DEVICE FOR ASSEMBLING ARTICLES INTO COMPLETE SETS FOR SUBSEQUENT DELIVERY Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: parcel selling distribution and assembling articles into sets to be delivered to places of destination. SUBSTANCE: device delivers separate articles through sorting out arrangement with input conveyor to gang of rack sections. Articles pass rack sections, and through outlet conveyor, are completed into sets. Separate articles are extracted from bundles and bundles are placed in buffer storage in intermediate store. Control is effected by commuter which, basing on data of delivered goods and orders for sets from clients, puts out corresponding control data to intermediate store and different set completing installations. Starting from intermediate store it is established which article passes through definite rack section at each moment and at each other moment it is put out in set for further use. EFFECT: enlarged operating capabilities. 21 cl, 4 dwg