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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2015
United States Postal Service, Washington, DC (US);
John W. Brown, Manassas, VA (US);
Edward F. Houston, Bristow, VA (US);
Juan A. Roman, Fairfax, VA (US);
Leung M. Shiu, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Riley H. Mayhall, Germantown, MD (US);
Thomas A. Hillerich, Jr., Louisville, KY (US);
Jacob L. Timm, Pasadena, MD (US);
Matthew G. Good, Eldersburg, MD (US);
William P. McConnell, Woodstock, MD (US);
Robert L. Schlender, Columbia, MD (US);
Christopher D. Austin, Parkville, MD (US);
United States Postal Service, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of a system and method for shingulating, singulating, and synchronizing articles in an article feeder system are disclosed. The article feeder system may include a shingulating device configured to receive a stack of articles and to produce a positively lapped stack of articles, a plurality of picking devices configured to pick one or more articles from the positively lapped stack of articles and to produce one or more singulated articles, and one or more synchronization devices configured to deliver the one or more singulated articles to one or more sorter windows.