Patent ID: 11932495
Assignee: FAMECCANICA.DATA S.P.A.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 7:
8. A method for unscrambling products by means of an unscrambler apparatus according to claim 1, the method including:
assembling an output flow of scrambled products on said transfer conveyor by picking scrambled products of the outflow of scrambled products from the product picking area by the one or more handling devices, and releasing the scrambled products onto the transfer conveyor, wherein releasing each scrambled product onto the transfer conveyor results in a preliminary orientation of reference geometric features of the scrambled product with respect to the feed direction corresponding either to the first, desired, orientation, or the second, undesired, orientation,
receiving a scrambled product from the output flow of scrambled products onto a carrier of the plurality of carriers of the product unscrambling device,
selectively routing the carrier to the first path or the second path based on the preliminary orientation of the reference geometric features with respect to the feed direction,
routing the carrier to the first path if the preliminary orientation corresponds to the first, desired, orientation, and
routing the carrier to the second path if the preliminary orientation corresponds to the second, undesired, orientation, and further routing the carrier to the third path at the interchange station.