Patent ID: 8718816
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
1. A method wherein articles from at least one article conveyor ( 12 ), which runs in a transporting direction (x), are transferred into set-down positions of at least one set-down-position conveyor, said set-down position conveyor running in the transporting direction (+x′, −x′) which is the same as, or counter to, the transporting direction (x) of the article conveyor/s; further comprising a robot processing line ( 10 ) with robots ( 18 ) arranged on one side of a longitudinal center (m) of the article conveyor/s ( 12 ) of a certain width (B) wherein, each robot ( 18 ) has a picking region extending from a center (m) of the article conveyor/s ( 12 ) to an edge of the article conveyor ( 12 ), the method comprising: the robots ( setting the articles down in set-down positions on the set-down-position conveyors ( wherein during passage through the robot processing line (