APPARATUS FOR FOLDING T-SHIRTS

摘要

A machine for folding a T-shirt neatly around a card with two longitudinal folds and two transverse folds and with a minimum of wrinkling. The longitudinal folds are made around an elongated form at a longitudinal folding station by laterally movable, longitudinal folding blades while the T-shirt is confined between two conveyors which move at different speeds to compensate for the drag of the longitudinal folding blades. Transverse folding blades at first and second transverse folding stations respectively form first and second transverse folds by inserting appropriate portions of the T-shirt between corresponding closely spaced conveyors. The T-shirt is confined at all points to prevent slippage and to prevent unfolding of previously formed folds. Pins adapted to penetrate part way through the card serve as a means for delivering the card to the machine.