Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items – By longitudinally respacing successive articles in stream
Patent
1979-04-16
1980-10-14
Nase, Jeffrey V.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items
By longitudinally respacing successive articles in stream
198469, 198572, 198575, 198577, 198857, B65G 4310
Patent
active
042276071
ABSTRACT:
An integrated high volume method and system for transporting and dynamically storing articles, such as luggage, baggage, identified items of cargo, parcels, and the like, for sorting and routing them is provided. The method and system are completely integrated, synchronized, and controlled to facilitate sorting and routing and to permit stopping of the entire system without loss of position or timing of any of the designated articles in the system. The article handling system includes a series of individually operable intermediate conveyors arranged in a continuous path between an input station and a coding or routing station. These intermediate conveyors are individually operable and have article-sensing means and control means which activate and deactivate the individual conveyors. When the system is operating in the conventional operating mode, all the conveyors are activated to transport articles. The buffer conveyors near the coding station are selectively stopped as articles become stored thereon. When all of the buffer conveyors become full, the intermediate conveyors are all simultaneously stopped. At this time, the system goes into the dynamic storage mode of operation, which involves selectively operating upstream intermediate conveyors when an article is sensed on an input conveyor, until the article on the input conveyor is removed and deposited on the first intermediate conveyor. The next successive intermediate conveyors are selectively operated when the preceding intermediate conveyor is filled with stored articles thereby advantageously, cumulatively utilizing the entire length of all intermediate conveyors for dynamically storing articles throughout the system.
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