EP2178781B1 - System for depositing documents into boxes - Google Patents

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EP2178781B1
EP2178781B1 EP08842088A EP08842088A EP2178781B1 EP 2178781 B1 EP2178781 B1 EP 2178781B1 EP 08842088 A EP08842088 A EP 08842088A EP 08842088 A EP08842088 A EP 08842088A EP 2178781 B1 EP2178781 B1 EP 2178781B1
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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
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
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    • B65B61/20—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B63/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on articles or materials to be packaged
    • B65B63/005—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on articles or materials to be packaged for marking or coding articles prior to packaging
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/16—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by contact of one face only with moving tapes, bands, or chains
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H33/00—Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles
    • B65H33/16—Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles by depositing articles in batches on moving supports
    • B65H33/18—Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles by depositing articles in batches on moving supports with separators between adjacent batches
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
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    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/421—Forming a pile
    • B65H2301/4213—Forming a pile of a limited number of articles, e.g. buffering, forming bundles

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  • the guidance of the documents to the crates can be achieved by means of a slide, the sheets being drawn down by gravity alone, or the documents are guided and driven forward between gripping endless belts , driven at the same speed and located on both sides of the leaves to be deposited.
  • the document NL 1028696 C2 gives an example of such an embodiment, providing a direct vertical descent of the sheets to the boxes.
  • the storage of the sheets is vertical, and thus the volume occupied by the buffer zone is important.
  • the leaves are not guided to the inside of each box; they are ejected from their storage area, and they then descend by gravity into the box. This requires a fairing to better channel the leaves, but the fairing is not adaptable to the height of each box.
  • the accuracy of depositing documents remains random here, and significant problems of receipt of documents arise in the case of supply of vouchers in crates already filled with products.
  • a bundle of sheets constituting the slip is deposited on an endless belt, or on another flat conveyor of the sheets, the storage of sheets being horizontal.
  • the carpet advances one step, of length equivalent to the width of a printed sheet increased by a few centimeters.
  • the storage of the sheets being here horizontal the length of the buffer zone is important; a shortening of this buffer zone is not appropriate, because it would then approach the first solution, that is to say direct deposit slips.
  • the rate of these horizontal storage systems can be high, for example of the order of 1800 to 2000 cases per hour, but they retain the disadvantage of a large footprint in length.
  • the present invention aims to remedy all of the previously mentioned disadvantages, and is therefore intended to provide a system for depositing documents in crates, particularly suitable for order picking lines, which allows an increase in the rate of deposit slips, while having a minimum footprint, and which provides a reliable and accurate deposit slips in crates, even full, adapting if necessary to the height of these boxes.
  • this depositing system is able to recover the sheets at the output of the printer, to group all the printed sheets to the same box, and to deposit sheets in the crate when it presents itself, the leaves being laid flat.
  • the system is designed to store the slips of at least four crates, so that the recovery time of the printing can be masked by the removal of four groups of sheets, so that the breaks in printing do not occur. effect on the overall rate of the system.
  • a number of receiving locations strictly equal to four here constitutes a preferred solution for maintaining a compact system.
  • the means of advance and storage comprise, in one embodiment of the invention, parallel endless belts each provided with at least one cleat and able to advance the sheets from one receiving location to the next, and actuators actuated by jacks, provided at different receiving locations to retain or release the sheets.
  • the documents constituted by a sheet or by several sheets grouped, can thus advance in a controlled way since their starting location, at the exit of the printer, to a last location where they are waiting to be removed, the passage of documents to a following location being conditioned by the fact that this next location is empty or has been evacuated leaves that he received previously.
  • the stops actuated by jacks, provided at each intermediate location prevent any mixing sheets constituting consecutive slips, preventing sheets located in one location slide by gravity effect to the next location.
  • the penultimate receiving location comprises a stop actuated by a jack and thus made movable alternatively at high speed, this stop being in particular displaced in the opposite direction to the advance of the sheets to reconstitute stacks of sheets matched.
  • Staple means can be provided at the last location of waiting for removal, to bring together the sheets called to constitute the same document, just before their transfer to the boxes.
  • stapling means are provided at the first receiving location, to gather as soon as they exit the printer sheets intended to constitute the same document.
  • the document transfer means in the boxes are advantageously constituted by a thrust jack, able to move each document flat and guided, until it reaches the top of the corresponding box .
  • the documents are thus guided to the boxes, without the need to cover the crates by a fairing.
  • the document Once in the box, the document has its printed side up, so easily read without handling the document in the box.
  • the figure 1 is a top view and very schematically, a line of order preparation in which cardboard boxes 2 rest and advance on a conveyor 3, according to the arrow F, constituting a continuous flow of boxes.
  • a barcode reader 4 provided for the identification of each box 2 which here is still empty.
  • the bar code reader 4 allows the sending of the good computer file corresponding to this box 2, for printing a document designated as "order picking slip", which must be brought into the corresponding box as explained below.
  • Downstream of the barcode reader 4 there is provided on one side of the conveyor 3 a printer 5, to which is associated the actual document delivery system, generally designated by the reference 6 and represented more particularly on the figures 2 and 3 .
  • the installation schematized on the figure 1 further comprises an input stop 8, which can be raised above the plane of the conveyor 3 in front of the barcode reader 4, another stop 9 being able to be raised above the plane of the conveyor 3 in front of the depositing system 6 , and optionally an output stop 10, located downstream of the set 7 of bar code readers for consistency checking.
  • These stops 8, 9 and 10 can be accommodated, each between two drive rollers of the conveyor 3; they rise above the plane of the conveyor 3 to stop a box 2, and retract under this plane to leave a free passage to the boxes.
  • the stop 9 allows in particular to achieve a free and repeatable stop of each box 2 under the depositing system 6, to allow a correct removal of the document or corresponding slip (as detailed below).
  • the stop of output 10, optional, allows to control a possible change of direction of the boxes 2, for example for the passage of a box from one conveyor to another (in a configuration comprising two or more conveyors).
  • an electrical cabinet containing a controller, and a control panel, and a computer that can be of the "PC" type and control software.
  • each slip 11 shown schematically as a single sheet, is actually a document consisting of one or more sheets printed and grouped.
  • the depositing system 6 comprises, for the advance and intermediate storage of the slips 11, a set of endless belts 13 parallel, for example three belts 13, which are each provided with a latch 14.
  • the belts 13 pass onuxuxambikes 15 and 16, respectively drive and return, rotatably mounted about respective horizontal axes 17 and 18.
  • stops 23 actuated by pneumatic cylinders 24, which allow to retain or release the sheets.
  • the conveyor 3 advances step by step, advancing in the same manner all the boxes 2, and simultaneously the printer 5 edits the corresponding slips 11, delivering them through its output 12 to the starting location 19 6.
  • the slips 11 also advance step by step, from one receiving location to the next, thus passing through the two intermediate locations 20 and 21 to reach the location of the 22.
  • the stops 23 actuated by the cylinders 24 control the advance of the documents: before the tabs 14 of the belts 13 push a packet of sheets to the next location, the stop 23 is disengaged from the path of the sheets by the jack 24 to which it is coupled, then this stop 23 is returned to its active position after the passage of the latches 14, to stop the sheets of the next packet.
  • each slip 11 received at Last location 12 is transferred flat, by means of the positioning cylinder 27 and the ejection fingers 28, to the corresponding box 2.
  • a stapling module for collecting the sheets called to form the same slip.
  • the stapling module 29 can be associated with the last location of reception, said location waiting to drop 22. In this case, all sheets of the same slip are combined by stapling after being delivered in perfect correspondence to the means of the stop 25 actuated by the jack 26, and just before their transfer to the boxes 2.
  • the stapling module is associated with the first receiving location 19.
  • the sheets called to form the same slip are joined as soon as they exit the printer 5, and they run through all the slots 19 to 22 in the reunited state.
  • the system for depositing documents, object of the invention is implantable at the beginning or end of the picking line, in a new or pre-existing installation.
  • the system In the case where the system is located at the beginning of the order picking line, it makes it possible to deposit order preparation slips in empty boxes, that is to say slips each containing the list of orders. different products to be taken and placed in the corresponding boxes along the conveyor on which these boxes advance. If the system is located at the end of the picking line, just before the closing station of the boxes, the system allows to place delivery notes in boxes filled with previously collected products, for example export shipments .

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Abstract

The invention relates to a system adapted for printing and for consecutively placing in boxes moving on a conveyor, documents of the slip type (11) in correspondence with the boxes and with the products to be received therein. The system (6) comprises, at the outlet (12) of a printer (5) supplying documents (11) in the form of one or more printed sheets for each box, advance and storage means (13, 14) with a succession of locations (19,20,21,22) for receiving the sheets, between which the documents (11) advance step by step. Means (27, 28) for transferring the documents (11) to the boxes are provided at the last location (22). The advance and storage means (13, 14) define a flat U-shaped path. The system is intended for order preparation lines.

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La présente invention concerne un système de dépose de documents dans des caisses. Plus particulièrement, dans le contexte d'une ligne de préparation de commandes, avec un convoyeur le long duquel avancent des caisses en carton devant être remplies chacune avec des produits correspondant à une commande, l'invention s'intéresse à un système qui est conçu pour éditer, et pour amener successivement dans les caisses, des documents du genre "bordereaux de préparation de commandes" ou bien "bordereaux de livraison", établis en correspondance avec ces caisses et avec les produits devant être reçus par celles-ci.The present invention relates to a system for depositing documents in crates. More particularly, in the context of a picking line, with a conveyor along which cardboard boxes are to be filled each with products corresponding to a command, the invention is concerned with a system which is designed to edit, and to bring successively in the boxes, documents of the type "order picking slips" or "delivery slips", established in correspondence with these boxes and with the products to be received by them.

Dans ce genre d'applications, il convient donc de coordonner l'impression et la délivrance des bordereaux avec l'avance des caisses sur le convoyeur, et de guider ces bordereaux pour les amener à l'intérieur des caisses.In such applications, it is therefore necessary to coordinate the printing and delivery of the slips with the advance of the boxes on the conveyor, and guide these slips to bring them inside the boxes.

Une première solution connue consiste à déposer directement les bordereaux dans les caisses, ces bordereaux étant édités au fur et à mesure de l'arrivée des caisses à un poste pourvu d'un système de dépose, associé à une imprimante ou à un photocopieur. En particulier si chaque bordereau est une liasse comportant un nombre important de feuilles, la cadence de dépose est ici conditionnée par la vitesse d'impression et de sortie des feuilles de l'imprimante ou du photocopieur. La cadence maximale d'un tel système est de six caisses par minute. Pour obtenir une cadence plus élevée, il faut positionner deux systèmes l'un à côté de l'autre, au-dessus du convoyeur.A first known solution is to deposit the vouchers directly into the boxes, these vouchers being edited as and when the arrival of the boxes at a station provided with a deposit system, associated with a printer or a photocopier. Especially if each slip is a bundle with a large number of sheets, the rate of removal is here conditioned by the speed of printing and output sheets of the printer or photocopier. The maximum rate of such a system is six cases per minute. To obtain a higher rate, two systems must be positioned next to each other, above the conveyor.

Avec cette première solution, le guidage des documents vers les caisses peut être réalisé au moyen d'un toboggan, les feuilles étant attirées vers le bas par la seule gravité, ou bien les documents sont guidés et entraînés en avant entre des bandes sans fin agrippantes, entraînées à la même vitesse et situées de part et d'autre des feuilles à déposer.With this first solution, the guidance of the documents to the crates can be achieved by means of a slide, the sheets being drawn down by gravity alone, or the documents are guided and driven forward between gripping endless belts , driven at the same speed and located on both sides of the leaves to be deposited.

Le document NL 1028696 C2 donne un exemple d'une telle réalisation, prévoyant une descente verticale directe des feuilles vers les caisses.The document NL 1028696 C2 gives an example of such an embodiment, providing a direct vertical descent of the sheets to the boxes.

Une autre solution, autorisant des cadences de dépose plus élevées, consiste à imprimer les documents en "anticipant" l'arrivée des caisses, et à effectuer un stockage intermédiaire des documents imprimés dans une zone "tampon" pour les déposer au moment voulu dans chaque caisse parvenant en un point précis.Another solution, allowing higher removal rates, is to print documents "anticipating" the arrival of the boxes, and to intermediate storage of printed documents. in a "buffer" zone to deposit them at the right moment in each box arriving at a precise point.

Dans un type particulier de réalisations de ce genre, le stockage des feuilles est vertical, et ainsi le volume occupé par la zone tampon est important. De plus, les feuilles ne sont pas guidées jusqu'à l'intérieur de chaque caisse ; elles sont éjectées de leur zone de stockage, et elles descendent ensuite par effet de gravité jusque dans la caisse. Ceci nécessite un carénage pour canaliser au mieux les feuilles, mais le carénage n'est pas adaptable à la hauteur de chaque caisse. Ainsi, la précision de dépose des documents reste ici aléatoire, et des problèmes importants de réception des documents se posent en cas d'amenée de bordereaux dans des caisses déjà remplies de produits.In a particular type of embodiment of this kind, the storage of the sheets is vertical, and thus the volume occupied by the buffer zone is important. In addition, the leaves are not guided to the inside of each box; they are ejected from their storage area, and they then descend by gravity into the box. This requires a fairing to better channel the leaves, but the fairing is not adaptable to the height of each box. Thus, the accuracy of depositing documents remains random here, and significant problems of receipt of documents arise in the case of supply of vouchers in crates already filled with products.

Dans une autre catégorie connue de réalisations, une liasse de feuilles constituant le bordereau est déposée sur un tapis sans fin, ou sur un autre dispositif de transport à plat des feuilles, le stockage des feuilles étant horizontal. A chaque fin d'impression d'une liasse de feuilles, le tapis avance d'un pas, de longueur équivalente à la largeur d'une feuille imprimée augmentée de quelques centimètres. Le stockage des feuilles étant ici horizontal, la longueur de la zone tampon est importante ; un raccourcissement de cette zone tampon n'est pas approprié, car on se rapprocherait alors de la première solution, c'est-à-dire de dépose directe des bordereaux. Dans l'ensemble, la cadence de ces systèmes à stockage horizontal peut être élevée, par exemple de l'ordre de 1800 à 2000 caisses par heure, mais ceux-ci conservent l'inconvénient d'un encombrement important en longueur.In another known category of embodiments, a bundle of sheets constituting the slip is deposited on an endless belt, or on another flat conveyor of the sheets, the storage of sheets being horizontal. At the end of printing a bundle of sheets, the carpet advances one step, of length equivalent to the width of a printed sheet increased by a few centimeters. The storage of the sheets being here horizontal, the length of the buffer zone is important; a shortening of this buffer zone is not appropriate, because it would then approach the first solution, that is to say direct deposit slips. Overall, the rate of these horizontal storage systems can be high, for example of the order of 1800 to 2000 cases per hour, but they retain the disadvantage of a large footprint in length.

La présente invention vise à remédier à l'ensemble des inconvénients précédemment exposés, et elle a donc pour but de fournir un système de dépose de documents dans des caisses, convenant en particulier pour les lignes de préparation de commandes, qui permet une augmentation de la cadence de dépose des bordereaux, tout en possédant un encombrement minimal, et qui réalise une dépose fiable et précise des bordereaux dans des caisses, même pleines, en s'adaptant si nécessaire à la hauteur de ces caisses.The present invention aims to remedy all of the previously mentioned disadvantages, and is therefore intended to provide a system for depositing documents in crates, particularly suitable for order picking lines, which allows an increase in the rate of deposit slips, while having a minimum footprint, and which provides a reliable and accurate deposit slips in crates, even full, adapting if necessary to the height of these boxes.

A cet effet, l'invention a pour objet un système de dépose de documents dans des caisses, plus particulièrement un système qui, destiné à une ligne de préparation de commandes avec un convoyeur le long duquel avancent des caisses notamment en carton devant être remplies chacune avec des produits correspondant à une commande, est conçu pour imprimer, et pour amener successivement dans les caisses, des documents du genre bordereaux en correspondance avec ces caisses et avec les produits devant être reçus par celles-ci, le système étant du genre comportant une zone de stockage des documents imprimés, avant leur amenée dans les caisses, ce système de dépose de documents étant essentiellement caractérisé par le fait qu'il comprend, à la sortie d'une imprimante délivrant les documents sous la forme d'une ou plusieurs feuilles imprimées pour chaque caisse, des moyens d'avance et de stockage sous la forme d'une succession d'emplacements de réception des feuilles, entre lesquels les documents avancent pas à pas, depuis un emplacement de départ recevant les feuilles à la sortie de l'imprimante, et jusqu'à un dernier emplacement d'attente de dépose, en passant par un ou plusieurs emplacements intermédiaires, des moyens de transfert des documents vers les caisses étant associés au dernier emplacement, les moyens d'avance et de stockage définissant un trajet en "U" couché pour les documents à déposer, avec une branche supérieure sur laquelle se situe l'emplacement de départ, et avec une branche inférieure sur laquelle se situe l'emplacement d'attente de dépose.For this purpose, the subject of the invention is a system for depositing documents in boxes, more particularly a system which, intended for a line for the preparation of orders with a conveyor along which cash boxes, in particular cardboard boxes, each with products corresponding to an order, is designed to print, and to bring successively into the crates, documents of the kind slips in correspondence with these boxes and with the products to be received by them, the system being of the kind comprising a zone for storing printed documents before they are brought into the boxes, this document-removal system being essentially characterized by the fact that it comprises, at the output of a printer delivering the documents in the form of one or more printed sheets for each box, means for advance and storage in the form of a succession of sheet receiving locations, between which the documents step by step, from a starting location receiving the sheets at the exit of the printer, and to a last location waiting for removal, through one or more intermediate locations, means for transferring documents to the the boxes being associated with the last location, the means of advance and storage defining a path "U" lying for the documents to be deposited, with an upper branch on which is the starting location, and with a lower branch on which is the drop-off location.

Ainsi, ce système de dépose, d'une configuration particulièrement compacte, est capable de récupérer les feuilles à la sortie de l'imprimante, de regrouper l'ensemble des feuilles imprimées à destination d'une même caisse, et de déposer des feuilles dans la caisse lorsque celle-ci se présente, les feuilles étant déposées à plat. De préférence, le système est conçu pour stocker les bordereaux de quatre caisses au minimum, le temps de reprise de l'impression pouvant ainsi être masqué par la dépose de quatre groupes de feuilles, de sorte que les ruptures d'impression n'ont pas d'effet sur la cadence globale du système. Un nombre d'emplacements de réception strictement égal à quatre constitue ici une solution préférée, pour conserver un système compact.Thus, this depositing system, a particularly compact configuration, is able to recover the sheets at the output of the printer, to group all the printed sheets to the same box, and to deposit sheets in the crate when it presents itself, the leaves being laid flat. Preferably, the system is designed to store the slips of at least four crates, so that the recovery time of the printing can be masked by the removal of four groups of sheets, so that the breaks in printing do not occur. effect on the overall rate of the system. A number of receiving locations strictly equal to four here constitutes a preferred solution for maintaining a compact system.

Les moyens d'avance et de stockage comprennent, dans un mode de réalisation de l'invention, des courroies sans fin parallèles pourvues chacune d'au moins un taquet et aptes à faire avancer les feuilles d'un emplacement de réception au suivant, et des butées actionnées par des vérins, prévues aux différents emplacements de réception pour retenir ou libérer les feuilles. Les documents, constitués par une feuille ou par plusieurs feuilles regroupées, peuvent ainsi avancer de façon contrôlée depuis leur emplacement de départ, à la sortie de l'imprimante, jusqu'à un dernier emplacement où elles se trouvent en attente de dépose, le passage des documents vers un emplacement suivant étant conditionné par le fait que cet emplacement suivant est vide ou a été évacué des feuilles qu'il recevait précédemment. Les butées actionnées par des vérins, prévues à chaque emplacement intermédiaire, évitent tout mélange des feuilles constitutives de bordereaux consécutifs, en empêchant que les feuilles situées à un emplacement glissent par effet de gravité vers l'emplacement suivant.The means of advance and storage comprise, in one embodiment of the invention, parallel endless belts each provided with at least one cleat and able to advance the sheets from one receiving location to the next, and actuators actuated by jacks, provided at different receiving locations to retain or release the sheets. The documents, constituted by a sheet or by several sheets grouped, can thus advance in a controlled way since their starting location, at the exit of the printer, to a last location where they are waiting to be removed, the passage of documents to a following location being conditioned by the fact that this next location is empty or has been evacuated leaves that he received previously. The stops actuated by jacks, provided at each intermediate location, prevent any mixing sheets constituting consecutive slips, preventing sheets located in one location slide by gravity effect to the next location.

Selon une caractéristique avantageuse du système de l'invention, l'avant-dernier emplacement de réception, c'est-à-dire celui qui précède l'emplacement d'attente de dépose, comporte une butée actionnée par un vérin et ainsi rendue déplaçable alternativement à vitesse élevée, cette butée étant en particulier déplacée dans le sens opposé à l'avance des feuilles pour reconstituer des piles de feuilles mises en correspondance.According to an advantageous characteristic of the system of the invention, the penultimate receiving location, that is to say the one that precedes the location of waiting for removal, comprises a stop actuated by a jack and thus made movable alternatively at high speed, this stop being in particular displaced in the opposite direction to the advance of the sheets to reconstitute stacks of sheets matched.

Des moyens d'agrafage peuvent être prévus au dernier emplacement d'attente de dépose, pour réunir les feuilles appelées à constituer un même document, juste avant leur transfert vers les caisses.Staple means can be provided at the last location of waiting for removal, to bring together the sheets called to constitute the same document, just before their transfer to the boxes.

Dans une variante du système de l'invention, des moyens d'agrafage sont prévus au premier emplacement de réception, pour réunir dès leur sortie de l'imprimante les feuilles destinées à constituer un même document.In a variant of the system of the invention, stapling means are provided at the first receiving location, to gather as soon as they exit the printer sheets intended to constitute the same document.

Au dernier emplacement de réception, les moyens de transfert des documents dans les caisses sont avantageusement constitués par un vérin de poussée, apte à déplacer chaque document à plat et de façon guidée, jusqu'à ce qu'il atteigne le sommet de la caisse correspondante. Les documents sont ainsi guidés jusqu'aux caisses, sans nécessité de coiffer les caisses par un carénage. Une fois parvenu dans la caisse, le document présente sa face imprimée tournée vers le haut, donc aisément lisible sans manipulation du document dans la caisse.At the last receiving location, the document transfer means in the boxes are advantageously constituted by a thrust jack, able to move each document flat and guided, until it reaches the top of the corresponding box . The documents are thus guided to the boxes, without the need to cover the crates by a fairing. Once in the box, the document has its printed side up, so easily read without handling the document in the box.

En variante, la fonction finale de transfert des documents dans les caisses peut éventuellement être réalisée par soufflage.As a variant, the final function of transferring documents into the boxes may possibly be made by blowing.

L'invention sera mieux comprise à l'aide de la description qui suit, en référence au dessin schématique annexé représentant, à titre d'exemple, une forme d'exécution de ce système de dépose de documents.

  • Figure 1 est une vue d'ensemble, en plan par dessus, d'une ligne de préparation de commandes pourvue d'un système de dépose de documents conforme à la présente invention ;
  • Figure 2 est une vue de côté du système de dépose de documents seul ;
  • Figure 3 est une vue de dessus de ce système de dépose de documents.
The invention will be better understood with the aid of the description which follows, with reference to the appended diagrammatic drawing representing, by way of example, an embodiment of this system for depositing documents.
  • Figure 1 is an overhead plan view of a picking line provided with a document delivery system in accordance with the present invention;
  • Figure 2 is a side view of the document removal system alone;
  • Figure 3 is a top view of this document removal system.

La figure 1 représente, vue en plan par dessus et de façon très schématique, une ligne de préparation de commandes dans laquelle des caisses en carton 2 reposent et avancent sur un convoyeur 3, selon la flèche F, en constituant un flux de caisses continu. A l'entrée de la ligne est placé un lecteur de code à barres 4, prévu pour l'identification de chaque caisse 2 qui ici est encore vide. Le lecteur de code à barres 4 permet l'envoi du bon fichier informatique correspondant à cette caisse 2, en vue de l'impression d'un document désigné comme "bordereau de préparation de commandes", qui devra être amené dans la caisse correspondante comme expliqué ci-après. En aval du lecteur de code à barres 4, il est prévu sur un côté du convoyeur 3 une imprimante 5, à laquelle est associé le système de dépose de documents proprement dit, désigné globalement par la référence 6 et représenté plus particulièrement sur les figures 2 et 3.The figure 1 is a top view and very schematically, a line of order preparation in which cardboard boxes 2 rest and advance on a conveyor 3, according to the arrow F, constituting a continuous flow of boxes. At the entrance of the line is placed a barcode reader 4, provided for the identification of each box 2 which here is still empty. The bar code reader 4 allows the sending of the good computer file corresponding to this box 2, for printing a document designated as "order picking slip", which must be brought into the corresponding box as explained below. Downstream of the barcode reader 4, there is provided on one side of the conveyor 3 a printer 5, to which is associated the actual document delivery system, generally designated by the reference 6 and represented more particularly on the figures 2 and 3 .

Au-delà de l'imprimante 5 et du système de dépose de documents 6, est encore installé un ensemble 7 de deux lecteurs de code à barres, prévu pour vérifier la cohérence entre chaque caisse 2 et le bordereau déposé qui, en principe, doit correspondre à cette caisse 2.Beyond the printer 5 and the document removal system 6, is still installed a set 7 of two barcode readers, intended to check the consistency between each box 2 and the deposited slip which, in principle, must match this box 2.

L'installation schématisée sur la figure 1 comprend encore une butée d'entrée 8, pouvant être levée au-dessus du plan du convoyeur 3 devant le lecteur de code à barres 4, une autre butée 9 pouvant être levée au-dessus du plan du convoyeur 3 devant le système de dépose 6, et optionnellement une butée de sortie 10, située en aval de l'ensemble 7 de lecteurs de code à barres pour vérification de cohérence. Ces butées 8, 9 et 10 peuvent être logées, chacune, entre deux rouleaux d'entraînement du convoyeur 3 ; elles se lèvent au-dessus du plan de ce convoyeur 3 pour effectuer l'arrêt d'une caisse 2, et s'escamotent sous ce plan afin de laisser un passage libre aux caisses. La butée 9 permet en particulier de réaliser un arrêt franc et répétable de chaque caisse 2 sous le système de dépose 6, pour permettre une dépose correcte du document ou bordereau correspondant (comme détaillé ci-après). La butée de sortie 10, optionnelle, permet de contrôler un éventuel changement de direction des caisses 2, par exemple pour le passage d'une caisse d'un convoyeur vers un autre (dans une configuration comportant deux ou plusieurs convoyeurs).The installation schematized on the figure 1 further comprises an input stop 8, which can be raised above the plane of the conveyor 3 in front of the barcode reader 4, another stop 9 being able to be raised above the plane of the conveyor 3 in front of the depositing system 6 , and optionally an output stop 10, located downstream of the set 7 of bar code readers for consistency checking. These stops 8, 9 and 10 can be accommodated, each between two drive rollers of the conveyor 3; they rise above the plane of the conveyor 3 to stop a box 2, and retract under this plane to leave a free passage to the boxes. The stop 9 allows in particular to achieve a free and repeatable stop of each box 2 under the depositing system 6, to allow a correct removal of the document or corresponding slip (as detailed below). The stop of output 10, optional, allows to control a possible change of direction of the boxes 2, for example for the passage of a box from one conveyor to another (in a configuration comprising two or more conveyors).

D'une manière non représentée, sont encore associés au système de dépose 6 une armoire électrique contenant un automate, et un panneau de commande, ainsi qu'un ordinateur pouvant être du type "PC" et un logiciel de pilotage.In a manner not shown, are still associated with the dispensing system 6 an electrical cabinet containing a controller, and a control panel, and a computer that can be of the "PC" type and control software.

En se référant aux figures 2 et 3, on décrit maintenant le système de dépose 6 proprement dit, qui réceptionne des bordereaux 11 à la sortie 12 de l'imprimante 5, et qui amène chaque bordereau 11 jusque dans la caisse 2 correspondante (ici non représentée). Chaque bordereau 11, représenté schématiquement comme une simple feuille, est en réalité un document constitué d'une ou plusieurs feuilles imprimées et regroupées.Referring to figures 2 and 3 the depot system 6 itself, which receives slips 11 at the output 12 of the printer 5, and which brings each slip 11 into the corresponding box 2 (here not shown), is now described. Each slip 11, shown schematically as a single sheet, is actually a document consisting of one or more sheets printed and grouped.

Le système de dépose 6 comporte, pour l'avance et le stockage intermédiaire des bordereaux 11, un ensemble de courroies sans fin 13 parallèles, par exemple trois courroies 13, qui sont pourvues chacune d'un taquet 14. Les courroies 13 passent sur desuxtambours 15 et 16, respectivement d'entraînement et de renvoi, montés tournants autour d'axes horizontaux respectifs 17 et 18.The depositing system 6 comprises, for the advance and intermediate storage of the slips 11, a set of endless belts 13 parallel, for example three belts 13, which are each provided with a latch 14. The belts 13 pass onuxuxambikes 15 and 16, respectively drive and return, rotatably mounted about respective horizontal axes 17 and 18.

Les courroies 13 définissent ainsi, en partant de la sortie 12 de l'imprimante, un trajet en "U" couché pour les bordereaux 11, avec une branche horizontale supérieure, un renvoi à 180° vers le bas et une branche horizontale inférieure, ce trajet se situant dans un plan transversal au convoyeur. Le long du trajet en "U" couché, on distingue une succession d'emplacements, plus particulièrement (dans l'exemple illustré) quatre emplacements qui sont respectivement :

  • un emplacement de départ 19 situé sur la branche horizontale supérieure, à la sortie 12 de l'imprimante,
  • un premier emplacement intermédiaire 20, situé sur la branche horizontale supérieure ;
  • un second emplacement intermédiaire 21, situé dans la zone de renvoi et sur la branche horizontale inférieure ;
  • un dernier emplacement de réception, dit emplacement d'attente de dépose 22, situé sur la branche horizontale inférieure.
The belts 13 thus define, starting from the output 12 of the printer, a "U" shaped path for the slips 11, with an upper horizontal branch, a return at 180 ° downwards and a lower horizontal branch. path lying in a plane transverse to the conveyor. Along the recumbent "U" path, there are a succession of locations, more particularly (in the illustrated example) four locations which are respectively:
  • a starting location 19 located on the upper horizontal branch, at the output 12 of the printer,
  • a first intermediate location 20, located on the upper horizontal branch;
  • a second intermediate location 21, located in the return area and on the lower horizontal leg;
  • a last receiving location, said drop waiting location 22, located on the lower horizontal branch.

Aux différents emplacements ainsi définis, sont prévues des butées 23 actionnées par des vérins pneumatiques 24, qui permettent de retenir ou de libérer les feuilles.At the various locations thus defined, there are stops 23 actuated by pneumatic cylinders 24, which allow to retain or release the sheets.

Cependant, entre les deux derniers emplacements de réception 21 et 22, il est prévu une butée 25 spécifique, actionnée en direction horizontale par un vérin pneumatique 26.However, between the last two receiving locations 21 and 22, there is a specific abutment 25 actuated horizontally by a pneumatic cylinder 26.

Enfin, au niveau du dernier emplacement de réception 22, il est prévu d'une part un décrochement dans le parcours des bordereaux 11 afin de laisser le passage aux taquets 14 (poursuivant leur avance avec les courroies 13), et d'autre part un vérin de dépose 27 actionnant des doigts 28 d'éjection des documents.Finally, at the last receiving location 22, there is provided on the one hand a step in the course of the slips 11 to allow the passage to the tabs 14 (continuing their advance with the belts 13), and on the other hand a actuating cylinder 27 actuating fingers 28 ejection documents.

En cours de fonctionnement, le convoyeur 3 avance pas à pas, faisant avancer de la même manière toutes les caisses 2, et simultanément l'imprimante 5 édite les bordereaux 11 correspondants, en les délivrant par sa sortie 12 à l'emplacement de départ 19 du système de dépose de documents 6. Dans ce système, les bordereaux 11 avancent eux aussi pas à pas, d'un emplacement de réception au suivant, en passant donc par les deux emplacements intermédiaires 20 et 21 pour parvenir à l'emplacement d'attente de dépose 22. Les butées 23 actionnées par les vérins 24 contrôlent l'avance des documents : avant que les taquets 14 des courroies 13 poussent un paquet de feuilles vers l'emplacement suivant, la butée 23 est dégagée de la trajectoire des feuilles par le vérin 24 auquel elle est accouplée, puis cette butée 23 est remise dans sa position active après le passage des taquets 14, pour pouvoir arrêter les feuilles du paquet suivant. La dernière butée 25, actionnée alternativement à vitesse élevée par son vérin 26, permet par son mouvement opposé au sens d'avance des feuilles de replacer en parfaite correspondance toutes les feuilles constitutives d'un même bordereau 11. Finalement, chaque bordereau 11 parvenu au dernier emplacement 12 est transféré à plat, au moyen du vérin de dépose 27 et des doigts d'éjection 28, vers la caisse 2 correspondante.During operation, the conveyor 3 advances step by step, advancing in the same manner all the boxes 2, and simultaneously the printer 5 edits the corresponding slips 11, delivering them through its output 12 to the starting location 19 6. In this system, the slips 11 also advance step by step, from one receiving location to the next, thus passing through the two intermediate locations 20 and 21 to reach the location of the 22. The stops 23 actuated by the cylinders 24 control the advance of the documents: before the tabs 14 of the belts 13 push a packet of sheets to the next location, the stop 23 is disengaged from the path of the sheets by the jack 24 to which it is coupled, then this stop 23 is returned to its active position after the passage of the latches 14, to stop the sheets of the next packet. The last stop 25, actuated alternately at high speed by its jack 26, allows by its movement opposite the direction of advance of leaves to replace in perfect correspondence all the sheets constituting the same slip 11. Finally, each slip 11 received at Last location 12 is transferred flat, by means of the positioning cylinder 27 and the ejection fingers 28, to the corresponding box 2.

A titre d'exemple, la cadence de fonctionnement (exprimée en nombre de caisses traitées par minute) du système de dépose de documents précédemment décrit peut être la suivante, en fonction du nombre de feuilles constitutives d'un bordereau : - pour une feuille : 25 caisses/minute - pour 2 feuilles : 20 caisses/minute - pour 4 feuilles : 11 caisses/minute - pour 6 feuilles : 7 caisses/minute - pour 8 feuilles : 5 caisses/minute - pour 10 feuilles : 4 caisses/minute For example, the operating rate (expressed in the number of crates processed per minute) of the document removal system described above can be as follows, depending on the number of sheets constituting a slip: - for a sheet: 25 cases / minute - for 2 leaves: 20 cases / minute - for 4 leaves: 11 cases / minute - for 6 leaves: 7 cases / minute - for 8 leaves: 5 cases / minute - for 10 leaves: 4 cases / minute

Ainsi, pour des bordereaux constitués chacun d'une seule feuille, la cadence horaire obtenue sera : 25 X 60 = 1 500 caisses / heure

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Thus, for slips each consisting of a single sheet, the hourly rate obtained will be: 25 X 60 = 1 500 crates / hour
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Cette performance est obtenue dans un volume minimal, en particulier du fait que les documents sont guidés suivant un trajet en "U" couché (comme illustré au dessin).This performance is achieved in a minimum volume, especially since the documents are guided along a "U" recumbent path (as shown in the drawing).

Dans le cas de bordereaux constitués de deux ou plusieurs feuilles, il peut être encore prévu un module d'agrafage destiné à réunir les feuilles appelées à constituer le même bordereau. Comme le montre très schématiquement la figure 1, le module d'agrafage 29 peut être notamment associé au dernier emplacement de réception, dit emplacement d'attente de dépose 22. Dans ce cas, toutes les feuilles d'un même bordereau sont réunies par agrafage après avoir été remises en parfaite correspondance au moyen de la butée 25 actionnée par le vérin 26, et juste avant leur transfert vers les caisses 2.In the case of slips consisting of two or more sheets, it may be further provided a stapling module for collecting the sheets called to form the same slip. As shown very schematically in the figure 1 , the stapling module 29 can be associated with the last location of reception, said location waiting to drop 22. In this case, all sheets of the same slip are combined by stapling after being delivered in perfect correspondence to the means of the stop 25 actuated by the jack 26, and just before their transfer to the boxes 2.

Dans une variante non illustrée, le module d'agrafage est associé au premier emplacement de réception 19. Ainsi, les feuilles appelées à constituer un même bordereau sont réunies dès leur sortie de l'imprimante 5, et elles parcourent l'ensemble des emplacements 19 à 22 à l'état réuni.In a variant not shown, the stapling module is associated with the first receiving location 19. Thus, the sheets called to form the same slip are joined as soon as they exit the printer 5, and they run through all the slots 19 to 22 in the reunited state.

Le système de dépose de documents, objet de l'invention, est implantable en début ou en fin de ligne de préparation de commandes, dans une installation neuve ou préexistante. Dans le cas où le système est localisé au début de la ligne de préparation de commandes, celui-ci permet de déposer des bordereaux de préparation de commandes dans des caisses encore vides, c'est-à-dire des bordereaux contenant chacun la liste des différents produits à prélever et à placer dans les caisses correspondantes tout au long du convoyeur sur lequel avancent ces caisses. Si le système est localisé en fin de ligne de préparation de commandes, juste avant le poste de fermeture des caisses, le système permet de placer des bordereaux de livraison dans des caisses remplies de produits précédemment prélevés, pour les envois à l'exportation par exemple.The system for depositing documents, object of the invention, is implantable at the beginning or end of the picking line, in a new or pre-existing installation. In the case where the system is located at the beginning of the order picking line, it makes it possible to deposit order preparation slips in empty boxes, that is to say slips each containing the list of orders. different products to be taken and placed in the corresponding boxes along the conveyor on which these boxes advance. If the system is located at the end of the picking line, just before the closing station of the boxes, the system allows to place delivery notes in boxes filled with previously collected products, for example export shipments .

L'on ne s'éloignerait pas du cadre de l'invention, telle que définie dans les revendications annexées :

  • en modifiant des détails constructifs, et en recourant à tous équivalents, par exemple en remplaçant les vérins pneumatiques par des actionneurs électriques ou électromagnétiques (à solénoïde) ;
  • en incorporant dans le système une imprimante d'un type quelconque ;
  • en utilisant le système pour la dépose de documents quelconques, comprenant un nombre variable de feuilles liées entre elles ou non, les informations portées par ces feuilles pouvant être très variables en fonction des cas d'application ;
  • en destinant ce système à la dépose de documents dans des caisses de tout format et constituées en tout matériau.
One would not depart from the scope of the invention, as defined in the appended claims:
  • by modifying constructive details and using all equivalents, for example by replacing the pneumatic cylinders by electric or electromagnetic (solenoid) actuators;
  • by incorporating into the system a printer of any type;
  • using the system for the removal of any documents, comprising a variable number of sheets interconnected or not, the information carried by these sheets can be very variable depending on the application cases;
  • by targeting this system to the deposit of documents in boxes of any size and made of any material.

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  1. A system for depositing documents in boxes, the system being intended for an order preparation line with a conveyor (3) along which the boxes (2), made for example of cardboard, and each intended to be filled with products corresponding to an order, advance, this system being designed to print, and feed in succession into the boxes (2), shipping-type documents (11) corresponding to these boxes (2) and to the products which are intended to be placed in these boxes (2), the system comprising a storage area for the printed documents, prior to their being fed into the boxes, characterized in that it comprises, at the output of a printer (5) delivering the documents in the form of one or more printed sheets for each box (2), advancing and storage means (13, 14) in the form of a series of sheet-receiving locations (19, 20, 21, 22), between which the documents (11) advance step by step, from a starting location (19) where the sheets are received at the output (12) of the printer (5), to a final or waiting-for-deposition location (22), via one or more intermediate locations (20, 21), means (27, 28) for transferring the documents to the boxes being linked to the final location (22), the advancing and storage means (13, 14) defining a sideways U path for the documents that are to be deposited, with an upper run on which the starting location (19) is located, and a lower run on which the waiting-for-deposition location (22) is located.
  2. The system for depositing documents as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that it is designed to store the documents (11) of a minimum of four boxes (2), the number of receiving locations (19, 20, 21, 22) being preferably equal to four.
  3. The system for depositing documents as claimed in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the advancing and storage means comprise endless parallel belts (13), each provided with at least one jogger (14) and capable of advancing the sheets from one receiving location (19, 20, 21) to the next, and barriers (23) operated by actuators (24) at the various receiving locations for retaining or releasing the sheets.
  4. The system for depositing documents as claimed in one of claims 1-3, characterized in that the penultimate receiving location (21), i.e. that preceding the waiting-for-deposition location (22), comprises a barrier (25) operated by an actuator (26) and thus made movable in a reciprocating manner at high speed, this barrier (25) being in particular moved in the opposite direction to the sheet-advancing direction in order to put the stacks of sheets back into a squared-up condition.
  5. The system for depositing documents as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that stapling means (29) are provided at the final waiting-for-deposition location (22), to unite the sheets required to form one document (11), immediately prior to their transfer to the boxes.
  6. The system for depositing documents as claimed in one of claims 1-3, characterized in that stapling means are provided at the first receiving location (19), to unite the sheets required to form one document (11) immediately on their exit from the printer (5).
  7. The system for depositing documents as claimed in one of claims 1-5, characterized in that, at the final receiving location (22), the means for transferring the documents into the boxes take the form of a pusher actuator (27, 28) that moves each document (11) flat and in a guided manner, until it arrives on top of the corresponding box (2).
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