Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Precedent preparation of items or materials to facilitate... – Sorting special items or sorting by methods and apparatus...
Patent
1985-09-30
1988-10-18
Reeves, Robert B.
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Precedent preparation of items or materials to facilitate...
Sorting special items or sorting by methods and apparatus...
118320, 118668, 118698, 1561101, 209538, 209564, 209583, 358101, 364468, 364478, 382 8, 425 29, B07C 314, B05C 912, B29D 3100, G06K 900
Patent
active
047780606
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for sorting tires according to an alphanumeric code printed directly on the tread surface of each tire. Green (uncured) tires are supplied on a feed conveyor, single file, to a receiving station of a tire painting machine (tire painter), and each is elevated, then indexed to a painting station (booth) where the green tire is to be painted, inside and outside, before it is taken to a curing press. While in the elevated position in the booth, the code is optically read by a line-scan camera system, before the tire is painted. The information read is stored and processed by a microprocessor after it locates the code which determines how the tire is to be sorted, and disregards another production code not pertinent to the task at hand. A first programmable controller (PC) locates the horizontal center line of the tire, indexes to the next of three station in the painter on cue, and imparts rotation to the tire so that the camera system can perform its functions. A second PC generates a process signal indicating the availability of a space on a main conveyor which supplies plural sorting conveyors, and also generates a signal to eject a tire in a designated occupied space on the sorting conveyor, into a designated chute for a preselected tire.
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Csontos Alan A.
Lobo Alfred D.
Reeves Robert B.
The Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Company
Wacyra Edward M.
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