公开(公告)号：US20210207316A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-08

申请号：US17058633

申请日：2018-05-28

Applicant: TOTOFOLDER MANUFACTURING CO.,LTD.

Inventor： Yusuke MAESHIMA

IPC: D06F89/02 ,  B65G47/34

Abstract: A sleeve-folding assistance device for assisting a back-revealing sleeve-folding device is provided. The sleeve-folding assistance device includes a pair of right and left sleeve guide portions which disposes a body portion of a garment having the body portion and both sleeve portions on a loading conveyor to transport the garment from a front to a rear, and moves to approach both sides of the loading conveyor so as to guide both sleeve portions of the garment hung down on both sides of the loading conveyor to a sleeve-folding device for performing back-revealing sleeve-folding, in which when the pair of right and left sleeve guide portions approaches both sides of the loading conveyor and transports the body portion from the front to the rear on the loading conveyor, the pair of right and left sleeve guide portions lifts both sleeve portions of the garment, respectively.

公开(公告)号：US20240052552A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-15

申请号：US18267451

申请日：2020-12-17

Applicant: TOTOFOLDER MANUFACTURING CO.,LTD.

Inventor： Yusuke MAESHIMA ,  Kiyonobu HOSOYA

IPC: D06F67/04

CPC classification number: D06F67/04

Abstract: An insertion unit can be provided to save labor required for a cloth insertion operation. In addition, provided is a cloth insertion device including the insertion unit and an intermediate device. The insertion unit includes a lower section on which one side of a cloth is placed and that transports the cloth upward, and an upper section that is disposed above the lower section and that transports the cloth upward. The lower section includes a placement section on which the cloth is placed, the upper section includes a movable section that is rotatable upward and downward at a position above the placement section, the movable section having rotated upward rotates downward when the one side of the cloth is placed on the placement section, and the one side of the cloth is transported upward with the one side being sandwiched between the placement section and the movable section.

公开(公告)号：US20250003142A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-02

申请号：US18705986

申请日：2021-11-09

Applicant: TOTOFOLDER MANUFACTURING CO.,LTD.

Inventor： Yusuke MAESHIMA ,  Haruo KOJIMA

IPC: D06F89/02

Abstract: There are provided a folding assistance device capable of reliably folding a fabric formed of a relatively rigid nonwoven fabric, as compared with a fabric formed of cotton or synthetic fiber, and a folding apparatus including the folding assistance device. A folding assistance device (10) includes a pressing portion (20) that is attached to a folding apparatus (200) including a gauge (211) defining a folding position for folding a fabric (W) and presses the gauge to fold the fabric at the folding position with the fabric interposed therebetween, and a driving portion (30) that drives the pressing portion to come into contact with the gauge.

公开(公告)号：US20190292718A1

公开(公告)日：2019-09-26

申请号：US16345248

申请日：2016-10-27

Applicant: TOTOFOLDER MANUFACTURING CO.,LTD.

Inventor： Yusuke MAESHIMA

IPC: D06F89/00 ,  B65H45/12 ,  B65G21/14

Abstract: A fabric folding device that is capable of performing multiple types of folding modes and prevents an occurrence of a waste space when the device is installed is provided. The fabric folding device does not require a pair of right and left French-folding gauges. There is provided a fabric folding device including a first folding unit capable of folding a fabric, which has a longitudinal direction aligned with a transportation direction and a width direction intersecting the longitudinal direction, at a position half or one-third a length of the fabric in the longitudinal direction; and rotation means for being capable of rotating the fabric such that the transportation direction is changed from the longitudinal direction to the width direction, by which the fabric folded by the first folding unit is to be transported from a front side to a rear side, and to be folded once more.

公开(公告)号：US20180148287A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-31

申请号：US15575403

申请日：2015-05-29

Applicant: TOTOFOLDER MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.

Inventor： Yusuke MAESHIMA

IPC: B65H7/02 ,  D06F87/00 ,  B65H5/02 ,  B65H5/08

Abstract: In an automatic cloth feeder that conveys cloth with a feeding conveyor, detects a trailing end of the cloth to hold the trailing end with a keeping-transferring part in the process of conveyance, and feeds the trailing end of the cloth into a process as a leading end, the keeping-transferring part has a pair of unfolding members provided as one set are provided on an outlet side of the feeding conveyor in order to hold the left and right trailing ends of the cloth, and the keeping-transferring part has holding pieces that are opened and closed substantially to the right and the left as seen from the top or from the front, to hold the trailing ends of the cloth but not coming into contact with the lifting means, in an open state and that is at the position of the lifting means in a closed state.