EP 0001229 B1 19811021 - SYSTEM FOR DIRECTING CONVEYING DEVICES TO A MAINTENANCE STATION
Title (en)
SYSTEM FOR DIRECTING CONVEYING DEVICES TO A MAINTENANCE STATION
Publication
Application
Priority
DE 2744072 A 19770928
Abstract (en)
[origin: US4262599A] In an illustrative embodiment, a scanning and control device which conventionally scans a destination field on each conveyor receptacle is provided with a selectively settable maintenance scanning arrangement for scanning a maintenance field on the conveyor receptacles, and for sending receptacles having the currently selected maintenance characteristic for maintenance processing. Where maintenance occupies a small proportion of total operating time, each receptacle may selectively receive one of two maintenance characteristics with a shift therebetween being made after each servicing. With a relatively greater maintenance time, phases of maintenance are established with subsets of the total number of receptacles being assigned different pairs of maintenance characteristic values which can be differentiated by the scanning and control device, and which may be sequentially selected thereby.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
B61L 23/00 (2006.01); B61L 3/00 (2006.01); B61L 25/04 (2006.01); B65G 47/48 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
B61L 25/04 (2013.01 - EP US)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
CH DE FR GB
DOCDB simple family (publication)
EP 0001229 A1 19790404; EP 0001229 B1 19811021; AT 361847 B 19810410; AT A583878 A 19800815; DE 2744072 A1 19790329; DE 2744072 B1; DE 2861200 D1 19811224; JP S5457708 A 19790509; US 4262599 A 19810421
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 78100787 A 19780830; AT 583878 A 19780810; DE 2744072 A 19770928; DE 2861200 T 19780830; JP 11811178 A 19780927; US 94319178 A 19780918