Method and system rapid piece handling

Patent · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:870637

Spletzer, Barry L ^[1]

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1. 9504 Arvilla, NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111

The advent of high-speed fabric cutters has made necessary the development of automated techniques for the collection and sorting of garment pieces into collated piles of pieces ready for assembly. The present invention enables a new method for such handling and sorting of garment parts, and to apparatus capable of carrying out this new method. The common thread is the application of computer-controlled shuttling bins, capable of picking up a desired piece of fabric and dropping it in collated order for assembly. Such apparatus with appropriate computer control relieves the bottleneck now presented by the sorting and collation procedure, thus greatly increasing the overall rate at which garments can be assembled.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76
• Assignee: Spletzer, Barry L. (9504 Arvilla, NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111)
• Patent Number(s): US 5564553
• OSTI ID: 870637
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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assembly
enables
apparatus
capable
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common
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computer-controlled
shuttling
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picking
desired
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collation
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greatly
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overall
rate
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assembled
computer control
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