SORTING DEVICE AND SORTING METHOD

• Main Authors: OZAWA YASUSHI, IGA HISATO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 16.04.2020
• Subjects: CONVEYING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; POSTAL SORTING; SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTEDPIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING; STORING; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING

To provide a sorting device which can improve work efficiency by increasing a sorting speed for sorting mixed articles to two kinds, and a sorting method.SOLUTION: Sorting means 5 having two pieces of transport paths 7a, 7b for transporting articles by gripping them is made to reciprocate on the basis of a discrimination result of the articles by discrimination means 3, and by sending out the articles to one of three pieces of carry-out paths 23a, 23b and 23c arranged at a downstream side of the sorting means 5, and sorting the articles into two kinds, the articles are sorted into two kinds.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】 混在する物品を２種に振り分ける振り分け速度を向上させて作業効率を向上させることのできる振分装置および振分方法を提供すること。【解決手段】 物品を挟持して搬送する２本の搬送路７ａ，７ｂを備えた振分手段５を、判別手段３による前記物品の判別結果に基づいて往復移動させ、この振分手段５の下流側に設けられた物品を２種に振り分ける為の３本の搬出路２３ａ，２３ｂ，２３ｃのいずれかに物品を送り出すことにより物品を２種に振り分ける。【選択図】 図１