Color panel standards sorting system
CA 1262765 C · Owner: E. I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company · Inventors: Falcoff, Allan F.; Alman, David H.
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A process for forming paint panel color standards in which a multiplicity of panels are painted and marked with a man/machine readable ID number; the improvement used with this process is as follows:, (1) electronically determining the ID number of each panel and measuring each panel color coordinate values and feeding, this information to a computer which establishes a criteria for various panel quality standards;, (2) sorting the panels by electronically determining panel ID number and feeding the number to the computer which signals a robot to place the panel with a group of panels having the same quality standard.
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- Granted November 7, 1989. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended November 7, 2006.
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