摘要 |
A method, system, and attachment for conveying sorting articles, such as laundry or the like whereby each article is grasped by one of a plurality of separated pickers mounted on a conveyor and moved vertically past a detector which identifies the article and causes it to be dropped to fall into the proper one of a plurality of containers over which the pickers then move with the grasped article suspended below the picker. Each article preferably includes as a part thereof a quantity of each of a number of different materials of the type which each produce secondary radiation at a characteristic energy lever when X-ray, gamma or other radiation impinges thereon, the combination of materials forming a code uniquely identifying the article.
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