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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:
Jun. 27, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jean-Claude Oppliger, Niederhasli, CH;
Samuel Kaspar, Granichen, CH;
Assignee:
Grapha-Holding AG, Hergiswil, CH;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
209630 ; 209705 ; 209706 ; 209900 ;
Abstract
An arrangement is provided for distributing articles to be sorted to physical target locations. The articles to be sorted are delivered to a number of receiving elements that move along a conveying path past the physical target locations. The receiving elements are controlled so that the physical target locations are assigned dynamically and in dependence on the operating sequence for the sorting operations to the logical sorting targets, which optimizes the capacity of the arrangement and the operating sequence.