EP2547461B1 - Method for sorting postal items with the aid of shuttle bins having a variable storage capacity - Google Patents

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EP2547461B1
EP2547461B1 EP11713008.8A EP11713008A EP2547461B1 EP 2547461 B1 EP2547461 B1 EP 2547461B1 EP 11713008 A EP11713008 A EP 11713008A EP 2547461 B1 EP2547461 B1 EP 2547461B1
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Eric Moullard
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
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  • the invention relates to a method for sorting postal items in which shipments are placed in stack on edge in an unstacking shop of a postal sorting machine, then the depilated shipments are conveyed on edge by a sorting conveyor to be directed to the sorting outlets of the machine where they are stored in edge stack in storage receptacles associated respectively with said sorting outlets, then the sorted items in the sorting outlets are transferred from these sorting outlets to the unstacking store of the machine or to an unstacking shop of another sorting machine to be sorted again in sorting outlets.
  • a sorting process on one or more machines generally comprises several sorting passes, for example to prepare factor rounds. At the end of a sorting pass, the sorted items in the sorting outlets must be recycled to the machine and thus returned to the unstacking store of a sorting machine to perform another subsequent sorting pass.
  • the patent document US 2002/031284 discloses a locker structure for postal sorting in which hammocks are mounted in the lockers for storage on edge of sorted mail. In order to handle the mail, bins with removable dividers are used.
  • This locker structure does not fulfill the same functions as a postal sorting machine with sorting conveyor and does not specify the stages of implementation.
  • the patent document WO97 / 36805 describes a postal sorting machine with an unstacking shop, a sorter and sorting outlets with bins.
  • a robot is provided to handle the empty or full bins between the sorting outlets.
  • the tray has a tilting, non-detachable side wall connected by a hinge to the body of the tray.
  • Each drawer-type storage receptacle is generally provided in a housing of a sorting outlet of the machine and the items stored in this storage receptacle must be transferred to a handling container or a box to be returned to a machine. unstacking shop. At the unstacking store, the items must still be picked up by hand in the bins to be stacked on edge on the carpet of the unstacking shop.
  • the object of the invention is to overcome these disadvantages and to propose an alternative method for sorting postal items.
  • the subject of the invention is a method for sorting postal items in which items are placed in stack on edge in an unstacking shop of a postal sorting machine, then the unstuck items are conveyed on edge by a sorting conveyor to be directed to exits sorting the machine where they are stacked on edge in storage receptacles associated respectively with said sorting outlets, then the sorted items in the sorting outlets are transferred from these sorting outlets to the unstacking magazine of the sorting machine.
  • shuttle bins with variable storage capacity a) storing the items of a sorting outlet in a shuttle bin comprising a bottom wall on which stacked shipments and a wall of back substantially perpendicular to the bottom wall and on which the stack of shipments on edge is supported, b) position a front wall on the bottom wall of the tray parallel to the back wall in the approaching the back wall so that the stack of mail is clamped between the back wall and the front wall of the trough, said front wall being a plate removable from the bottom wall and being positionable on the bottom wall in several positions to be more or less close to the back wall while remaining parallel to it, c) place the shuttle tray filled with shipments in horizontal alignment with the unstacking magazine of the sorting machine and remove the removable front wall of the tray to slide the mail items
  • shuttle bins with variable storage capacity can still according to the invention be arranged to be used as sorting outlet receptacles, for example of the drawer type, and therefore be positioned in the housing of the sorting outlets including the accumulation type or stacking. In particular, they will have to be arranged each to receive a mobile pallet for storing a standard mailing stack for sorting outings of the accumulation type.
  • flexible partitions for shuttle bins are for example placed on edge stack in the unstacking magazine at the end of a first sorting pass shipments. They are automatically depilated and conveyed to the sorting outlets of the machine as conventional postal items. The machine operator then only has to position each partition in a shuttle tray so as to tighten the stack of items stored in the shuttle tray. The shuttle bins are then taken out of the sorting outlets and taken to the unstacking shop.
  • the machine can be equipped with a shuttle tank recirculation system able to automatically convey the bins from the sorting outlets to the unstacking magazine. Alternatively, a cart or the like can be used to carry several shuttle bins at the same time to the unstacking shop.
  • the machine operator removes the tray's removable flexible partition from one tray to another to empty the contents of the tray into the unstacking magazine.
  • the partitions can then be placed in a stack in the unstacking magazine to be automatically depilated and directed to the sorting outlets.
  • a shuttle tank with variable storage capacity is a tray with a bottom wall on which the ship's edge rest, a back wall secured to the bottom wall being substantially perpendicular to the bottom wall and on which can be supported the front of a stack of shipments and a front wall which is substantially parallel to the back wall and on which can be supported the rear of a stack of shipments.
  • the shuttle tray may comprise one or two sides integral with the bottom wall and the back wall.
  • the front wall is a removable partition which can be positioned at different points relative to the back wall to be more or less close to it so as to clamp a stack of mail between these two back and front walls. .
  • FIG. 1 there is illustrated a sorting outlet 1 of a postal sorting machine (not shown) with a conventional storage bin 2 of the drawer type. It is understood that a postal sorting machine has several dozens of sorting outlets.
  • Shuttle bins are shown here seen from the side under the reference 3 in a handling arrangement on a mobile base 4. They are shown here each with a bottom wall 3A and a back wall 3B. Eight shuttle bins 3 are here grouped on the mobile base 4 forming a kind of loop-shaped support (represented by a rectangular frame) which extends vertically and which is arranged as a carousel so that the shuttle trays 3 can be moved in space following the rectangular loop to be positioned according to the desired height.
  • loop-shaped support represented by a rectangular frame
  • the shipments stored in stack on edge in the receptacle 2 are taken by handle and are transferred to a shuttle tray 3.
  • an empty shuttle tray 3 can be brought to the horizontal level (indicated by the arrow H) of the receptacle 2 to empty.
  • the front of the stack of mail 5 in the shuttle tray 3 presses against the back wall 3B but is held at the back here by one or more removable partitions designated 3C.
  • FIG 2 there is shown the shuttle bins 3 of the figure 1 in front of an unstacking shop 6 of a sorting machine.
  • the base 4 is here shown on a rolling base.
  • a shuttle ferry 3 with variable storage capacity seen in perspective. It is here in the form of a parallelepiped composed of four connected walls and a wall or removable partition 3C. On this figure 3 two removable partitions 3C are shown placed against the back wall 3B. Each removable partition 3C is in the form of a plate that can be fixed to the bottom wall of the tray by a fixing system of the type pion / series of holes for example.
  • a pallet 7 for holding a stack of mail items 5 which is movable in the shuttle ferry 3 is also illustrated inside the shuttle ferry. This configuration corresponds to a shuttle ferry 3 specially designed to replace a ferry receptacle. Sorting output stacking or accumulation and can also have the ability to be extracted from the housing of the sorting outlet to be handled as illustrated on the Figures 1 and 2 .
  • Lids can be provided for these shuttle bins 3 so as to be stacked on top of each other when they are filled for transport by truck in particular.
  • These shuttle bins 3 can advantageously be designed to be nestable empty in each other. They may be provided with electronic identification tags of the RFID type.
  • the removable partitions 3C shuttle bins 3 can be designed as flexible plates can be passed in a sorting conveyor of a sorting machine.
  • the sorting machine can be advantageously equipped with a system for positioning and automatic removal of the flexible partitions in the shuttle bins 3 both at the sorting outlets and the unstacking magazine.
  • these shuttle bins 3 with variable storage capacity according to the invention make it possible to optimize the handling of the items. Indeed, stacks of items can be easily concatenated in these shuttle bins 3 with the help of removable partitions which finally allows to transport in the same volume shuttle bins 3 better filled. This therefore reduces the cost of transport and thus optimize the operating costs of a postal sorting machine.

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L'invention concerne un procédé pour trier des envois postaux dans lequel des envois sont placés en pile sur chant dans un magasin de dépilage d'une machine de tri postal, puis les envois dépilés sont convoyés sur chant par un convoyeur de tri pour être dirigés vers des sorties de tri de la machine où ils sont stockés en pile sur chant dans des réceptacles de stockage associés respectivement auxdites sorties de tri, puis les envois triés dans les sorties de tri sont transférés de ces sorties de tri vers le magasin de dépilage de la machine ou vers un magasin de dépilage d'une autre machine de tri pour être de nouveau triés dans des sorties de tri.The invention relates to a method for sorting postal items in which shipments are placed in stack on edge in an unstacking shop of a postal sorting machine, then the depilated shipments are conveyed on edge by a sorting conveyor to be directed to the sorting outlets of the machine where they are stored in edge stack in storage receptacles associated respectively with said sorting outlets, then the sorted items in the sorting outlets are transferred from these sorting outlets to the unstacking store of the machine or to an unstacking shop of another sorting machine to be sorted again in sorting outlets.

Technique antérieurePrior art

Un processus de tri sur une ou plusieurs machines comprend généralement plusieurs passes de tri par exemple pour préparer des tournées de facteur. A la fin d'une passe de tri, les envois triés dans les sorties de tri doivent être recyclés en machine et donc ramenés vers le magasin de dépilage d'une machine de tri pour réaliser une autre passe de tri subséquente.A sorting process on one or more machines generally comprises several sorting passes, for example to prepare factor rounds. At the end of a sorting pass, the sorted items in the sorting outlets must be recycled to the machine and thus returned to the unstacking store of a sorting machine to perform another subsequent sorting pass.

Le document de brevet US 2002/031 284 décrit une structure à casiers pour tri postal dans laquelle des hamacs sont montés dans les casiers pour le stockage sur chant du courrier trié. Afin de manipuler le courrier, des bacs comportant des diviseurs amovibles sont utilisés. Cette structure à casier ne rempli toutefois pas les mêmes fonctions qu'une machine de tri postal avec convoyeur de tri et n'en précise pas les étapes de mise en oeuvre.The patent document US 2002/031284 discloses a locker structure for postal sorting in which hammocks are mounted in the lockers for storage on edge of sorted mail. In order to handle the mail, bins with removable dividers are used. This locker structure, however, does not fulfill the same functions as a postal sorting machine with sorting conveyor and does not specify the stages of implementation.

Le document de brevet US 4,643,306 divulgue un bac de stockage du courrier qui présente des séparateurs en métal ce qui interdit toute possibilité de les utiliser dans un convoyeur de tri.The patent document US 4,643,306 discloses a mail storage bin that has metal separators which prohibits any possibility of using them in a sorting conveyor.

Par ailleurs, le document de brevet WO97/36805 décrit une machine de tri postal avec un magasin de dépilage, un trieur et des sorties de tri avec des bacs. Un robot est prévu pour manipuler les bacs vides ou pleins entre les sorties de tri. Selon un mode de réalisation illustré, le bac comporte une paroi de face basculante, non amovible, reliée par une charnière au corps du bac.In addition, the patent document WO97 / 36805 describes a postal sorting machine with an unstacking shop, a sorter and sorting outlets with bins. A robot is provided to handle the empty or full bins between the sorting outlets. According to an illustrated embodiment, the tray has a tilting, non-detachable side wall connected by a hinge to the body of the tray.

Enfin, des exemples de réceptacles de stockage pour sorties de tri sont par exemple décrits dans les documents de brevet US 2009/0 028 678 , FR 2 552 743 , FR 2 667 807 . Chaque réceptacle de stockage du type à tiroir est généralement prévu à demeure dans un logement d'une sortie de tri de la machine et les envois stockés dans ce réceptacle de stockage doivent être transvasés dans un bac de manutention ou une caissette pour être ramenés vers un magasin de dépilage. Au niveau du magasin de dépilage, les envois doivent encore être prélevés par poignée dans les bacs pour être placés en pile sur chant sur le tapis du magasin de dépilage. Toutes ces opérations de manipulation des envois pour recycler les envois depuis des sorties de tri vers un magasin de dépilage d'une machine de tri demandent beaucoup de temps et d'attention de la part des opérateurs machine. En plus ces manipulations sont pénibles. Ainsi, au cours d'une journée de travail, un opérateur machine peut ainsi arriver à manipuler plusieurs tonnes de courrier ce qui pose des problèmes d'ergonomie de ces postes de travail. Par ailleurs, les piles d'envois dans les bacs de manutention peuvent s'écrouler si elles ne sont pas assez serrées ce qui peut occasionner en plus des désordres dans la chronologie de traitement des envois et donc induire des opérations supplémentaires de restructuration des envois dans le magasin de dépilage.Finally, examples of storage receptacles for sorting outlets are for example described in the patent documents US 2009/0 028 678 , FR 2,552,743 , FR 2,667,807 . Each drawer-type storage receptacle is generally provided in a housing of a sorting outlet of the machine and the items stored in this storage receptacle must be transferred to a handling container or a box to be returned to a machine. unstacking shop. At the unstacking store, the items must still be picked up by hand in the bins to be stacked on edge on the carpet of the unstacking shop. All these handling of shipments to recycle shipments from sorting outlets to an unstacking warehouse of a sorting machine require a lot of time and attention from machine operators. In addition, these manipulations are painful. Thus, during a working day, a machine operator can manage to handle several tons of mail which poses ergonomic problems of these workstations. Moreover, the stacks of shipments in the handling bins can collapse if they are not tight enough which can cause more disorders in the processing chronology of shipments and thus induce additional operations of restructuring shipments in the unstacking shop.

Exposé de l'inventionPresentation of the invention

Le but de l'invention est de palier ces inconvénients et à proposer une alternative de procédé pour trier des envois postaux.The object of the invention is to overcome these disadvantages and to propose an alternative method for sorting postal items.

A cet effet, l'invention a pour objet un procédé pour trier les envois postaux dans lequel des envois sont placés en pile sur chant dans un magasin de dépilage d'une machine de tri postal, puis les envois dépilés sont convoyés sur chant par un convoyeur de tri pour être dirigés vers des sorties de tri de la machine où ils sont stockés en pile sur chant dans des réceptacles de stockage associés respectivement auxdites sorties de tri, puis les envois triés dans les sorties de tri sont transférés de ces sorties de tri vers le magasin de dépilage de la machine de tri postal ou vers un magasin de dépilage d'une autre machine de tri postal pour être de nouveau triés dans des sorties de tri, caractérisé en ce que pour transférer les envois entre les sorties de tri et le magasin de dépilage, on manipule ces envois à l'aide de bacs navette à capacité de stockage variable selon les étapes suivantes : a) stocker les envois d'une sortie de tri dans un bac navette comprenant une paroi de fond sur laquelle reposent sur chant les envois en pile et une paroi de dos sensiblement perpendiculaire à la paroi de fond et sur laquelle la pile d'envois sur chant prend appui, b) positionner une paroi de face sur la paroi de fond du bac de façon parallèle à la paroi de dos en la rapprochant de la paroi de dos de telle sorte que la pile d'envois est serrée entre la paroi de dos et la paroi de face du bac, cette paroi de face étant une plaque amovible par rapport à la paroi de fond et pouvant être positionnée sur la paroi de fond en plusieurs positions pour être plus ou moins rapprochée de la paroi de dos en restant parallèle à celle-ci, c) placer le bac navette rempli d'envois en alignement horizontal avec le magasin de dépilage de la machine de tri et enlever la paroi de face amovible du bac pour faire glisser les envois postaux sur le plan du magasin de dépilage.For this purpose, the subject of the invention is a method for sorting postal items in which items are placed in stack on edge in an unstacking shop of a postal sorting machine, then the unstuck items are conveyed on edge by a sorting conveyor to be directed to exits sorting the machine where they are stacked on edge in storage receptacles associated respectively with said sorting outlets, then the sorted items in the sorting outlets are transferred from these sorting outlets to the unstacking magazine of the sorting machine. postal sorting or to a depilating store of another postal sorting machine to be sorted again in sorting outlets, characterized in that to transfer the items between the sorting outlets and the unstacking store, these shipments are handled using shuttle bins with variable storage capacity according to the following steps: a) storing the items of a sorting outlet in a shuttle bin comprising a bottom wall on which stacked shipments and a wall of back substantially perpendicular to the bottom wall and on which the stack of shipments on edge is supported, b) position a front wall on the bottom wall of the tray parallel to the back wall in the approaching the back wall so that the stack of mail is clamped between the back wall and the front wall of the trough, said front wall being a plate removable from the bottom wall and being positionable on the bottom wall in several positions to be more or less close to the back wall while remaining parallel to it, c) place the shuttle tray filled with shipments in horizontal alignment with the unstacking magazine of the sorting machine and remove the removable front wall of the tray to slide the mail items on the map of the unstacking shop.

Selon des particularités du procédé selon l'invention :

  • la paroi de face d'un bac navette est une plaque souple, le procédé comprenant l'étape de convoyer la paroi de face d'un bac navette dans le convoyeur de tri de la machine de tri postale entre le magasin de dépilage et une sortie de tri ;
  • on utilise les bacs navette à capacité de stockage variable comme réceptacles de stockage associés aux sorties de tri ;
  • chaque paroi de face amovible d'un bac navette est positionnée sur la paroi de fond du bac navette au niveau d'une sortie de tri ou est enlevée du bac navette au niveau du magasin de dépilage à l'aide d'un système de positionnement ou d'enlèvement automatique ;
  • le procédé comprend l'étape de regrouper plusieurs bacs navette sur un socle mobile formant un carrousel dans lequel les bacs navette peuvent être déplacés dans l'espace selon un trajet en boucle s'étendant en hauteur ;
  • le trajet en boucle a une forme rectangulaire.
According to features of the method according to the invention:
  • the front wall of a shuttle tank is a flexible plate, the method comprising the step of conveying the front wall of a shuttle tank in the sorting conveyor of the sorting machine between the unstacking magazine and an outlet sorting;
  • shuttle bins with variable storage capacity are used as storage receptacles associated with the sorting outlets;
  • each removable face wall of a shuttle tray is positioned on the bottom wall of the shuttle bin at a sorting outlet or is removed from the shuttle bin at the unstacking magazine by means of a positioning system or automatic removal;
  • the method comprises the step of grouping a plurality of shuttle bins on a mobile pedestal forming a carousel in which the shuttle bins can be moved in the space along a loop path extending in height;
  • the loop path has a rectangular shape.

L'idée à la base de l'invention est donc d'utiliser des bacs navette à capacité de stockage variable avec des cloisons amovibles en substitution des bacs de manutention conventionnels à cloisons fixes. Ces bacs navette à capacité de stockage variable peuvent encore selon l'invention être agencés pour être utilisés comme réceptacles de sortie de tri, par exemple du type à tiroir, et donc être positionnés dans les logements des sorties de tri notamment du type à accumulation ou empilage. Ils devront en particulier être agencés chacun pour recevoir une palette mobile de maintien de pile d'envois classique pour les sorties de tri du type à accumulation.The idea underlying the invention is therefore to use shuttle bins with variable storage capacity with removable partitions in substitution of conventional handling bins with fixed partitions. These shuttle bins with variable storage capacity can still according to the invention be arranged to be used as sorting outlet receptacles, for example of the drawer type, and therefore be positioned in the housing of the sorting outlets including the accumulation type or stacking. In particular, they will have to be arranged each to receive a mobile pallet for storing a standard mailing stack for sorting outings of the accumulation type.

Selon l'invention, des cloisons souples pour bacs navette sont par exemple placées sur chant en pile dans le magasin de dépilage à la fin d'une première passe de tri des envois. Elles sont dépilées automatiquement et convoyées vers les sorties de tri de la machine comme des envois postaux classiques. L'opérateur machine n'a plus alors qu'à positionner chaque cloison dans un bac navette de manière à serrer la pile d'envois stockés dans le bac navette. Les bacs navette sont ensuite sortis des sorties de tri et amenés vers le magasin de dépilage. La machine peut être équipée d'un système de recirculation de bacs navette apte à convoyer automatiquement les bacs depuis les sorties de tri vers le magasin de dépilage. Autrement, on peut utiliser un chariot ou analogue pour transporter plusieurs bacs navette en même temps vers le magasin de dépilage. Au niveau du magasin de dépilage, l'opérateur machine retire bac après bac la cloison souple amovible du bac pour vider le contenu du bac dans le magasin de dépilage. Les cloisons pourront ensuite encore être placées en pile dans le magasin de dépilage pour être dépilées automatiquement et être dirigées vers les sorties de tri.According to the invention, flexible partitions for shuttle bins are for example placed on edge stack in the unstacking magazine at the end of a first sorting pass shipments. They are automatically depilated and conveyed to the sorting outlets of the machine as conventional postal items. The machine operator then only has to position each partition in a shuttle tray so as to tighten the stack of items stored in the shuttle tray. The shuttle bins are then taken out of the sorting outlets and taken to the unstacking shop. The machine can be equipped with a shuttle tank recirculation system able to automatically convey the bins from the sorting outlets to the unstacking magazine. Alternatively, a cart or the like can be used to carry several shuttle bins at the same time to the unstacking shop. In the unstacking magazine, the machine operator removes the tray's removable flexible partition from one tray to another to empty the contents of the tray into the unstacking magazine. The partitions can then be placed in a stack in the unstacking magazine to be automatically depilated and directed to the sorting outlets.

Présentation sommaire des dessinsBrief presentation of the drawings

Les caractéristiques et avantages du procédé selon l'invention seront encore mieux compris à la lecture de la description qui suit d'un exemple de mise en oeuvre illustré par les dessins.

  • La figure 1 illustre très schématiquement une situation de vidage de sorties de tri à l'aide de bacs navette selon l'invention.
  • La figure 2 illustre très schématiquement une situation de vidage de bacs navette selon l'invention dans un magasin de dépilage d'une machine de tri.
  • La figure 3 illustre très schématiquement un bac navette à capacité de stockage variable selon l'invention.
The characteristics and advantages of the method according to the invention will be better understood on reading the following description of an exemplary implementation illustrated by the drawings.
  • The figure 1 illustrates very schematically a situation of emptying sorting outlets using shuttle bins according to the invention.
  • The figure 2 illustrates very schematically a situation of emptying shuttle bins according to the invention in an unstacking store of a sorting machine.
  • The figure 3 illustrates very schematically a shuttle ferry with variable storage capacity according to the invention.

Description des modes de réalisationDescription of the embodiments

Globalement, un bac navette à capacité de stockage variable selon l'invention est un bac avec une paroi de fond sur laquelle reposent sur chant les envois, une paroi de dos solidaire de la paroi de fond en étant sensiblement perpendiculaire à la paroi de fond et sur laquelle peut prendre appui l'avant d'une pile d'envois et une paroi de face qui se tient sensiblement parallèle à la paroi de dos et sur laquelle peut prendre appui l'arrière d'une pile d'envois. Le bac navette peut comprendre un ou deux flancs solidaires de la paroi de fond et de la paroi de dos. La paroi de face est une cloison amovible qui peut être positionnée en différents points par rapport à la paroi de dos pour être plus ou moins rapprochée de celle-ci de façon à serrer une pile d'envois entre ces deux parois de dos et de face.Overall, a shuttle tank with variable storage capacity according to the invention is a tray with a bottom wall on which the ship's edge rest, a back wall secured to the bottom wall being substantially perpendicular to the bottom wall and on which can be supported the front of a stack of shipments and a front wall which is substantially parallel to the back wall and on which can be supported the rear of a stack of shipments. The shuttle tray may comprise one or two sides integral with the bottom wall and the back wall. The front wall is a removable partition which can be positioned at different points relative to the back wall to be more or less close to it so as to clamp a stack of mail between these two back and front walls. .

Sur la figure 1, on a illustré une sortie de tri 1 d'une machine de tri postal (non représentée) avec un réceptacle de stockage 2 conventionnel du type à tiroir. Il est entendu qu'une machine de tri postal comporte plusieurs dizaines de sorties de tri. Des bacs navette sont représentés ici vus de côté sous la référence 3 dans une disposition de manutention sur un socle mobile 4. On les a représentés ici chacun avec une paroi de fond 3A et une paroi de dos 3B. Huit bacs navette 3 sont ici regroupés sur le socle 4 mobile formant une sorte de support en forme de boucle (représentée par un cadre rectangulaire) qui s'étend verticalement et qui est agencé comme un carrousel de sorte que les bacs navettes 3 peuvent être déplacés dans l'espace en suivant la boucle rectangulaire pour être positionnés selon la hauteur voulue.On the figure 1 there is illustrated a sorting outlet 1 of a postal sorting machine (not shown) with a conventional storage bin 2 of the drawer type. It is understood that a postal sorting machine has several dozens of sorting outlets. Shuttle bins are shown here seen from the side under the reference 3 in a handling arrangement on a mobile base 4. They are shown here each with a bottom wall 3A and a back wall 3B. Eight shuttle bins 3 are here grouped on the mobile base 4 forming a kind of loop-shaped support (represented by a rectangular frame) which extends vertically and which is arranged as a carousel so that the shuttle trays 3 can be moved in space following the rectangular loop to be positioned according to the desired height.

Dans la disposition de la figure 1, les envois stockés en pile sur chant dans le réceptacle 2 sont prélevés par poignée et sont transférés dans un bac navette 3. Pour réaliser cette opération, un bac navette 3 vide peut être amené au niveau horizontal (indiqué par la flèche H) du réceptacle 2 à vider. Comme visible sur la figure 1, le devant de la pile d'envois 5 dans le bac navette 3 appuie contre la paroi de dos 3B mais est maintenue à l'arrière ici par une ou plusieurs cloisons amovibles désignées par 3C.In the provision of the figure 1 , the shipments stored in stack on edge in the receptacle 2 are taken by handle and are transferred to a shuttle tray 3. To perform this operation, an empty shuttle tray 3 can be brought to the horizontal level (indicated by the arrow H) of the receptacle 2 to empty. As visible on the figure 1 , the front of the stack of mail 5 in the shuttle tray 3 presses against the back wall 3B but is held at the back here by one or more removable partitions designated 3C.

Sur la figure 2, on a représenté les bacs navette 3 de la figure 1 devant un magasin de dépilage 6 d'une machine de tri. Le socle 4 est ici montré sur un piètement roulant. Pour décharger un bac navette 3 rempli d'envois postaux 5, l'opérateur place d'abord le bac navette 3 sensiblement en alignement horizontal avec le plan du magasin de dépilage 6. Puis l'opérateur enlève ici une première cloison amovible 3C, saisit une poignée d'envois postaux et les fait glisser sur le plan du magasin de dépilage 6. On peut avoir plusieurs cloisons amovibles 3C dans un même bac navette 3 pour mieux maintenir les envois en pile 5 sur chant.On the figure 2 , there is shown the shuttle bins 3 of the figure 1 in front of an unstacking shop 6 of a sorting machine. The base 4 is here shown on a rolling base. To unload a shuttle ferry 3 filled with postal items 5, the operator first places the shuttle ferry 3 substantially in horizontal alignment with the plane of the unstacking magazine 6. Then the operator here removes a first movable partition 3C, grasps a handful of postal items and slides on the map of the unstacking store 6. You can have several removable partitions 3C in the same shuttle tray 3 to better maintain the shipments stack 5 on edge.

Sur la figure 3, on a illustré un bac navette 3 à capacité de stockage variable vu en perspective. Il se présente ici sous la forme d'un parallélépipède composé de quatre parois liées et d'une paroi ou cloison amovible 3C. Sur cette figure 3, on a illustré deux cloisons amovibles 3C placées contre la paroi de dos 3B. Chaque cloison amovible 3C se présente sous la forme d'une plaque pouvant être fixée sur la paroi de fond du bac par un système de fixation du type pion/série de trous par exemple. On a également illustré à l'intérieur du bac navette une palette 7 de maintien d'une pile d'envois 5 qui est mobile dans le bac navette 3. Cette configuration correspond à un bac navette 3 spécialement agencé pour se substituer à un réceptacle de sortie de tri à empilage ou accumulation et peut disposer aussi de la faculté de pouvoir être extrait du logement de la sortie de tri pour être manutentionné comme illustré sur les figures 1 et 2.On the figure 3 , there is illustrated a shuttle ferry 3 with variable storage capacity seen in perspective. It is here in the form of a parallelepiped composed of four connected walls and a wall or removable partition 3C. On this figure 3 two removable partitions 3C are shown placed against the back wall 3B. Each removable partition 3C is in the form of a plate that can be fixed to the bottom wall of the tray by a fixing system of the type pion / series of holes for example. A pallet 7 for holding a stack of mail items 5 which is movable in the shuttle ferry 3 is also illustrated inside the shuttle ferry. This configuration corresponds to a shuttle ferry 3 specially designed to replace a ferry receptacle. Sorting output stacking or accumulation and can also have the ability to be extracted from the housing of the sorting outlet to be handled as illustrated on the Figures 1 and 2 .

On peut prévoir des couvercles pour ces bacs navette 3 de façon à pouvoir les empiler les uns sur les autres quand ils sont remplis pour leur transport en camion notamment. Ces bacs navette 3 peuvent avantageusement être conçus pour être emboîtables à vide les uns dans les autres. Ils peuvent être munis d'étiquettes électroniques d'identification du type RFID.Lids can be provided for these shuttle bins 3 so as to be stacked on top of each other when they are filled for transport by truck in particular. These shuttle bins 3 can advantageously be designed to be nestable empty in each other. They may be provided with electronic identification tags of the RFID type.

Les cloisons amovibles 3C des bacs navette 3 peuvent être conçues comme des plaques souples pouvant être passées dans un convoyeur de tri d'une machine de tri. La machine de tri peut être équipée avantageusement d'un système de positionnement et d'enlèvement automatiques des cloisons souples dans les bacs navette 3 tant au niveau des sorties de tri que du magasin de dépilage.The removable partitions 3C shuttle bins 3 can be designed as flexible plates can be passed in a sorting conveyor of a sorting machine. The sorting machine can be advantageously equipped with a system for positioning and automatic removal of the flexible partitions in the shuttle bins 3 both at the sorting outlets and the unstacking magazine.

Avantageusement, ces bacs navette 3 à capacité de stockage variable selon l'invention permettent d'optimiser la manutention des envois. En effet, des piles d'envois peuvent être facilement concaténées dans ces bacs navette 3 à l'aide des cloisons amovibles ce qui permet finalement de transporter dans un même volume des bacs navette 3 mieux remplis. Ceci permet donc de diminuer les frais de transport et donc d'optimiser les coûts d'exploitation d'une machine de tri postal.Advantageously, these shuttle bins 3 with variable storage capacity according to the invention make it possible to optimize the handling of the items. Indeed, stacks of items can be easily concatenated in these shuttle bins 3 with the help of removable partitions which finally allows to transport in the same volume shuttle bins 3 better filled. This therefore reduces the cost of transport and thus optimize the operating costs of a postal sorting machine.

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  1. A method of sorting mailpieces, in which method the mailpieces are placed in a stack on edge in an unstacker magazine (6) of a postal sorting machine, and then the unstacked mailpieces are conveyed on edge by a sorting conveyor so as to be directed towards sorting outlets (1) of the postal sorting machine, where they are stored in stacks on edge in storage receptacles associated with respective ones of said sorting outlets (1), and then the mailpieces sorted into the sorting outlets (1) are transferred from said sorting outlets (1) to an unstacker magazine (6) of the postal sorting machine, or to an unstacker magazine of another postal sorting machine for the purpose of being sorted again into sorting outlets (1), said method being characterized in that, in order to transfer the mailpieces between the sorting outlets (1) and the unstacker magazine (6), said mailpieces are handled by means of shuttle trays (3) of variable storage capacity in the following steps:
    a) storing the mailpieces from a sorting outlet (1) in a shuttle tray (3) having a bottom wall (3A) on which the mailpieces rest in a stack on edge, and a back wall (3B) that is substantially perpendicular to the bottom wall (3A) and against which the stack of mailpieces on edge bears;
    b) positioning a front wall (3C) on the bottom wall (3A) of the shuttle tray (3) in a manner such that it is parallel to the back wall (3B) and while moving it closer to the back wall (3B) so that the stack of mailpieces is clamped between the back wall (3B) and the front wall (3C) of the shuttle tray (3), said front wall (3C) being a plate that is removable relative to the bottom wall (3A) and being positionable on the bottom wall (3A) of the shuttle tray (3) in a plurality of positions so as to be moved closer to or further away from the back wall (3B) while remaining parallel thereto; and
    c) placing the shuttle tray (3) filled with mailpieces in horizontal alignment with the unstacker magazine (6) of the sorting machine, and removing the removable front wall (3C) of the shuttle tray (3) so as to slide the mailpieces on the surface of the unstacker magazine (6).
  2. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that the front wall (3C) of a shuttle tray (3) is a flexible plate, the method including the step of conveying the front wall (3C) of a shuttle tray (3) in the sorting conveyor of the postal sorting machine between the unstacker magazine (6) and a sorting outlet (1).
  3. A method according to claim 1 or claim 2, characterized in that the shuttle trays (3) of variable storage capacity are used as storage receptacles associated with the sorting outlets (1).
  4. A method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that each removable front wall (3C) of a shuttle tray (3) is positioned on the bottom wall (3A) of the shuttle tray (3) at a sorting outlet (1) or is removed from the shuttle tray (3) at the unstacker magazine (6) by means of an automatic positioning or removal system.
  5. A method according to any preceding claim, characterized in that it includes the step of grouping together a plurality of shuttle trays (3) on a movable rack (4) forming a carrousel in which the shuttle trays (3) can be moved through space along a looped path extending in the height direction.
  6. A method according to claim 5, characterized in that the looped path is rectangular in shape.
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