ROLLER-BELT SORTER WITH BOOSTER
    11.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230338991A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-26

    申请号:US18024808

    申请日:2021-08-26

    申请人: Laitram, L.L.C.

    IPC分类号: B07C5/36 B65G47/52 B65G47/54

    CPC分类号: B07C5/36 B65G47/525 B65G47/54

    摘要: A sorting conveyor system (46) comprising a main conveyor line (48) intersected by cross conveyors (18) having roller-top conveyor belts (20). The roller-top conveyor belts, which can be driven bidirectionally perpendicular to the conveying direction of the main conveyor line, have article-supporting belt rollers (22) that can rotate freely in the main conveying direction (14). Articles (38) fed from the main conveying line onto the cross conveyor can be sorted to the left or the right by the conveyor belt. Articles destined for sorting downstream pass over the stopped roller-top conveyor belt atop the freely rotatable belt rollers and back onto the main conveyor line. A booster (40), such as a motorized roller (40), between the main conveyor line and the cross conveyor applies a force in the main conveying direction against articles destined to cross the cross conveyor.

    Method and apparatus for transferring items from and to a transport line

    公开(公告)号:US11679942B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-20

    申请号:US16626945

    申请日:2018-06-28

    申请人: FT SYSTEM SRL

    发明人: Marco Cipriani

    摘要: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus (1) for transferring items from and to a transport line (100), more particularly a transport line moving at high speed. The invention comprises the steps of picking a first item (10a) from a transport line (100) and placing a second item (10b) onto said transport line, preferably at an immediately subsequent time, into the gap left by said first item that has just been picked. The invention is applied in particular, but not exclusively, in the field of item packaging, for instance in bottling systems. More particularly, the invention can be used for transferring items to be checked from a transport line to an inspection station, and for transferring back items that have been checked and deemed satisfactory from said inspection station to said transport line.

    CASE UNPACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD
    15.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230101113A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-30

    申请号:US18077497

    申请日:2022-12-08

    摘要: A product unpacking system includes a work surface at a first height and a product unloading position at a second height. An adjustable cutter is positioned adjacent to the work surface and configured to cut a plurality of sides of each case. A case movement device, such as a robot or manual mover, is configured to retrieve a case from a group of cases and move the case to the cutter to cut a plurality of sides of the case. The case movement device may then move the cut case to an unload position over a product container to allow products within the case to drop into the product container. A system of conveyors may be used to convey empty product containers toward the work surface and to convey filled product containers away from the work surface. The system may be automated to receive recipe information for each case to be unloaded and modify parameters of the system based on the case.

    Case unpacking system and method
    17.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11560249B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-24

    申请号:US17086877

    申请日:2020-11-02

    摘要: A product unpacking system includes a work surface at a first height and a product unloading position at a second height. An adjustable cutter is positioned adjacent to the work surface and configured to cut a plurality of sides of each case. A case movement device, such as a robot or manual mover, is configured to retrieve a case from a group of cases and move the case to the cutter to cut a plurality of sides of the case. The case movement device may then move the cut case to an unload position over a product container to allow products within the case to drop into the product container. A system of conveyors may be used to convey empty product containers toward the work surface and to convey filled product containers away from the work surface. The system may be automated to receive recipe information for each case to be unloaded and modify parameters of the system based on the case.

    ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING VALUE DOCUMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20220392294A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-08

    申请号:US17776475

    申请日:2020-11-11

    IPC分类号: G07D11/18 B65G47/52 B65G47/90

    摘要: An assembly and a method for processing value documents such that the assembly has a transport apparatus for value-document receptacles which forms a cyclically circulating transport loop for the value-document receptacles. At least one checking apparatus for checking value documents is connected to the transport apparatus in such a manner that a respective value-document stack, possibly together with its value-document receptacle, can be transported via the respective transport interface from the cyclically circulating transport loop to the respective checking apparatus and/or from the respective checking apparatus to the cyclically circulating transport loop. The cyclically circulating transport loop is self-contained in such a manner that the value-document receptacles can circulate around the cyclically circulating transport loop several times in the same direction of circulation, and thus allows a temporally flexible removal of the respective value-document stack.