Patent ID: 8845259
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: D06F

Abstract:
1. A method of transferring a piece of cloth from a pair of spreader clamps that releasably receive a pair of adjacent corners of the piece of cloth to a conveyor via a transverse boom, comprising: suspending and straightening the piece of cloth between the adjacent corners received and held by the spreader clamps by moving the spreader clamps away from each other and in a direction along the transverse boom; then delivering the piece of cloth to the transverse boom by opening the spreader clamps and subsequently transferring the piece of cloth from the transverse boom to the conveyor; wherein a fore edge of the piece of cloth is straightened by a shifting of the transverse boom and the moving of the spreader clamps, after initiating delivery of the piece of cloth from the spreader clamps to the transverse boom, but before the piece of cloth is transferred to the conveyor, in accordance with a time dependent pattern of movement, which is stored in a control unit; and wherein the transverse boom is provided with a support area having at least two planar surfaces, and the shifting of the transverse boom comprises changing the position of one of the at least two planar surfaces relative to another one of the at least two planar surfaces after the piece of cloth has been delivered to the transverse boom.