserting machine, destined to stretch and lay down washed sheets and the like articles, suspended in clamps in a hang-out station, on a feed device of a mangle, characterized in that the clamps (9) are secured to carts (26) which are guided by means of driving members (11,13) along a continuous path having successive stations (A or G, 8, and B through F), said carts moving to a cart spread station (C) and then returning after stretching each time to a central store (8), the sheet, after being stretched (C), being taken over by a loading system (15) which feeds the sheet to a mangle.
An inserting machine for feeding stretched wet sheets to a mangle or the like, said machine comprising:
- a guide track system arranged in a continuous path;
- a plurality of carts individually movable on said track system, each said cart having a sheet receiving clamp thereon;
- a hang-out station in said track system and at which two corners of a sheet may be secured to a pair of carts, each corner in a separate clamp on an individual cart;
- a central store having a cart receiving rail piece therein, said rail piece being disposed so as to receive carts from said track system and to discharge carts back onto said track system;
- conveyor means in said central store for moving said rail piece intermittently from a cart receiving position to a cart discharge position, spreading means at said discharge position to engage a pair of said carts, each having a corner of a sheet clamped thereto, and move same in opposite directions to stretch the sheet;
- and a loading system to receive a stretched sheet from a pair of said carts and to feed said sheet to a mangle or the like, whereafter the said carts from which the stretched sheet was taken by the said loading system returned to the said track system for continuous movement back to a hang-out station for eventual return to the said central store and to a said rail piece therein with another sheet clamped thereto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.