Patent ID: 7282658

Claim:
A device for sequencing disparate products, comprising: at least a first feeder mechanism feeding a first separate stream of a first product type in a pre-sequenced order; at least a second feeder mechanism feeding a second separate stream of second product type though a sequencing process; at least one reading device reading product information of the first product type and the second product type; and a pausing device pausing one of the first separate stream of the first product type in the pre-sequenced order and the second separate stream of the second product type in a first pass sort order of the sequencing process based on the information read from the at least one reading device to enable the first product type and the second product type to be intermixed into a stream forming a merged stream of sequenced first and second product type; a transport system transporting (i) the second product type prior to the first pass sort order and (ii) the merged stream of sequenced first and second product type to a downstream destination during a second pass sort of the sequencing process of the second type of product; and a controller controlling said first and second feeder mechanisms, said reading device, said pausing device, and said transport system.