The present disclosure provides an apparatus for manufacturing a superfine fiber roll wiper for a cleanroom, wherein a thermal cutting unit including thermal cutting blocks and thermal cutters is applied to a thermal cutting part, such that a process of manufacturing a roll wiper and a process of thermally bonding both ends of the manufactured roll wiper may be performed by the single apparatus, as a result of which, with the use of the single apparatus, it is possible to considerably improve workability, implement the mass-production, and reduce manufacturing costs. Further, the thermal cutting unit further including interval adjustment blocks in addition to the thermal cutting blocks and the thermal cutters is applied, such that a width of a roll wiper to be manufactured may be selectively and conveniently adjusted when a change in width of the roll wiper is required.

A method and apparatus include directing an article to a receiving device; transferring the leading portion of the article to a folding device; transferring the leading portion of the article to an oscillating device while holding the trailing portion of the article on the receiving device; reversing the oscillating device; folding the article by overlaying the leading portion of the article on the trailing portion of the article to define a folded state while continuing to hold the trailing portion of the article on the receiving device.

The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus that separates and efficiently captures from an automated cutting table select pieces of thin, flexible material in an orderly manner which prevents damage to the selected piece while preventing the undesired lifting or movement of the surrounding material. The apparatus comprises a pick head assembly including a cylinder with a plurality of orifices that communicates with the selected piece to maintain contact between the selected piece and the cylindrical surface while the selected piece is being removed.

A gripper arrangement for lifting a flexible semi-finished product from a support, wherein the gripper arrangement comprises a flexible semi-finished product resting on a support and at least one pair of grippers with a suction gripper or needle gripper and with at least one clamping gripper, wherein the suction or needle gripper is pivotable around an axis between a pick-up position for picking up an edge of the flexible semi-finished product and a transfer position for transferring the edge of the flexible semi-finished product to the clamping gripper. Furthermore, a corresponding method is described.

An apparatus for drawing-off a web-shaped product from a weaving machine in a drawing-off direction includes: at least one clamp carrier having clamps for the web-shaped product; a carrier frame apparatus on which the clamp carrier is guided; a drive arrangement by which the clamp carrier is drivable back and forth in a motion range; and a support system for the web-shaped product. The support system is arranged in an area between the apparatus side facing toward the weaving machine and the clamp carrier, within the carrier frame apparatus, in such a manner so that a sagging of the web-shaped product in this area is avoided or limited by the support system.

In an automatic cloth feeder that conveys cloth with a feeding conveyor, detects a trailing end of the cloth to hold the trailing end with a keeping-transferring part in the process of conveyance, and feeds the trailing end of the cloth into a process as a leading end, the keeping-transferring part has a pair of unfolding members provided as one set are provided on an outlet side of the feeding conveyor in order to hold the left and right trailing ends of the cloth, and the keeping-transferring part has holding pieces that are opened and closed substantially to the right and the left as seen from the top or from the front, to hold the trailing ends of the cloth but not coming into contact with the lifting means, in an open state and that is at the position of the lifting means in a closed state.

A heated roller, in particular for a textile printer, comprising: a pair of stationary supports, an elongated tubular element located between said stationary supports and rotatably carried by said stationary supports about a longitudinal axis, a stationary infrared lamp extending inside said tubular element and having opposite ends supported by said stationary supports, a lamp support device extending between said stationary supports inside said tubular element and supporting the infrared lamp between said stationary supports, and an elastic device which applies an elastic tension to said lamp support device between said stationary supports in the direction of said longitudinal axis.

A printing apparatus capable of fixing a medium appropriately during printing is provided. The printing apparatus includes a feeding roller, a printing portion configured to make a print on the textile supplied from the feeding roller, and a conveyance portion configured to convey the textile to the printing portion. The conveyance portion includes a pressure roller configured to sandwich the textile and rotate along with conveyance of the textile. The printing apparatus further includes a brake roller disposed between the pressure roller and the feeding roller for producing force acting on the textile against conveyance force for the textile by the conveyance portion to apply tension to the textile between the brake roller and the pressure roller. Tension smaller than tension exerted on the textile between the brake roller and the pressure roller is exerted on the textile between the brake roller and the feeding roller.

A gripper head adapted to grip, hold and release a piece of cloth, including a first part and a second part with respective conveyor belts, an actuator, such as a hydraulic actuator, a pneumatic actuator or a motor, connected with the second part and configured for turning the second part relative to the first part to apply in a cloth nipping position a first clamping force on a piece of cloth, and a controller connected with the actuator and configured to control the actuator for the second part to selectively apply in a cloth nipping position a second, higher clamping force when the conveyor belts are temporarily stopped with a nipping zone filled by a portion of the piece of cloth.

A medium support unit includes a support portion on which it is possible to set a medium in a setting direction that runs parallel to a support surface, and a friction member that is attached to the support portion, in which the friction member has an incision formation portion at a position that corresponds to a corner portion, and the incision formation portion that covers the corner portion positioned on an upstream side than the center in the setting direction has a first cover portion and a second cover portion positioned on a downstream side than the setting direction than the first cover portion, the first cover portion overlaps with the second cover portion such that an end portion of the first cover portion on the downstream side in the setting direction covers an end portion of the second cover portion on the upstream side in the setting direction.