JPH0351439B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a clothing pre-processing machine for sending clothing such as yukata (yukata) and gowns to a work process such as an ironer in a shaped state, and clothing. Regarding a plastic surgery device.

(Prior Art) To iron clothing such as yukatas and gowns after washing and dehydrating them, an ironing device called a roll ironer is usually used. The garments placed into the device must be in a well-shaped condition;
However, until now, there was no known device for feeding garments in a shaped state, which required a lot of setup work, and there were also problems in that the quality of the finished product varied depending on the skill level of the operator.

(Technical Problem) The present invention was created based on the above-mentioned circumstances, and its purpose is to properly shape clothing such as yukatas and gowns, which have non-simple shapes and structures, by simply hanging them on hangers, and send them to the work process. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a clothing pre-processing machine and a clothing shaping device that can perform the following tasks.

(Technical Means) The purpose is to provide a clothing transport mechanism that is installed on the main body of the preprocessing machine and exposes a transport surface that extends from the lower front to the upper rear when viewed from the front; The input frame has a hanger member provided on the input frame that opens in a direction substantially perpendicular to the conveyance direction for the purpose of hanging clothes and closes in a direction approximately parallel to the conveyance direction for removing the clothes. A clothing forming device that has a hanger mechanism, and a shaping body located below the hanger mechanism that extends upward from the hem of the garment suspended from the hanger mechanism and contracts after shaping the garment by blowing out air. This is achieved by a garment pre-treatment machine constructed by.

The clothing shaping device also includes a shaping body that is placed at the hem of the garment, extends upward from the hem into the garment, and has an outlet for necessary air, and a shaping body that stretches and contracts back to its original state. It is preferable that the shaping body is made up of an expanding/contracting means for causing the garment to expand and contract, and a duct for blowing air into the shaping body, and that the shaping body can be expanded to a size that is narrower than the shaped garment and has a height that reaches the shoulders.

(Function) The garment A is hung on the shaping body 3 of the garment shaping device 1 located at the hem of the pre-processing machine. At that time, the orthopedic body 3 of the device 1 has expanded to the intermediate position of expansion and contraction,
It is at a height that makes it easy to hang clothing A. Next, when the orthopedic body 3 is further expanded, the hanger mechanism 40 is inserted from the collar of the garment A, and becomes ready to hang and hold the garment A. Thereafter, the clothing A is shaped by blowing out air from the shaping body 3, and preparations for transfer to the pre-processing machine are completed.

(Example) Examples will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

The preprocessing machine illustrated as an example has a machine body 10 equipped with various parts of equipment, and has a large number of conveyor belts 12 forming a conveyance surface 11 that is inclined from the lower front to the upper rear in the middle of the front. A conveyance mechanism 20 consisting of
Input slot 3 for transferring clothing A such as gowns
A hanger mechanism 40 is installed in front of the clothing A, and a hanger mechanism 40 to which the clothing A is first hung and attached, and a suction guiding mechanism 5.
0 is provided, and clothing A is further placed downstream of the conveyor belt.
A collar correction mechanism 60 is installed to transfer the garment A to the conveyance surface 11, and a garment shaping device 1 for adjusting the hem of the garment A is provided below the input frame 30.

In the conveyance mechanism 20, 21 denotes a roll around which a large number of conveyor belts 12 are wound, and 22 denotes a drive motor connected to the drive roll 21 among the rolls. Move clockwise in Figure 3 from the lower front to the upper rear.

The input frame 30 is arranged in front of the device main body 10,
A support shaft 31 is attached to the apparatus main body 10 near the front end of the conveyor belt 12 at the lower end having a substantially gate-shaped frame shape.
It can be raised and lowered between a substantially upright state at the hanging position of the clothing A and an inclined input position onto the conveying surface 11. Reference numeral 32 denotes a telescopic frame for drive cylinders 33 connected to the vicinity of the base of the input frame 30, and is provided in pairs on the left and right sides.

The hanger mechanism 40 is installed at the center of the upper part of the loading frame 30, and includes two arc-shaped guide grooves 42 formed in two sets of bases 41 and two guide elements that slide along respective curves. Each telescopic rod 43 is pivotally supported,
It consists of two rotatable hanger cylinders 44 whose base ends are pivotally supported by the input frame, and two hanger members 45 that are approximately doglegged or boomerang shaped and have the guide element at their base ends. Become. Each guide groove 4
2 has an arcuate shape with the starting end and end facing in different directions by approximately 90 degrees, and since the hanger member 45 is also bent at an angle of nearly 90 degrees, the transport direction is such that the garment A can be hung near the expansion/contraction limit of the telescoping rod 43. There is an open state that is substantially orthogonal (FIG. 1), and a closed state that is in a straight line that is substantially parallel to the conveyance direction because it is pulled out from the neck opening.

The clothing shaping device 1 is placed almost directly below the hanger mechanism 40, and the illustrated one has a rigid shaping base 2 provided at the center of the front lower part of the machine body, and an elastic material connected to the upper part of the bag. A cylinder mechanism 6 having an extensible rod 5 whose upper end is fixed from the inside to the top 4 of the upper body-shaped orthopedic body 3, and a cylinder mechanism 6 connected to the orthopedic base 2 for blowing air into the orthopedic body 3. It consists of duct 7, and duct 7 is the fuselage 10.
Air is supplied from a blower 9, which will be described later, provided therein. The shaping body 3 has air outlets 8, 8 opened in the part corresponding to the shoulders of the upper body, from which the air blown inside is blown out to both the left and right sides, so that the sleeves of the clothing A can be stretched to the left and right and shaped. The suction guiding mechanism 50 also serves to hold both sleeves.

The suction guide mechanism 50 is also attached to the input frame 30, and has a symmetrical structure similar to the hanger mechanism 40, so one structure will be explained. Basically, a link 52 is pivotally supported on the input frame 30 via a bracket 51, a suction duct 53 is rotatably supported on the tip of the link 52, and a telescopic rod 54 is connected to the duct suction port. The induction cylinder 56 is rotatably supported on the input frame 30, and the blower 9 is connected to the suction duct 53 through a flexible tube 57. Figures a, b, Figure 1). The suction duct 53 has a cutout in the front surface of the suction opening, and the suction duct 53
The suction port 55 and the link 5 make it easy to place the sleeve of the
2 and a sleeve presser roll 59, which biases the suction duct base to rotate forward. In addition, the suction duct 53 is provided so that the suction port 55 portion is linearly spaced outward by the extension of the telescoping rod 54. The sleeve presser roll 59 operates together with the suction duct 53 which is pressed against the suction port 55 by the swinging of the guide cylinder 56, and has the effect of spreading the sleeves of clothing.

The collar correction mechanism 60 is for tilting the input frame 30 onto the conveyance surface 11 while hanging the garment A, and adjusting the collar of the garment A transferred to the conveyance surface 11. It has a belt 61 facing oppositely and installed so as to move at a higher speed than the conveyance speed,
It is configured to shape the collar area by sandwiching the collar surface of the clothing A with the belt of the conveyance mechanism 20 and pulling it out. Further, 62 indicates a power belt.

Furthermore, in the device of the embodiment, a wrinkle removing brush 70 is installed downstream of the collar correction mechanism 60, and this includes a support rod 71 installed in the width direction of the fuselage 10,
It consists of a brush 72 provided so as to cover the entire width of the clothing toward the conveying surface side, and is provided to remove washing wrinkles left on the clothing A.

Figure 6 shows the pneumatic circuit 8 that drives each of the mechanisms described above.
0, and each component in the figure is indicated by the same reference numeral as used in the above description. 81 is the air purifier unit, 82 is the air tank, and 83 is the input frame 3.
84 is a control solenoid valve for the hanger mechanism 40; 85 is a control solenoid valve for the suction guiding mechanism 50; 86 is a control solenoid valve for the collar correction mechanism 60;
7, 88, 89 are control solenoid valves of the clothing shaping device 1;
Reference numeral 90 indicates a solenoid valve for controlling the sleeve presser roll 59.
The above-described loading device is used by being connected to a roll ironer 91 via a conveyor, as shown in FIG. 7f, for example. 92 is a foot switch, and 93 is a control panel.

The operating procedure of the clothing pre-processing machine according to the present invention configured as described above will now be described.

Loading process for clothing A (Figure 7a) The loading device starts from the state shown in Figure 1, and at this time the hanger mechanism 40 connects to the circuit 80 in the state shown in Figure 8.
Since the telescopic rod 43 of the hanger cylinder 44 is contracted by receiving air pressure from the hanger cylinder 44 through the illustrated port, the left and right hanger members 45, 45 overlap in a straight line and can easily enter the top 4 of the orthopedic body 3. in position.
The clothing A can be hung on the shaping body 3 at the position where the telescopic rod 5 is extended to the middle. At this time, when the start switch is operated, the orthopedic body is extended by the telescopic rod 5 to the position of the hanger members 45, 45, and the extension of the telescopic rod 43 of the hanger cylinder 44 causes the hanger members 45, 45 to be moved from above the orthopedic body 3 to the neck opening, Since it goes into the sleeve, clothing A is transferred from the orthopedic body 3 to the hanger member 4.
It will be replaced with 5.45. In this way, the clothes A suspended from the hanger members 45, 45 cover the entire clothing shaping device 1 having the shaping body 3. Then, when the switch is turned on, air is blown out from the air outlets 8, 8 of the orthopedic body 3 in the left and right direction, so the clothes A
Both sleeves are the suction ducts 53, 5 of the suction guiding mechanism 50.
3 are respectively sucked and held. Now both sleeves, collar, front body, and hem are all aligned (Figure 7b).

The worker covered the clothing to achieve the above condition.
All you have to do is stretch out both sleeves and put the hem on the shaping base 2 from behind.

Transferring process of clothing A When the operating switch is pressed after the above-mentioned hanging is completed, the solenoid valve 83 of the loading frame 30 is switched and the telescopic rod 32 of the drive cylinder 33 is contracted, so that the process shown in Fig. 7c In this state, the clothes A are transferred onto the conveyance surface 11 by the tilting input frame 30.

At the same time as the end of the control solenoid valve 86 of the collar correction mechanism 60 is switched from the state shown in FIG.
The belt 61 is rotated downward (forward) from the collar opening toward the garment A on top of the first part, and the control solenoid valve 84 of the hanger mechanism 40 is also switched so that the pair of hanger members 45, 45 move in the conveyor belt moving direction. Since they overlap in a straight line, the hanger members 45, 45 are pulled out from the garment A (FIG. 7d).

Also, in the suction guiding mechanism 50, while the suction ducts 53, 53 suction both sleeves, the solenoid valve 85
Since the guide cylinder 56 is opened to the left and right by the telescopic rod 54 of the guide cylinder 56, which is extended by switching, the sleeve is left on the conveying surface 11 (7
Figure d).

Loading process of clothing A When the clothing A is transferred to the transport mechanism 20 as described above, the clothing A is in an undisturbed shape from the collar to the hem and both sleeves, and is transported as it is by the transport mechanism 20 (7th Fig. e), for example, the roll ironer is placed next to the machine (Fig. 7 f).

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, in the device of the present invention, clothing such as yukatas and gowns can be hung on the hanger member that opens and closes, so it has the advantage that it is very easy to attach clothing to the pre-processing machine. This also contributes to improving work efficiency since the operations beyond those performed by the operator have little to do with skill.

The garments attached in this manner are shaped by a garment shaping device located below the hanger mechanism, which extends upwardly within the garment and performs the shaping by blowing air out. So,
Shapes the entire garment from the hem to the shoulders and cuffs,
Particularly, by blowing out air, the disorder of clothes can be effectively removed, and therefore, according to the present invention, clothes with complicated shapes and structures, such as yukatas and gowns, can be shaped by simply hanging them on a hanger. It is sent to the work process, significantly improving work efficiency.
Moreover, the effect of improving and stabilizing the quality can be achieved.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings relate to embodiments of the clothing pre-processing machine and clothing shaping device according to the present invention, in which FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view, FIG. 2 is a front view, FIG. 3 is a right side view, and FIG. A perspective view of the clothing shaping device when it is deflated, Figure b
and c are perspective views and longitudinal cross-sectional views when stretched, Figures 5 a and b.
6 is a plan view showing the suction guiding mechanism and its operating state, FIG. 6 is a pneumatic circuit diagram for operating each mechanism, and FIG. 7 a
-f are operation explanatory diagrams of the pretreatment machine according to the present invention.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A clothing conveyance mechanism installed in the main body of the pre-processing machine and having an exposed conveyance surface extending from the lower front to the upper rear when viewed from the front, which is erected in front of the main body and slopes from that position to the conveyance surface. A hanger mechanism having an input frame formed to do so, and a hanger member provided on the input frame that opens in a direction substantially perpendicular to the conveyance direction for the purpose of hanging clothes and closes in a direction approximately parallel to the conveyance direction to remove the clothes. and a clothing shaping device that has a shaping body located below the hanger mechanism that extends upward from the hem of the garment suspended from the hanger mechanism and contracts the garment after shaping it by blowing out air. Clothes pre-processing machine configured as follows. 2. The clothing pre-processing machine according to claim 1, further comprising a collar correction mechanism in which a belt moving at a higher speed than the transport speed is disposed opposite to the upper part of the transport surface. 3. A shaped body disposed at the hem of clothing that extends upward from the hem into the clothing and has an outlet for necessary air, an expanding and contracting means for stretching and contracting the shaped body to its original state, and shaping. 1. A clothing shaping device comprising a duct for blowing air into the body, and characterized in that the shaping body expands to a size having a narrower width than the shaped garment and a height reaching the shoulders. 4. The clothing shaping device according to claim 3, wherein the shaping body is in the shape of a hollow bag, and the expansion/contraction means is a cylinder mechanism having a telescopic rod whose tip is fixed to the inner top of the shaping body. 5. Claim 4, wherein the shaping body is connected to a duct for blowing air into the interior, has air outlets on both sides of the upper part of the shaping body to send air to the sleeves of the clothing to shape the body, and has a structure that is inflated by air. The clothing shaping device described.