Patent ID: 7699194

Claim:
A method for treating textile articles, the method comprising the steps of: feeding the textile articles to be treated on to shapes fitted on supporting members, sliding independently each other on a platform bound to the fixed structure of a boarding or semi-boarding machine, and positioned in mutual contact by respective sides along a polygonal pathway defined by guiding means associated with said platform; transporting in step said supporting members along said polygonal pathway, by the engagement with towing means acting independently, in suitable relation of phase, at each linear stretch of said polygonal pathway, so that in each step at least one position at the concurrence of two linear stretches of said polygonal pathway remains unoccupied; arranging at least one of said supporting members for said shapes, on to which said textile articles to be treated are fed, in a halt position upstream from a semi-boarding station along a stretch of said polygonal pathway; moving said supporting member, along said stretch of the polygonal pathway, so as to take said shapes inside said semi-boarding station, in order to accomplish the treatment of said textile articles; transferring said supporting member, when the semi-boarding treatment is completed, to a station for the extraction of said textile articles, treated, from said shapes, wherein a set of supporting members for said shapes, on to which said textile articles to be treated are fed, are arranged in an accumulation position upstream from a multiple semi-boarding station, provided with a corresponding set of pressing means, and said set of supporting members is simultaneously moved along said stretch of the polygonal pathway, in order to take said shapes to meet said pressing means so that the semi-boarding treatment of said textile articles is accomplished.