Method and a device for creating a product stream of product units in a predefined sequence
AssigneeFerag AG
InventorWerner Honegger
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Abstract
A method and a device for creating a product stream of product units in a predefined sequence. The device includes a first conveying device with a grouping stretch for creating a cycled product stream of product units from fed products, in a predefined sequence. The device also includes a conveying-away device for conveying away the product units in the predefined sequence in a cycled product stream. The device further includes a bridging device that is designed such that product units amid the bridging of a conveying stretch section of the conveying-away device can be fed to the conveying-away device in a temporally successive manner and thus be sorted into the predefined sequence of product units.
Claims15
A method for creating a cycled product stream of product units in a predefined sequence, comprising the following steps:
- feeding of products to a grouping stretch of a first conveying device;
- creating a cycled product stream of product units from the fed products along the grouping stretch in a predefined sequence;
- transferring the product units in the predefined sequence to a conveying-away device and conveying away the product units in a cycled product stream, wherein the product units are conveyed to a first take-over location, and the product units correctly created straightaway are taken over at the first take-over location by the conveying-away device, wherein with the occurrence of a faulty or missing product unit in the formed sequence of product units, a product gap is formed in the product stream in the conveying-away device at the location envisaged for the missing or faulty product unit, and the faulty or missing product unit, in a temporally subsequent manner is corrected or post-produced along the grouping stretch and via a bridging device is conveyed to a second take-over location, wherein the bridging device is arranged between the first and second take-over locations and the second take-over location is arranged downstream in the conveying direction, and belatedly correctly created product units are taken over at the second take-over location by the conveying-away device and fed to the product gap amid the bridging of a conveying stretch section of the conveying-away device arranged between the first take-over location and the second take-over location and thus is sorted into the previously formed sequence of product units.
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