US 12,168,247 B1
Garment sorting system and method
Magnus Johansson, Sjömarken (SE); and Anders Hansen, Panama City Beach, FL (US)
Assigned to JENSEN SWEDEN AB, Borås (SE)
Filed by JENSEN SWEDEN AB, Borås (SE)
Filed on Nov. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/503,621.
Int. Cl. B07C 5/34 (2006.01); B07C 3/08 (2006.01); B65G 47/50 (2006.01)
CPC B07C 5/3412 (2013.01) [B07C 3/08 (2013.01); B65G 47/50 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0229 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A garment sorting system, wherein the system comprises:
a pairing station on which a piece of garment is manually hanged by an operator and paired with a garment carrier;
an interface extending between the pairing station and a first transporting conveyor arrangement, the interface configured to transfer the garment carrier from the pairing station to the first transporting conveyor arrangement, the first transporting conveyor arrangement configured to transport the garment carrier to an identification and sorting arrangement arranged on a second conveyor arrangement;
a plurality of sorting interfaces extending between a second transporting conveyor arrangement and a plurality of sorting rails;
wherein:
the identification and sorting arrangement comprises an identification device configured to:
identify the garment carrier from an identification code on the garment carrier or on the garment for further sorting; and
request, based on the identification code, a sorting rail address from a garment identification database, the sorting rail address indicative of a respective sorting rail of a plurality of sorting rails; and
the second transporting conveyor arrangement configured to:
transport the identified garment carrier to the respective sorting rail via a respective sorting interface of the plurality of sorting interfaces, the respective sorting interface configured to move the garment carrier to the respective sorting rail corresponding to the sorting rail address received by the identification and sorting arrangement from the garment identification database.