Assembly system for seamed articles
CA 1258687 A · Owner: Stark (Charles) Draper Laboratory, Inc. (The) · Inventors: Whitney, Daniel E.; Fyler, Donald C.; Wood, George A.
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A limp material handling system includes a manipulating apparatus for selectively manipulating one or more layers of limp materiel on a support table. Folding is accomplished by lifting a curvilinear region of the material, reshaping that lifted region as desired, and lowering that lifted region to a curvilinear region on the support table. A seamed article assembly system incorporates the manipulating apparatus, a seam joining apparatus and a multiple parallel endless belt system for tactile presentation of the limp material to the seam joining apparatus. An optical sensing system provides information representative of the position of the limp material being handled. A programmable …
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- Granted August 22, 1989. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended August 22, 2006.
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