Equipment for the inspection and steam pressing of knitted products
AssigneeS.R.A. Saldatrici Rotative Automatiche S.R.L.
InventorBenito Manini
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Abstract
The equipment comprises a carousel (2) provided with a plurality of forms (3) designed to receive the products and stations, outside the carousel, for the loading and inspection (9) of the product, for setting (11) in a chamber and for discharge (13). On the carousel there are provided a plurality of units, each having guide means (29) for the radial sliding of a sliding support (31) on which the corresponding form (3) lies in a radial plane. Each of the stations (9, 11, 13) comprises a servo mechanism capable of moving said support to the outside of the carousel or in the opposite direction.
Claims26
Equipment for the inspection and pressing of knitted products such as pantyhose, bodies and other knitted garments, comprising a carousel equipped with a plurality of forms designed to receive the products and rotate with intermittent motion to progressively present each of the forms to stations for loading and inspecting the product, for heat treatment in a chamber and for discharge, characterized in that it comprises:
- on the carousel, a plurality of units positioned close to each other and each forming guide means for the radial sliding of a sliding support on which the corresponding form lies in an approximately radial plane;
- servo mechanisms for radially moving said support outside the carousel and within the carousel, at least at the loading, setting and discharge stations;
- and, outside the carousel, apparatus for the loading and inspection, for the setting and for the discharge of the garments.
Equipment for the inspection and steam pressing of knitted products;
- the whole as described above and represented by way of example in the attached drawing.
An apparatus for processing garments, the apparatus comprising:
- a carousel rotatable about a carousel axis;
- a plurality of guides arranged around said carousel;
- a plurality of forms, each of said forms being planar and holdable of one of the garments;
- said each of said forms includes a sliding support receivable in said plurality of guides, said sliding supports and said guides being arranged to hold said forms substantially radially on said carousel with respect to said carousel axis, said sliding supports and said guides also being arranged to slide said forms substantially radially on said carousel into and out of said carousel, said carousel rotating with said forms held substantially radially;
- a plurality of processing stations arranged around said carousel and radially outside said carousel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.