Sorting machine

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B - Operations, Transporting

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B65G 1/00 (2006.01) B07C 3/08 (2006.01) B65G 47/78 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2022289

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE For sorting packages having bar code identification. The machine includes an induction station for receiving packages and has a gate and a bar code reader. Gate actuation means is operable to open and to close the gate for allowing individual packages to pass through the gate at predetermined intervals and an induction conveyor passes through the induction station and under the gate to carry the packages from the induction station spaced by said predetermined intervals. A slider bed has trap doors moveable between an elevated position in alignment with the slider bed and a lowered position providing openings in the slider bed for the packages to fall from the slider bed and a transport mechanism is operable to receive the packages individually from the induction conveyor and to move the packages along the slider bed. The transport mechanism includes individual pushers to move over the slider bed spaced from one another by said predetermined interval so that each pusher receives a respective one of the packages from the induction conveyor and pushes that package along the slider bed. Receiving stations are positioned under the trap doors and a control means is operable to move the trap doors between the elevated to the lowered position so that the packages drop from the slider bed into the receiving stations according to lists and the bar codes used by the machine to recognise the packages and match them to the order lists and hence to a destination receiving station.

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