Patent ID: 6993863
Filing Date: 2006-02-07
Classification: D06F

Abstract:
1. Transfer device for an industrial flatwork ironer used to stretch flat square or rectangular pieces of textile for subsequent processing, between a conveyor supplying the pieces and a second conveyor on which the pieces are spread, the transfer device comprising: a vertical passageway between the supply conveyor and the second conveyor in which each piece is successively brought into vertical position and grasped by two corners of said piece situated downstream; two clamps movable on a beam oriented transversally toward the conveyors; a blowing ramp situated on one side of the supply conveyor in relation to the vertical plane in which the piece of fabric is situated, nozzles of which are oriented toward the second conveyor; an apparatus for grasping the piece outfitted with an aspiration apparatus situated on a side of the conveyors between an advanced position of taking the piece of textile and a retracted position of depositing the piece on the second conveyor; a fixed abutment opposite the apparatus for grasping the piece, situated on a same side of the vertical plane as the supply conveyor, against which the grasping apparatus is supported during opening phases of the clamps and of transfer of an upper extremity of the piece on the grasping device.