Method and Means for Facilitating Material Handling
First Claim
1. A method of facilitating a sorting of a plurality of cut components nested in a workpiece disposed on a worktable, including at least two sets of components, each adapted to be assembled to form a structure, comprising:
- producing a plan replicating the cut pattern of said workpeice, depicting the profiles of said plurality of components, each provided with an identifier denoting the location of the component on said workpeice;
producing at least one of a plurality of labels, each bearing a distinguishable one of said location indicators and a distinctive, readily visable identifier denoting a different one of said sets of components;
applying each of said labels on a nested component of said workpeice corresponding to the profile of said component in said plan, guided by said plan and the applicable location identifier;
removing each of said nested components provided with labels bearing the same readily, visable identifier; and
grouping all removed components provided with labels bearing the same identifier, together.
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Abstract
A method of facilitating a sorting of a plurality of components nested in a workpeice, including at least two sets of components, each adapted to be assembled to form a structure, comprising producing a plan replicating the cut pattern of the workpiece, depicting the profiles of the components, each provided with an identifier denoting the location of the component on the workpiece; producing at least one of a plurality of labels, each bearing a distinguishable one of the location indicators and a distinctive, readily visable identifier denoting a different one of the sets of components; applying each of the labels on a nested component of the workpiece corresponding to the profile of the component on the plan, guided by the plan and the applicable location identifiers; removing each of the nested components provided with labels bearing the same readily, visable identifier and grouping all components provided with labels bearing the same identifier, together.
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1. A method of facilitating a sorting of a plurality of cut components nested in a workpiece disposed on a worktable, including at least two sets of components, each adapted to be assembled to form a structure, comprising:
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producing a plan replicating the cut pattern of said workpeice, depicting the profiles of said plurality of components, each provided with an identifier denoting the location of the component on said workpeice; producing at least one of a plurality of labels, each bearing a distinguishable one of said location indicators and a distinctive, readily visable identifier denoting a different one of said sets of components; applying each of said labels on a nested component of said workpeice corresponding to the profile of said component in said plan, guided by said plan and the applicable location identifier; removing each of said nested components provided with labels bearing the same readily, visable identifier; and grouping all removed components provided with labels bearing the same identifier, together. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An assembly adapted for use in facilitating a sorting of a plurality of components nested in a workpeice disposed on a worktable of a machine having cut the profiles thereof, including at least two sets each of which is to be assembled to form a structure, comprising;
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a plan replicating the cut pattern of said workpeice, depicting the profiles of said plurality of components, each provided with an identifier number denoting the location of the component on said workpeice; and at least one of a plurality of labels, each bearing a distinguishable one of said location identifiers and a distinctive, readily visable identifier denoting a different one of said sets of components, attachable to said component. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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