IP Library Granted Patent US 8,781,619
Granted Patent B2
US 8,781,619 · App. 13/585,175 · Granted Jul 15, 2014

Automatic clothes receiving and retrieving system for laundry

Inventor: Shih-Tsung Chan (Dayuan Township, Taoyuan County, TW)
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,781,619
App. No.
13/585,175
Granted
Jul 15, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

An automatic clothes receiving and retrieving system for laundry, mainly includes a clothes receiving unit and a clothes retrieving unit. The clothes receiving unit is for inputting a verification information. The clothes are automatically received through a clothes receiving entrance and packed in clothes containers and identification tags are attached to the clothes containers. Each clothes container is arranged with a transfer device for moving the clothes container to a laundry factory and to send the clothes to the storage portion of the clothes retrieving unit after the clothes are cleaned. The clothes retrieving unit is for automatically transferring the cleaned clothes from the storage portion to the retrieving exits according to data of the consumer after the input of the verification information.

Claims (4)

1. An automatic clothes receiving and retrieving system for laundry, comprising:

a clothes receiving unit having a main controller connected with a central monitoring and controlling system, a palm print identification device and an identification tag printing and attaching device connected with the main controller, and a clothes receiving entrance is disposed thereof; wherein when a consumer verifies information on the main controller, clothes are automatically received from the clothes receiving entrance and packed in clothes containers after confirmation, and identification tags are attached to the clothes containers with the identification tag printing and attaching device;

a clothes retrieving unit including at least a first storage area for hanging clothes, and a second storage area for storing cleaned, folded and packed clothes, and a third storage area for storing cleaned, folded and packed larger-sized bedding articles such as bed sheets and bedspreads; wherein after the consumer inputs a verification information by using palm print identification device, according to data of the consumer cleaned clothes for the consumer are automatically transferred from the storage area via a conveyor to the clothes retrieving exit for the consumer to retrieve.

2. The automatic clothes receiving and retrieving system for laundry of claim 1 , wherein the clothes receiving entrance of the clothes receiving unit has a gate activated by the main controller and the gate is opened for receiving clothes only after confirmation of the verification information of the consumer.

Continuity (1)
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