System for sorting commercial articles and method therefor
First Claim
1. A commercial article sorting system comprising:
- a sorting block having a plurality of slots to receive commercial articles according to sorting criteria;
a reading means to read the data of sorting criteria attached to single commercial articles or groups of commercial articles; and
a controller which notifies a slot for a given commercial good based on the data regarding the sorting criteria transmitted by the reading means, wherein a direction indicator is provided to the sorting block so that the nominated slot may receive said commercial article under the control of the controller.
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Abstract
A direction indicator placed on one site of a sorting block indicates, for a given good, the direction towards a nominated slot through which the good is to be placed in the block. This arrangement makes it possible for the hauler to immediately put a good into a nominated slot without looking around at sorting blocks at large, which will lead to the improvement of work efficiency. Moreover, because this will moderate the burden imposed on the hauler, the number of wrongly hauled goods would be greatly reduced.
If a good is passed through a wrong slot, it is recognized by a sensor and then an alarming means is activated to generate a buzzing sound or a blinking light to alarm. This arrangement will make it possible to greatly reduce the number of wrongly hauled goods.
In association with the entry of every good, the name of the provider, as well as the name of the manufacturer of the good, the property of the good and the number of its scheduled input, is given because the provider can feed his name through an input feeding means.
This arrangement will make it possible to efficiently manage inflow goods according to the name of providers, simply dependent on identification codes generally attached to goods such as a JAN code or ITF code.
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9 Claims
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1. A commercial article sorting system comprising:
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a sorting block having a plurality of slots to receive commercial articles according to sorting criteria;
a reading means to read the data of sorting criteria attached to single commercial articles or groups of commercial articles; and
a controller which notifies a slot for a given commercial good based on the data regarding the sorting criteria transmitted by the reading means, wherein a direction indicator is provided to the sorting block so that the nominated slot may receive said commercial article under the control of the controller. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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