| 摘要 |
Apparatus for automatically boarding, stripping and stacking hosiery. Interiorly heated boarding forms are mounted on a table for indexing from a loading station at which an operator places hosiery on the forms to a stripping station at which the forms are presented in sets, with spaced clamps engaging the hosiery on the forms of the set at the stripping station and removing them longitudinally of the forms. The clamps are mounted on a carrier that moves on a carriage with the carriage moving laterally of the forms to move the clamps into clamping position and the carrier moving in tracks on the carriage to move the clamps vertically for stripping the hosiery longitudinally from the forms and then to a horizontal position at which the clamps dispose the hosiery in laid out disposition above a stacking table for release onto a collection board. The forms are spaced apart a distance equivalent to the width of the hosiery with the hosiery deposited on the stacking table at this spacing. The stacking table is shiftable laterally to receive the hosiery of alternate sets of hosiery in the spaces between the hosiery of the preceding set to form a layer. Periodically the stacking table is rotated 90 DEG to form a stack of crosswise layers, and the table is lowered in increments to maintain the level at which the hosiery sets are received the same throughout building of the stack.
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