EP1322538A1 - Device and method for loading the input unit of a letter sorting system - Google Patents
Device and method for loading the input unit of a letter sorting systemInfo
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- EP1322538A1 EP1322538A1 EP01982151A EP01982151A EP1322538A1 EP 1322538 A1 EP1322538 A1 EP 1322538A1 EP 01982151 A EP01982151 A EP 01982151A EP 01982151 A EP01982151 A EP 01982151A EP 1322538 A1 EP1322538 A1 EP 1322538A1
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- Prior art keywords
- stack
- separating
- sorting
- loading
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H1/00—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated
- B65H1/02—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles on edge
- B65H1/025—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles on edge with controlled positively-acting mechanical devices for advancing the pile to present the articles to the separating device
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
- B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
- B07C1/00—Measures preceding sorting according to destination
- B07C1/02—Forming articles into a stream; Arranging articles in a stream, e.g. spacing, orientating
Definitions
- the invention relates to a device and a method for loading the material input of a mail sorting system, the separating device, a horizontally aligned mail transport track connected to it with a supporting wall for the transport of upright, flat mail items
- Separating device and a separating knife which can be pivoted into and out of the mail transport path and which can be moved and retracted in a transport direction for holding and transporting the mail items to the separating device on a linear guide.
- the mail items are tipped from a mail container onto the mail transport track or removed in batches from the mail container by hand and placed on the mail transport track. Then they are aligned, also by hand, on the lower edge and laterally against the supporting wall and pushed to the separating device or to the remaining stack.
- the separating knife is then swiveled in behind the stack and the mail itemization begins, the separating knife and optionally additionally the mail item conveying path designed as a driven conveyor belt coupled to the separating knife feeding the stack to the separating device under pressure control.
- a filled container is emptied onto the letter feed path of the material input between two additional, movable and swiveling separating knives by means of the loading module.
- the stack is Automatically pushed towards the separating device by means of the two separating knives in the direction of the separating device, the separating knife holding the remaining stack swings out, moves close behind the rear additional separating knife, swivels in again and the two additional separating knives swivel out and drive backwards to take up a new stack.
- the object of the invention specified in claims 1 and 5 is to provide a device and a method for loading the material input of a mail item sorting system with upright, flat mail items, with the aid of which the mail items from upstream sorting systems are no longer loaded into mail containers is necessary or to the machine layout for sorting processes with several sorting runs, whereby the sorted mailings of the material inputs are again fed directly without a mail container, no more requirements regarding the spatial arrangement of material input and sorting compartments are necessary.
- the stack receptacle located on a chassis, which can be loaded at any location and whose stacking floor extends beyond the chassis can be moved horizontally in the stacking direction, the stack of items being held by one or two separating knives which can be displaced along the bottom of the stack, it is possible to dispense with the reloading of the stack of items into mail containers.
- the stack receptacle is designed like the consignment transport path with a supporting wall, but which cannot be moved like the stack floor. After loading, the stack pick-up is moved up to the consignment transport path of the material input in such a way that it virtually forms its extension. Then the stacking floor is moved onto the consignment conveyor up to its stacking knife, e.g.
- the separating knife of the mailing conveying path can advantageously be moved in a controlled manner in the direction of the separating device by keeping the measured stack pressure on the separating device in a controlled manner.
- the bottom of the stack receptacle is advantageous as a conveyor belt which is movable only in the direction of the separating device and has a rough surface Surface trained.
- the mail items are stacked against the separating knife in the direction of the separating device, they will not slide back due to the rough floor and the blocked backward movement of the conveyor belt.
- the shipments are not pushed over the rough floor when unloading onto the mailing conveyor, since when the movable part of the stack holder is pulled back, the loaded floor surface remains virtually stationary due to the movement of the conveyor belt.
- Sorting compartments of the consignment sorting system the input of which has to be loaded several times.
- FIG la a side view of a loading device at the material input of a mail sorting system perpendicular to the stacking device with above
- FIG. 1b shows a side view of a loading device at the material input perpendicular to the stacking direction with the stack receptacle extended onto the mail transport path
- 1c shows a side view of a loading device in the stacking direction
- 3a-c shows a schematic representation of the loading process in several phases using a top view.
- the shipments are sorted in the order in which they are distributed for the deliverers. Since the mail sorting system only has a limited number of sorting bins, this must be carried out in several sorting runs in succession, the mail items being fed back into the material input from the sorting bins exactly in the sorted order.
- the items are stacked upright from the back to the front, being supported to the front by a stacking plate which can be swung out against the growing stack by spring force.
- the sorting compartments can then be emptied and a mobile stack receptacle loaded simply by pushing the stack of items out of the sorting compartment onto the stack receptacle.
- the sequencer functionality is to be mapped by a multi-level sorting of the mail.
- the distribution strategy used is based on a two-pass process: The consignments are delivered in transport containers and loaded onto the material input of the consignment conveyor and separated.
- the consignments are brought back to substance input and separated a second time.
- the order of the shipments per sorting compartment must not be interchanged.
- the shipments are packed back into the transport containers.
- the batches of mail items are loaded from the sorting compartments after the first run onto one or more stack receptacles located on chassis, which are distributed along the mail item sorting system.
- the individual batch receptacles are then driven to the material inputs and unloaded.
- the stack holder is mounted on a chassis 11. It has a stacking base 5 which can be moved longitudinally beyond the chassis, two separating knives 8, 9 which can be displaced on a linear guide 7 along the stacking base 5 and which can be swiveled in and out of the stack receptacle, and a support wall 6 on which the standing items are aligned.
- the stacking base 5 is located somewhat higher than the consignment transport path 1 of the material input, so that it can be pushed onto it. He has 6
- rollers 10.13 with which he runs on the chassis 11 and on the consignment conveyor 1.
- two rollers 10, 13 are located next to one another, the roller 10 running for longitudinal guidance in a straight, correspondingly large recess in the mail transport path 1 and a base plate of the chassis 11.
- the supporting wall 6 of the stack receptacle connected to the stacking base 5 has a lower height than the supporting wall of the material input and is adjacent to the supporting wall 2 of the stack conveyor on the mail transport path displaceable.
- the programs are not shown.
- the stack receptacle located on the chassis 11 is placed at a 90 ° angle on the compartment wall 15 with the sorting compartments 16. It starts with the content of compartment no. 1, which is placed on the left of the front cutting knife 8, then the content of compartment no. 2 is deposited on the left, etc.
- the stack can be prevented from falling over to the left.
- the separating knife 9 is only tracked when the deposited stack exceeds a certain skew. For each filling, for a carriage length, e.g. from Im to expect 3 implementations.
- the separating knives 8, 9, which can be moved out of the linear guide 7, can be freely moved along the stack receptacle in the swiveled-up state.
- a narrow conveyor belt 14 as part of the floor with a rough, in this case cross-corrugated surface, which can only be moved towards the separating device 17. If the mail items are leaned against the front pivoted-in separating knife 8 during stacking on the stack base, this prevents the mail items from slipping.
- the rear separating knife 9 is also pivoted in. Both separating knives 8, 9 are thus hooked into the cross-corrugated conveyor belt 14, so to speak, and rather support the stack of mail items.
- the stack base 5 is then moved with the stack of mail items onto the mail transport track 1.
- the mailings are distributed from front to back with a descending number.
- Cutting knife 2 is initially, for example, in the middle of the stack holder, to the right of it then the stack from the sorting compartment with the highest number etc. If the right half of the stack holder is filled, this stack is then shifted to the left. This process can also be done more frequently with correspondingly smaller stacks. The aim of this procedure is to keep the loading parts as close as possible to the compartment wall in order to minimize the distances when filling the stack holder.
- overflow compartments are provided. These must also be emptied in the correct order (if compartment no. 4 is assigned an overflow compartment no. 4+, compartment no. 4 is emptied first and then no. 4+). They are therefore sensibly distributed over the sorting system on a regular basis in such a way that they can always be emptied from the stack receptacle for emptying. This means that the minimum path must be covered for emptying the sorting compartments on the stack holder.
- the first stack to be unloaded is the one with the stack from compartment no. 1 at its right end. For the first variant described above, this is the stack pickup closest to the substance input. For the second variant, this would be the stack pickup at the end of the mail sorting system.
- the corresponding stack pick-up is first docked as an extension to the consignment conveyor of the material inputs.
- the displaceable stacking base 5 and the supporting wall 6 of the stack receptacle, together with the two separating knives 8, 9, are passed over the empty mail transport path 1 to the separating knife 4
- the stack holder can be unloaded in one operation, the separating device continues to run.
- the separating device stops and the stack holder is also unloaded at once.
- the fill level is greater than the capacity of the consignment conveyor:
- the consignment conveyor is only reloaded. By inserting the separating knife at the appropriate place, the remaining stack is prevented from falling over.
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- Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
- Sorting Of Articles (AREA)
- Pile Receivers (AREA)
- Sheets, Magazines, And Separation Thereof (AREA)
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Applications Claiming Priority (3)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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DE10048805 | 2000-09-29 | ||
DE10048805A DE10048805C1 (en) | 2000-09-29 | 2000-09-29 | Postal article loading device for postal sorting plant has at least one stack receiver on chassis with stacking plate projecting beyond it |
PCT/DE2001/003702 WO2002026604A1 (en) | 2000-09-29 | 2001-09-26 | Device and method for loading the input unit of a letter sorting system |
Publications (2)
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EP1322538A1 true EP1322538A1 (en) | 2003-07-02 |
EP1322538B1 EP1322538B1 (en) | 2004-08-18 |
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US (1) | US6749193B2 (en) |
EP (1) | EP1322538B1 (en) |
JP (1) | JP2004509823A (en) |
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WO (1) | WO2002026604A1 (en) |
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