| 摘要 |
A variable-capacity FIFO store (4) having a powered endless conveyor belt defining a conveying branch for transferring a mass of articles (6) from an input station (8) to an output station (9), and a return branch extending from the output station (9) to the input station (8); and an adjusting assembly for adjusting the lengths of the conveying and return branches in complementary manner, so as to adjust the storage capacity of the store (4); an expulsion station (32) is located along an output conveyor (7), downstream from the output station (9), to expel a given mass of articles (6) from the output conveyor (7), and is controlled by a control unit for identifying the location of a mass of articles (6) in the store (4), and for activating the expulsion station (32) when the previously identified mass of articles (6) travels through the expulsion station (32). <IMAGE>
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