B - Operations – Transporting – 65 – G
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
65
G
201/98
B65G 47/70 (2006.01) B65G 43/08 (2006.01) B65G 47/28 (2006.01) B65G 47/31 (2006.01) B65G 47/68 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1324588
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A conveyor system including an induction subassembly for producing a desired spacing between packages as they are discharged from a single induction line or merged from multiple lines. Each induction line includes a conveyor and a speed controller for controlling the running speed of the conveyor in a manner that discharges a package as close as possible to a time necessary to provide a desired gap with a previously-discharged package. A control monitors movement of packages on the conveyor of each line and includes means for determining a speed adjustment that would be required for each speed controller to cause the packages on each of the lines to reach the associated discharge conveyor as close as possible to the desired time. The control includes means for determining which of the packages would reach the associated discharge means closest to the d sired time and for causing the speed controlling means for the associated conveying means to effect its speed adjustment to discharge its package. A new desired time is established for other lines based upon the estimated discharge time of the package that is selected for discharge. Speed adjustments include a constant acceleration to a higher discrete speed or deceleration to a lower discrete speed from a nominal discrete speed with a return to the nominal speed prior to discharging the package.
614066
Doane Martin R.
Khodor Ahmad
Kohls James P.
Borden Ladner Gervais Llp
Rapistan Corp.
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