Patent ID: 8028444

Claim:
An apparatus for feeding items of laundry to a laundry-treatment arrangement having: a feed conveyor ( 11 ), a spreading arrangement ( 12 ) which is arranged upstream of the feed conveyor and has at least two spreading clamps ( 14 ) which can be displaced transversely upstream of the feed conveyor ( 11 ), and at least one loading station ( 17 ) upstream of the spreading arrangement ( 12 ), the at least one loading station ( 17 ) having a loading location ( 19 ), which is arranged at a lower level than the spreading clamps ( 14 ), and at least one conveying arrangement ( 18 ), which slopes up obliquely to the higher-level spreading clamps ( 14 ) and has at least one loading clamp ( 27 ), wherein the respective conveying arrangement ( 18 ) has at least one circulating conveyor ( 20 ), and wherein each conveyor ( 20 ) is assigned a plurality of the at least one loading clamp ( 27 ) which follow one after the other at intervals.