Method of, and apparatus for, transporting and/or measuring items of laundry

摘要

Items of laundry (10) are fed, in laundries, to a laundry-treatment device with adjacent corners (25) of an upper edge (39) hanging beneath two clip carriages (22). It is customary for the items of laundry (10) to be stored in a sorted state on an interim basis upstream of the laundry-treatment device. The invention provides for adjacent clip carriages (22) of successive items of laundry (10) to be assigned in pairs to drivers (28) of a catch conveyor (26). The invention also provides for the sagging of the upper edge (39), and the lowermost location (40) of the lower edge (42), of the item of laundry (10) to be determined by a line-measuring device (26), in order for the item of laundry (10) to be identified in this way.

主权项

1. A method by means of which items of laundry (10) hanging on clip carriages (22) by adjacent corners (25) of one edge (39) are transported to a treatment device, wherein the clip carriages (22) are displaced along a rail (17) by drivers (28) which are moved along the rail (17), and wherein the clip carriages (22) are supplied to the driver (28) by a separating device (30) at the start (16) of the rail (17), wherein adjacent clip carriages (22) of successive items of laundry (10) are supplied to a respective driver (28) in pairs by the separating device (30).