Sewing installation for fabric articles

摘要

A sewing installation for fabric articles, comprising a first material handling device which transfers the fabric articles from a stockpile to a second material handling device having endless conveyor belts. A lifting device is provided for raising the conveyor belts for the introduction of the fabric articles over a portion of their length and for lowering the conveyor belts for the pick-up and further conveyance of the fabric articles to at least one sewing machine. The lifting device comprises movable lifting elements which engage from below in turn on the bottom drums of the conveyor belts. The lifting elements are arranged so taht they can be moved back and forth substantially parallel to the conveyor belts and can be driven in the direction of conveyance when in a raised state and in the opposite direction when in a lowered state. Scanning elements, which detect the ends and the beginnings of fabric articles in series, control the lifting and lowering movement of the conveyor belts as well as the lifting and lowering movement and the back and forth movement of the lifting elements. The conveyor belts of the second material handling device are constructed to circulate continuously in the raised and lowered state.