Method and device for folding and/or stacking laundry items

摘要

Means for folding and stacking laundry articles are usually formed so that the folding means (11) downstream stacking means (13) can only stacking folded laundry items. But it happens for example with napkins (10) that they are individually folded by hand later. The large pieces of laundry can not unfolded with stacking means (13) of known devices for folding and / or stacks of pieces of laundry are stacked. The problem is also the longitudinal folds smaller laundry items such as napkins (10).; The invention provides for it to provide each transverse folding station (17, 18) of the folding means (11) and the stacking means (13) with a working width which corresponds to the working width of the Längsfaltstation (16), so that mainly unfolded napkin (10) through the device are hindurchtransportierbar and abstapelbar. The longitudinal folding of napkins (10) is improved in that they are folded longitudinally pneumatically.