Method and device for treating textile items

Abstract

In commercial laundries, textile items are treated in batches. This applies in particular to washing in continuous washing machines and to drying in tumble driers. Such a batch-wise treatment has to be carried out such that the treatment does justice to all textile items of the batch. The textile items are mixed in the batch-wise treatment, making it necessary to sort the batches again after the treatment, namely, the textile items have to be identified again after the treatment. The invention provides that the textile items are individually treated in succession, resulting in an individual treatment of each textile item being implemented. Damage to the textile items or wrong treatments are thus avoided. The textile items are treated while maintaining the sequence of the textile items, on account of which the textile items are not mixed and do not have to be sorted again at the end of the treatment.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for treating textile items in a laundry, wherein the textile items to be treated upon receipt thereof are identified, pre-sorting of the textile item optionally takes place, the textile items are dissimilarly treated in a plurality of treatment stations, and the textile items aftertreatment are prepared for delivery depending on the identification of said textile items, wherein the textile items are individually treated in succession in that each individual textile item is transported through all treatment stations provided for the treatment of said textile item, and the respective textile item herein in the respective treatment station provided for the respective textile item is individually treated according to the manner resulting from the identification of said textile item. 
     
     
         2 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the textile items are individually transported in succession through all treatment stations required for treating said textile items. 
     
     
         3 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the textile items are treated in the spread-out state while running through the successive treatment stations. 
     
     
         4 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the textile items maintain the sequence thereof when running through the treatment stations that serve for treating said textile items. 
     
     
         5 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the sequence of the textile items after the final treatment thereof corresponds to the initial sequence of the textile items. 
     
     
         6 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the sequence of the textile items is not changed during the treatment. 
     
     
         7 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein at least initial sorting of the identified textile items according to which treatment is provided for said textile items takes place by means of the identification of each individual textile item that takes place prior to the treatment of the textile items. 
     
     
         8 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein textile items which are treated at least partially in dissimilar treatment stations after the least treatment are reinstated in terms of their original sequence prior to the initial treatment. 
     
     
         9 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the running of each individual textile item through the treatment section is monitored. 
     
     
         10 . The method as claimed in  claim 9 , wherein the running of each individual textile item through the treatment section is monitored by identifying each individual textile item at least ahead of the first and behind the last treatment station. 
     
     
         11 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein timing for determining the running time of the respective individual textile item through the treatment stations take place prior to commencing the treatment and at least upon terminating the treatment, optionally also between at least successive treatments, and the measured running time is in each case compared with a running time calculated from the known distance between the beginning and end of the timing and from the known continuous running speed of the respective textile item through the at least one treatment station, wherein it is derived from a measured running time which is identical to the calculated running time that this is the same textile item for which the running time has been measured. 
     
     
         12 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein detecting the respective individual textile item takes place ahead of the first treatment of the textile items. 
     
     
         13 . The method as claimed in  claim 12 , wherein detecting the respective individual textile item in terms of the individual treatment parameters of each individual textile item for at least part of the subsequent treatments of the latter takes place prior to the first treatment of the textile items. 
     
     
         14 . A device for treating textile items, having a plurality of treatment stations such as at least one washing installation, a mangle, and/or a dryer, and/or a finisher, and a folding installation which successively subject the textile items to different treatments, wherein at least some treatment stations are disposed successively in such a manner that the individual textile items run through all treatment stations provided for the full treatment of the respective textile item individually and in succession, and the textile items are continuously transported individually in succession to the individual treatment stations and through the latter. 
     
     
         15 . The device as claimed in  claim 14 , wherein for transporting the textile items through the treatment stations, all treatment stations have conveyors for transporting the textile items through the respective treatment stations. 
     
     
         16 . The device as claimed in  claim 14 , wherein conveyors for transferring the successive textile items in an unchanged sequence to the following treatment station are provided at least between successive treatment stations. 
     
     
         17 . The device as claimed in  claim 16 , wherein a preparation installation for the textile items for the treatment of the latter in the treatment stations is disposed ahead of the first treatment station, and the preparation installation is configured for spreading and depositing each individual textile item on the conveyor of the respective treatment station. 
     
     
         18 . The device as claimed in  claim 14 , wherein a preparation installation for the textile items for treating the latter in the treatment stations is disposed ahead of the first treatment station. 
     
     
         19 . The device as claimed in  claim 14 , wherein a sorting installation of the textile items that serves at least for pre-sorting is disposed ahead of the first treatment station. 
     
     
         20 . The device as claimed in  claim 14 , wherein a detection installation for detecting at least the treatment parameters of each individual textile item is disposed ahead of the first treatment station. 
     
     
         21 . The device as claimed in  claim 20 , wherein the detection installation is networked with at least one controller of at least some of the treatment stations in such a manner that the at least one controller for individually treating the textile items controls the treatment installations as a function of the items of information of the respective textile item determined by the detection installation.