EP2159318B1 - Device and method for the recognition and/or sorting of linen handiworks. - Google Patents

Device and method for the recognition and/or sorting of linen handiworks. Download PDF

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EP2159318B1
EP2159318B1 EP09425326.7A EP09425326A EP2159318B1 EP 2159318 B1 EP2159318 B1 EP 2159318B1 EP 09425326 A EP09425326 A EP 09425326A EP 2159318 B1 EP2159318 B1 EP 2159318B1
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Heinrich Mumelter
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
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  • the present invention concerns an industrial machine for the recognition and/or sorting of line handiworks, preferably but not necessarily sheets, tablecloths, napkins, stain covers, towels, rugs or other similar household linen items and toiletries.
  • the invention here described also relates to a method for the recognition and/or sorting of linen handiworks implemented, for example, through the aforesaid industrial machine.
  • the goods to be washed are temporarily stacked or stored in bags, even higgledy-piggledy if the articles are of the same type, to be then handled by the operators in view of the washing at the industrial washing machines.
  • the goods In order to assure an effective and appropriate washing, the goods must be preventively divided first of all by the type, by splitting the various linen handiworks which differ one from each other for the type of use, that is napkins from sheets, tablecloths and so on.
  • the operator further divides the articles on the basis of the type of fabric or material with which are they made in order to achieve the highest possible level of their separation.
  • the workforce used to divide the articles according to the type is taken away from other occupations, reducing beyond measure the optimization of the use of the resources available in the company.
  • Document EP-A-0589821 discloses an industrial machine for the recognition and/or sorting of laundry articles including a support framework suitable to stand on a reference surface, first conveying means suitable to receive said laundry and coupled with said support framework, second conveying means, coupled with said support framework and cooperating with said first conveying means from which they receive said laundry articles, detection means, facing said second conveying means, identification, allocation and sorting means, and collection means, located downstream said second conveying means, suitable to receive said laundry sorted by said identification, allocation and sorting means.
  • EP-A-0589821 also discloses a method for the recognition and / or the sorting of laundry articles including the steps of: placing the articles on conveying means, conveying one by one said articles towards a detection means, identifying, sorting out and arranging said articles in collecting means.
  • the present invention intends to overcome the drawbacks of the known art just complained.
  • main purpose of the invention is to provide an industrial machine for the recognition and/or sorting of linen handiworks which, typically in an industrial laundry, allows to divide efficiently and accurately linen handiworks, reducing compared to the known art the labour contribution required for the operation, both in terms of time and in terms of number of persons engaged.
  • Object of the present invention is also a method for the recognition and/or sorting of linen handiworks according to attached claim 20, to which they still refer for the sake of brevity.
  • the industrial machine according to the invention severely limits compared to the known art the labour contribution in separating the linen handiworks before their washing in an industrial laundry where dirty goods are delivered from restaurants, hotels, hospitals and similar centres. Indeed, the operator must simply take care of loading the linen handiworks, properly arranged in their position stretched and enlarged, on the first conveying means, and transport the collection means containing the handiworks already separated to the respective washing machines.
  • the identification and subsequent sharing out by type of linen handiworks occur automatically through the machine of the invention, after having detected at least one image of each of the handiworks themselves.
  • the invention achieves compared to the current state of the art a better optimization of the resources, especially workforce, at disposal of an industrial laundry.
  • the industrial machine and the method relating thereto, object of the invention favour a reduction of costs resulting from the recognition, separation by type and sorting of the linen handiworks operations before their actual washing in a laundry.
  • the machine of the invention simultaneously to the identification of the linen handiworks and their sharing out by specific type, it includes the operation of counting, through the central processing and control unit, the various handiworks divided by type.
  • the count carried out by the machine of the invention allows to verify the correspondence between the quantity of handiworks processed in laundry and the quantity of handiworks themselves declared by customer at the time of delivery for washing, avoiding problems of partial restitution of the goods.
  • the machine 1 includes:
  • the industrial machine 1 includes a central processing and control unit, not visible, electrically connected with the detection means 5 and the first and second conveying means 3, 4, and incorporating the identification and allocation means 6, used for classifying and sharing out the handiworks in clusters one distinct to the other, each of which containing handiworks of the same type.
  • the type of handiworks includes one or more of the parameters selected from the group consisting of width, length, thickness, woof, material, colour, drawings and so on of each of the handiworks.
  • the first conveying means 3 include a main conveyor belt 8 which defines a plane ⁇ sloping toward the second conveying means 4 starting from a first predefined height H 1 .
  • the main conveyor belt 8 is provided with first motorization means, generally numbered with 9 and electrically connected with the central unit, suitable to put it in rotation in order to send the handiworks to the second conveying means 4.
  • the first axes X 1 are separated each other by a first prefixed distance D 1
  • the second axes X 2 are separated each other by a second prefixed distance D 2 and from the first axes X 1 by a third distance D 3 orthogonal to the first distance D 1 and the second distance D 2 .
  • the third distance D 3 defines between the first and second group of flexible threads 10, 13 a passage port, not shown, suitable to receive and to allow the transit of the handiworks.
  • first group of flexible threads 10 and the second group of flexible threads 13 develop according to equal widths and define substantially vertical planes parallel each other so as to convey the handiworks towards the top, up to a height from the reference surface P greater than the first predefined height H 1 of the end 8a of the main conveyor belt 8.
  • the groups of flexible threads 10, 13 are reciprocally staggered in height by a set length L, indicated in figure 6 for expositive convenience, at the respective upper pulleys 11, 14 and the lower pulleys 11, 15.
  • Such a constructive design of the second conveying means 4 defines a drawing area 16 of the handiworks, facing the main conveyor belt 8, and a release area 17 of the handiworks, facing the collection means 7.
  • the industrial machine 1 also includes second motorization means, overall indicated with 18, at preferential but not binding title keyed directly to the first grooved pulley 12 in order to rotate around the first axes X 1 both the first pulleys 11, 12.
  • the second motorization means 18 are connected with the second grooved pulley 15 in order to rotate around the second axes X 2 also the second grooved pulleys 14, 15.
  • the detection means 5 include:
  • the industrial machine 1 comprises a colour calibration element 23, clearly visible in figure 4 , facing the second group of flexible threads 13 symmetrically opposite to the camera 20 with respect to the groups of flexible threads 10, 13.
  • the colour, for example white, calibration element numbered with 23 is supported by an actuator 24 connected with a C-shaped laminar bracket 25 belonging to the auxiliary frame 21.
  • the actuator 24, electrically connected with the central unit which drives it forward and backward, is used to draw up/remove the calibration element 23 to/from the camera 20.
  • the aforesaid colour calibration element 23 allows to achieve a kind of setting up or auto-setting of the camera 20 when the latter operates idling, that is before the handiworks brought by the second conveying means 4 transit in front of the camera 20 itself.
  • the detection means 5 and the almost entirety of the second conveying means 4 are contained in an insulating box or shaped casing 26, which assures the due darkness conditions inside it for the proper functioning of the camera 20.
  • the insulating box 26 is, moreover, equipped with a shutter 27 which can be moved by the operator in order to offer the opportunity to inspect the organs contained inside it.
  • the identification and allocation means 6 include:
  • the collection means 7 include, in the case at issue, a plurality of final containers, not shown, each of which receives higgledy-piggledy handiworks of the same type, different from the handiworks received in each of the other final containers.
  • the final containers are arranged below and laterally to both the side edges 29a, 29b of the auxiliary conveyor belt 29 from which they receive by fall the handiworks pushed out by the air coming out from the blowing means.
  • the final containers are equipped with wheels for their rapid and easy moving inside the plant by the operator.
  • the blowing means just introduced comprise a series of pneumatic valves, arranged projecting upwards on each of the side edges 29a, 29b of the auxiliary conveyor belt 29.
  • the pneumatic valves are alternately staggered one with respect to the other on each of these side edges 29a, 29b so that the air emitted from each of them causes the fall of the handiworks into one of the final containers from one of the side edges 29a, 29b directly opposite to each of the pneumatic valves.
  • the industrial machine 1 includes weighing means, as a whole indicated with 31 and visible both in figures 1-2 and in more detailed manner in figures 6-7 .
  • the weighing means 31 are electrically connected with the central unit and are coupled with a support base 32 drawn near the support framework 2.
  • the weighing means 31 are arranged upstream the first conveying means 3 and are used to measure the weight of each of the handiworks in order to provide, together with the detection means 5, to the identification and allocation means 6 data useful to determine the types of handiworks themselves.
  • the weighing means 31 include three load cells 33 arranged one with respect to the other according to the vertexes of an equilateral triangle.
  • the weighing means may include a different number of load cells, as well as other embodiments, still not shown, may provide weighing means of different type with respect to the load cells.
  • the industrial machine 1 also includes third conveying means, as a whole indicated with 34, interposed between the weighing means 31 and the first conveying means 3, suitable to bring the handiworks from the ones to the others.
  • the third conveying means 34 are of the type of the second conveying means 4, including a third group of flexible threads, each of which wrapped at closed ring and tightened around a pair of third grooved pulleys 35, 36, and a fourth group of flexible threads, each of which wrapped at closed ring and tightened around a pair of fourth grooved pulleys 37, 38.
  • the first and the second group of flexible threads of the third conveying means 34 define planes substantially vertical and parallel each other and, at their ends, are staggered in height by a set length in order to define a lower drawing area of the handiworks and an upper release area of the handiworks suitable to allow their transfer to the first conveying means 3.
  • the third grooved pulley 36 is connected with fourth motorization means, overall numbered with 39 and contained into a protective casing 40, which rotates the third pulleys 35, 36 and, through the interposition of a second transmission group, not visible, the fourth pulleys 37, 38.
  • the industrial machine 1 preferably includes:
  • the spreading and forwarding means 41 comprise three pneumatic valves 43, applied to a longitudinal section bar 44 belonging to the support base 32 and each provided with an outlet directed to the common weighing plane 45 of the weighing means 31 which receives the handiworks to be weighed.
  • the conducting means 42 comprise in turn a service shelf 46, fixed to the support framework 2, arranged below the weighing plane 45 of the weighing means 31 and facing the lower drawing area defined in the third conveying means 34.
  • the industrial machine 1 also includes fourth conveying means, indicated overall with 47 and visible only partially in figure 7 , which receive one at a time the handiworks to transport them to the weighing means 31.
  • the fourth conveying means 47 include an elevation conveyor belt 48, equipped with fifth motorization means, not shown, suitable to rotate it and having a first end, accessible by the operator and placed at a first height from the reference surface P, and a second end placed at a second height from the reference surface P.
  • the second height of the second end of the elevation conveyor belt 48 is greater than the first height: this in order to transfer by fall, always one at a time, the handiworks to the weighing means 31.
  • the elevation conveyor belt 48 includes, on the lower surface 48a and at its second end, a support tripod 49 provided with adjustment means, overall numbered with 50, which allow to place the second end of the conveyor belt 48 itself at second heights from the reference surface P variable at will.
  • Form integral part of the present invention also the method for the recognition and/or sorting of linen handiworks.
  • such a method comprises mainly the following operations:
  • the operation of acquiring an image of the handiworks consists of taking a photo of each of the handiworks inside the insulating box 26 which encloses almost completely the detection means 5 and a stretch of the second conveying means 4 which cooperate with the first conveying means 3 in the transport of the handiworks during the process.
  • the central unit checks the woof of the fabric of the handiwork of which the photo has just been taken and compares it to sample data, previously stored into it, by means of the mathematical approach of the matrixes correlation created by the software.
  • the method of the invention includes the operation of weighing one at a time the handiworks and providing the detected data to the identification and allocation means 6 in order to contribute to exactly determine the type of the handiworks processed.
  • a weighing operation occurs prior to the operation of conveying the handiworks to the detection means 5 and after having arranged one at a time the handiworks themselves on the elevation conveyor belt 48.
  • the handiworks come spread and stretched from the weighing means 31 to the first conveying means 3, thanks to the third conveying means 34.
  • the arrangement of the handiworks in the spread form is due to the work of the spreading and forwarding means 41 which act after the weighing operation by blowing an appropriate air jet towards the handiworks, pushing them toward the service shelf 46 from which they are collected by the third conveying means 34.
  • central processing and control unit manages the entire process and is programmed so that the movements and the driving of the various components of the industrial machine 1 are precisely phased each other.
  • the method of the invention also includes the operation of counting the number of the handiworks processed, performed by the central unit after the operation of identifying the handiworks and simultaneously to the operation of sharing out the handiworks themselves according to the aforesaid type.
  • the central processing and control unit creates a transport document, which accompanies the goods upon delivery to the customer.
  • the collection means may include a suction pipe whose inlet mouth faces the second conveying means and, in its development, is provided with a plurality of outlet openings, each communicating with an underlying final container to which linen handiworks of the same type are intended through a command imparted by the central processing and control unit.

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