US 7,412,789 B2
	Process for aligning a laundry article and device for carrying out the process
Jesper Munch Jensen, Gumligen (Switzerland); Thomas Knofel, Burgdorf (Switzerland); and Martin Rauch, Hasle-Rueggsau (Switzerland)
Assigned to Jensen AG Burgdorf, Burgdorf (Switzerland)
Filed on Feb. 15, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/354,055.
Claims priority of application No. 05405191 (EP), filed on Feb. 15, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0191170 A1, Aug. 31, 2006
Int. Cl. D06F 67/04 (2006.01); D06F 69/02 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 38—143

32 Claims

1. Process for aligning a laundry article in which a corner thereof is found and is gripped by first gripping the laundry article at an arbitrary point and drawing it in a positioning direction substantially completely onto a support surface and stopping it, then determining the position of a rear end transverse to the positioning direction by scanning, approaching the determined position by a corner gripper displaceable transversely to the positioning direction and gripping the laundry article there.