METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SPEED CONTROL, PARTICULARLY FOR THE LOADING STATION OF AN AUTOMATIC SORTING SYSTEM

摘要

1. Control method for a loading station (16) of an automatic parcel (P) sorting system, in which the loading means (18) run successively past abreast of the loading station so that they may be loaded thereat, the parcels (P) subsequently being discharged at points established by coding, and according to which the parcels (P) are displaced on a conveyor (3-4) which is accelerated and then decelerated as a function of the time difference between a first signal representing the passage of each parcel (P) on the said conveyor (3-4) and a second signal representing the passage of the loading means (18) intended to receive the said parcel (P) at a particular point of its trajectory, characterised in that the accelerated and then decelerated conveyor is a second conveyor (3-4) accelerated from a normal speed, and to which the parcels (P) are delivered by a first conveyor (1-2) so that the parcels (P) follow each other with a time interval greater than or equal to a predetermined minimum period (T).