Installation for processing photograph envelopes
AssigneeSociete Inter-Color
InventorsBernard Alexandre, Jean-Paul Cornillon, Georges Rollet
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Abstract
An installation for processing of photograph envelopes intended to equip a large photography processing laboratory. The installation includes a picking station, a bar code reading station, a thickness detection station, a station for recognition of shapes and characters, a manual input and introduction station, a marking station, and finally a station for feeding a traditional sorting machine.
Claims6
An installation for processing of photograph envelopes, at the input and output of a laboratory for processing these photographs, comprising a series of stations in cascade forming a continuous line with:
- a device for automatic feeding and picking of envelopes, arranged to provide these envelopes one by one, standing on edge and on their large side, to an advancing conveyor belt;
- a device for automatic reading of bar codes carried on the envelope, followed by a device for automatic ejection of unread envelopes;
- a device for automatic checking the thickness of the envelopes, followed by a device for automatic ejection of envelopes that are too thick;
- a device for automatic recognition of the shape of the films contained in the envelopes, as well as of the characters written on the envelope, followed by a device for automatic ejection of envelopes whose shape has not been recognized and/or whose characters have not been read;
- a device for manual inputting and introducing into the line the previously rejected envelopes or envelopes having special characteristics;
- a device for automatic marking of the envelopes;
- a device for automatic synchronization and feeding of envelopes to a sorting machine;
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- computer means for receiving and recording various data coming from the different stations, and consequently providing synchronized orders to these stations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.