Movable Spreader Clamps for Precise Cloth Feeding Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cloth feeding apparatuses struggle to achieve both optimal feeding and correct delivery positions simultaneously, particularly due to challenges in transferring cloth between charger and spreader clamps, leading to suboptimal cloth straightening and quality.
Innovation Solution
The spreader device is configured with adjustable clamps that can receive cloth from charger stations at various angles and heights, allowing for a well-defined transfer to the conveyor, ensuring the cloth is straightened and delivered in a parallel orientation to the conveyor, enabling optimal feeding and delivery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a charger station is used to convey cloth to the spreader device, then the cloth can be fed from floor level, but the cloth cannot be transferred in a well-defined manner achieving both optimal feeding and delivery positions
Solution Approach 1:
The spreader clamps are made movable and adjustable in position and orientation, allowing dynamic adaptation to receive cloth from the charger station at varying angles and heights. This enables the system to maintain precise cloth transfer despite the complexity of floor-level charging station operation.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the spreader device is configured at sufficient height for free suspension, then cloth can hang freely, but the charger station must convey cloth upwards creating transfer difficulties
Solution Approach 1:
The solution addresses the vertical height issue by making the spreader clamps adjustable in multiple dimensions, including vertical position and angular orientation. This allows the clamps to adapt to cloth arriving from the charger station at different heights and angles, maintaining stable cloth suspension without requiring complex fixed-height charger station configurations.
3Device complexity
If the spreader clamps are fixed in position, then the device structure is simple, but the cloth cannot be received and delivered at optimal positions simultaneously
Solution Approach 1:
The spreader clamps are designed as movable components that can adjust their position and orientation dynamically. This allows the system to achieve precise cloth delivery positioning by adapting the clamp configuration to the specific requirements of each cloth piece, rather than relying on fixed rigid structures.
Solution Approach 2:
The adjustable spreader clamps serve multiple functions: receiving cloth from the charger station, holding it during straightening, and delivering it to the conveyor at the optimal position. This multi-functionality is achieved through the movable design that can adapt to different operational requirements.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This configuration allows for efficient straightening and delivery of cloth to subsequent treatment devices, maintaining the desired quality by ensuring the cloth is received and transferred in a well-defined manner, regardless of charger station positioning, thereby improving the overall feeding process.
Implementation Method 1
delivered to a transverse vacuum boom where the fore edge is then, in a delivery position (A), laid on the top face of thereof
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to an apparatus (1) for feeding pieces of cloth to a device for treating clothes, said apparatus (1) comprising: one or more sets of spreader clamps (20) arranged to be moveable away from each other for straightening of a fore edge of said pieces of cloth and for delivering said piece of cloth to the conveyor (40). At least one set of spreader clamps is configured for performing a movement between a receiving (M) and a delivery (A) position, where the spreader clamps in the receiving position (M) have a first predetermined orientation relative to the conveyor (40); and wherein the spreader clamps (20) in the delivery (A) position have a second predetermined orientation, where the straightened piece of cloth is essentially in parallel with the conveyor (40). Hereby it is accomplished that the pieces of cloth can be received in the spreader clamps (20) from a random feeding position on the charger station (70).