Flexible conveying system
AssigneeFerag AG
InventorJacques Meier
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Abstract
Process for operating a piece-goods transporting apparatus such as printed products wherein the products which are fed individually one after the other are received at a receiving position by transporting members circulating in a continuously guide of the transporting apparatus. They are then conveyed via a buffer section to a discharge position. In this arrangement, the transporting members are each retained at the receiving position until a product has been received, thereby ensuring that each transporting member leaves the receiving position with a received product. The transporting members run through the discharge position periodically in cycles and discharge a product to the processing section in each cycle.
Claims17
A process for operating a piece-goods transporting apparatus for printed products comprising the steps of receiving products individually one after the other at a receiving position from a feed conveyor, said products being transported away from the receiving position by transporting members circulating in a continuous guide and so as to be conveyed through a buffer section to a discharge position, the transporting members being retained at the receiving position until a product has been received, thereby ensuring that each transporting member leaves the receiving position with a received product, wherein the transporting members pass through the discharge position periodically in cycles and discharge a product in each cycle, and wherein only every nth product is received from the feed conveyor at the receiving position, with n being greater than 1.
A process for operating a piece-goods transporting apparatus for printed products comprising the steps of receiving products individually one after the other at a receiving position from a feed conveyor, said products being transported away from the receiving position by transporting members circulating in a continuous guide and so as to be conveyed through a buffer section to a discharge position, the transporting members being retained at the receiving position until a product has been received, thereby ensuring that each transporting member leaves the receiving position with a received product, wherein the transporting members pass through the discharge position periodically in cycles and discharge a product in each cycle, and wherein non-received products are conveyed by the feed conveyor to one or more downstream receiving positions and are received therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.