Patent ID: 7836617

Claim:
An apparatus for spreading an article of laundry, the apparatus comprising: a frame; first and second rotatable supports connected with the frame, the first and second rotatable supports having horizontally spaced apart first and second upper surfaces, respectively, and having generally a same axis of rotation, the first and second rotatable supports arranged to provide for an article of laundry to be on opposite sides of each of the first and second rotatable supports, the opposite sides being where rotation of the first and second rotatable supports is operable to change a length of the article of laundry on both opposite sides of both the first and second supports at a same time; and at least one drive operable to rotate the first rotatable support, the second rotatable support, or the first and second rotatable supports, the rotation moving an edge of the article of laundry resting on the first and second rotatable supports, the rotation moving the edge from spaced away from at least one of the first and second upper surfaces to adjacent both the first and second upper surfaces and then halting the rotation with the edge adjacent to and the article of laundry on the first and second upper surfaces.