公开(公告)号：US20180126420A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-10

申请号：US15572124

申请日：2016-05-06

Applicant: Compac Technologies Limited

Inventor： Benjamin James Goodger ,  Olga Perederieieva ,  Nigel Jonathon Beach

IPC: B07C5/04 ,  B07C5/16 ,  B07C5/342 ,  G01G15/00 ,  B65B25/04

CPC classification number: B07C5/04 ,  B07C5/16 ,  B07C5/342 ,  B07C2501/0081 ,  B07C2501/009 ,  B65B25/04 ,  B65B25/046 ,  B65B57/14 ,  B65B2210/02 ,  G01G15/00 ,  G01G15/001 ,  G01G2015/005

Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus for sorting articles includes a carrier arranged to carry articles from an input to one of a plurality of outputs, a sorting controller arranged to control which output an article is delivered to dependent on a determined characteristic of the article and respective sorting criteria associated with each said output, wherein the sorting criteria comprise a value parameter of a completed package of articles associated with the respective outputs.