Design and realization of an automatic clothing processing device

LIANG Yi-ding， GUI Yu-xing， ZHAO Hang， XIANG Ye-ming， LI Zhe-ran
（Sino-German School of Applied Sciences， Tongji University， Shanghai 201804， China）

Abstract： Aiming at the lack of automatization in the process of collecting and folding clothes in most garment factories，as well as the tiresome work about clothes in daily life，a practical automatic clothing processing device was designed and implemented after a thorough consideration about the current market demand and the advanced technological development. Based on the DSP application and the cooperative work of three mechanical subsystems，i.e. a clothes conveying device，a clothes folding device and a retractable hanger，which were composed of synchronous belt，slideway and four-bar linkages，the entire process was accomplished from collecting clothes to folding clothes then to storing clothes. The efficiency of device was tested. The results show that it takes average 30 s to complete the whole process，and the folding process can be finished within 8 s，it indicates that the device can finish the clothes collecting and folding process with similar effect and greater efficiency compared with manual labor，proves its high use value in the market.
Key words： clothes conveying device； clothes folding device； mechatronics