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Centrally controlled conveyor system

  • US 4,325,126 A
  • Filed: 05/12/1980
  • Issued: 04/13/1982
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/27/1977
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A conveyor system with dispatching and receiver stations having station-individual control sets, which are coupled to control and signal devices for the station, said control sets being connected in parallel to a multiconductor address line for coupling to a central program control device, the dispatching stations each having a destination selection device, and dispatching stations ready for dispatching being activated by applying station-individual address information to the address line by means of the program control device, and the dispatching stations each having an assigned address decoder for responding to the applied address information when coincidence is present for enabling communication with the program control device via an acknowledgement line jointly assigned to all stations, characterized in that all control sets have an operation decoder (OpD) which can be switched ready for operation by means of an actuation signal of the assigned address decoder (Dh, Dz), a multiconductor control line (sl 1 through sl 4) for coupling the switched operation decoder (OpD) to the program control device such that the switched operation decoder (OpD) of an activated dispatching station responds after the output of operation information from the program control device to the control line (sl 1 . . . sl 4) to effect a destination information transfer operation, the destination selection device (Z0 through Z9) of each dispatching station being connected to the address line (al 1 . . . al 12) in parallel with the assigned address decoder (Dh, Dz) for the transmission of destination information identifying a desired receiver station to the central program control device via the address line, and each receiver station being responsive to address information produced by the program control device in accordance with such transmitted destination information, and said operation decoders of the dispatching and receiver stations being responsive to operation information for introducing and concluding the conveyor process.

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