Automatic garment portion loader
AssigneeRussell Corporation
InventorsFletcher D. Adamson, James M. Caldwell
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Abstract
A garment portion loader utilizes a plurality of photo-electric sensors to determine the positions of garment portions at selected stations including a delivery assembly which supplies garment portions for loading, a pick-up assembly which removes garment portions from the delivery assembly and places them on an alignment conveyor, a smoothing device which removes wrinkles from the garment portions when positioned on the conveyor, and an alignment assembly which aligns the garment portions with a pre-established standard relative to the alignment conveyor. A rejection assembly is provided to remove garments which are not properly aligned. The loader may be controlled by a microprocessor receiving input from the sensors and controlling the various assemblies.
Claims15
Apparatus for loading precut garment portions in an automated hemming production line comprising:
- (a) horizontal conveying means for moving said garment portions along said production line;
- (b) pick-up means for transferring a single garment portion from the top of a stack of such garment portions to said conveying means;
- (c) smoothing means for removing wrinkles from said garment portion when positioned on said conveying means;
- (d) automated means for aligning an edge of said garment portion along a predetermined line relative to said conveying means;
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- (e) rejection means responsive to said automated means for removing misaligned garment portions from said production line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.