Apparatus for moving and sorting articles
AssigneeImmobiliare Metalprogetti S.R.L.
InventorEnrico Maria Santicchi
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Abstract
An apparatus for moving and sorting articles between a plurality of destination stations including at least one hooking member, configured to accommodate hanging, or hooking by a hanger, the articles to be sorted, and on which there are defined a plurality of hooking sectors which follow each other in succession on the hooking member, wherein each hooking sector is associated to a specific destination station to which the articles hanging in the hooking sector are sorted. The apparatus also comprises a plurality of markers, each associated with a respective hooking sector to visually communicate to an operator the destination station associated with that hooking sector and a sorting device to sort the articles towards their specific destination station.
Claims17
An apparatus for moving and sorting articles between a plurality of destination stations, comprising:
- (i) a hooking member configured to accommodate hanging, or hooking, the articles to be sorted, and on which there are defined a plurality of hooking sectors, which follow each other in succession on said hooking member, wherein one destination station comprised in said plurality of destination stations is associated with each hooking sector, so that the articles hanging in a specific hooking sector are sorted in a specific destination station associated with the respective hooking sector;
- (ii) a movement member, configured to move said hanging, or hooked, articles in said plurality of hooking sectors defined on said hooking member, wherein said movement member comprises a guide configured to allow sliding of a chain internal to said movement member, said chain moved by a motor;
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- (iii) a sorting device, configured to selectively and autonomously assume at least two operating configurations, wherein transition from a first operating configuration to a subsequent operating configuration is repeated and advances in coordination with the succession of the hooking sectors along the hooking member;
- wherein said apparatus comprises a plurality of markers, each associated with a respective hooking sector, configured to visually communicate to an operator the destination station associated with that hooking sector, and
- wherein said markers are disposed integral with, or rigidly connected to, the chain arranged in the movement member and wherein said markers are arranged between at least one transporter element which define the hooking sector with which said markers are associated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.