METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LEADING ARTICLE INTO SORTING CONVEYOR, AND ARTICLE SORTING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH ARTICLE LEAD-IN DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve article sorting capacity compared to a conventional method. ;SOLUTION: A control device 160 is provided to arrange a preceding article 21 and a succeeding article 22 in correspondence with necessary FF space information and necessary BF space information on the basis of sorting place information of the preceding article 21 and succeeding article 22. Each article is therefore set to an appropriate arrangement space according to the sorted objective places of the articles conveyed adjacently to each other, so that the article quantity supplied to a sorting conveyor 140 per unit time can be maximized so as to improve article sorting capacity compared to a conventional method.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1999,JPO