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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
May. 11, 2008
Carl Conrad Mäder, Hinwil, CH;
Carl Conrad Mäder, Hinwil, CH;
Ferag AG, Hinwil, CH;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for monitoring and/or controlling a transport device () wherein a plurality of similar products (), in particular printed products, such as newspapers, magazines or similar are held in a detachable manner by means of individual clamps () that are arranged in a row, one behind the other, and are transported in sequence along a transport path (). Improved operational reliability and controllability is characterized in that a contract-free read-in or read-out tag (T-T, Tn) is provided on the clamps (), and that a reading-in/reading-out device () is disposed in the vicinity of the respective clamp for reading-in or reading-out data in the tags of a clamp (), and is displaced with the respective clamp () over a selected section of the transport path ().