Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Sorting special items – and certain methods and apparatus for... – Condition responsive means controls separating means
Patent
1977-12-22
1979-06-05
Rolla, Joseph J.
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...
Condition responsive means controls separating means
209653, 209912, 198445, 198484, 133 1R, 221206, 209580, B07C 5342
Patent
active
041571398
ABSTRACT:
A device for sorting discs or disc-like members of different identities (e.g. roulette chips) withdraws the discs from a receptacle by a conveyor and moves them in oriented succession along a sorting track where they are automatically indentifed and transferred by transfer devices into respective receiving spaces along the sorting track. The receiving spaces receive the discs at their lower ends so as to form stacks in the receiving spaces, the stacks being built up from their lower ends in inclined troughs forming part of the receiving spaces. Preferably each disc has its leading portion deflected upwardly as it approaches its assigned receiving space, while still retaining driving engagement with the conveyor, and the raised leading portion passes onto a disc catching member at the bottom of the receiving space, after which the disc is driven into the receiving space by the remaining engagement with the conveyor. The troughs of the receiving spaces are formed with longitudinal grooves carrying longitudinally displaceable devices engageable with predetermined numbers of discs at the upper end of the stack, such that the devices may be used to separate and remove predetermined numbers of chips from the stacks.
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Knutsson Bertil
Rolla Joseph J.
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