Method and apparatus for automatic steaming and stacking of socks.

摘要

A machine for ironing and piling up socks comprising: - a circular plate (1) with horizontal central shaft (12); - an electric motor (2); - several flat forms (10) for supporting the socks, distributed so that they are equidistant around a circumference of the said plate (1), extending out from the same face of the plate (1) and pointing substantially tangentially with respect to the latter and with a horizontal shaft (13); - a curved cam (3) located on the opposite side from the forms (10) with respect to the plate (1) in order to control the rotation of each form (10) in interaction with a corresponding feeler (15) with return spring (16); - a chamber (4) for steaming and pressing the socks; - a chamber (5) for pressing and drying the socks; - a gripper (6) for removing the sock thus ironed, in the position with the leg and foot horizontal, acting in correspondence with the zone of the foot (14) and in order to deposit it on a horizontal conveyor belt (7) located below; - several suction nozzles (9) supported by a horizontal arm (90) for picking up and vertically lifting the sock thus extracted and with defects removed in order to transfer it onto a separate moving support surface; - means for signalling and memorising the position of the support forms (10) with a defective sock on them and for activating the said gripper (6) and the said arm (90) with a device of the PLC type which can be associated with a push-button controlled by the operator.