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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 1985
Filed:
Jan. 21, 1983
Theo Walz, Neunkirch, CH;
SIG - Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft, Neuhausen am Rheinfall, CH;
Abstract
A method of grouping items comprises the steps of advancing the items in an edgewise supported, upright oriented, face-to-face series on a supply conveyor; and advancing the items from the supply conveyor on a receiving trough for forming thereon an item stack of a predetermined length measured parallel to the advance of articles on the receiving trough. Further, simultaneously with the last-named step, a collector slide is advanced on the receiving trough in engagement with a leading item of the article stack. The length of each item stack is determined jointly by first signals representing the length of travel of the collector slide on the receiving trough and by second signals representing the number of items on the receiving trough.