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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 1978
Filed:
May. 16, 1977
Horst Loewenthal, Tiengen, DE;
S I G Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft, Neuhausen am Rheinfall, CH;
Abstract
An apparatus for the sorting, counting and grouping of successively conveyed items includes a conveyor arrangement defining a conveying path; at least one sorting device disposed along the conveying path for removing defective items; a counting device disposed along the conveying path downstream of the sorting device for counting the items unaffected by the sorting device; at least two branch conveyors forming the conveying path downstream of the counting device; a routing device arranged along the conveying path upstream of the branch conveyors and actuated by the counting device for directing a predetermined number of items into selected branch conveyors; a stacking device disposed at the downstream end of the branch conveyors for stacking the items to form item groups each consisting of the predetermined number of items; and a collecting conveyor forming the conveying path downstream of the stacking device for further advancing the item groups.