EP0728669A1 - Automatic labelling device for products - Google Patents

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EP0728669A1
EP0728669A1 EP96400296A EP96400296A EP0728669A1 EP 0728669 A1 EP0728669 A1 EP 0728669A1 EP 96400296 A EP96400296 A EP 96400296A EP 96400296 A EP96400296 A EP 96400296A EP 0728669 A1 EP0728669 A1 EP 0728669A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
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    • B65C9/44—Label feed control by special means responsive to marks on labels or articles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C3/00—Labelling other than flat surfaces
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C2201/00—Portable tools for labelling or tagging, associated with holders when in use
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1705—Lamina transferred to base from adhered flexible web or sheet type carrier
    • Y10T156/1707—Discrete spaced laminae on adhered carrier
    • Y10T156/171—Means serially presenting discrete base articles or separate portions of a single article
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1744—Means bringing discrete articles into assembled relationship
    • Y10T156/1768—Means simultaneously conveying plural articles from a single source and serially presenting them to an assembly station

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  • the present invention relates to an automatic labeling system for products, such as fruits and vegetables.
  • French patent application No. 94 12 752 filed on October 25, 1994 in the name of the Applicant has proposed an automatic labeling system for products, such as fruits and vegetables, arranged in containers open in their upper part, which comprises a conveyor for moving the containers and bringing them into a product labeling station, comprising at least one gantry extending above the conveyor and provided with '' a support cart for automatic product labeling means, which can be moved transversely above the conveyor to label the products.
  • an automatic labeling system for products for products, such as fruits and vegetables, arranged in containers open in their part upper, which comprises a conveyor for moving the containers and bringing them into a labeling station comprising at least one gantry extending above the conveyor and provided with a carriage for supporting labeling means automatic products, movable transversely and longitudinally above and in synchronism with the conveyor, to label the products contained in the containers during their movement in the labeling station.
  • the operation of the various labeling means of the labeling station is triggered by means of detecting the arrival of a container in the labeling station.
  • the labeling of the products is done automatically by contact between part of the labeling means and the products.
  • the position of the products in the containers may vary slightly depending for example on their shape and the arrangement of these in the cells of the containers for receiving these products, so that the labeling of some products may then be poorly insured.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to solve these problems.
  • the subject of the invention is an automatic labeling system for products, such as fruit and vegetables, of the type comprising a conveyor for transporting a structure for receiving the products, in a labeling station provided with means for labeling the latter, characterized in that the product reception structure comprises means for locating the position of the products therein and in that it comprises means for detecting said locating means in order to trigger the operation of said labeling means of the labeling station.
  • an automatic labeling system for products designated for example by the general reference 1, constituted for example by fruits and vegetables and arranged in means for receiving them designated for example by the general reference 2.
  • these receiving means comprise a honeycomb receiving structure thereof, this structure comprising different rows of aligned cells for receiving products, one of which is designated by the general reference 3 on these figures.
  • This product reception structure is arranged on a conveyor 4 shown in phantom in these figures, this conveyor being adapted to transport this product reception structure in a product labeling station, generally designated by the reference 5 on these figures.
  • This labeling station can for example include any suitable structure comprising means for labeling the products as described in the various documents mentioned above, each arranged opposite a line of products of the receiving structure.
  • the structure for receiving the products designated by the general reference 2 comprises means for locating the position and more particularly for example rows of products therein and the labeling system comprises means for detection of these tracking means to trigger the operation of the labeling means.
  • the means for locating the position of the products are formed by visible marks provided on the receiving structure for example at the level of the rows of products and the detection means comprise means for optical detection of those -this, to trigger accordingly the operation of the labeling means during the passage of the product reception structure in the station.
  • the locating means are formed by deformations of the structure, for example at the level of the rows of products and the detection means of these locating means comprise sensors for detecting these deformations.
  • these locating means can be formed on the face of the structure opposite to that posed on the conveyor, on this face of the structure posed on this conveyor, as illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 or still on the lateral sides of this structure.
  • FIG. 1 an exemplary embodiment of a labeling system according to the invention, in which the detection means of the tracking means comprise for example a sensor of the end-of-travel type, designated by the general reference 6, adapted to detect the passage of the bottom of the cells of the support structure 2 of the products, in order to trigger the operation of the labeling means, by means of a central control unit, for example based microprocessor, designated by the general reference 7.
  • the detection means of the tracking means comprise for example a sensor of the end-of-travel type, designated by the general reference 6, adapted to detect the passage of the bottom of the cells of the support structure 2 of the products, in order to trigger the operation of the labeling means, by means of a central control unit, for example based microprocessor, designated by the general reference 7.
  • the conveyor is for example a conveyor with rollers or strips, allowing the establishment of this type of sensor 6, so that it can detect the bottom of each cell of the product receiving structure 2 to trigger the operation of the labeling means.
  • the labeling of the products is then triggered upon detection of the passage of the cells and not of the products contained therein, which makes it possible to solve the various problems mentioned above concerning a poor arrangement of the products in the cells.
  • honeycomb structures for receiving products are well known in the state of the art and once the labeling of the products contained in the cells of the latter has been completed, these structures are then placed, for example, in a box or the like.
  • optical detection means 8 shown in FIG. 2 making it possible to detect the passage of the cells.
  • optical detection means can also be used for example to detect the passage of visible marks provided on a background, for example flat of any structure for receiving products, to trigger the operation of the means of labeling station labeling 5.
  • these detection means can be provided on the other side of the conveyor, that is to say on the side of the latter where the labeling means are arranged, to ensure the piloting of these during detection.
  • locating means carried by the face of the product reception structure 2 opposite to that placed on the conveyor or at least one of the lateral flanks thereof.
  • These locating means are then for example formed by visible marks or corresponding deformations provided for example on the lateral flanks of the product reception structure which is then presented, for example, in the form of a box or the like.
  • the corresponding detection means are arranged above and facing or on the side of the conveyor to detect these locating means.
  • the means for detecting the locating means are placed just below the labeling means, but it goes without saying that these means can also be placed before the station for labeling and controlling the labeling means with a delay determined as a function of the speed of movement of the conveyor.

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The system has a conveyor (4), shaped to receive the products, its structure (2) having locations (3) for products. The conveyor passes under a labelling station (5), with adjacent detectors (6,7) of the locations to trigger product labelling. The locations may be visibly marked on the conveyor structure, with optical detectors. Alternatively the locations may be deformations of the structure, detected by sensors. The locations may be on the conveyor with the detectors over it, or alternatively on the conveyor side, with detectors over and at the side. The locations may also be formed as hollows, receiving the products, the detectors sensing these hollows.

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La présente invention concerne un système d'étiquetage automatique de produits, tels que des fruits et légumes.The present invention relates to an automatic labeling system for products, such as fruits and vegetables.

On connaît déjà dans l'état de la technique, par exemple du document FR-A-2 619 079, une machine à étiqueter portative automatique pour apposer sur des articles, des étiquettes réparties régulièrement sur une bande en bobine.Already known in the prior art, for example from document FR-A-2 619 079, an automatic portable labeling machine for affixing to articles, labels distributed regularly on a reel tape.

Ces machines manuelles présentent cependant un certain nombre d'inconvénients, notamment au niveau de la cadence d'étiquetage.These manual machines however have a certain number of drawbacks, in particular with regard to the rate of labeling.

Pour améliorer cette cadence d'étiquetage, on a proposé dans la demande de brevet français n° 94 12 752 déposée le 25 octobre 1994 au nom de la Demanderesse, un système d'étiquetage automatique de produits, tels que des fruits et légumes, disposés dans des containers ouverts dans leur partie supérieure, qui comporte un convoyeur de déplacement des containers et d'amenée de ceux-ci dans une station d'étiquetage des produits, comportant au moins un portique s'étendant au-dessus du convoyeur et muni d'un chariot de support de moyens d'étiquetage automatique des produits, déplaçables transversalement au-dessus du convoyeur pour étiqueter les produits.To improve this labeling rate, French patent application No. 94 12 752 filed on October 25, 1994 in the name of the Applicant has proposed an automatic labeling system for products, such as fruits and vegetables, arranged in containers open in their upper part, which comprises a conveyor for moving the containers and bringing them into a product labeling station, comprising at least one gantry extending above the conveyor and provided with '' a support cart for automatic product labeling means, which can be moved transversely above the conveyor to label the products.

On a également décrit dans la demande de brevet français n° 95 00 731 déposée le 23 janvier 1995 au nom de XEDA INTERNATIONAL, un système d'étiquetage automatique de produits, tels que des fruits et légumes, disposés dans des containers ouverts dans leur partie supérieure, qui comporte un convoyeur de déplacement des containers et d'amenée de ceux-ci dans une station d'étiquetage comportant au moins un portique s'étendant au-dessus du convoyeur et muni d'un chariot de support de moyens d'étiquetage automatique des produits, déplaçables transversalement et longitudinalement au-dessus du convoyeur et en synchronisme avec celui-ci, pour étiqueter les produits contenus dans les containers lors de leur déplacement dans la station d'étiquetage.Also described in French patent application No. 95 00 731 filed January 23, 1995 in the name of XEDA INTERNATIONAL, an automatic labeling system for products, such as fruits and vegetables, arranged in containers open in their part upper, which comprises a conveyor for moving the containers and bringing them into a labeling station comprising at least one gantry extending above the conveyor and provided with a carriage for supporting labeling means automatic products, movable transversely and longitudinally above and in synchronism with the conveyor, to label the products contained in the containers during their movement in the labeling station.

Dans ces systèmes, le fonctionnement des différents moyens d'étiquetage de la station d'étiquetage est déclenché par des moyens de détection de l'arrivée d'ur container dans la station d'étiquetage.In these systems, the operation of the various labeling means of the labeling station is triggered by means of detecting the arrival of a container in the labeling station.

Une fois cette arrivée d'un container détectée, l'étiquetage des produits se fait automatiquement par contact entre une partie des moyens d'étiquetage et les produits.Once this arrival of a container has been detected, the labeling of the products is done automatically by contact between part of the labeling means and the products.

Cependant, il a été constaté que la position des produits dans les containers peut varier légèrement en fonction par exemple de leur forme et de la disposition de ceux-ci dans des alvéoles des containers de réception de ces produits, de sorte que l'étiquetage de certains produits peut alors être mal assuré.However, it has been noted that the position of the products in the containers may vary slightly depending for example on their shape and the arrangement of these in the cells of the containers for receiving these products, so that the labeling of some products may then be poorly insured.

Le but de l'invention est donc de résoudre ces problèmes.The object of the invention is therefore to solve these problems.

A cet effet, l'invention a pour objet un système d'étiquetage automatique de produits, tels que des fruits et légumes, du type comportant un convoyeur de transport d'une structure de réception des produits, dans une station d'étiquetage munie de moyens d'étiquetage de ceux-ci, caractérisé en ce que la structure de réception des produits comporte des moyens de repérage de la position des produits dans celle-ci et en ce qu'il comporte des moyens de détection desdits moyens de repérage pour déclencher le fonctionnement desdits moyens d'étiquetage de la station d'étiquetage.To this end, the subject of the invention is an automatic labeling system for products, such as fruit and vegetables, of the type comprising a conveyor for transporting a structure for receiving the products, in a labeling station provided with means for labeling the latter, characterized in that the product reception structure comprises means for locating the position of the products therein and in that it comprises means for detecting said locating means in order to trigger the operation of said labeling means of the labeling station.

L'invention sera mieux comprise à la lecture de la description qui va suivre, donnée uniquement à titre d'exemple et faite en se référant aux dessins annexés, sur lesquels :

  • la Fig.1 illustre un premier exemple de réalisation d'un système d'étiquetage selon l'invention; et
  • la Fig.2 illustre un second exemple de réalisation d'un système d'étiquetage selon l'invention.
The invention will be better understood on reading the description which follows, given solely by way of example and made with reference to the appended drawings, in which:
  • Fig.1 illustrates a first embodiment of a labeling system according to the invention; and
  • Fig.2 illustrates a second embodiment of a labeling system according to the invention.

On reconnaît sur ces figures, un système d'étiquetage automatique de produits, désignés par exemple par la référence générale 1, constitués par exemple par des fruits et légumes et disposés dans des moyens de réception de ceux-ci désignés par exemple par la référence générale 2.We recognize in these figures, an automatic labeling system for products, designated for example by the general reference 1, constituted for example by fruits and vegetables and arranged in means for receiving them designated for example by the general reference 2.

Dans les exemples de réalisation représentés sur ces figures, ces moyens de réception comprennent une structure de réception alvéolée de ceux-ci, cette structure comportant différentes rangées d'alvéoles alignés de réception de produits, dont un est désigné par la référence générale 3 sur ces figures.In the embodiments shown in these figures, these receiving means comprise a honeycomb receiving structure thereof, this structure comprising different rows of aligned cells for receiving products, one of which is designated by the general reference 3 on these figures.

Cette structure de réception des produits est disposée sur un convoyeur 4 représenté en traits mixtes sur ces figures, ce convoyeur étant adapté pour transporter cette structure de réception des produits dans une station d'étiquetage des produits, désignée de façon générale par la référence 5 sur ces figures.This product reception structure is arranged on a conveyor 4 shown in phantom in these figures, this conveyor being adapted to transport this product reception structure in a product labeling station, generally designated by the reference 5 on these figures.

Cette station d'étiquetage peut par exemple comporter n'importe quelle structure appropriée comprenant des moyens d'étiquetage des produits tels que décrits dans les différents documents mentionnés précédemment, disposés chacun en regard d'une ligne de produits de la structure de réception.This labeling station can for example include any suitable structure comprising means for labeling the products as described in the various documents mentioned above, each arranged opposite a line of products of the receiving structure.

Selon l'invention, la structure de réception des produits désignée par la référence générale 2, comporte des moyens de repérage de la position et plus particulièrement par exemple des rangées de produits dans celle-ci et le système d'étiquetage comporte des moyens de détection de ces moyens de repérage pour déclencher le fonctionnement des moyens d'étiquetage.According to the invention, the structure for receiving the products designated by the general reference 2, comprises means for locating the position and more particularly for example rows of products therein and the labeling system comprises means for detection of these tracking means to trigger the operation of the labeling means.

Selon un premier exemple de réalisation, les moyens de repérage de la position des produits, sont formés par des marques visibles prévues sur la structure de réception par exemple au niveau des rangées de produits et les moyens de détection comportent des moyens de détection optiques de celles-ci, pour déclencher en conséquence le fonctionnement des moyens d'étiquetage lors du passage de la structure de réception des produits dans la station.According to a first exemplary embodiment, the means for locating the position of the products are formed by visible marks provided on the receiving structure for example at the level of the rows of products and the detection means comprise means for optical detection of those -this, to trigger accordingly the operation of the labeling means during the passage of the product reception structure in the station.

Selon un second exemple de réalisation, les moyens de repérage sont formés par des déformations de la structure par exemple au niveau des rangées de produits et les moyens de détection de ces moyens de repérage comprennent des capteurs de détection de ces déformations.According to a second embodiment, the locating means are formed by deformations of the structure, for example at the level of the rows of products and the detection means of these locating means comprise sensors for detecting these deformations.

Il va de soi bien entendu que ces moyens de repérage peuvent être formés sur la face de la structure opposée à celle posée sur le convoyeur, sur cette face de la structure posée sur ce convoyeur, comme cela est illustré sur les figures 1 et 2 ou encore sur les flancs latéraux de cette structure.It goes without saying of course that these locating means can be formed on the face of the structure opposite to that posed on the conveyor, on this face of the structure posed on this conveyor, as illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 or still on the lateral sides of this structure.

En effet, on a représenté sur la figure 1, un exemple de réalisation d'un système d'étiquetage selon l'invention, dans lequel les moyens de détection des moyens de repérage comprennent par exemple un capteur de type fin de course, désigné par la référence générale 6, adapté pour détecter le passage du fond des alvéoles de la structure de support 2 des produits, afin de déclencher le fonctionnement des moyens d'étiquetage, par l'intermédiaire d'une unité centrale de pilotage, par exemple à base de microprocesseur, désignée par la référence générale 7.In fact, there is shown in FIG. 1, an exemplary embodiment of a labeling system according to the invention, in which the detection means of the tracking means comprise for example a sensor of the end-of-travel type, designated by the general reference 6, adapted to detect the passage of the bottom of the cells of the support structure 2 of the products, in order to trigger the operation of the labeling means, by means of a central control unit, for example based microprocessor, designated by the general reference 7.

On conçoit alors que dans cet exemple de réalisation, le convoyeur est par exemple un convoyeur à rouleaux ou à bandes, permettant la mise en place de ce type de capteur 6, afin que celui-ci puisse détecter le fond de chaque alvéole de la structure de réception 2 des produits pour déclencher le fonctionnement des moyens d'étiquetage.It can therefore be seen that in this embodiment, the conveyor is for example a conveyor with rollers or strips, allowing the establishment of this type of sensor 6, so that it can detect the bottom of each cell of the product receiving structure 2 to trigger the operation of the labeling means.

L'étiquetage des produits est alors déclenché lors de la détection du passage des alvéoles et non pas des produits contenus dans ceux-ci, ce qui permet de résoudre les différents problèmes évoqués précédemment à propos d'une mauvaise disposition des produits dans les alvéoles.The labeling of the products is then triggered upon detection of the passage of the cells and not of the products contained therein, which makes it possible to solve the various problems mentioned above concerning a poor arrangement of the products in the cells.

De telles structures alvéolées de réception des produits sont bien connues dans l'état de la technique et une fois l'étiquetage des produits contenus dans les alvéoles de celles-ci terminé, ces structures sont ensuite placées par exemple dans une caisse ou autre.Such honeycomb structures for receiving products are well known in the state of the art and once the labeling of the products contained in the cells of the latter has been completed, these structures are then placed, for example, in a box or the like.

Différents moyens de repérage de la position de ces produits et différents moyens de détection de ces moyens de repérage peuvent être envisagés, tels que par exemple des moyens de détection optiques 8 représentés sur la figure 2 permettant de détecter le passage des alvéoles.Different means of locating the position of these products and different means of detecting these locating means can be envisaged, such as for example optical detection means 8 shown in FIG. 2 making it possible to detect the passage of the cells.

Il va de soi bien entendu que des moyens optiques de détection peuvent également être utilisés par exemple pour détecter le passage de marques visibles prévues sur un fond par exemple plat d'une structure quelconque de réception des produits, pour déclencher le fonctionnement des moyens d'étiquetage de la station d'étiquetage 5.It goes without saying of course that optical detection means can also be used for example to detect the passage of visible marks provided on a background, for example flat of any structure for receiving products, to trigger the operation of the means of labeling station labeling 5.

De même, ces moyens de détection peuvent être prévus de l'autre côté du convoyeur, c'est à dire du côté de celui-ci où sont disposés les moyens d'étiquetage, pour assurer le pilotage de ceux-ci lors de la détection de moyens de repérage portés par la face de la structure de réception des produits 2 opposée à celle posée sur le convoyeur ou au moins l'un des flancs latéraux de celle-ci.Likewise, these detection means can be provided on the other side of the conveyor, that is to say on the side of the latter where the labeling means are arranged, to ensure the piloting of these during detection. locating means carried by the face of the product reception structure 2 opposite to that placed on the conveyor or at least one of the lateral flanks thereof.

Ces moyens de repérage sont alors par exemple formés par des marques visibles ou des déformations correspondantes prévues par exemple sur les flancs latéraux de la structure de réception des produits qui se présente alors par exemple sous la forme d'une caisse ou autre.These locating means are then for example formed by visible marks or corresponding deformations provided for example on the lateral flanks of the product reception structure which is then presented, for example, in the form of a box or the like.

Selon la disposition de ces moyens de repérage, les moyens de détection correspondants sont disposés au-dessus et en regard ou sur le côté du convoyeur pour détecter ces moyens de repérage.According to the arrangement of these locating means, the corresponding detection means are arranged above and facing or on the side of the conveyor to detect these locating means.

Dans les exemples de réalisation décrits en regard des figures 1 et 2, les moyens de détection des moyens de repérage sont placés juste au-dessous des moyens d'étiquetage, mais il va de soi que ces moyens peuvent également être placés avant la station d'étiquetage et piloter les moyens d'étiquetage avec un retard déterminé en fonction de la vitesse de déplacement du convoyeur.In the embodiments described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, the means for detecting the locating means are placed just below the labeling means, but it goes without saying that these means can also be placed before the station for labeling and controlling the labeling means with a delay determined as a function of the speed of movement of the conveyor.

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Système d'étiquetage automatique de produits, tels que des fruits et légumes, du type comportant un convoyeur (4) de transport d'une structure de réception des produits, dans une station d'étiquetage (5) munie de moyens d'étiquetage de ceux-ci, caractérisé en ce que la structure de réception des produits (2) comporte des moyens de repérage (3) de la position des produits dans celle-ci et en ce qu'il comporte des moyens de détection (6;8) desdits moyens de repérage pour déclencher le fonctionnement desdits moyens d'étiquetage de la station d'étiquetage.Automatic labeling system for products, such as fruit and vegetables, of the type comprising a conveyor (4) for transporting a structure for receiving the products, in a labeling station (5) provided with labeling means these, characterized in that the product reception structure (2) comprises means (3) for locating the position of the products therein and in that it comprises detection means (6; 8) said locating means for triggering the operation of said labeling means of the labeling station. Système selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de repérage (3) sont formés par des marques visibles prévues sur la structure de réception (2) et en ce que les moyens de détection sont formés par des moyens de détection optiques (8) de celles-ci.System according to claim 1, characterized in that the marking means (3) are formed by visible marks provided on the receiving structure (2) and in that the detection means are formed by optical detection means (8 ) of these. Système selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de repérage (3) sont formés par des déformations de la structure de réception (2) et en ce que les moyens de détection sont formés par des capteurs de détection (6) de celles-ci.System according to claim 1, characterized in that the marking means (3) are formed by deformations of the receiving structure (2) and in that the detection means are formed by detection sensors (6) of those -this. Système selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de repérage sont formés sur la face de la structure de réception (2) opposée à celle posée sur le convoyeur (4), et en ce que les moyens de détection sont placés au-dessus et en regard du convoyeur.System according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the marking means are formed on the face of the receiving structure (2) opposite to that placed on the conveyor (4), and in that the detection means are placed above and opposite the conveyor. Système selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de repérage sont formés sur au moins un flanc latéral de la structure de réception (2), et en ce que les moyens de détection sont placés au-dessus et sur le côté du convoyeur.System according to any one of Claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the marking means are formed on at least one lateral flank of the receiving structure (2), and in that the detection means are placed above and on the side of the conveyor. Système selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de repérage sont formés sur la face de la structure de réception (2) posée sur le convoyeur (3) et en ce que les moyens de détection (6;8) sont placés sous le convoyeur pour détecter ces moyens de repérage à travers celui-ci.System according to any one of Claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the locating means are formed on the face of the receiving structure (2) placed on the conveyor (3) and in that the detection means (6; 8) are placed under the conveyor to detect these locating means through it. Système selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que la structure de réception (2) des produits est formée par une structure alvéolée, ces alvéoles étant adaptés pour recevoir les produits (1) et formant les moyens de repérage (3) de position des produits, et en ce que les moyens de détection (6;8) de ces moyens de repérage sont formés par des capteurs de détection de ces alvéoles.System according to claim 6, characterized in that the product receiving structure (2) is formed by a honeycomb structure, these cells being adapted to receive the products (1) and forming the means for locating (3) the position of the products. , and in that the detection means (6; 8) of these locating means are formed by sensors for detecting these cells.
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