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US 4,787,620 AGranted
Method and apparatus for controlling the withdrawal of articles
AssigneeLicentia Patent-Verwaltungs-G.m.b.H.
InventorGerhard Goldkuhle
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AssigneeLicentia Patent-Verwaltungs-G.m.b.H.
InventorGerhard Goldkuhle
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A Method of Controlling the Withdrawal Process is carried out in a Singling Device and Arrangement to increase the throughput of singled shipments such a letters, postcards and the like from a singling device to a conveyor, the delivery of successive shipments from the singling device is controlled as a function of the measured parameters like length, height, thickness, stiffness, surface roughness, and weight of the shipment previously withdrawn from the singling device so that a minimum distance depending on the parameters of the preceding shipment can be adjusted between the withdrawn shipments on the conveyor. Thus, the singled, successive shipments can be offered to a distribution section, such as one equipped with directing switches and stacking compartments, via the conveyor, the minimum spacings between them and with the assurance of troublefree stacking of the shipment in the stacking compartments.
A method of controlling the withdrawal of articles from a stack of articles in a singling device, each withdrawn article having a length, thickness, weight, stiffness and surface roughness, the withdrawn article engaging a gripping area of a conveyor having an entrance grippng area, comprising the steps of:
An arrangement for controlling the withdrawal of articles from a stack of articles comprising a:
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