Cloth piece folding device
AssigneePurex Corporation
InventorTetsuya Nakahara
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Abstract
A cloth piece folding device includes a conveyor (12) to transfer a cloth piece (Y), a bending unit (32) to fold the cloth piece (Y), and a controller (50) to control operation of the bending unit (32). The bending unit (32) includes a bending plate (32a) and an actuator (32d) to make the bending plate (32a) move forward and backward. The actuator (32d) is capable of controlling an operating speed. The controller (50) adjusts a driving speed of the bending plate (32a) by controlling an operating speed of the actuator (32d) depending on a transfer speed of the conveyor (12). The driving speed of the bending plate (32a) is adjusted by the controller (50). This synchronizes the transfer speed of the conveyor (12) and the driving speed of the bending plate (32a) with each other.
Claims2
A cloth piece folding device comprising:
- a conveyor to transfer a cloth piece;
- a bending unit to fold the cloth piece;
- and
- a controller to control operation of the bending unit,
- wherein the bending unit comprises:
- a bending plate;
- and
- an actuator to make the bending plate move forward and backward, the actuator being capable of controlling an operating speed, and
- the controller adjusts a driving speed of the bending plate by controlling an operating speed of the actuator depending on a transfer speed of the conveyor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.