Patent ID: 8142129

Claim:
A method for feeding items of laundry to a laundry treatment device, such as a mangle, the method including measuring the items of laundry, the method comprising: measuring the width of the items of laundry; preliminarily spreading out at least some of the items of laundry by a conveying device ( 17 ) as a function of the width of the items of laundry between adjacent corners of a front edge of the items of laundry; transferring the respective item of laundry from the conveying device ( 17 ) to spreading clips ( 15 ) of a spreading device ( 14 ); spreading out the item of laundry by the spreading device ( 14 ); and transporting the spread-out item of laundry from a feed conveyor ( 12 ) to the laundry treatment device, wherein the items of laundry are spread out in a suspended manner with two adjacent corners of the items of laundry on transporting clips ( 19 ) by deliberate introduction of the transporting clips ( 19 ) which hold the corners of the item of laundry into selected conveying sections ( 24 , 25 , 26 or 27 ) at a distance which is somewhat smaller than the spread-out front edge of the item of laundry and wherein the corners of the front edge of the item of laundry are channeled into conveying sections ( 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 ).