Package making – Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed... – With movement of receptacle to or from filling station
Patent
1993-04-22
1995-02-07
Coan, James F.
Package making
Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed...
With movement of receptacle to or from filling station
53250, 53443, 53540, B65B 510, B65B 3524, B65B 6900, B65G 108
Patent
active
053866770
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a goods arrangement method and system in which multiple goods, for example, packs of cigarettes are fetched from a container such as a carton box, temporarily stored in a goods storage arrangement apparatus, discharged in an intended number from the goods storage arrangement apparatus while being arranged, and placed in a container which is different from the carton box.
BACKGROUND ART
A goods arrangement method and system, in which a storage arrangement apparatus is included to temporarily store goods and discharge them while arranging them, has already become popular. The method and system are described in, for example, Japanese Examined Patent Publication (Kokoku) No. 51-32035. This prior art includes a gradient storage shelf made up of gravity roller conveyors that are arranged in the form of a matrix of multiple stories and multiple columns. Goods are fed through an inlet located at a higher end of each gravity roller conveyor, running autonomously toward an outlet at a lower end thereof, and then stored sequentially on the gravity roller conveyor. For four-storied gravity roller conveyors, four carrier conveyors are installed up and down. On each story, a single carrier conveyor runs through outlets of all gravity roller conveyors on the story. The ends of the four carrier conveyors merge into a single merge conveyor, wherein the first carrier conveyor merges into the merge conveyor at the first position, the second carrier conveyor merges into the merge conveyor at the second position that is separated by a specified distance from the first position in the direction in which the merge conveyor carries goods, and the third and fourth carrier conveyors merge into the merge conveyor with a specified distance between them in the direction in which the merge conveyor carries goods. Goods are therefore carried in a row in the direction in which the merge conveyor carries goods. In this prior art, the carrier conveyors and merge conveyor are controlled in speed so that goods carried by, for example, the first and second carrier conveyors will not collide with one another.
In the foregoing prior art, goods are carried in a row in the direction in which the merge conveyor carries goods. Compared with a system in which goods are supplied in rows in the direction in which the merge conveyor carries goods, the aforesaid system is slow in handling goods.
Furthermore, in the prior art, goods cannot be carried simultaneously by four carrier conveyors. This further reduces the goods handling speed of the system.
The prior art has not disclosed relevant equipment used before and after the storage arrangement apparatus.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to solve the aforesaid problems and to provide a goods arrangement method and system capable of arranging goods quickly and efficiently.
A goods arrangement method according to the present invention comprises a step of taking out multiple goods from a container, a step of storing the taken-out goods in a goods storage, a step of simultaneously discharging a specified number of goods from the goods storage onto multiple arrangement conveyors running in a specified direction and of arranging multiple goods on the arrangement conveyors so that the goods will line up substantially perpendicularly to the direction in which the arrangement conveyors run, and a step of putting the row of goods carried by the arrangement conveyors simultaneously in an arrangement container.
A goods arrangement method according to the present invention comprises a step of taking out multiple goods from a container, a step of storing the taken-out goods in a goods storage, a step of simultaneously discharging a specified number of goods from the goods storage onto multiple arrangement conveyors running in a specified direction and of arranging multiple goods on the arrangement conveyors so that the goods will line up substantially perpendicularly to the direction in which the arrangement conveyors run, and a st
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Kobuki Manabu
Miyamoto Teruaki
Watari Kenshi
Coan James F.
Japan Tabacco Inc.
JT Engineering Inc.
Seibu Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd.
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