US3915313A - Garment hanger handling apparatus - Google Patents

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US3915313A
US3915313A US511636A US51163674A US3915313A US 3915313 A US3915313 A US 3915313A US 511636 A US511636 A US 511636A US 51163674 A US51163674 A US 51163674A US 3915313 A US3915313 A US 3915313A
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Axel Stellan Thur
Karl Sture Wallin
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/22—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors
    • B65G47/26—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles
    • B65G47/28—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles during transit by a single conveyor
    • B65G47/29—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles during transit by a single conveyor by temporarily stopping movement

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  • the receiving device comprises a holder means for receiving and holding the garment hangers and separate means for removing them into a collection device.
  • the pivot arm is moved between a position in which the holder means receives the hangers and a position from which they are moved into the collection device.
  • An object of the invention is to provide an apparatus capable of moving said supporting devices singularly to an article hanging station and to move the articles supported on respective supporting devices to, for example, a clothing stand, which may be connected to a socalled feed screw of a steam-hot air chamber.
  • this invention consists in handling apparatus comprising a magazine for a plurality of supporting devices, said magazine being arranged to feed said supporting devices singularly along an inclined path, wherein there is provided a supporting device receiving means which is arranged to receive said supporting devices singularly from said inclined path; a pivot arm which is arranged for rotation around a stationary support and one end of which carries said supporting device receiving means; a supporting device collecting means arranged to collect the supporting devices received in said supporting device receiving means; wherein the supporting device receiving means comprises a holder means for receiving and holding a supporting device and means for moving said supporting devices from said holder means; and wherein the pivot arm is capable of pivoting between a first position in which the holder means can receive a supporting device from said inclined path and a second position in which said moving means can move a supporting device from the holder means to the supporting device collecting means.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an apparatus constructed in accordance with the invention
  • FIG. 2 shows diagrammatically a charging device forming part of the supporting magazine according to the invention
  • FIG. 3 shows a supporting device moving means forming part of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1,
  • FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken through the line VV in FIG. 3, and
  • FIG. 5 is a coupling diagram of a pneumatically equipped apparatus according to the invention and also shows the time diagram for the three cylinders forming part of the apparatus according to the invention.
  • a clothes hanger magazine 2 which is of known construction and which is adapted to advance clothes hangers singularly along an inclined path 3.
  • the magazine 2 may be of the type shown diagrammatically in FIG. 2, comprising two movable contacts 4 and 5 which, by rotating a pin 6 by means of a cylinder 7 connected to the frame I can be caused to move relative to one another.
  • a hanger'8a is located in a charged position.
  • the contact 4 is moved upwardly as seen in FIG. 2 while the contact 5 is moved downwardly, whereupon the hanger 8a slides past the contact 5 and down onto the inclined path 3.
  • a supporting device receiving means Adjacent the lower end of the inclined path 3 there is located a supporting device receiving means, hereinafter referred to as a hanger receiving means, comprising a rod 10 (FIGS. 1 and 3) of substantially circular cross-section.
  • the rod 10 is provided with supporting device holding means or hanger holding means in the form of a transverse slot 11 formed in the circumference of the rod 10.
  • the width of the slot 11 is insignificantly greater than the width or thickness of a hanger. In this way, when advancing a hanger from the magazine 2, a hanger from the inclined path 3 will slide down into a stable position in the slot.
  • the rod 10 is also provided with a hanger moving plate 13 which is controlled by a cylinder 12 and arranged for sliding longitudinal movement along the rod 10, said moving plate being arranged to move said hanger in a subsequent step of a hanger handling operation.
  • the rod 10 is mounted on one end of a pivot arm 14.
  • the arm 14 is mounted on a pin 15 in a bracket structure 16 which projects outwardly from a frame 17.
  • the pivot arm 14 is arranged to be rotated by means of a cylinder 18 from a first position, in which a hanger is able to slide from the inclined path 3 down into the slot 11 in the rod 10, to a second position, in which the end surface '19 of the rod 11 is located opposite the end of an inclined second rod 20 arranged in the frame 17.
  • On the rod 20 there is attached a substantially U-shaped block 21 which is arranged to facilitate the control and setting of a clothes rack 22.
  • One side of the clothes rack 22 is capable of being lifted and lowered by means of a lifting device 23, which is not shown in detail.
  • the mode of operation of the apparatus is as follows.
  • the pivot arm 14 is arranged to be rotated vertically. It is possible, however, to arrange for the pivot arm 14 to move horizontally instead.
  • the holder means of the hanger receiving means does not have the form of a slot 11 but, for example, may have the form of a recess in rod which slopes from the end surface 19 of the rod 10 continuously downwards to the hanger moving means 13. This recess forms a slide surface for receiving a hanger.
  • the hanger moving means 13 is then arranged to move along the recess, the direction of movement of said hanger moving means forming the same angle relative to the geometric axis of the rod 10 as said slide surface of said recess.
  • the hanger moving means 13 may have a form different to that shown with the embodiment of FIGS. 3 and 4.
  • a handling apparatus comprising a magazine for a plurality of supporting devices, said magazine being arranged to feed said supporting devices singularly along an inclined path, wherein there is provided a supporting device receiving means which is arranged to receive said supporting devices singularly from said inclined path; a pivot arm which is arranged for rotation around a stationary support and one end of which carries said supporting device receiving means; a supporting device collecting means arranged to collect the supporting devices received in said supporting device receiving means; wherein the supporting device receiving means comprises a holder means for receiving and holding a supporting device and means for moving said supporting devices from said holder means; and wherein the pivot arm is capable of pivoting between a first position in which the holder means can receive a supporting device from said inclined path and a second position in which said moving means can move a supporting device from the holder means to the supporting device collecting means.
  • the supporting device receiving means comprises a first rod of substantially circular cross-sectional shape; wherein said holder means comprises a transversal slot formed along part of the circumference of the rod and having a width such that a supporting device can rest in a stable position therein when said pivot arm is located in said first position, the arrangement being such that rotation of the pivot arm to the second position causes a supporting device to slide up on the non-slotted portion of the circumference of the first rod to a labile position; and wherein the supporting device moving means comprises a plate arranged to slide along the rod and, when said supporting device takes said labile position, to move said supporting device from the supporting device receiving means to the supporting device collector means.
  • An apparatus wherein there is provided a first limit valve, said valve, as the pivot arm takes said second position, being arranged to cause a supporting device received in the supporting device receiving means to be moved by said supporting device moving means and to initiate rotation of the arm to the first position and to initiate a charging function of the supporting device magazine; and wherein there is also provided a second limit valve, said valve being arranged, upon the pivot arm taking said first position, to initiate a return movement of the supporting device moving means and to initiate advancement of a supporting device from the supporting device magazine to the inclined path.
  • a pedal such as a foot pedal
  • a cylinder which cylinder is arranged to rotate the pivot arm from the first to the second position upon activation of said pedal.

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US4276995A (en) * 1978-08-23 1981-07-07 Sussman Bugeltechnik Gmbh Garment-hanging station on a conveyor
US4349127A (en) * 1979-09-11 1982-09-14 Atron, Inc. Device for affixing garments onto hangers
US5501376A (en) * 1994-07-19 1996-03-26 Roda-Balzarini; Emilio Device for providing assistance in donning garments equipped with sleeves
US20090145868A1 (en) * 2007-12-10 2009-06-11 Pep Fordertechnik Gmbh Method and device for the grouping of clothes hangers

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US4276995A (en) * 1978-08-23 1981-07-07 Sussman Bugeltechnik Gmbh Garment-hanging station on a conveyor
US4349127A (en) * 1979-09-11 1982-09-14 Atron, Inc. Device for affixing garments onto hangers
US5501376A (en) * 1994-07-19 1996-03-26 Roda-Balzarini; Emilio Device for providing assistance in donning garments equipped with sleeves
US20090145868A1 (en) * 2007-12-10 2009-06-11 Pep Fordertechnik Gmbh Method and device for the grouping of clothes hangers

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