JPH04338500A - Shirt folding device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the title device certainly capable of folding lengthwise a shirt with a restoring force. CONSTITUTION:A shirt receiving table 15 is provided with sliding boards 16, 17 which slide crosswise on the lower sides thereof, and on the sliding boards, a shirt tail pressing board 25 which moves vertically to the receiving table and a folding board 27 which moves along the receiving table are provided. At the end part of the receiving table, a shirt holding member 28 is mounted above the folding board 27. The shirt tail pressing board 25 presses a shirt on the receiving table 15 and the folding board 27 is moved thus to turn up the shirt tail. When folding is completed, sliding boards 16, 17 are slid, and the folding board and shirt tail pressing board are drawn out crosswise.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a folding machine for folding shirts such as dress shirts.

0002

[Prior Art] A folding machine for folding shirts in the longitudinal direction has been developed by the present applicant in Japanese Patent Application No. 2-198483.
There are some proposals made by issue.

[0003] As shown in FIGS. 16 and 17, this folding machine has guide shafts 41 and 42 whose upper ends are bent and opposite to each other across the width of the horizontal folding of the shirt, on the upper surface of a pedestal 40 provided on the movement path of the shirt. is rotatably provided, and at the end of the pedestal 40,
Folding rod 4 that rotates above the guide shafts 41 and 42
3 is installed. In this structure, the pedestal 4
The shirt set on the upper surface of 0 is regulated from the width direction and upper direction by the guide shafts 41 and 42, and in this state, the shirt is placed on the folding rod 4.
3 is rotated to fold back the hem of the shirt hanging down from the pedestal 40 using the guide shaft 42 as a fulcrum.

0004

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in the shirt folding machine having the above structure, when the length of the hem of the shirt hanging from the holder 40 becomes shorter due to a change in the size of the shirt, when the shirt is folded by the folding rod 43, The hem of the shirt may easily come off the rod, making it impossible to fold it back.

[0005] In addition, the fabric of shirts finished by gluing and ironing after cleaning is hard and has great elasticity, so even if the shirt is folded widthwise in advance, the fabric will swell and remain in its original state. Therefore, when the shirt is fixed by the guide shafts 41 and 42, the rotating guide shaft and the swollen shirt interfere with each other.
There is a problem with the shirt losing its shape.

Furthermore, the restorability of the shirt is such that even when the hem of the shirt is folded back with the folding bar 43 and the folding bar returns to its original position, the swollen hem of the shirt interferes with the folding bar, causing the shirt to lose its shape. It has a defect that makes it easy to collapse.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a shirt folding machine that can reliably fold a shirt in the longitudinal direction even if the fabric has a strong restoring force.

[0008]

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the folding machine of the present invention includes a cradle on the top surface of which the shirt is set in a state where it is stretched in the longitudinal direction; is provided with a slide member that slides in orthogonal directions, and a press plate that approaches and leaves the top surface of the pedestal, and a press plate that moves toward and away from the top surface of the pedestal, and a slide member that slides the shirt along the top surface of the pedestal at a height equal to or greater than the thickness of the press plate. A folding plate that moves in the longitudinal direction is provided, and a support member is provided at the end of the pedestal to support the shirt at a position higher than the moving height of the folding plate.

[0009]

[Operation] In the above structure, first, the slide member is slid to move the presser plate and the folding plate to a position where they do not interfere with the top surface of the pedestal, and the end of the hem of the shirt is left hanging from the support member. Set the shirt on the top of the cradle.

Next, the presser plate and folding plate are slid above the holder, and after fixing the shirt to the holder with the presser plate, the folding plate is moved from the end of the holder provided with the supporting member in the longitudinal direction of the shirt. move it to By this movement of the folding plate, the hem of the shirt is folded back using the presser plate as a fulcrum.

When the hem is completely folded back, the slide plate is moved and the folding plate and presser plate are pulled out laterally.

0012

Embodiment FIG. 1 shows the overall structure of a shirt folding machine according to an embodiment. This folding machine includes a horizontal folding section 1 that folds a shirt into a standard width dimension, and a vertical folding section 2 that folds the horizontally folded shirt in the longitudinal direction.
, 2, and a shirt moving mechanism is provided between them.

The horizontal folding section 1 includes a fixed receiving plate 3 and a movable receiving plate 4 arranged in the front-rear direction. is connected to. The fixed receiving plate 3 and the movable receiving plate 4 are formed with a width dimension of a predetermined folding width, and the entire movable receiving plate 4 and a part of the fixed receiving plate 3 are used to stretch the shirt S in the longitudinal direction and set it. It has become.

On both sides of the movable receiving plate 4 and the fixed receiving plate 3, as shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, there are five folded plates A, B, C, D, arranged with gaps in the vertical direction. E and two folding plates F and G are each provided slidably below each receiving plate. Each of these folded plates A to G includes each receiving plate 3, 4.
Guide rods 8, 9 and drive cylinders 10, 1 provided above
1, among which the guide rods 8 of the folding plates A to E and the drive cylinder 10 are connected to a sliding member 12 attached to the guide rod 7 of the lifting frame 6, together with a movable pedestal.

A forward and backward movement cylinder 13 is installed between the sliding member 12 and the elevating frame 6 to move the movable receiving plate 4 and the folding plates A to E together along the guide rod 7.

Further, a shirt conveying device 14 is provided on the base 5 to move the shirt set on the entire fixed receiving plate 3 to the end of the movable receiving plate 4.

On the other hand, as shown in FIGS. 4 to 7, the vertical folding section 2 includes a shirt holder 15 fixed to the end of the guide rod 7 of the elevating frame 6, and a shirt holder 15 that extends horizontally to the holder 15. It is equipped with a pair of slide plates 16 and 17 that slide on the
The upper surface 15a of the pedestal 15 forms an inclined surface whose rear end approaches the movable receiving plate 4 that moves along the guide rod 7 of the elevating frame 6.

Each of the slide plates 16 and 17 is mounted on a pedestal 15.
A horizontal guide rod 19 is attached to a frame 18 fixed to the lower surface of the
, 20 and moving cylinders 21, 22 are attached to the guide rods 19, 20 via linear bearings 23 so as to be freely movable. The shirt S is moved in the opposite direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the shirt S set in the holder.

Further, lift cylinders 24, 24 that extend and contract in the vertical direction are attached to the center portions of each slide plate 16, 17, and hem press plates 25, 25 are attached to the lift cylinders. Furthermore, folding cylinders 26 and 26 that expand and contract in the longitudinal direction of the pedestal 15 are attached to the sides of each slide plate 16 and 17, and each of the folding cylinders 26
, 26 are connected to folding plates 27, 27, respectively. These folding plates 27, 27 are attached to the pedestal 15 as shown in FIG.
The height H from the hem press plate 25 is set to be higher than the hem presser plate 25 crimped to the pedestal by the gap through which the shirt fabric can be inserted, and by the operation of each folding cylinder 26,
It is possible to slide along the upper surface 15a of the pedestal 15 without any interference in the range from the front end to the rear end of the pedestal 15.

Further, a support member 28 is attached to the front end of the pedestal 15 to cover the entire front end from above and below. The upper portion of this support member 28 is a guide portion 29 that bends toward the rear end side of the pedestal 15 at a position higher than the moving height H of each folding plate 27, 27. A gap 30 is formed between the upper surface of the pedestal 15 and the folding plates 27, 27 can enter from the side.

Next, the operation of the embodiment having the above structure will be explained. A shirt S is set on the rear end of the fixed receiving plate 3 with the button side facing upward and both sleeves and both edges of the body hanging down from both sides of the fixed receiving plate, and the shirt S is transported. It is moved to the tip of the movable receiving plate 4 by the device 14.

Next, as shown in FIG. 7, the folding plates A to G on both sides of the movable receiving plate 4 and the fixed receiving plate 3 are slid downward from each receiving plate in order from the top one to the bottom of each receiving plate to remove the hanging shirt. Fold the sleeves and torso below each receiving plate 3 and 4.

After folding the shirt horizontally in this manner, the elevating frame 6 is operated by the elevating cylinder 31 to raise the movable receiving plate 4 and each of the folding plates A to E. As shown in FIG. , while the upper half is folded onto the movable receiving plate 4, the lower half is pulled up from the fixed receiving plate 3.

Further, when pulling up this shirt, both slide plates 16 and 17 are moved at the vertical folding part 2 as shown in FIG.
to the outside to move each hem presser plate 25, 25 and folding plate 27, 27 to a position where they do not interfere with the upper surface of pedestal 15, and extending the folding cylinders 26, 26 to remove each folding plate 27. , 27 to the front end of the pedestal 15 (folding start position).

From this state, when the forward and backward movement cylinder 13 is operated to move the movable receiving plate 4 toward the receiving stand 15 of the vertical folding section 2, the lower half of the shirt is placed on the receiving plate as shown in FIG. The shirt is in sliding contact with the upper surface of the stand 15, and the shirt is folded back from the center in the longitudinal direction between the stand 15 and the movable receiving plate 4. In this case, the lower half of the shirt is extended in the longitudinal direction along the upper surface of the pedestal 15, and the end of the hem hangs down from the guide portion 29 of the support member 28.

Next, as shown in FIG. 11, the hem press plate 25,
25 is raised to a position sufficiently higher than the thickness of the shirt that bulges on the pedestal 15 due to the elasticity of the shirt fabric, each slide plate 16, 17 is moved to the underside of the pedestal 15, and each The folding plates 27, 27 are inserted into the gap 30 between the support member 28 and the pedestal 15.

Next, as shown in FIG.
5 and 25 are lowered to fix the hem of the shirt to the pedestal 15, and then the folding plates 27 and 27 are moved toward the rear end of the pedestal 15. As a result, as shown in FIG. 13, the hem of the shirt is folded back from the edge of the hem pressing plates 25, 25, and
7 and 27, it is folded in the longitudinal direction.

During this folding, since the hem pressing plates 25, 25 are always pressed against the upper surface of the pedestal 15, the folding plate 2
7 and 27 move smoothly without interfering with the hem press plates 25 and 25.

When the folding plates 27, 27 move to the position where the upper half and lower half of the shirt are folded, the movement of the folding plates is stopped at that position, and the forward and backward movement cylinder 13 is moved as shown in FIG.
is operated to move the movable receiving plate 4 away from the pedestal 15. As a result, the movable receiving plate and the folding plates A to E are pulled out from the upper half of the folded shirt, but since the folding plate 27 is holding down the shirt, the shirt does not shift due to the pulling out of the folding plate. the shirt is held in place.

When the pulling operation is completed in this manner, each slide plate 16, 17 is moved outward, and the folding plates 27, 27 and the hem pressing plates 25, 25 are pulled out laterally, as shown in FIG. As a result, the shirt is left on the pedestal 15 in a state in which it is vertically and horizontally folded into a regular shape.

In the above example, two sets of slide plates 16 and 17 are provided facing each other on both sides of the pedestal 15, and hem press plates 25 and 25 and folding plates 27 and 27 are provided on each slide plate. However, one set of slide plates, a presser plate, and a folding plate may be provided on only one side of the pedestal 15.

Furthermore, the method of setting the shirt on the pedestal 15 of the vertical folding section 2 is not limited to the structure using the movement of the movable receiving plate pedestal of the horizontal folding section 1 as described above. for example,
The shirt may be stretched onto the pedestal by a simple shirt conveyance mechanism, or the shirt may be set manually.

[0033]

[Effect] As described above, the folding machine of this invention presses the shirt with the pressing plate and then folds it in the longitudinal direction with the folding plate. Even if the lengths of the shirts are different, the shirt can be securely pressed and folded.

[0034] Furthermore, since the folding plate and the holding plate are made to slide laterally with respect to the pedestal, there is no interference with the shirt when the folding plate returns, and in addition, the movement of the folding plate for returning Since there is no need to take a long stroke, there is an advantage that the machine dimensions can be shortened.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

[Fig. 1] Partially sectional front view of the shirt folding machine of the embodiment

[Figure 2] Cross-sectional view taken along line II-II in Figure 1

[Figure 3] Cross-sectional view taken along line III-III in Figure 1

[Fig. 4] Partial longitudinal sectional plan view showing the vertical folding part of the same as above.

[Figure 5] Partial longitudinal cross-sectional front view of the vertical folding part

[Fig. 6] Cross-sectional view taken along the VI-VI line in Fig. 5

[Figure 7] Action state diagram same as above

[Figure 8] Action state diagram same as above

[Figure 9] Action state diagram same as above

[Figure 10] Action state diagram same as above

[Figure 11] Action state diagram same as above

[Figure 12] Action state diagram same as above

[Figure 13] Action state diagram same as above

[Figure 14] Action state diagram same as above

[Figure 15] Action state diagram same as above

[Fig. 16] Plan view showing a conventional example

[Figure 17] Front view of the same as above

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Horizontal folding part 2 Vertical fold section 3 Fixed receiving plate 4 Movable receiving plate 6 Lifting frame 15 Shirt holder 16, 17 Slide plate 24 Lifting cylinder 25　Hem presser plate 26 Cylinder for folding 27 Folded plate 28 Support member

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A cradle on which a shirt is set in a stretched state in the longitudinal direction; a slide member that slides in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the shirt; A presser plate that moves toward and away from the top surface of the pedestal, and a folding plate that moves in the longitudinal direction of the shirt along the top surface of the pedestal at a height greater than the thickness of the presser plate,
A shirt folding machine comprising a support member provided at an end of a cradle to support a shirt at a position higher than the moving height of the folding plate.