EP2035156B1 - Open mail item container comprising a bottom that is movable towards the top - Google Patents
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- the consignments are brought in plastic containers to the sorting system.
- these containers must be unloaded and the consignments must be fed to a separating means called feeder.
- a conveying means e.g. a conveyor belt
- This gripping operation is ergonomically unfavorable, because the container walls are higher than the central focus of the shipment and the operator thus must reach into the container and lift the items out of the container.
- a mailing container with a number of slots arranged side by side and behind one another in the mailing container bottom for the passage of stack carriers is known from US Pat DE 102 34 516 A1 known.
- an apparatus for emptying an open-topped shipping container for transporting mail items, which has side walls and a container bottom, with a lifting means for passage through the container bottom and for moving the mail items relative to the side walls.
- the side walls can remain without recesses open on both sides, whereby the consignment container remains stable against twisting and bending.
- the lifting means With the lifting means, the items can be lifted, so that an ergonomically unfavorable reaching into the shipping container and a laborious and difficult lifting of the self-moving stack of items is no longer or only to a smaller extent necessary.
- the side walls can remain without recesses open on both sides, whereby the consignment container remains stable against twisting and bending. With the lifting means the consignments can be raised, so that an ergonomically unfavorable reaching into the consignment container and a laborious and difficult lifting of the self-moving Consignment pile is no longer or only to a smaller extent necessary.
- the lifting means may comprise a transversely to the lifting direction elongated punch for lifting the consignments.
- the stamp can be passed through the bottom and applied directly to the broadcasts, with many programs can be lifted simultaneously by a plate-like, for example, elongated and narrow cross-sectional shape of the punch and only a narrow slot in the container bottom of the mail item is necessary.
- the items can each be lifted by several punches and so a safe lifting can be achieved when the lifting means has a plurality transversely to a longitudinal direction of the items stacked in the consignment container staggered stamps for lifting the items, in particular by a direct investment in the broadcasts.
- the lifting means comprises a plurality of stamps offset longitudinally to a longitudinal direction of the packages stacked in the mail item container. hereby The stamps can be distributed over the longitudinal direction of the container bottom, whereby the container bottom remains a high stability.
- a lifting of the shipments in the mail container can be carried out particularly reliably by means of a movable floor in the mail container.
- the lifting means is expediently provided for moving a container bottom movable relative to the side walls.
- the object directed to the mail item is achieved by a mail item of the type initially mentioned which, according to the invention, has two opposite side walls attached to the movable base and movable with the movable base. By them, a drop of the shipments can be prevented from the raised ground.
- the attached to the bottom side wall is expediently an additional inner side wall within the shipment container its stability conferring outer side wall. It may be arranged in the stacking direction or transversely thereto and be a longitudinal or a narrow side wall.
- the shipments initially held by the sidewall can be released and easily gripped by an operator without the sidewall interfering with gripping. Agility, e.g. in the releasing position, can be achieved particularly easily when the bottom-mounted side wall is pivotable relative to the ground.
- the side walls of the mail container can remain without recesses open on both sides, whereby the mail container remains stable against twisting and bending.
- the shipments can be lifted with the lifting means from below, so that an ergonomically unfavorable reaching into the shipping container and a laborious and difficult lifting of the self-moving stack of mail not more or less is necessary.
- the passage may be a hole or slot-like opening in a container bottom.
- a larger open area is possible, for example, for lifting a movable floor, which forms the container bottom and is supported only at its edges.
- a high stability of the mail container can be maintained if it has a container bottom arranged on the container bottom with elongated slots for the passage of the lifting means. If the container bottom comprises a plurality of elongated slots offset from one another in the transverse direction, the items can be reliably lifted simultaneously by a plurality of punches. With several elongated slots offset in the longitudinal direction of each other can be avoided on a running under all broadcasts slot and a high stability of the mailing container can be achieved.
- the side walls comprise at least one elongated recess for receiving the lifting means.
- An undercut can be achieved which counteracts jamming of mail items in a slot between a side wall and the lifting means.
- the recesses may be a slot or a groove and be formed in particular for guiding the lifting means.
- the further area advantageously comprises a blocking means for preventing an extension of the mail items completely into the wider area.
- the blocking means can after a formation of a side wall inside, in particular around a handle of the shipment container.
- the shipments can be reliably raised and the lifting means can be simple.
- this is advantageously at least indirectly attached to the side walls. It can be fastened directly to the side walls, for example in a groove closed at the top, in which a shape of the bottom can run.
- a holding means that changes in shape during a movement of the floor, such as, for example, an accordion, a leporello or a Nuremberg scissors.
- a stop limits movement of the floor upwards.
- a system is described with an open-topped mail container and a device for emptying the mail container, which according to the invention comprises a lifting means for passage through a container bottom for moving the mail items relative to the side walls. It can be achieved ergonomically favorable lifting the consignments from a stable consignment container.
- the mail item container has a shape corresponding to the lifting means.
- the lifting means may e.g. interlock positively in the ground and lift it reliably.
- the upper wide portion 20 has handles 22 which are incorporated into inwardly offset locking means 24 for preventing expansion of raised mailings 14 entirely into the wider area 20.
- FIG. 2 a manual device 26 for emptying the mail item 2 is shown. It has a base 28 and a planar receptacle 30 on which the mail item container 2 can be placed.
- the receptacle 30 is pressed by a spring device 32 with a compression spring up to a support 34 upwards and can be pressed by pressure of an operator on a resting mail container 2 against the spring force down, as in FIG. 2 is shown.
- the receptacle 30 has bushings, which are formed analogously to the bushings 10 in the mail item 2.
- the receptacle 30 is part of a lifting means 36 with some plate-shaped, elongated in lifting direction stamps 38 which are designed corresponding to the bushings 10.
- the punches 38 of the lifting means 36 are rigidly connected to the base 28.
- the plates 38 When lowering the receptacle 30 with the mail container 2 erected thereon, the plates 38 pass through the bushings of the receptacle 30 and the bushings 10 of the mail container 2 and lift the mail items 14 relative to the side walls 4, 6 with a corresponding downward movement of the mail container 2 until they are substantially completely lifted out of the mail container 2 as in FIG. 2 you can see.
- a stop 40 prevents further lowering of the receptacle 30 and the mailing container 2.
- the broadcasts 14 can now be easily grasped by an operator without having to lift the mailpieces 14 out of the mail container 2.
- By reaching into the recesses 16 lifting means 36 and the punch 38 an undercut in the side walls 6 is formed, which prevents jamming of shipments 14 in a slot between a side wall 6 and the lifting means 36.
- FIG. 3 An automated device 42 for emptying a mail item 2 is shown in FIG. 3 shown.
- the following descriptions are each essentially limited to the differences from the previous embodiments, to which reference is made with regard to features and functions that are the same. Substantially identical components are basically numbered with the same reference numerals.
- the device 42 is part of a mail sorting installation 44 with a mail sorting installation 46, which comprises the device 42 for emptying.
- the mail item singling system 46 has a container conveyor 48 with a two-part conveyor belt 50 - a multi-part conveyor belt is equally conceivable between whose two parallel bands there is a space, moved upwards by the plate-shaped punch 38 of a lifting means 52 and through the feedthroughs 10 of the container bottom 8 of the mail container 2 can be performed to the shipments 14.
- the punches 38 are arranged along the entire conveyor belt 50 below and between the two belts and can be activated by a control unit 54 individually or in groups depending on the position of the mailing container 2 to be emptied. Only for better representation is in FIG. 3 only one group of punches 38 is activated - ie started up - where no consignment container 2 is shown.
- the punches 38 can be movable along the conveyor belt 50, ie between the two belts of the conveyor belt 50, so that always the same punches 38 lift the mailings 14.
- FIGS. 6 and 7 is a device 70 for emptying a mail container 64 as shown FIG. 5 shown comprising a base 72 and a lifting means 74 for moving a movable floor 68, 76.
- the lifting means 74 is carried out analogously, as the lifting means 36 and comprises a receptacle 78 and punch 80 for lifting the movable bottom 76, which has a shape corresponding to the stamps 80, in which the punch 80 can engage, for example.
- the shipments 14 on the floor 76 are held by two attached to the bottom 76 side walls 82 so that they do not fall down with raised bottom 76 and do not reach the bottom 76 between the bottom 76 and the side wall 6 and jammed there.
- FIG. 8 shows a section of a mailing unit 84 with a device 86 for emptying a mail container 88.
- the device 86 comprises a receptacle 30, on which the mail container 88 is set up by an operator.
- a movable bottom 90 is inserted to the hinges 92, two movable side walls 94 are attached.
- Stamps 98 of a lifting means 100 held by a carrier 96 protrude from below through the support 30 and through an underside of the mailing container 88, so that they can be applied to the movable floor 90.
- the support 30 is raised and substantially flush with a conveyor 102nd
- the mail container 88 To empty the mail container 88, it is placed by the operator on the support 30 and pressed down.
- the support 30 moves downward, as in FIG. 8 shown, with the punch 98 resting and lifting the bottom 90 relative to the lowering side walls 4, 6.
- the operator can now fold the side walls 94, as in FIG FIG. 9 is shown so that they are moved from a position holding the mailings 14 in a position releasing the mailings 14.
- the items 14 can then be gripped by the operator and pushed onto the conveyor 102, which is designed, for example, as a conveyor belt and transports the items 14 to a separating means 60. This process can be assisted by holding means 104 (for example designed as a separating knife).
- the emptying of the mailer container 88 can be mechanically assisted.
- the operator After the operator has moved the shipping container 88 to the as in FIG. 8 As shown in Figure 30, it operates an input means 108, such as a button, which sends a signal to a control unit 54 which controls, via a drive 110, a lifting of the carrier 96.
- the stamp 98 thereby lift the bottom 90 and with it the shipments 14 except for in FIG. 8 shown position in which the bottom 90 is positioned above an upper edge of the side walls 4, 6 and flush with the upper edge of the conveyor 102.
- the kinematic reversal is a meaningful alternative embodiment where the punches 98 rest and the shipping container 88 is moved vertically.
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Die Erfindung betrifft einen Sendungsbehälter zum Transport von Sendungen mit Seitenwänden, einer offenen Oberseite und einer Behälterunterseite, die eine Durchführung für ein Hebemittel zum Anheben der Sendungen aufweist, und einem relativ zu den Seitenwänden zur Oberseite hin beweglichen Boden.The invention relates to a mail container for transporting shipments with side walls, an open top and a container bottom, which has a passage for a lifting means for lifting the mail items, and a relative to the side walls to the upper side movable bottom.
Zum Sortieren von Sendungen in Sortieranlagen, beispielsweise Briefen nach Adressen, werden die Sendungen in Kunststoffbehältern zur Sortieranlage gebracht. Um die Sendungen zu sortieren, müssen diese Behälter entladen werden und die Sendungen müssen einem Vereinzelungsmittel, Feeder genannt, zugeführt werden. Hierfür ist es bekannt, die mit Sendungen gefüllten Behälter in der Nähe eines Fördermittel, z.B. eines Förderbands, aufzustellen und die Sendungen Behälter für Behälter stapelweise aus den Behältern zu entnehmen, auf das Fördermittel zu stellen und dort einen Vereinzelungsstapel zu bilden. Dieser Greifvorgang ist ergonomisch ungünstig, weil die Behälterwände höher sind als der mittlere Sendungsschwerpunkt und der Bediener somit in die Behälter hinein greifen und die Sendungen aus dem Behälter heben muss.For sorting consignments in sorting systems, for example letters to addresses, the consignments are brought in plastic containers to the sorting system. To sort the consignments, these containers must be unloaded and the consignments must be fed to a separating means called feeder. For this purpose, it is known that the container filled with consignments in the vicinity of a conveying means, e.g. a conveyor belt, set up and remove the shipments containers for containers in batches from the containers, to put on the conveyor and to form a separation stack there. This gripping operation is ergonomically unfavorable, because the container walls are higher than the central focus of the shipment and the operator thus must reach into the container and lift the items out of the container.
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Ein Sendungsbehälter mit eine Anzahl von nebeneinander und hintereinander angeordneten Schlitzen im Sendungsbehälterboden zur Durchführung von Stapelträgern ist aus der
Eine weitere Lösung zum Entladen von Sendungen aus einem Sendungsbehälter ist aus der Offenlegungsschrift
Es ist daher die Aufgabe der Erfindung, einen Sendungsbehälter zum Transport von Sendungen anzugeben, der mechanisch stabil und einfach zu entleeren ist.It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a mail container for the transport of shipments, which is mechanically stable and easy to empty.
Zur Erläuterung der Erfindung ist eine Vorrichtung beschrieben zum Entleeren eines oben offenen Sendungsbehälters zum Transport von Sendungen, der Seitenwände und eine Behälterunterseite aufweist, mit einem Hebemittel zur Durchführung durch die Behälterunterseite und zum Bewegen der Sendungen relativ zu den Seitenwänden. Die Seitenwände können ohne an beiden Seiten offene Ausnehmungen bleiben, wodurch der Sendungsbehälter stabil gegen Verwinden und Verbiegen bleibt. Mit dem Hebemittel können die Sendungen angehoben werden, so dass ein ergonomisch ungünstiges Hineingreifen in den Sendungsbehälter und ein kraftaufwändiges und schwieriges Herausheben des in sich beweglichen Sendungsstapels nicht mehr oder nur zu einem geringeren Teil notwendig ist.To explain the invention, an apparatus is described for emptying an open-topped shipping container for transporting mail items, which has side walls and a container bottom, with a lifting means for passage through the container bottom and for moving the mail items relative to the side walls. The side walls can remain without recesses open on both sides, whereby the consignment container remains stable against twisting and bending. With the lifting means, the items can be lifted, so that an ergonomically unfavorable reaching into the shipping container and a laborious and difficult lifting of the self-moving stack of items is no longer or only to a smaller extent necessary.
Die Seitenwände können ohne an beiden Seiten offene Ausnehmungen bleiben, wodurch der Sendungsbehälter stabil gegen Verwinden und Verbiegen bleibt. Mit dem Hebemittel können die Sendungen angehoben werden, so dass ein ergonomisch ungünstiges Hineingreifen in den Sendungsbehälter und ein kraftaufwändiges und schwieriges Herausheben des in sich beweglichen Sendungsstapels nicht mehr oder nur zu einem geringeren Teil notwendig ist.The side walls can remain without recesses open on both sides, whereby the consignment container remains stable against twisting and bending. With the lifting means the consignments can be raised, so that an ergonomically unfavorable reaching into the consignment container and a laborious and difficult lifting of the self-moving Consignment pile is no longer or only to a smaller extent necessary.
Eine mechanische Belastung des Behälterbodens bei einer Verformung des Sendungsbehälters in Richtung einer Rautenform kann durch genügend viele und breite Stege des Behälterbodens ausreichend aufgefangen werden, die genügend Möglichkeiten zur Durchführung des Hebemittels lassen. Das Hebemittel kann zu einem Anheben der Sendungen relativ zu ruhenden Seitenwänden vorgesehen sein. Genau so gut kann das Hebemittel zum Anheben der Sendungen vorgesehen sein, die relativ zu sich absenkenden Seitenwänden aus dem Sendungsbehälter gehoben werden, wobei sie relativ zur übrigen Umgebung, wie z.B. einem Ständer oder einer Steuereinheit der Vorrichtung, ruhen. Die Vorrichtung kann einen maschinellen Antrieb zum Bewegen des Hebemittels bzw. Absenken zumindest einer Seitenwand aufweisen. Eine in der Herstellung günstige Vorrichtung kann geschaffen werden, wenn die Vorrichtung zu einer manuellen Betätigung des Hebemittels bzw. zum Herunterdrücken der Seitenwände vorgesehen ist.A mechanical load of the container bottom in a deformation of the mail item in the direction of a diamond shape can be sufficiently absorbed by enough many and wide webs of the container bottom, leaving enough opportunities for the implementation of the lifting means. The lifting means may be provided for lifting the mailings relative to stationary side walls. Just as well, the lifting means may be provided for lifting the mail items which are lifted out of the mailing container relative to descending side walls, relative to the rest of the environment, e.g. a stand or a control unit of the device, resting. The device may have a mechanical drive for moving the lifting means or lowering at least one side wall. An inexpensive device can be provided when the device is provided for manual actuation of the lifting means or for pushing down the side walls.
Das Hebemittel kann einen quer zur Heberichtung länglichen Stempel zum Anheben der Sendungen aufweisen. Der Stempel kann durch die Unterseite geführt und direkt an die Sendungen angelegt werden, wobei durch eine beispielsweise plattenartige, quer zur Heberichtung längliche und schmale Querschnittsform des Stempels viele Sendungen gleichzeitig angehoben werden können und nur ein schmaler Schlitz im Behälterboden des Sendungsbehälters notwendig ist.The lifting means may comprise a transversely to the lifting direction elongated punch for lifting the consignments. The stamp can be passed through the bottom and applied directly to the broadcasts, with many programs can be lifted simultaneously by a plate-like, for example, elongated and narrow cross-sectional shape of the punch and only a narrow slot in the container bottom of the mail item is necessary.
Die Sendungen können jeweils von mehreren Stempeln angehoben und so ein sicheres Anheben erreicht werden, wenn das Hebemittel mehrere quer zu einer Längsrichtung der im Sendungsbehälter gestapelten Sendungen versetzte Stempel zum Anheben der Sendungen, insbesondere durch eine direkte Anlage an die Sendungen, aufweist. Vorteilhafterweise umfasst das Hebemittel mehrere längs zu einer Längsrichtung der im Sendungsbehälter gestapelten Sendungen versetzte Stempel. Hierdurch können die Stempel über die Längsrichtung des Behälterbodens verteilt werden, wodurch dem Behälterboden eine hohe Stabilität verbleibt.The items can each be lifted by several punches and so a safe lifting can be achieved when the lifting means has a plurality transversely to a longitudinal direction of the items stacked in the consignment container staggered stamps for lifting the items, in particular by a direct investment in the broadcasts. Advantageously, the lifting means comprises a plurality of stamps offset longitudinally to a longitudinal direction of the packages stacked in the mail item container. hereby The stamps can be distributed over the longitudinal direction of the container bottom, whereby the container bottom remains a high stability.
Ein Anheben der Sendungen im Sendungsbehälter kann besonders zuverlässig mit Hilfe eines beweglichen Bodens im Sendungsbehälter durchgeführt werden. Hierzu ist das Hebemittel zweckmäßigerweise zum Bewegen eines relativ zu den Seitenwänden beweglichen Behälterbodens vorgesehen.A lifting of the shipments in the mail container can be carried out particularly reliably by means of a movable floor in the mail container. For this purpose, the lifting means is expediently provided for moving a container bottom movable relative to the side walls.
Die auf den Sendungsbehälter gerichtete Aufgabe wird durch einen Sendungsbehälter der eingangs genannten Art gelöst, der erfindungsgemäß zwei gegenüberliegende, am beweglichen Boden befestigte und mit dem beweglichen Boden bewegliche Seitenwände aufweist. Durch sie kann ein Herunterfallen der Sendungen vom angehobenen Boden verhindert werden. Die am Boden befestigte Seitenwand ist zweckmäßigerweise eine zusätzliche Innenseitenwand innerhalb einer dem Sendungsbehälter seine Stabilität verleihenden äußeren Seitenwand. Sie kann in Stapelrichtung oder quer dazu angeordnet sein und eine Längsoder eine Schmalseitenwand sein. Vorteilhafterweise ist die am Boden befestigte Seitenwand in angehobenem Zustand des Bodens aus einer Seitenwandposition in eine einen Behälterinhalt freigebende Position bewegbar. Die zunächst von der Seitenwand gehaltenen Sendungen können freigegeben und so von einem Bediener leicht gegriffen werden, ohne dass die Seitenwand ein Greifen stört. Eine Beweglichkeit, z.B. in die freigebende Position, kann besonders einfach erreicht werden, wenn die am Boden befestigte Seitenwand relativ zum Boden schwenkbar ist.The object directed to the mail item is achieved by a mail item of the type initially mentioned which, according to the invention, has two opposite side walls attached to the movable base and movable with the movable base. By them, a drop of the shipments can be prevented from the raised ground. The attached to the bottom side wall is expediently an additional inner side wall within the shipment container its stability conferring outer side wall. It may be arranged in the stacking direction or transversely thereto and be a longitudinal or a narrow side wall. Advantageously, the bottom wall mounted sidewall in the raised state of the bottom from a side wall position in a container contents releasing position movable. The shipments initially held by the sidewall can be released and easily gripped by an operator without the sidewall interfering with gripping. Agility, e.g. in the releasing position, can be achieved particularly easily when the bottom-mounted side wall is pivotable relative to the ground.
Die Seitenwände des Sendungsbehälters können ohne an beiden Seiten offene Ausnehmungen bleiben, wodurch der Sendungsbehälter stabil gegen Verwinden und Verbiegen bleibt. Außerdem können die Sendungen mit dem Hebemittel von unten angehoben werden, so dass ein ergonomisch ungünstiges Hineingreifen in den Sendungsbehälter und ein kraftaufwändiges und schwieriges Herausheben des in sich beweglichen Sendungsstapels nicht mehr oder nur zu einem geringeren Teil notwendig ist. Die Durchführung kann eine loch- oder schlitzartige Öffnung in einem Behälterboden sein. Ebenso ist eine größere offene Fläche möglich, z.B. zum Anheben eines beweglichen Bodens, der den Behälterboden bildet und lediglich an seinen Rändern abgestützt ist.The side walls of the mail container can remain without recesses open on both sides, whereby the mail container remains stable against twisting and bending. In addition, the shipments can be lifted with the lifting means from below, so that an ergonomically unfavorable reaching into the shipping container and a laborious and difficult lifting of the self-moving stack of mail not more or less is necessary. The passage may be a hole or slot-like opening in a container bottom. Similarly, a larger open area is possible, for example, for lifting a movable floor, which forms the container bottom and is supported only at its edges.
Eine hohe Stabilität des Sendungsbehälters kann gewahrt werden, wenn er einen an der Behälterunterseite angeordneten Behälterboden mit länglichen Schlitzen zur Durchführung des Hebemittels aufweist. Umfasst der Behälterboden mehrere längliche Schlitze in Querrichtung versetzt zueinander, so können die Sendungen zuverlässig durch mehrere Stempel gleichzeitig angehoben werden. Mit mehreren länglichen Schlitzen in Längsrichtung versetzt zueinander kann auf einen unter allen Sendungen verlaufender Schlitz vermieden und eine hohe Stabilität des Sendungsbehälters erreicht werden.A high stability of the mail container can be maintained if it has a container bottom arranged on the container bottom with elongated slots for the passage of the lifting means. If the container bottom comprises a plurality of elongated slots offset from one another in the transverse direction, the items can be reliably lifted simultaneously by a plurality of punches. With several elongated slots offset in the longitudinal direction of each other can be avoided on a running under all broadcasts slot and a high stability of the mailing container can be achieved.
In einer vorteilhaften Weiterbildung der Erfindung umfassen die Seitenwände zumindest eine längliche Ausnehmung zur Aufnahme des Hebemittels. Es kann ein Hinterschnitt erreicht werden, der einem Verklemmen von Sendungen in einem Schlitz zwischen einer Seitenwand und dem Hebemittel entgegenwirkt. Die Ausnehmungen kann ein Schlitz oder eine Nut sein und insbesondere zur Führung des Hebemittels ausgebildet sein.In an advantageous embodiment of the invention, the side walls comprise at least one elongated recess for receiving the lifting means. An undercut can be achieved which counteracts jamming of mail items in a slot between a side wall and the lifting means. The recesses may be a slot or a groove and be formed in particular for guiding the lifting means.
Eine gute Stapelbarkeit des Sendungsbehälters kann erzielt werden, wenn zumindest eine Seitenwand einen oberen weiteren und unteren engeren Bereich umfasst. Ein guter Schutz gegen Verklemmen der Sendungen kann hierbei erreicht werden, wenn die Ausnehmung vollständig durch den engeren Bereich bis zumindest zum weiteren Bereich verläuft. Um einem Herabrutschen der Sendungen vom Hebemittel während eines Hebevorgangs im weiten Bereich entgegenzuwirken, umfasst der weitere Bereich vorteilhafterweise ein Sperrmittel zum Verhindern einer Ausdehnung der Sendungen ganz in den weiteren Bereich hinein. Das Sperrmittel kann eine Ausformung einer Seitenwand nach innen sein, insbesondere um einen Griff des Sendungsbehälters herum.Good stackability of the mail container can be achieved if at least one side wall comprises an upper wider and lower narrower area. Good protection against jamming of the mailings can be achieved in this case, if the recess extends completely through the narrower area to at least the wider area. In order to counteract a slipping of the mail items from the lifting means during a lifting operation in the wide range, the further area advantageously comprises a blocking means for preventing an extension of the mail items completely into the wider area. The blocking means can after a formation of a side wall inside, in particular around a handle of the shipment container.
Mit dem beweglichen Boden können die Sendungen zuverlässig angehoben werden und das Hebemittel kann einfach ausgeführt sein. Um einem Verlieren des beweglichen Bodens entgegenzuwirken, ist dieser vorteilhafterweise zumindest mittelbar an den Seitenwänden befestigt. Er kann direkt an den Seitenwänden befestigt sein, beispielsweise in einer oben verschlossenen Nut, in der eine Ausformung des Bodens laufen kann. Besonders zuverlässig und unanfällig gegen ein Verklemmen ist ein sich bei einer Bewegung des Bodens in seiner Form veränderndes Haltemittel, wie beispielsweise nach Art einer Ziehharmonika, eines Leporello oder einer Nürnberger Schere. Vorteilhafterweise begrenzt ein Anschlag eine Bewegung des Bodens nach oben hin.With the movable floor, the shipments can be reliably raised and the lifting means can be simple. To counteract a loss of the movable floor, this is advantageously at least indirectly attached to the side walls. It can be fastened directly to the side walls, for example in a groove closed at the top, in which a shape of the bottom can run. Particularly reliable and not susceptible to jamming is a holding means that changes in shape during a movement of the floor, such as, for example, an accordion, a leporello or a Nuremberg scissors. Advantageously, a stop limits movement of the floor upwards.
Zusätzlich sei ein System beschrieben mit einem oben offenen Sendungsbehälter und einer Vorrichtung zum Entleeren des Sendungsbehälters, die erfindungsgemäß ein Hebemittel zur Durchführung durch eine Behälterunterseite aufweist zum Bewegen der Sendungen relativ zu den Seitenwänden. Es kann ein ergonomisch günstiges Herausheben der Sendungen aus einem stabilen Sendungsbehälter erreicht werden. Vorteilhafterweise weist der Sendungsbehälter eine zum Hebemittel korrespondierende Formgebung auf. Das Hebemittel kann z.B. formschlüssig in den Boden eingreifen und ihn zuverlässig anheben.In addition, a system is described with an open-topped mail container and a device for emptying the mail container, which according to the invention comprises a lifting means for passage through a container bottom for moving the mail items relative to the side walls. It can be achieved ergonomically favorable lifting the consignments from a stable consignment container. Advantageously, the mail item container has a shape corresponding to the lifting means. The lifting means may e.g. interlock positively in the ground and lift it reliably.
Die Erfindung wird anhand von Ausführungsbeispielen näher erläutert, die in den Zeichnungen dargestellt sind.The invention will be explained in more detail with reference to exemplary embodiments, which are illustrated in the drawings.
Es zeigen:
- FIG 1
- einen Sendungsbehälter mit schlitzförmigen Durch- führungen durch seinen Behälterboden,
- FIG 2
- den Sendungsbehälter aus
FIG 1 mit in einer manuel- len Vorrichtung zum Entleeren des Sendungsbehäl- ters, - FIG 3
- eine Sendungssortieranlage mit einer maschinellen Entleerungsvorrichtung mit plattenförmigen Stem- peln,
- FIG 4
- einen Sendungsbehälter mit runden Durchführungen durch seinen Behälterboden,
- FIG 5
- den Sendungsbehälter aus
FIG 4 mit einem eingeleg- ten beweglichen Boden, - FIG 6
- eine Vorrichtung zum Entleeren des Sendungsbehäl- ters aus
FIG 5 mit einem Sendungsbehälter, - FIG 7
- die Vorrichtung aus
FIG 6 mit abgesenktem Sendungs- behälter, - FIG 8
- einen Ausschnitt aus einer Sendungsvereinzelungsan- lage mit einer Entleerungsvorrichtung und einem Sendungsbehälter,
- FIG 9
- der Sendungsbehälter aus
FIG 8 mit am angehobenen Boden befestigten und abgeklappten Seitenwänden und mit von zwei Haltemitteln gehaltenen Sendungen und - FIG 10
- eine schematische Schnittdarstellung durch den Sen- dungsbehälter aus
FIG 9 mit befestigtem beweglichen Boden.
- FIG. 1
- a mail container with slit-shaped passages through its container bottom,
- FIG. 2
- the consignment container
FIG. 1 with in a manual device for emptying the consignment container, - FIG. 3
- a consignment sorting system with a machine emptying device with plate-shaped punches,
- FIG. 4
- a consignment container with round passages through its container bottom,
- FIG. 5
- the consignment container
FIG. 4 with an inserted movable floor, - FIG. 6
- a device for emptying the consignment container from
FIG. 5 with a shipment container, - FIG. 7
- the device off
FIG. 6 with lowered consignment container, - FIG. 8
- a detail of a mail item singler with an emptying device and a mailing container,
- FIG. 9
- the consignment container
FIG. 8 with attached to the raised bottom and folded side walls and held by two holding means and shipments - FIG. 10
- a schematic sectional view through the sender container
FIG. 9 with fixed movable floor.
In
Bei einem Absenken der Aufnahme 30 mit dem darauf aufgestellten Sendungsbehälter 2 greifen die Platten 38 durch die Durchführungen der Aufnahme 30 und die Durchführungen 10 des Sendungsbehälter 2 hindurch und heben die Sendungen 14 relativ zu den Seitenwänden 4, 6 bei einer entsprechenden Abwärtsbewegung des Sendungsbehälters 2 an, bis sie im Wesentlichen vollständig aus dem Sendungsbehälter 2 herausgehoben sind, wie in
Eine automatisierte Vorrichtung 42 zum Entleeren eines Sendungsbehälters 2 ist in
Zum Entladen der Sendungsbehälter 2 werden diese auf dem Förderband 50 bis zu einem Sensor 56 gefahren und dort gestoppt. Dann werden die unter dem vordersten Sendungsbehälter 2 angeordneten Stempel 38 kontrolliert von der Steuereinheit 54 hoch bewegt und durch den Behälterboden 8 geführt, so dass sie die Sendungen 14 anheben und ein Stück weit oder ganz aus dem Sendungsbehälter 2 heraus heben. Die angehobenen Sendungen 14 werden von einem Bediener gegriffen und auf ein Fördermittel 58 gestellt, das die Sendungen 14 zu einem Vereinzelungsmittel 60 transportiert, wo sie vereinzelt werden, um in einem anschließenden Sortierprozess in Fächer 62 einsortiert zu werden. Nach und nach werden nun alle Sendungsbehälter 2 entleert, wobei die Steuereinheit 54 die entleerten Sendungsbehälter 2 mitzählt und so das Hebemittel 52 immer an der richtigen Stelle aktiviert. Generell ist auch die kinematische Umkehr möglich, so dass die Stempel 38 in Vertikalrichtung ruhen und der zu entleerende Sendungsbehälter 2 nach unten bewegt wird, wie zu
Die
In den
Zum Entleeren des Sendungsbehälters 88 wird er vom Bediener auf die Auflage 30 gestellt und nach unten gedrückt. Die Auflage 30 verfährt dabei nach unten, wie in
In einer weiteren Ausführungsform kann die Entleerung des Sendungsbehälters 88 maschinell unterstützt werden. Nachdem der Bediener den Sendungsbehälter 88 auf die wie in
Wird ein Boden 68 ohne Seitenwände 82, 94 verwendet, so ist eine Steuerung der Hebebewegung mit einem Eingabemittel 112 sinnvoll, das die Hände des Bedieners frei lässt, z.B. ein Fußschalter. Der Bediener hat seine Hände frei, um die aus dem Sendungsbehälter 88 herausfahrenden Sendungen 14 zu halten, ohne dass sie aus dem Sendungsbehälter 88 herausfallen. Vorteilhaft ist eine Steuerung der Bewegungsgeschwindigkeit des Trägers 96 über das Eingabemittel 108, 112, beispielsweise indem eine Geschwindigkeit von einem Druck auf das Eingabemittel 108, 112 abhängig ist.If a bottom 68 is used without
Eine noch weiter automatisierte Vorrichtung 86 zum Entleeren der Sendungsbehälter 88 umfasst ein zweites Fördermittel 114 zum Transport von Sendungsbehältern 88, mit dem die Sendungsbehälter 88 von links antransportiert und auf die in ihrer Grundposition angehobene Auflage 30 geschoben werden. Die Auflage 30 ist hierbei bündig mit einer Oberkante des als Förderband ausgeführten Fördermittels 102. Nun wird die Auflage 30 bei angehobenem Träger 96 - automatisch oder manuell getriggert - abgesenkt, so dass die Seitenwände 4, 6 des Sendungsbehälters 88 nach unten gefahren werden. Die Sendungen 14 können dann, wie zu den
Eine Sendung im Sinne der Erfindung kann jegliches Postgut sein.A consignment within the meaning of the invention can be any mail item.
Claims (9)
- Mail item container (2,64,88) for transporting mail items (14), said container having sidewalls (4,6), an open top side and a container underside which has a pass-through (10,66) for a lifting means (36,52,74,100) for lifting up the mail items (14), and having a base (68,76,90) that is movable relative to the sidewalls (4,6) in the direction of the top side,
characterised by two opposing sidewalls (94) that are fixed to the movable base (90) and are movable together with the movable base (90). - Mail item container (2,64,88) according to claim 1,
characterised in that with the base (90) in the raised state the sidewall (94) is movable from a sidewall position into a position exposing the contents of a container. - Mail item container (2,64,88) according to claim 1 or 2,
characterised in that the movable base (90) is secured at least indirectly to the sidewalls (4,6). - Mail item container (2) according to one of claims 1 to 3,
characterised by a container base (8) arranged on the underside of the container and having elongate slots to allow the lifting means (36,52) to pass through. - Mail item container (2) according to claim 4,
characterised in that the container base (8) has a plurality of elongate slots offset with respect to one another in the transverse direction. - Mail item container (2) according to claim 4 or 5,
characterised in that the container base (8) has a plurality of elongate slots offset with respect to one another in the longitudinal direction. - Mail item container (2) according to one of claims 1 to 6,
characterised in that the sidewalls (4,6) have at least one elongate recess (16) for accommodating the lifting means (36,52). - Mail item container (2) according to claim 7,
characterised in that at least one sidewall (4,6) includes an upper wider and lower narrower area (18,20) and the recess (16) runs completely through the narrower area (18) at least as far as the wider area (20). - Mail item container (2,64,88) according to claim 8,
characterised in that the wider area (20) has a blocking means (24) for preventing the mail items (14) from extending completely into the wider area (20).
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