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ARTICLE ACCUMULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS

  • US 20070119690A1
  • Filed: 11/13/2006
  • Published: 05/31/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2005
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of accumulating articles, comprising:

  • providing a conveying surface adapted to convey articles from an upstream direction toward a downstream direction, said conveying surface divided into a plurality of tandem zones, actuating individual zones to convey articles and deactuating individual zones to accumulate articles;

    sensing articles in said zones and actuating said zones as a function of said sensing;

    wherein said actuating zones includes actuating a particular zone if no article is sensed in that particular zone and an article is sensed in an adjacent upstream zone.

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