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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2002
Filed:
May. 30, 2000
Hans J. Lem, Franklin Lakes, NJ (US);
Richard J. Bowman, Levittown, PA (US);
Robert J. Koehler, Secaucus, NJ (US);
William E. Koehler, North Bergen, NJ (US);
Gerald R. Grispart, Woodbridge, NJ (US);
Michel L. Plasse, Ridgewood, NJ (US);
Quantum Conveyor Systems, Inc., Northvale, NJ (US);
Abstract
Featured is a sorting/diverting apparatus that diverts articles from a plurality of moving belts, the sorting/diverting apparatus including a plurality of rollers that are rotatably mounted to a support frame and a moving mechanism that moves the support frame back and forth between two positions. The controller controls the moving of the support frame and the operation of the drive motor so as to divert/sort the articles. Each controller includes bi-directional communications ports, a processor that processes information and provides outputs, and an applications program for execution within the processor that includes instructions and criteria for processing the information and providing the processor outputs to control the apparatus.