DE8604435U1 - Transfer device for items of clothing - Google Patents

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48 BIELEFELD / WESTF.

Detmolder Strasse 26

This. File number: P 22/12

Wilfried Pavel Maschinenbau, Gewerbestrasse 4, 48o2 Halle / Westphalia

"Transfer device for items of clothing"

The invention aims to create a transfer device with which on Garments hanging on hangers in a simple and safe manner from a feeder screw to a movable one, in various designs known recording medium or vice versa can be automatically transferred.

According to the invention, this object is achieved by one of the items of clothing Feeder worm with hanging hooks for clothes hanger, which can be swiveled in height about a horizontal or inclined axis, and the items of clothing with the clothes hanger hooks on a spar of the receiving support transferring guide solved.

The dependent claims following protection claim 1 contain advantageous further development of the task solution.

The subject matter of the invention extends not only to the features of individual claims, but also on their combination.

The transfer device according to the invention enables a simpler and safer Automatic transfer of items of clothing hanging on hangers from a feeder worm onto a commercially available receiving carrier known in various designs.

The transfer guide is from a simply constructed, swiveling part in Grooved shape. which is a supporting edge. to those of the Feeder worm over a slip edge arriving clothes hanger hook slide and then be held hanging there. At least one actuator, preferably a pressure cylinder, then swivels the transfer guide upwards, while at the same time the movable mounting carrier is actuated by a pressure medium cylinder Pusher is pivoted against the pivoting movement of the transfer guide, so that the support edge around the spar of the receiving carrier can be pivoted around and up. In the swiveled-up position, the clothes hanger hooks also overlap the spar of the mounting support and When the transfer guide is swiveled back, the clothes hanger hooks are completely lowered onto the carrier beam and this has them for further transport accepted.

This transfer takes place automatically and electrically and electronically controlled, always at the same time several, numerically predetermined items of clothing are fed to the transfer guide and transferred from this to the receiving medium. Due to the favorable pivoting movements of the transfer guide and receiving medium is a safe transfer over a short movement path of clothing has been made possible.

In addition, the delivery guide enables cross-directional transport of the garment moveable version a picking up of the items of clothing from mounting carriers, a transverse transport and a discharge of the items of clothing onto a feed screw.

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An exemplary embodiment according to FIG Invention explained in more detail. It shows:

I Fig. 1 is a front view of a transfer device for hanging clothing

f pieces with a feeder hedge, a slide bar, a height-

^ pivotable transfer guide and a movable receiving carrier,

I Fig. 2 is a front view of the transfer device in the position of the transfer guide receiving the items of clothing I from the feed screw,

κ Fig. 3 is an end view of the transfer device in the raised and% (.) the garments with the clothes hanger hook onto the recording medium

|; handing over position of the handover management,

■; 4 shows a plan view of a conveyor that can be moved transversely with respect to a feed screw Handover management,

FIG. 5 is a schematic side view of the transversely movable transfer guide I with feed screw and intake carrier,

6a shows schematic side views in the transfer process of the items of clothing I ^{1S e} from the receiving carrier to the feed screw.

i With 1 is a device frame of a transfer device for on hangers denotes hanging items of clothing 2 from a feed screw 3 onto a j -N movable receiving carrier 4.

The feed screw 3 with a motor drive arranged at one end of the length 5, like an electric geared motor, is rotatably mounted in a pivot bearing guide 6 with its longitudinal axis lying horizontally and with this pivot bearing guide 6 held on the device frame 1.

I This feed screw 3 takes the items of clothing 2 with the clothes hanger

• ί hook 7 hanging up and convey them in the longitudinal direction of the screw (A). At the

I Pivot bearing guide 6 are two spaced one behind the other in the longitudinal direction of the screw.

I arranged on the other lying stopper 8, between which the desired number of

^f items of clothing 2 are assembled on the feed screw 3.

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The two stoppers 8 are preferably each from the piston rod (tappet) a pressure medium cylinder 8a held on the pivot bearing guide 6 or a lifting magnet formed and protrude in the stop position (functional position) into the Movement range of the clothes hanger hooks 7 into it, so that even when the feeder screw 3 is rotated, no conveying movement takes place and the items of clothing 2 get stuck between the two stoppers 8.

On the pivot bearing guide 6, a lifter 9 is also attached, which at a distance behind the rear stopper 8 in the conveying direction "A" and which lifts the clothes hanger hooks 7 from the screw conveyor 3. That lifter 9 is formed by an inclined or arcuate runway that extends upwards to the next circumferential point of the screw conveyor 3 and thereby the clothes hanger hooks 7 running on it upwards from the Conveyor screw 3 lifts off (lifts out).

The lifted clothes hanger hooks 7 then come up from the lifter 9 an Abrutscnstange 1o, which connects with one length end directly to the highest point of the lifter 9, then obliquely and / or arcuately runs downward and in the conveying direction "A" and ends with its other length end directly at a transfer guide 11, which the incoming Garments 2 with the clothes hanger hook 7 picks up and then to the receiving support 4 passes.

The Aufnanmeträger 4 is formed in a known manner like a frame and has one on upright bars 4c or chains on the underside in the conveying direction "A" extending bar 4a, on which the clothes hanger hooks 7 are delivered.

The Adfnahmeträger 4 is on the top (on its spars 4c or chains) Equipped with rollers 4b, with which it runs on one in the conveying direction "A" and guide rail 12, which is inclined slightly downwards and which is attached to the device frame 1 is held, traverses: ■ · stored.

The transfer guide 11 is preferably one in cross section Partly circular channel formed, the length of which is approximately the length of the receiving support spar 4a corresponds, is preferably made somewhat smaller, so

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that all of the clothes hanger hooks 7 that have accumulated on the transfer guide 11 can be safely transferred to the spar 4a. One longitudinal edge of the channel forms the support edge 13 for the clothes hanger hook 7 and at one end of the length This supporting edge 13 ends the Abrutscnstange Io.

The transfer guide 11 is with its other channel longitudinal edge around a 'horizontal or inclined axis 14 mounted pivotably in height on a holder 15, this holder 15, for example, of two in the conveying direction "A" spaced apart U-frames of the device frame 1 are formed.

The downwardly directed U-shaped brackets 15 also overlap Distance between the receiving carrier 4 and the guide rail 12. The supporting edge 13 of the transfer guide 11 is at the front on the operating side of the transfer device and its rear longitudinal edge is held in the axis 14 at the lower ends of the rear U-legs of the bracket 15 so as to be pivotable in height. For the The pivoting of the transfer guide 11 is at least one pressure medium cylinder 16 is provided, which is pivotally mounted on the bracket 15 and with its piston rod 15 a via a lever linkage 17 or a pivot lever 17 on the Axis 14 or on the transfer guide 11 engages.

According to the illustration in Fig. 2, the transfer guide 11 is in the ζ receiving position for the items of clothing 2 supplied by the slide bar 1o, in this position the slide bar 1o ends exactly in front of the front edge of the support edge 13, which ensures a smooth transition. Clothes hanger hook 7 from the slide bar 1o onto the supporting edge 13 results. The support edge 13 extends at a distance below the spar 4a of the vertically hanging receiving support 4.

So that a transfer of the hanger hook 7 from the support edge 13 to the Holm 4a can be done, on the one hand, the transfer guide 11 pivots about their Axis 14 up and the receiving carrier 4 is in the direction of the arrow "B" pushed back and thus towards the axis 14 and into the channel area of the transfer guide 11, whereby the support edge 13 also around the spar 4a and can pivot over the same.

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For the pivoting movement of the receiving carrier 4 is at least one on the Bracket 15 pivotally mounted pressure cylinder 18 is provided, the cooperates with at least one, preferably two, pusher 19 each acting against an upright spar 4 c of the receiving carrier 4. Every pusher 19 is formed by a roller, a cylinder part or the like made of rubber, plastic or the like.

Each pusher 19 is by means of a lever 2o at the lower end of the front

j U-leg of the bracket 15 can be pivoted in height about a horizontal axis 21

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: "Connected to each other so that they can move synchronously.

\ The pressure cylinder 18 is with its piston rod 18a over a

Pivoting lever 23 with the lever 2o of the trigger 19 or its pivot axis

\ 21 in motion connection, so that the pusher 19

is pivoted against the Aufnaiuieträ ^ er 4 and thereby the receiving carrier 4 with its rollers 4 b by one circular in cross section

[Rod formed guide rail 12 is pivoted. Instead of the gutter

\ execution, the transfer guide 11 can also form the supporting edge 13 from a

The end of the longitudinal bar is formed with U-like bearing parts at both ends of the length be, with which it is then also pivoted vertically in the axis 14.

The supporting edge 13 of the Libergabeführung 11 also runs under a ge-) know inclination so that on the slide the incoming clothing pieces 2 in the conveying direction "A" on the supporting edge of the Abrutschstange 1o averted ßndbereich out to a traekantenseitigen stop 13 a.

The device is equipped with an electrical and / or electronic switching and control device for the movement sequence, which is one of the feeder screw 3 assigned, held on the rotary bearing 3 counting and switching device 24 and a held on the device frame 1, the receiving carrier 4 and the transfer guide 11 associated switching element 25 for the pressure cylinder 16, 18 and a stop 26; this stop 26 is assigned to the guide rail 12 and holds the receiving carrier 4 for the Handover implementation and releases it after handover, so that the Aitifnahmeträger 4 with items of clothing 2 on the guide rail 12 from the area of the transfer guide 11 out to its destination (warehouse, etc.) like.) can run.

This stop 26 is designed similar to the stopper 8, held on the device frame 1 and protrudes into the running area of the rollers 4b.

The items of clothing are handed over as follows:

The clothes hanging on hangers 2 are by hand or automatically the feeder worm 3 in the area between drive 5 and the rear Stopper 8 added by placing the clothes hanger hook 7 on the c "2 feeder worm 3 can be hung. Here, the front stopper 8, which is adjacent to the drive 5, is in the retracted release position and the ) rear stopper 8 adjacent to the lifter 9 in which the screw 3 engages below Locked position (functional position), so that the suspended items of clothing 2 by the screw 3 in the conveying direction "A" against the rear Stopper 8 (ram) run and be stopped there.

At the same time, a receiving carrier 4 is on the guide rail 12 in the area the transfer guide 11 has been driven and is there in front of the stop 26. The transfer guide 11 is in the receiving position pivoted in FIG.

By means of the counting and switching element 24, those of the screw 3 are abandoned Garments 2 are registered and when the desired number has been reached, the front stopper 8 also moves into the locked position and no further ones can Items of clothing 2 get between the two stoppers 8 - the following items of clothing 2 are held back for the time being.

The feeder screw 3 continues to rotate, but the abandoned ones remain Garments 3 are between the stoppers 8. Through the counting and scanning organ 24 when the desired number of items of clothing 2 is reached after locking by the front stopper 8, the direction "A" rear stopper 8 moved into the release position and now the items of clothing 2 Duren the screw 3 in the direction "A" transported further, with its clothes hanger hook 7 on the inclined and / or curved after Above and in the conveying direction "A" rising lifter 9 run up, thereby lifted out of the screw conveyor 3 and transferred to the slide bar 1o be on aer the garments 2 with their clothes hanger hooks 7 after down on the support edge 13 of the transfer guide 11 and along this up to the rear end, where dj.e .Kanf.e, 13 has the, stop 13 a, slide.

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If the supporting edge 13 is equipped with the number of items of clothing 2 supplied by the screw 3, which are then lined up along the length of the edge 13, the counting and switching element 24 registers on the one hand that the screw area between the two stoppers 8 has been emptied , and thereby the front stopper 8 is moved into the release position and the rear stopper 8 into the blocking position, so that new items of clothing 2 can be brought onto the conveyor screw 3 between the two stoppers 8; On the other hand recorded at the same time the switching and control member 25, the delivery guide 11 is equipped with garments 2 to the transferring and ζ while the two pressure medium cylinders 16,18 are controlled. The pressure cylinder 18 moves the pusher 19 via its piston rod 18a and via the pivot levers 2o, 23 around the axis 21 against the bars 4c of the mounting carrier 4 and these pivot the mounting carrier 4 in the direction of arrow "B" over a certain pivoting range. Simultaneously or thereafter, the pressure cylinder 16 pivots the transfer guide 11 around the pivot axis 14 in the direction of the arrow "C" through its piston rod 16a and the pivot lever 17, the support edge 13 with the clothes hanger hook 7 hanging on it being pivoted around the spar 4a and over the spar 4a , so that the clothes hanger hooks 7 overlap the spar 4a (cf. pivoted transfer position Fig. 3).

The transfer guide 11 now swivels through the pressure medium cylinder 16 and the pivot lever 17 back into the starting position according to FIG. 2, with C. the supporting edge 13 under the clothes hanger hook 7 moves out of the same and

the clothes hanger hooks 7 which overlap the spar 4a then lower themselves slightly downwards onto the spar 4a and are now carried by the spar 4a. Now the handover takes place and the items of clothing 2 hang on the spar 4a of the | Recording carrier 4. Now the pivoting pushers 19 release the recording ', carrier 4, this pivots with its rollers 4b around the guide rail 12 in its vertical hanging position (FIG. 2), by its own weight i or supported by a spring force , back and can then after release · the stop 26 - controlled by the switching and control element 25 - run on the ' guide rail 12 in the conveying direction "A" from the area of the transfer guide 11 out to its destination. ]

At the same time, a new receiving carrier 4 is placed on the guide rail 12 to: driven to the stop 26 that has become effective again and a new transfer f Process begins. f

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The downward sloping slide bar 1o and that also downward and in the conveying direction "A" inclined support edge 13 are provided with a sliding surface, whereby the clothes hanger hooks 7 easily and can slide on it by themselves. The inclination of the guide rail 12 is chosen so that the receiving carrier 4 can also easily continue to run in the conveying direction "A" up to the stop 26 and after release.

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Unpacked items of clothing 2 handed over, as desired.

ζ It is within the scope of the invention to align the feed screw 3 with the trough-shaped transfer guide 11 and to dispense with the interposed slide bar 1o, so that the items of clothing 2 with the clothes hanger hooks 7 directly from the screw 3 onto the supporting edge 13 of the Transfer guide 11 are pushed.

According to the further embodiment of the transfer device according to FIGS. 4 to 6e, which corresponds in the basic principle and in the mode of operation of the embodiment according to Fig. 1 to and in which the same reference numerals are used for the same parts have been, items of clothing 2 will pass from movable receiving carriers 4 to a feed screw 3; this version is suitable in particular for items of clothing that have not yet been bagged (not yet covered by a protective film) 2.

Here, the transfer guide 11 with its pivot axis 14 is transverse to Conveying direction "A" mounted moveable carriages 28 which are held on guides 27 with rollers 28a.

The feed screw 3 is here at a distance behind the movable receiving carriers 4 and the transfer guide 11 moves back and forth between the receiving carrier 4 and the screw 3.

The items of clothing 2 that have already passed to the screw conveyor 3 become from an electrical and / or electronic switching and control device, not shown, which corresponds to the device 24, 25 according to FIG. 1, monitored and since the screw 3 is full, the receiving carrier 4, which also carries items of clothing 2, is in the waiting position.

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When the items of clothing 2 have been transported away by the screw 3 are (in the direction of the arrow "A"), then the receiving carrier 4 moves into the transfer position 6a next to the transfer guide 11. The transfer guide 11 now swivels upwards in the direction of the arrow "C" and takes over from Receiving carrier 4, the items of clothing 2 (Fig. 6b). Then the receiving carrier 4 pivots backwards in the direction of the arrow "B" and the transfer guide

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Now the mounting carrier 4 can pivot forward again (Fig. 6d) and the transfer guide 11 swings up again and moves further backwards in the direction of the arrow "D" up to the screw 3 (Fig. 6d).

There the transfer guide 11 gives the items of clothing 2 with the clothes hangers 7 on the screw 3 by swiveling it down, then swings up again and moves back into the starting position.

The screw 3 transports away the items of clothing 2 that have been picked up and the transfer guide 11 takes over new items of clothing 2 from the receiving carrier 4 and the transfer process is repeated.

Claims (1)

Protection claims 1. Transfer device for items of clothing hanging on clothes hangers from a feeder screw onto a movable support carrier, characterized by one of the items of clothing (2) from the feed screw (3) with the clothes hanger hooks (7) suspended, pivotable in height about a horizontal and inclined axis (14) and CJ the items of clothing (2) with the clothes hanger hooks (7) on a stile (4a) of the receiving carrier (4) releasing transfer guide (11). 2. Transfer device according to claim 1, characterized in that di ^ transfer guide (11) one inclined in the conveying direction (A) and downwards has running support edge (13) for the clothes hanger hooks (7), the in the Aufη hmestellung for the items of clothing (2) below the Holmes (4a) is located and can be pivoted upwards around the handlebar (4a) for transferring the items of clothing (2) to the handlebar (4a). 3. Transfer device according to claim 1 and 2, characterized in that that the transfer guide (11) is designed like a channel, whose .-v front channel longitudinal edge forms the supporting edge (13) and with its rear channel longitudinal edge is pivotably mounted by the pivot axis (14) on a holder (15) of a device frame (1). 4. Transfer device according to claims 1 to 3, characterized in that that on the holder (15) at least one pressure cylinder (16) is articulated, the piston rod (16a) of which via a pivot bearing (17), such as a pivot lever or pivot linkage, with the pivot axis (14) or the transfer guide (11) for pivoting the Transfer guide (11) is connected. 5. Transfer device according to claims 1 to 4, characterized in that that on the holder (15) at least one opposite the receiving carrier (4) movable and this opposite to the pivoting direction (C) the - T2 - " Transfer guide (11) with its spar (4a) in the channel area of the Transfer guide (11) can be pivoted in a pivoting handle (19) is mounted, which via a lever linkage (2o, 23) with a pressure cylinder (18) hinged on the bracket (15) in connection stands. 5. Transfer device according to claim 2, characterized in that two, each on a spar (4c) of the receiving carrier (4) acting pusher (19) are provided, each with sinem pivot lever (2o) in a horizontal pivot axis (21) on the Mount bracket (15) and are rigidly connected to one another by a cross strut (22) and are articulated to the piston rod (18a) of the pressure medium cylinder (18) by a further pivot lever (23). 7. Transfer device according to claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the holder (15) is formed by two U-frames, on whose nacn downwardly directed ninter U-legs the transfer guide (11) and on their front U-legs that of Store rubber or plastic rollers, cylinders or the like formed pusher (19) with their pivot position (2o). 8. Transfer device according to claims 1 to 7, characterized in that _{ - \ that in a guide (6) on the device frame (1) rotatably mounted, motor-driven feed screw (3) two in the conveying direction (A) arranged one behind the other at a distance, between at the Aufnahuebereich are allocated for the forming to be transferred clothing (2) stopper (8), the hiriein- by a in the range of movement of the clothes hanger hook ⁽⁷⁾ \ of the screw feeder n (3) respectively and moved out plunger of a on the guide (6) held pressure medium cylinder (8a) or lifting magnets are formed. 9. Übergaöevorrichtung according to claims 1 to 8, characterized in that on the guide (6) an oblique and / or arcuate in the conveying direction (A) and upwardly rising run-up surface for the clothes hanger hooks (7) having a lifter (9) for Lifting the clothes hanger hook (7) from the feeder worm (3) is arranged. * · T I I • · · · · III «* *» I I I I I 10. Transfer device according to claims 1 to 9, characterized in that that from the lifter (9) to the face of the supporting edge (13) a slide bar (1o) that runs in the direction of conveyance (A) and slopes down at an angle and / or in an arc and is held on the device frame (1) for the items of clothing (2) to be conveyed from the feeder screw (3) to the transfer guide (11). 11. Transfer device according to claims 1 to 1o, characterized in that that the length of the supporting edge (13) of the transfer guide (11) is a maximum the length of the spar (4a) of the receiving carrier (4) is formed. 12. Transfer device according to claims 1 to 11, characterized in that that on the device frame (1) in the running area of the rollers (4b) of the receiving carrier (4) protruding and out this walking area extendable stop (26) for fixing the position of the receiving carrier (4) is arranged in the transfer position. 13. Transfer device according to one or more of the preceding claims 1 to 12, characterized in that the vertically pivotable transfer guide (11) on guides such as carriages (28) and guide rods (27) transversely to the conveying direction (A) between the receiving carrier (4) and the feed screw (3) is movably mounted (Fig. 4 to 6e).