Abstract: A foot-operated bicycle work stand includes a frame and a lifting device. The frame includes a fixed post, a lifting rod, and at least one leg. The lifting rod is slidably mounted in the fixed post. The at least one leg is connected to the fixed post and is adjacent to a bottom end of the fixed post when in a folded state. The lifting device includes a pneumatic rod, a pedal, and a control cable. The pneumatic rod includes a first end received in the fixed post and a second end connected to the lifting rod. The pneumatic rod is telescopic and is configured to control the lifting rod to move relative to the fixed post. The control cable includes a first end connected to the pneumatic rod and a second end connected to the pedal.

Abstract: A garment bagging apparatus having a frame connected to a feeder drive train for supporting a supply of bagging material. A garment support is positioned relative to the feeder drive train. Suspension members attached to the frame suspend the apparatus off of and in spaced apart relation to a floor surface. A feed carriage is included with support members to moveably support the feed carriage solely from a portion of the frame above the feed carriage. Grippers are mounted on the feed carriage to grip the bagging material. When a garment is hung from the garment support, the feed carriage is moveable to positions below the garment.

Abstract: A carton filling device incorporates a conveyor 1 for moving cartons 3 and objects 2 to be located in the cartons simultaneously down a track with the objects respectively facing opposite to open ends of the cartons located at one side of the conveyor, A control arm 5 is situated in a start position at the other side of the conveyor and carries pushers for engaging the objects 2 and pushing them towards and into the open ends of the cartons 3. A control mechanism is adapted to move the control arm 5 not only across the conveyor 1, but also down the conveyor at the same speed of movement as the conveyor and to return the control arm 5 back to the start position once the objects have been inserted into the cartons.

Abstract: An apparatus having a base, an extendable bagging pole having a foot pedal, coupled to a front edge of the base and an adjustable hanging rack coupled to the back edge of the base. The bagging pole has a bagging pole upper tube with a C-shaped clip disposed thereon and a bagging pole lower cylinder. The hanging rack has a hanging rack upper tube and a hanging rack lower cylinder, with a crossbar disposed on the hanging rack upper tube. The bagging pole is extendable to first operative position and retractable to a second operative position. After bagging the clothing item and depressing the foot pedal to retract the bagging pole from the first operative position to the second operative position, the clothing item may then be hung on crossbar of the hanging rack.

Abstract: A clothing protection apparatus for protecting clothing or the like during storage and transportation. The apparatus having a top attachment device to secure onto the top of a door thus allowing the user to easily manipulate the invention during use. A lower attachment device is provided to support a clothing hanger and the accompanying garment for positioning before a protective cover is to be installed. A disposable box is used as the primary housing for the protective covers. A common roll of protective covering is provided with perforations between each cover.

Abstract: A control device on a packaging machine for single and multiple packaging of articles of clothing hanging on coat hangers and to be jacketed and welded in a tube film of plastics material in which in the region of the running path of the articles of clothing between the feed screw and the packaging suspension device there are arranged a singler and a stopper arranged at a distance therefrom as well as a scanner registering the number of clothing articles to be packaged by preselection with magnetic scanning, by color scanning or by distance scanning and controlling the singler and stopper for packaging preparation and release.

Abstract: A packaging machine for packaging clothing articles in a packaging portion of a hose-shaped synthetic plastic material foil includes a machine frame on which a roll of the synthetic plastic material foil is rotatably mounted. The foil unwound from the roll is guided by diverting rollers along a predetermined path to an upper region of the machine frame. An opening device opens the hose-shaped foil at the upper region of the machine frame. An upper welding device welds the foil at the upper region of the machine frame along a predetermined imaginary line situated between the packaging portion and the remainder of the foil with attendant formation of an upper welding seam at which the packaging portion is dissociated from the foil remainder foil. A pulling device pulls the opened hose-shaped foil downwardly over the clothing article to be packaged and includes a foil-pulling carriage guided on the machine frame for vertical displacement, and a motor which displaces the carriage.

Abstract: There is provided an overall system of packaging commodities such as garments or other like compressible articles in which the articles are initially conditioned to provide relatively low temperatures and relative humidity, following which the garments are enveloped with wrapping material, and subjected to a vacuum packaging operation. The system may include a transport system for transporting packaged commodities between the wrapping and vacuum packaging steps and stations. The vacuum packaging apparatus in which the apparatus functions to initially compress the central portion of the packaged commodity and progressively outwardly therefrom to provide improved packaging techniques to remove any entrapped air. The wrapping device may vertically envelops a commodity to be packaged. There is also provided a conditioning step and apparatus for conditioning the articles before packaging.

Abstract: A garment bag bottom sealing machine used in a dry cleaning operation or garment manufacturing industry includes a V-link belt which receives hangers fed thereto one at a time by a feeder. A sealer on the machine effects a double seal of a garment bag, and the bagged garment is discharged from the machine for further processing. The sealing machine is separate from any other equipment used in a garment dry cleaning operation or garment manufacturing industry.

Abstract: Tubular bag material is threaded downwardly between spaced support members. A garment support assembly is inserted into the tubular bag material at a level below the support members and then moved upwardly between the support members and rests on the support members. A garment is hung from the hook at the lower end of a downwardly projecting support rod extending from the garment support assembly and the tubular bag material is pulled downwardly by an operator about the garment. A bag cutting and sealing means moves into contact with the tubular bag material about the support rod to form the upper end of the bag about the garment and to cut the formed bag away from the tubular bag material. The operator then pulls the formed bag away from the tubular bag material down onto the garment.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically forming bags on hanger suspended garments comprises a plurality of stands for supporting hangers with garments suspended therefrom. A device is provided to move each of the plurality of stands in sequence to at least first, second and third positions. Each of the stands remains stationary for a brief interval at each of the positions following its arrival. Each of the stands is adapted to have a hanger suspended garment mounted thereon when each stand is at the first position. An adjustable placing apparatus is provided at the second position for pulling tubular material along a path. A cutting device above the garment moves toward the material to cut the tubular material and away from the material to permit pulling down of additional tubular material. A sealing device above the stands moves towards the material to seal the tubular material and moves away from the material to permit pulling down of additional tubular material.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming bags about hanger mounted garments using heat sealable wrapping material from a continuous flattened tubular web supplied on a roll. When a hanger mounted garment is placed on the apparatus, a sufficient length of tubing is drawn over the garment, cut free, and sealed at one or both ends. When the wrapped garment is removed, the apparatus returns to starting position.

Abstract: An elongated central shaft is provided at one end with a hook for supporting thereon a hanger for a garment contained thereon. The other end of the central elongated shaft is connected to a mounting element which mounts the arrangement on an apparatus for bagging garments. The elongated shaft has mounted thereabout a spreader unit which is hinged at its ends thereof so that, as a bag is pulled down from an apparatus for bagging garments, the spreader unit positioned about the central elongated shaft will cause the leading end of the bag to open up and thereby avoid contact with the hook and the central elongated shaft.

Abstract: Apparatus for automatically covering an item, such as a garment on a hanger, with a bag closed at the top and sides, and open at the bottom. The bagging material is supplied from a continuous roll in tubular form and is automatically fed from the roll, pulled over the item, cut to the proper length for the item to be covered, and heat sealed along the top edge. Unique means are provided for holding, cutting and sealing the bagging material, preferably a thermosensitive plastic, as well as for re-opening the end after cutting to begin a new cycle. Three stations for holding items to be covered, i.e., loading, bagging and discharge stations, are positioned on a rotating base and automatically indexed through each position in a continuous manner as the operations are performed.