METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY LAYING, CUTTING AND REMOVING, ON AND FROM A CONTINUOUSLY MOVING CONVEYOR

摘要

A method for automatically cutting products, composed of a plurality of elementary pieces, such as items of clothing in general, shoes, leather goods, sofa upholstery and any other similar product, including the steps of: acquiring all the geometric characteristics and defectiveness characteristics of the material to be cut and storing all the above-described characteristics in an electronic memory so that they can be sent or retrieved automatically in real time for subsequent processing; optimizing the shapes to be cut in the material acquired in the previous step in a fully automatic manner and taking simultaneously into account all the characteristics of the acquired material and all the characteristics and rules according to which the elements that constitute the product must be cut and then assembled; removing (E), on said conveyor, said pieces cut in the previous step and managing them in singleproduct mode or as a pack; and sending, by computerized control system which controls the entire synchronization of the preceding steps in real time all the information concerning the correct operation of the entire production sequence.