Cloth cutter bed slat cleaner with vacuum removal feature
AssigneeGerber Garment Technology, Inc.
InventorRichard Kuchta
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Abstract
A device for cleaning a bristle bed of a conveyor type trained between the rotatable end units employs a carriage which is moveable relative to the conveyor member transversely of its advancement direction and includes a cleaner head which is engagable with individual slats indexed to a cleaning location in line with the head to accomplish cleaning by moving the head laterally of each slat to effect removal of debris contained within the bed.
Claims12
In a cutting machine of the type having a bristle bed formed from an endless conveyor member trained over rotatable end units located at opposite ends of a frame and having a given width taken tranversely to the advancement direction of the conveyor and a given length taken along the advancement direction of the conveyor, a bristle bed cleaning apparatus comprising:
- a carriage supported on said frame adjacent the conveyor for movement in a direction extending generally parallel to the given width dimension of the conveyor between one location and another location;
- positioning means secured to the frame to define a cleaning station on the frame relative to the conveyor member and being drivingly connected to the carriage for controllably driving the carriage between said one and said another locations;
- cleaning means mounted to said carriage for movement therewith between said one and the another locations for engaging with the bristle bed of the conveyor so as to clean a discrete area of the bristle bed as defined generally by a discrete portion of the length of the conveyor member and the distance travelled by the carriage between said one and the other locations;
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- means carried by the carriage and connected with the cleaning means for moving the cleaning means into and out of engagement with one portion of the length of the conveyor at a time.
A cutting machine comprising:
- a frame;
- a bristle bed formed from an endless conveyor member trained over rotatable end units located at opposite ends of the frame and having a given width taken transversely to the advancement direction of the conveyor member and a given length taken along the advancement direction of the conveyor member;
- a carriage supported on said frame adjacent the conveyor for carrying a cleaning means for movement in a direction extending generally parallel to the given with dimension of the conveyor between one location and another location;
- positioning means secured to the frame to define a cleaning station on the frame relative to the conveyor member and being drivingly connected to the carriage for controllably driving the carriage between said one and other locations;
- said cleaning means mounted to said carriage for movement therewith between said one and the other locations for engaging with the bristle bed of the conveyor so as to clean a discrete area of the bristle bed as defined generally by a portion of the length of the conveyor and the distance traveled by the carriage between said one and the other locations;
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- means carried by the carriage and connected with the cleaning means for moving the cleaning means into and out of engagement with one portion of the length of the conveyor at a time;
- said positioning means including a way fixed to said frame and said way being disposed in a direction substantially orthogonal to the advancement direction of said conveyor member, said carriage being movable along said way, said conveyor member having means for indexing discrete portions of its length to a cleaning position corresponding to a position adjacent said cleaning means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.