Invention Project- A T-Shirt Folding Machine

Our presentation and project was based on a really simple, creative and inexpensive T-Shirt Folding machine. Materials required and contained are such as cardboard, tape, and a pair of scissors. And if you are lucky enough, this simple machine might just come for free! Tape and scissors can or may be found at home or borrowed. And you can obtain cardboard in recycle houses or even request them in convenient stores such as 7-11, Family Mart, or even in malls (We obtained ours at the school convenient store at Huafan University). Usually, shops would just give it to you for free, since they are about to throw them out anyways. And if the shop won’t give it to you for free, you can still purchase one in a box-selling company. Once you have all the materials required, the next step is to start cutting the cardboard into four different pieces. Two with the same length, at 27 3/8 inches in height and 9 7/8 inches in width, one piece with a height of 28 3/8 inches and 13 3/4 of width, and lastly another section with a height of 14 3/6 inches and 9 7/8 inches. After this step, we may proceed to the next step, which is by combining them all together into one large piece. First, you may take the 2 slices with the same identical match in both height and with, and place them parallel with an open space in the center. And then you may place the other two slices of cardboard in the middle. Certainly, one would be longer than the other one. In addition, once combining them together, we need to make sure they will stick together and be foldable. Therefore, this is the time where you take out your tape and stick them all together, while still being able to fold them. An illustration may be shown within this website:

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-a-t-shirt-folding-machine

After following all the steps and completing them, you are free to try out your very own made T-Shirt folding machine. Is it working? Does it bend well? Or can you even close it into one pack and carry it along? Well, if your answer is yes to all of these questions, then congratulations! Because you have just accomplished a great simple tool which can allow you to be efficient in folding T-Shirts from now on!

Lastly, we made two prototypes before actually achieving our last project. What we failed to do in the beginning is a having a precise length and height of our simple machine. And we also miscalculated the conversion units from Inches à Centimeters, which was a great disaster towards our project in the end. However, after some research and recalculations, we were finally successful with our project in the end.