Device for transvbersely folding laundry pieces

Claim 1

A FOLDING APPARATUS FOR TRANSVERSELY FOLDING LAUNDRY ARTICLES, WHICH COMPRISES: A FOLDING TABLE PROVIDED WITH A PLURALITY OF GROUPS OF PASSAGE MEANS THERETHROUGH FOR THE PASSAGE OF LIGHT BEAMS, A PLURALITY OF CONVEYOR MEANS ARRANGED ABOVE SAID TABLE AND SPACED FROM EACH OTHER IN TRANSVERSE DIRECTION THEREOF FOR RECEIVING AND CONVEYING LAUNDRY ARTICLES TO BE FOLDED, THE INDIVIDUAL PASSAGE MEANS IN EACH SAID GROUP OF PASSAGE MEANS IN SAID TABLE BEING SPACED FROM EACH OTHER IN THE DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT OF SAID CONVEYOR MEANS AND BEING LOCATED LATERALLY BETWEEN SAID CONVEYOR MEANS, A PLURALITY OF LATERALLY ALIGNED INDEPENDENT CLAMPING MEANS RESPECTIVELY ARRANGED ABOVE SAID CONVEYOR MEANS FOR TEMPORARILY GRASPING AND HOLDING THE FRONT PORTION OF THE LAUNDRY ARTICLE TO BE FOLDED, EACH SAID CLAMPING MEANS ALSO BEING PROVIDED WITH PASSAGE MEANS THERETHROUGH ABOUT MIDWAY THE ENDS THEREOF FOR THE PASSAGE OF LIGHT BEAMS, AND ALIGNED WITH ONE OF THE INDIVIDUAL PASSAGE MEANS OF ONE OF SAID GROUPS OF PASSAGE MEANS, A CONTROL UNIT ASSOCIATED WITH EACH OF SAID INDIVIDUAL PASSAGE MEANS AND CONTROLLABLE BY LAUNDRY ARTICLES ON SAID CONVEYOR MEANS IN THE REGION OF THE RESPECTIVE CLAMPING MEANS FOR CONTROLLING THE RESPECTIVE ONE OF SAID CLAMPING MEANS, SAID CONTROL UNITS BEING RESPECTIVELY ARRANGED BELOW SAID PASSAGE MEANS IN SAID FOLDING TABLE AND BETWEEN SAID CONVEYOR AND EACH INCLUDING A PHOTOELECTRIC CELL AND A LIGHT SOURCE AND ALSO A TRANSPARENT MIRROR AND LENS MEANS, AND REFLECTOR MEANS RESPECTIVELY ARRANGED ABOVE THE SAID INDIVIDUAL PASSAGE MEANS.