Patent ID: 9139382
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
1. Laundry transfer apparatus comprising: a rotatable disk carousel for receiving laundry items on a laundry receiving surface thereof, a suction nozzle located relative to said laundry receiving surface for drawing laundry items from said laundry receiving surface into a laundry delivery conduit, a programmable controller, and a plurality of height sensors for sensing the height of a stack of laundry within an individual radial band of the laundry receiving surface of said rotatable disk carousel and providing an input signal to said programmable controller, wherein said programmable controller is so programmed as to locate said suction nozzle to draw in laundry items from the top of the highest stack of laundry and in the event that the height of a stack of laundry within each of a plurality of said individual radial bands are the same height, to draw in laundry items from the top of the highest stack of laundry in the closest individual radial band.