Title:
ARTICLE SORTING METHOD AND ARTICLE SORTING APPARATUS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2013/047793
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for sorting articles by individually placing articles onto the article-conveying members of a conveyor configured by linking a plurality of article-conveying members in an endless manner, conveying the articles, and ejecting the articles into given sorting ports provided along the conveyance path of the article-conveying members on the basis of sorting information for each individual article, wherein each article is placed so as to extend over a pair of article-supporting implements positioned at the front and back in the conveyance direction and is conveyed, and an article placed so as to extend over a pair of supporting implements is ejected, while being conveyed substantially horizontally, by rotationally driving both supporting implements so that the implements open relative to each other within a substantially horizontal plane at the location of a given sorting port.
Inventors:
YAMAOKA KAZUHIKO (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2012/075172
Publication Date:
April 04, 2013
Filing Date:
September 28, 2012
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Assignee:
YAMAOKA KAZUHIKO (JP)
International Classes:
B65G47/38; B07C5/36; B65G17/16; B65G47/46
Foreign References:
| JPS56501848A | 1981-12-17 | |||
| JPH072348A | 1995-01-06 | |||
| JPH03503857A | 1991-08-29 | |||
| JPH08225144A | 1996-09-03 | |||
| JP2000102769A | 2000-04-11 |
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