Article selecting system

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1984651, 19880312, 209656, 209927, 242 355A, B65G 4722, B65H 6706

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ABSTRACT:
An article selecting system for sorting and discriminating a plurality of types of articles comprising a branch path provided intermediately of a transport path which transports n-types (n.gtoreq.3) of different articles for sorting articles of the n-types into 2 types of articles and n-2 types of articles, a gauge located at a particular position on a transport path for the 2 types of articles for displacing the articles to two positions in accordance with the 2 types, and an article arrival detecting sensor and an article presence detecting sensor for indicating whether a specific article type in present. In one embodiment, two specific article types are allowed to progress along a selected path due to an overlappig coding feature of such two specific article types, while all other article types are diverted to a different path. In another embodiment in which there are three article types, one specific article type is allowed to progress along a selected path due to its particular coding, while the other two article types are diverted to a different path.

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