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High-rate space efficient article singulator

A technology of article and article flow, applied in the direction of conveyor control device, packaging, transportation and packaging, etc., can solve the problems of low space and power effective performance, sensorless control, etc., achieve high productivity, reduce system cost, and less equipment Effect

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-08-29
西门子共同研究公司
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[0006] These space-saving singulation devices address some of the key shortcomings of prior art singulation device technology, which previously consisted of "open-loop" devices with little or no transmission of item movement. sense of control and provide low space and power efficient performance

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[0042] Referring to Figure 1, the numeral 10 generally designates an article handling system of the present invention. As will be described in more detail below, the article handling system 10 provides a system and method that enables high-speed, space-saving singulation of dual outputs of articles and subsequent directing of the two streams of singulated articles into a single stream without parallelism, that is, without A single stream of overlapping items perpendicular to the direction of flow. Each stream is said to be singularized when items flow sequentially one after the other and all adjacent items are separated by non-zero intervals.

[0043] In the illustrated embodiment, the system 10 includes at least two devices—a singulation device 12 configured and arranged to take a bulk stream (ie, a stream of items in an unordered flow) and output it into two single and a merging unit 14, which then directs the two streams of items to form a single stream of items without pa...

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An article merge unit (14) includes a first conveyor for conveying articles (24, 26) in a first stream having a first speed, a second conveyor (32, 34) having a plurality of lateral pushers (46), and a third conveyor (36). The first conveyor conveys the articles in the first stream to the second conveyors where the lateral pushers selectively diverting the articles across the second conveyor to the third conveyor. A control controls the conveying speed of the third conveyor and selectively actuates the lateral pushers to push a selected article from the first and second streams to the third conveyor wherein articles conveyed on the third conveyor are conveyed in a take-away stream having no side-by-side articles and the take-away stream has a greater speed than the first speed.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an article handling system, and more particularly, to a system for singulating articles in sequential processing to form a single article stream. Background technique [0002] "Singulation" refers to the rearrangement of disordered streams or strands of items into one or more output streams of single queues. A distinguishing feature of singularized streams is that there are no parallel items. Additionally, adjacent packages are separated by spaces. Singulation is required in applications where packages from bulk processing need to go through sequential processing steps. Bulk handling includes unloading, dumping, unstacking, etc. Sequential processing steps include barcode scanning, metering, weighing, marking, transfer, etc. "De shingling" refers to the elimination of any overlapping and stacking between packages - which is also the goal of this paper, the bulk flow is assumed to be fully de-shingled. [0003] A ke...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): B65G47/68B65G47/84B65G43/10B65G47/32
CPCB65G47/31B65G2207/36B65G43/10B65G47/844B65G47/681
Inventor D·里兹尼克
Owner 西门子共同研究公司