US Patent Issued to Herbert Kannegiesser on May 20 for "Method and apparatuses for feeding items of laundry to a laundry machine, such as in particular a mangle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,740, issued on May 20, was assigned to Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH (Vlotho, Germany).

"Method and apparatuses for feeding items of laundry to a laundry machine, such as in particular a mangle" was invented by Wilhelm Bringewatt (Porta Westfalica, Germany) and Engelbert Heinz (Vlotho, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Laundry items are spread out and deposited on a feed conveyor which inserts the laundry item into a mangle. The front edge of the laundry item is stretched by a spreading device, wherein spreading clamps are moved apart on the basis of a measured length of the front edge. Until now, the front edge length item has been...