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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 1983
Filed:
Jun. 22, 1981
Takashi Hirano, Kobe, JP;
Yamato Scale Company, Ltd., Hyogo, JP;
Abstract
A device for grouping solid articles so as to have a predetermined total number by combination selection technique, in which a plurality of sub-groups of articles are prepared, the number of articles in each sub-group is detected, some of these sub-groups are successively extracted in accordance with a predetermined mathematical combination, the numbers of articles in the extracted sub-groups in each combination are summed to obtain the total number of said combination, the total numbers of the successive combinations are sequentially compared with a predetermined reference number and, when coincidence is obtained between both, the combination of sub-groups is selected to be packed together, so that each pack or bag contains the predetermined number of articles.