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Method and apparatus for assembling food ingredients

  • US 4,554,955 A
  • Filed: 05/25/1983
  • Issued: 11/26/1985
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/25/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. The method of verifying the delivery of the proper container of a group of containers from a product-dispensing station to a particular product-receiving station, comprising:

  • providing respectively different machine-readable container-identifying means secured to said containers;

    presenting one of said group of containers at said product-dispensing station;

    machine-reading said container-identifying means of said one container at said product-dispensing station to produce first signals representative of said container-identifying means of said one container;

    thereafter delivering said one container to said product-receiving station;

    at said product-receiving station, machine-reading said container-identifying means of said one container to produce second signals representative of said container-identifying means secured to said one container; and

    comparing said first and second signals to produce at said delivery station third signals indicating that said one container presented at said product-receiving station is said proper container.

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