Patent ID: 8387342
Filing Date: 2013-03-05
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
1. A method for inserting products into a packaging container by means of a picking line having a conveyor belt for supplying and transporting products in a transport direction and having at least one picker associated with the conveyor belt, equipped with a position image processing system for determining the position of the products on the conveyor belt, the method comprising the steps of: inspecting the products with a quality image processing system situated upstream of the at least one picker in the transport direction with regard to predetermined quality features, while passing the products by the quality image processing system on the conveyor belt in the transport direction, and associating a piece of quality information that serves as a control command for grasping or not grasping the products, to a picker downstream of the quality image processing system in the transport direction, wherein at least a first picker and a subsequent picker, each equipped with a position image processing system, are disposed one after the other in the transport direction, wherein the quality information serving as a control command for grasping or not grasping the products and the position data for the products not grasped by the first picker is transmitted to the subsequent picker, and