GB2497158B - Item dispenser - Google Patents

Item dispenser

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Publication number
GB2497158B
GB2497158B GB1217085.8A GB201217085A GB2497158B GB 2497158 B GB2497158 B GB 2497158B GB 201217085 A GB201217085 A GB 201217085A GB 2497158 B GB2497158 B GB 2497158B
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Prior art keywords
items
conveyor
falling
predetermined number
imaging device
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GB1217085.8A
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GB201217085D0 (en
GB2497158A (en
Inventor
Ari Tidhar
Israel Shneiderman
Nachshon Kahana
Amichai Adam
Aryeh Teitelbaum
Oded Davidovitch
Yossi Shomer
Yuval Lichi
Zvi Weinberger
Igor Faib
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Data Detection Technologies Ltd
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Data Detection Technologies Ltd
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
    • B65B57/10—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged
    • B65B57/14—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged and operating to control, or stop, the feed of articles or material to be packaged
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B1/00—Packaging fluent solid material, e.g. powders, granular or loose fibrous material, loose masses of small articles, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B1/04—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles
    • B65B1/08—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles by vibratory feeders
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B5/00—Packaging individual articles in containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars
    • B65B5/10—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles
    • B65B5/101—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles by gravity
    • B65B5/103—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles by gravity for packaging pills or tablets
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
    • B65B57/20—Applications of counting devices for controlling the feed of articles
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06M—COUNTING MECHANISMS; COUNTING OF OBJECTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G06M1/00—Design features of general application
    • G06M1/08—Design features of general application for actuating the drive
    • G06M1/10—Design features of general application for actuating the drive by electric or magnetic means
    • G06M1/101—Design features of general application for actuating the drive by electric or magnetic means by electro-optical means
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06M—COUNTING MECHANISMS; COUNTING OF OBJECTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G06M3/00—Counters with additional facilities
    • G06M3/02—Counters with additional facilities for performing an operation at a predetermined value of the count, e.g. arresting a machine
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06M—COUNTING MECHANISMS; COUNTING OF OBJECTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G06M7/00—Counting of objects carried by a conveyor

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Sorting Of Articles (AREA)
  • Control Of Conveyors (AREA)
  • Basic Packing Technique (AREA)

Abstract

An item dispenser for dispensing a predetermined number of discrete items 116 comprises a parallel conveyor 120 operable to transport multiple items towards an imaging device 135. The imaging device continuously captures images of an area immediately below an end of the conveyor 128, so that items falling off the conveyor are recorded. Using these images, a processor continuously determines the number of falling items, and stops the conveyor before the number of falling items has reached the predetermined number. Additional items are then automatically dispensed to complete the predetermined number of items. The additional dispensing being added by pulsing the conveyor at lower speeds determined by earlier calibration.
GB1217085.8A 2011-12-01 2011-12-01 Item dispenser Active GB2497158B (en)

Priority Applications (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
GB1217085.8A GB2497158B (en) 2011-12-01 2011-12-01 Item dispenser

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Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
GB1217085.8A GB2497158B (en) 2011-12-01 2011-12-01 Item dispenser

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GB201217085D0 GB201217085D0 (en) 2012-11-07
GB2497158A GB2497158A (en) 2013-06-05
GB2497158B true GB2497158B (en) 2013-11-27

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DE102016125662B3 (en) * 2016-12-23 2017-11-16 Anne Balkema Apparatus and method for counting elements of a homogeneous bulk material
US20230017452A1 (en) * 2021-07-19 2023-01-19 Optum, Inc. System and method to count pills

Citations (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
JPS55119621A (en) * 1979-03-05 1980-09-13 Hitachi Ltd Mechanism for separating counted article

Patent Citations (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
JPS55119621A (en) * 1979-03-05 1980-09-13 Hitachi Ltd Mechanism for separating counted article

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GB201217085D0 (en) 2012-11-07
GB2497158A (en) 2013-06-05

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