Patent ID: 11884491
Assignee: DÜRKOPP FÖRDERTECHNIK GMBH
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 11:
12. A method for the suspended conveyance of items comprising the method steps of
conveying the items suspended from an overhead adapter along a conveyor rail of a conveyor system,
feeding items into buffer devices,
buffering the items in the buffer devices, each of which is designed as a circulating storage device with a closed circulating storage line,
separating the items in the buffer device by means of a separating unit,
conveying the separated items by means of the discharge conveyor along a discharge line of the buffer device,
identifying at least one of the group comprising the items and overhead adapters to be discharged from the buffer device by means of an identification unit arranged downstream of the separating unit,
discharging the overhead adapters to be discharged from the buffer device into the conveyor system by means of a diverter element,
wherein the discharge conveyor is operated at a first conveying speed when no overhead adapter to be discharged has been identified,
wherein the discharge conveyor is operated at a second conveying speed when an overhead adapter to be discharged has been identified, wherein the second conveying speed is lower than the first conveying speed.