Back to results
US 9,630,780 B2Granted
Clamp for an item of laundry
AssigneeHerbert Kannegiesser GmbH
InventorsJürgen Sielermann, Lars Herzog, Engelbert Heinz
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A clamp for feeding items of laundry to a laundry treatment machine that can be easily actuated and that can enhance performance and reliability when items of laundry are fed, for example, to a mangle or the like, by configuring at least one clamping element of the clamp as a clamping lever having an insertion aid with a guideway for the sliding insertion of a section of the item of laundry into a clamp mouth.
Claims18
A clamp (18) for an item of laundry (10), comprising:
- a clamp housing (26);
- a clamp mouth (32);
- at least one movable clamping element comprising at least one clamping lever (37, 38) pivotally mounted on the clamp housing (26) about a pivot axis (39), the at least one clamping lever (37, 38) having a first end (41, 42) configured as a nose-like projection (50, 51) protruding into the clamp mouth (32);
- and
- a common preloaded spring (40) for preloading the at least one clamping lever (37, 38),
- wherein the at least one clamping lever (37, 38) comprises an insertion aid having a guideway (47, 48) for the guided insertion of a section (24) of the item of laundry (10) into the clamp mouth (32), wherein the guideway (47, 48) ascends diagonally on an underside of the clamp housing (26) toward the clamp mouth (32) and extends into the clamp mouth (32).
3 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.