Material or article handling – Plural – static structures for supporting discrete loads and... – Load-underlying members
Patent
1989-02-03
1990-06-12
Werner, Frank E.
Material or article handling
Plural, static structures for supporting discrete loads and...
Load-underlying members
414331, 414281, 414278, 414280, 414661, 414416, 4147978, 414273, 364478, B65G 106
Patent
active
049328280
ABSTRACT:
An automatic article feeding system which includes a conveyor for conveying pallets each of which contains an article or articles such as parts to be assembled and has a mark indicating the kind of article or articles contained therein, having a feeder for feeding each of the conveyed pallets into one of the shelves of the stocker according to empty shelf information supplied by an information processing unit; a memory for storing the address of the shelf in which the pallet has been stocked and further storing information of the kinds of articles on the pallet; a searcher for searching the memory according to the instruction received from the automatic assembling machine to detect the existence or non-existence of the article required by the automatic assembling machine and, if in existence, detect the address of the shelf in which the required article is stocked; a system for withdrawing the pallet from the stocker according to such detection; a feeder for feeding the pallet to a position for supplying the article contained therein to the automatic assembling machine; a device for returning the pallet, after supplying the article to the automatic assembling machine, to the original shelf of the stocker; a storer for storing the number of the articles retained in the stocker and the existence or non-existence of articles after supplying the article into the memory through the information processing unit; a displayer for displaying the number and the existence or non-existence of articles; and a discharger for discharging an empty pallet, from which all of the articles have been completely supplied to the automatic assembling machine, from the stocker and feeding a new pallet containing articles to the stocker.
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Azuma Yusaku
Katae Yoshinobu
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Werner Frank E.
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