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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 1987
Filed:
Apr. 27, 1986
Geert J Prins, Delft, NL;
Abstract
A device for detecting postal articles unsuited for mechanical handling is equipped with a bed of belts formed by a large number of side-by-side resilient belts (2) assembled with predetermined tension around two pulleys (3,4), which can turn freely around shafts fixedly mounted on a base plate. A conveyor belt passes over a guiding roller (6) opposite the bed of belts. The conveyor direction of motion is deflected around the roller and the bed of belts is taken along by the conveyor belt (1) by means of friction. An article on the conveyor approaching the guiding roller while moving between the conveyor and the bed of belts is subjected to a bending force when passing the guiding roller. The belts of the bed of belts here work as scanning elements. Deflection of one or more of them from the normal path, away from the guiding roller (6), can be detected by a combination (11) of an infrared radiator and a detector. The position of this single radiator/detector combination (11) can be adjusted (17) in such a way that postal articles which are too thick, too rigid or too heavy, can be selected for diversion by a deflection of belt (2) detected by the radiator/detector combination (11).
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