EP3002362B1 - Appareil de repassage et/ou séchage de type tunnel pour des vêtements - Google Patents

Appareil de repassage et/ou séchage de type tunnel pour des vêtements Download PDF

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EP3002362B1
EP3002362B1 EP15188073.9A EP15188073A EP3002362B1 EP 3002362 B1 EP3002362 B1 EP 3002362B1 EP 15188073 A EP15188073 A EP 15188073A EP 3002362 B1 EP3002362 B1 EP 3002362B1
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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
    • D06F73/00—Apparatus for smoothing or removing creases from garments or other textile articles by formers, cores, stretchers, or internal frames, with the application of heat or steam 
    • D06F73/02—Apparatus for smoothing or removing creases from garments or other textile articles by formers, cores, stretchers, or internal frames, with the application of heat or steam  having one or more treatment chambers

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  • the present invention refers to a garment treatment apparatus, particularly to a so-called tunnel apparatus suitable to iron, recondition and/or finish garments having various appearance and being of different types.
  • the invention has useful application in the logistic and industrial laundry sectors.
  • Those apparatuses better known in the sector as tunnels, have a continuous loop garment feed chain that traverses one or more treatment chambers. At the sides of the chamber, there are facing walls equipped for steaming and/or ventilating the garments moving along the path. It is also usual to provide for steaming and blowing nozzles that hit the garments from the bottom and in case from the top too.
  • the distance dividing the equipped lateral walls, i.e. the chamber width, has a critical importance during the above described treatment operations.
  • the outerwear or generally the heavy items that need an inflating effect after a long packaging period, or moreover the wet laundry garments to be dried, are inserted inside the tunnel in the width direction (this case is known as front/back progression).
  • the width of the chamber walls must be quite high - roughly about one meter - in order to allow inserting the items.
  • the consecutive items are inserted inside the tunnel slantwise (shoulder-shoulder progression), so that the front and back portions are directly hit by the steam and/or air.
  • the steaming and blowing nozzles proximity guarantees a greater ironing efficiency for the above-mentioned items.
  • the known art offers wide chamber or narrow chamber drying/ironing tunnels, specifically intended for one or the other of the above-identified garment types.
  • a tunnel-finisher having a steam module wherein the distance between two opposite walls is changeable is from disclosed in DE 10 2008 020 355 B3 .
  • the technical problem underlying the present invention is to provide an improved single garment treatment apparatus being equally effective in reconditioning the items of both the above-identified categories.
  • a garment treatment apparatus comprising: a treatment chamber traversed by a feed path for garments to be treated; steaming and/or ventilation means provided with steam and/or air outlets opening on two opposite walls facing from the sides said feed path wherein at least one of those walls is movable so as to allow a variation in the relative distance between said walls.
  • the idea underlying the present invention is to transfer, at least in part, the lateral steaming and/or ventilation means on a movable member, in order to allow a machine reconfiguration according to the specific treatment needs: heavy garments or light garments. Therefore, it is possible to obtain an innovative and advantageous operating flexibility of the treatment apparatus according to the present invention.
  • Both walls are movable towards and away from each other, in order to determine a width of the treatment chamber traversed by the feed path.
  • the treatment quality is highly improved when it is possible to guarantee a symmetric action of the lateral steaming and/or ventilation means; that effect is obtained by mounting both walls on parts being symmetrically movable with respect to the garment feed path.
  • the two walls are arranged to close, on the side adjacent the feed path, respective distribution modules that are connected, via a flexible hose, to an upstream portion of said steaming and/or ventilation means.
  • That operating structure is particularly advantageous because of its building ease.
  • Said distribution modules comprise at least one inlet mouth being coupled to the flexible hose and a distribution path connecting said inlet mouth to said steam and/or air outlets.
  • the apparatus can also advantageously provide for actuator means for displacing one or both said walls.
  • the actuator means can comprise at least one linear actuator being arranged in parallel to the wall connected herewith, and connected to said wall by means of an angular transmission system, for example a chain and pulley angular transmission.
  • an angular transmission system for example a chain and pulley angular transmission.
  • the apparatus further comprises a control unit for the actuator means, which is able to drive said actuator means in order to selectively obtain at least two preset widths of the treatment chamber: one being dedicated to light garments, the other to heavy garments.
  • the control unit can also control other operating parameters, for example the temperature, according to the garment types being treated.
  • the control unit can also drive said actuator means so that the walls oscillate at a preset frequency and a preset amplitude around a reference position.
  • the apparatus can also comprise a feed chain for the garments to be treated which is selectively configurable in order to arrange the garments to be fed shoulder-shoulder (selected for light garments) or front-back (selected for outerwear or heavy garments).
  • the apparatus 1 comprises a supporting frame defining at least one treatment chamber 2 or tunnel, provided with input and output passages opposite to each other and closable by means of suitable doors 21, preferably fluid-tight. Between the input and output passages, a feed path x extends for the garments to be treated, longitudinally traversing the treatment chamber 2.
  • the garments to be treated can be hanged individually, by means of hangers, to coupling hooks of a continuous loop feed chain 20, a segment of which traverses the upper part of said treatment chamber 2 following the above-mentioned feed path.
  • the feed chain 20 is provided to allow the coupling of the garments to be treated in two alternative configurations: one the so-called front-back, in which consecutive hanged garments are arranged transversally with respect to the feed chain 20; the other the so-called shoulder-shoulder, in which consecutive hanged garments are arranged in line with the feed chain 20.
  • the coupling hooks angular position can be modified by means of suitable permutation commands.
  • the treatment chamber 2 is laterally flanked by two technical compartments 22 defining flow paths therein for the steam and/or air to be dispensed in the chamber; it is also delimited by a bottom wall 23 and by a top wall 24 as well as by the above-identified doors 21.
  • the garment feed path x develops along a median plane of the treatment chamber 2, which presents a substantially symmetrical structure with respect to said plane.
  • a dispensing appendix 25 elevates, being provided with a substantially cusp-shaped cross section and with a straight top edge extended below and at the garment feed path x. On that edge, a plurality of steam and/or air outlet nozzles open, being connected to the flow paths of the technical compartments 22 via passages under the bottom wall 23.
  • the dispensing appendix 25 allows steaming the garments to be reconditioned from below, particularly guaranteeing the inflating of outerwear or other heavy garments inserted in front-back configuration.
  • nozzles linear extension of the dispensing appendix 25 allows locally steaming the lighter garments inserted in shoulder-shoulder configuration.
  • two steam and/or air recirculation mouths 26 are arranged in communication with the lateral technical compartments 22; two longitudinal fans 27 help circulating the flows coming from the recirculation mouths 26 towards the bottom of the technical compartments.
  • an overheating battery suitable to continuously produce steam to be dispensed inside the treatment chamber 2.
  • two distribution modules 7 are also slidingly movable, provided with a vertical wall 6 facing a top portion of the treatment chamber 2.
  • the two walls 6 of the respective distribution modules 7 are opposite to each other, and symmetrically arranged with respect to the garment feed path traversing them.
  • the two distribution modules 7, having an identical and specular structure, are shaped as a closed box, on the side adjacent the garment feed path x, from the respective wall 6 provided with a plurality of through slots.
  • the distribution module 7 is also connected, by means of a flexible hose not shown in the attached drawings, with the steam flow being generated inside the respective technical compartment.
  • the flexible hose couples to two lateral inlet mouths 7a being opened on the internal side - that is the one opposite to the wall 6 - of the distribution module 7.
  • a distribution path 7b made by a branched hose, brings the steam coming from the inlet mouths 7a to a plurality of nozzles 7c being distributed under the wall 6.
  • the steam exits from the nozzles 7c and then from the slots of the wall 6, which thus are defining steam outlets 3 of the distribution module directed towards the garment feed path x.
  • the distribution modules 7 allow the steam and/or air to be properly dispensed to the garments to be treated inside the treatment chamber 2.
  • the distribution modules 7 are shaped as closed boxes due to the presence of the walls 6, the variation in the relative distance between such distribution modules 7 does not affect the amount of steam and/or air volume to be dispensed in the treatment chamber 2 and, more important, in the technical compartments 22 during the garment treatment.
  • the steam and/or air flow being constant in the technical compartments 22, is thus kept constant in the treatment operation of different garment types. This leads to undeniable economic advantages, since a waste of steam and/or air is prevented inside the technical compartments 22 and the treatment chamber 2, whose volume is kept unchanged during the movement of the distribution modules 7, as clearly shown in figure 5 .
  • the distribution path 7b of the distribution modules 7 ensures a spatial homogeneity and a constant pressure in the steam and /or air dispensing, thus ensuring a homogeneous ironing of the garments.
  • the two distribution modules 7 are slidingly movable, according to the direction shown by arrows f of figure 5 , with respect to the frame 10 of the apparatus 1.
  • each distribution module 7 is provided with four brackets 11 a arranged at vertices of a rectangular coupling profile.
  • the free end of each bracket 11 a is slidingly fixed to a respective guiding rod 11b, being integral with the frame and orthogonal with respect to the wall 6.
  • an actuator and transmission mechanism is provided in order to command the sliding of the two distribution modules 7 along the guiding rods 11b. It must be noted that the actuator and transmission mechanisms of the respective distribution modules 7 are fully housed inside the corresponding technical compartments 22.
  • linear actuators 5a are provided, preferably pneumatic jacks, being fixed inside the technical compartment 22 having a vertical orientation, i.e. being arranged substantially in parallel to the steaming wall 6.
  • Each linear actuator 5a is provided with a transmission connecting it with two of the brackets 11a in order to help their sliding along the respective guiding rods 11b; in the following only one of those transmissions is described, the other being identical and specular to the first one.
  • the free end of the linear actuator 5a is bound to a first transmission chain 5b, stretched in a loop between two first toothed pulleys 5c.
  • the first pulleys 5c are twinned with second pulleys 5d on which second transmission chains 5e are wound, being kept in tension by return pulleys 5f.
  • the second transmission chains 5e substantially extend along the guiding rods 11b, and are bound to the sliding end of the brackets 11 a.
  • a displacement of the linear actuator 5a causes a sliding of the first transmission chain 5b and, via the return determined by the twinned pulleys 5c, 5d, of the second transmission chains 5e, which drag the two brackets 11a with them along the guiding rods 11b.
  • the linear actuators 5a related to the two distribution modules 7 are also synchronized in order to define specular movements of the opposite elements, so as to always to keep the building symmetry with respect to the garment feed path x.
  • the above-described operating configuration allows modifying the opening or width L between the steaming walls, particularly adapting it to the garment type to be treated.
  • the apparatus comprises a control unit being able to control the various operating parameters of the device, and particularly to command the movement toward or away from each other of the walls 6. Thanks to that control unit, the user can select by means of an external interface 30 for example between two different programs, one recommended for heavy garments, the other for light garments. For each program, according to what stated above, the control unit adjusts the opening of the walls 6, together with other process variables such as the temperature, being preferably lower in the light garments treatment.
  • the control unit it is possible to carry out the garments treatment by letting the opening of the walls 6 vary constantly: particularly, the opening can be let oscillate at a preset amplitude and frequency around a reference mean value. Such a treatment mode determines a better ironing result with certain garments.

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  1. Appareil de traitement pour vêtements (1) comprenant : une chambre de traitement (2) traversée par un trajet d'amenée (x) pour vêtements devant être traités ; des moyens de vaporisation et/ou de ventilation dotés de sorties de vapeur et/ou d'air (3) s'ouvrant sur deux parois opposées (6) se faisant face depuis le côté dudit trajet d'amenée (x) et toutes deux se rapprochant et s'écartant l'une de l'autre, de sorte à déterminer une largeur (L) de la chambre de traitement (2) traversée par le trajet d'amenée (x), caractérisé en ce que lesdites parois (6) ferment, sur le côté adjacent au trajet d'amenée (x), des modules de distribution respectifs (7) qui sont reliés, via un tuyau flexible, à une partie en aval desdits moyens de vaporisation et/ou de ventilation, lesdits modules de distribution (7) comprenant au moins une bouche d'entrée (7a) couplée au tuyau flexible et un trajet de distribution (7b) qui relie ladite bouche d'entrée (7a) auxdites sorties de vapeur et/ou d'air (3).
  2. Appareil de traitement (1) selon la revendication 1, comprenant en outre des moyens d'actionnement (5) pour déplacer une ou les deux desdites parois (6).
  3. Appareil de traitement (1) selon la revendication 2, dans lequel ledit moyen d'actionnement (5) comprend au moins un actionneur linéaire (5a) disposé parallèlement à la paroi (6) reliée à celui-ci, et relié à ladite paroi (6) au moyen d'un système de transmission angulaire.
  4. Appareil de traitement (1) selon la revendication 3, dans lequel ledit système de transmission angulaire est une transmission angulaire à chaîne et poulie (5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f).
  5. Appareil de traitement (1) selon l'une des revendications 2 à 4, comprenant une unité de commande pour les moyens d'actionnement (5), qui est apte à entraîner lesdits moyens d'actionnement afin d'obtenir sélectivement au moins deux largeurs prédéfinies (L1, L2) de la chambre de traitement (2).
  6. Appareil de traitement (1) selon la revendication 5, dans lequel ladite unité de commande est apte à entraîner ledit moyen d'actionnement de telle sorte que les parois (6) oscillent à une fréquence prédéfinie et une amplitude prédéfinie autour d'une position de référence.
  7. Appareil de traitement (1) selon l'une des revendications précédentes, comprenant une chaîne d'amenée (20) pour les vêtements devant être traités le long d'un trajet d'amenée (x) qui est sélectivement configurable pour disposer les vêtements devant être amenés dans une configuration épaule contre épaule ou dans une configuration devant-derrière.
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