KR20080093154A - Sorting installation - Google Patents
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The present invention relates to an article to be classified, in particular, having a front open holder, at least one sorting compartment in the holder for storing sorted articles, and at least one splitting member for dividing the sorting section into sub-partitions. A sorting facility for sorting mail.
Sorting facilities are especially used for sorting mail. For example, known installations include shelf carcasses with shelf partitioned horizontal dividers forming a sorting compartment. The individual dividing sections are divided by fixed partition walls, thereby forming individual subdivisions which are opened forward.
For example, when classifying mail items, individual subdivisions have individual delivery areas associated with them. The user sorts the mail in unordered order into subdivisions according to the delivery area. After completing the sorting, the user takes out the postal items from each subdivision and places them in the order of delivery area, for example in his postal bag or other transport unit. Mail which has already been sorted in this way can be taken out of the transport unit in order of delivery area and delivered in that order.
The size of the individual subdivisions is preset to be fixed by a fixed partition member. However, the amount of mail for different delivery areas is generally different, so that it may occur that the amount of mail in a given delivery area does not fit into a subdivision prepared for that area.
In the case of mail being removed from individual sub compartments and placed in a transport unit or a postal bag, the user must empty the compartments one by one and put the mail contained therein into the post bag or transport unit. Thus, each subdivision requires a separate approach step.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a sorting facility which enables a simple but time-saving sorting. This object is met by a sorting facility having the features of claim 1. The dependent claims relate to preferred embodiments.
In the sorting facility according to the invention, at least one sorting compartment has a pull-out drawer which can be at least partly withdrawn from the holder, for example on telescopic rails. In order to prevent it from falling when pulling out a sliding drawer, the stop is provided to define a withdrawal limit.
The sorting facility according to the invention preferably comprises at least one sorting section having a sliding drawer which opens forward. If a plurality of sorting sections are provided, it is advantageous for all of these sorting sections to have a sliding drawer configured according to the invention. However, it is also possible for embodiments in which the individual sorting sections do not have a sliding drawer, in which the individual sorting sections are not configured according to the invention. The term "classification compartment", unless otherwise stated, will be understood below as a classification compartment having a sliding drawer constructed in accordance with the present invention.
At least one dividing member provided for the dividing of the sorting compartment with the sliding drawer is configured as a separating plate arranged parallel to the withdrawal direction of the sliding drawer, which is fixedly connected to the sliding drawer. It does not move together when withdrawing the sliding drawer in the withdrawal direction so that the sliding drawer is no longer divided by at least one separating plate after withdrawing. Thus, while the sliding drawer forming the sorting compartment is not pulled out, it is divided into individual sub-parts by the separating plate, while the separating plate does not move together when the sliding drawer is withdrawn, so that the partitioning is not possible. It disappears during the withdrawal process. Thus, the sliding drawer forming the sorting compartment is no longer divided in the pulled out state.
This function will be described in relation to the classification of mail items. The user sorts the mail into the sliding drawer divided by the separator while the sliding drawer is divided by the separator. For example, individual subdivisions formed by dividers may be associated with individual postal delivery areas. After fully sorting the amount of mail, the user withdraws the sliding drawer forward. The divider does not move with such withdrawal movements, so that the division into subdivisions disappears. However, the mail is placed in the sliding drawer in order of delivery area. The user can then push the mails together in one direction to remove them from the sliding drawer in one working step and put them in the mail bag or transport unit.
Thus, taking sorted articles out of the sliding drawer is much less time intensive than having to empty a large number of individual compartments.
The present invention is particularly suitable for classifying mail items according to, for example, the delivery area of the deliveryman. However, the present invention can advantageously be used for all sorting processes that must be further processed in the order in which they are divided after dividing the articles to be sorted.
The invention has been found to be particularly effective when a plurality of separator plates constructed in accordance with the invention are provided in the sorting compartment.
It is particularly advantageous that the sliding drawer is no longer divided in the drawn state and in this respect corresponds to a sliding drawer consisting of one sorting compartment. However, it is also possible to have a structure in which two or more sorting sections are provided for each sliding drawer, and the individual sorting sections are divided by the separating plate without the sliding drawer being pulled out but no longer divided after being pulled out. Thus, for example, it may be advantageous for safety reasons that the sliding drawer has a central wall fixed at its center and the sliding drawer has two sorting compartments at the left and right sides of the central wall. This partitioning of the sliding drawer into a plurality of sorting compartments also means that after the sliding drawer has been withdrawn and the division into the lower compartment has disappeared, if the undivided compartment is too large to handle its contents when it is withdrawn It may be reasonable for a very large sliding drawer in that it will be difficult.
Unlike the separator, such a central wall that moves with the withdrawal movement of the sliding drawer can also be made displaceable. For example, the central wall may be screwed in various positions of the sliding drawer as needed. Thus, the overall size of the sorting compartment can be adjusted to correspond to the normal volume of the postal bag. In addition, a plurality of central walls may be provided which are fixedly attached or attachable in the sliding drawer.
In order to prevent the separator plates from moving together during the withdrawal process of the sliding drawer, a guide or opening is advantageously arranged on the rear wall side of the sliding drawer when the sliding drawer is withdrawn. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the rear wall of the sliding drawer is provided with slots, the individual slots being configured to allow the separator plate to slide through them. In this regard, the number of guides or slots corresponds at least to the number of separators desired. The aspect in which a large number of guides or slots are provided at predetermined intervals so that the number and spacing of individual separators can be selected by selecting the guide or slot to be used is particularly flexible.
In another refinement of this embodiment, the guides or slots are dimensioned in which they guide the separator plate. For this purpose, in particular the lateral size of the guides or slots is chosen to substantially correspond to the thickness of the individual separator plates, but not to clamp them.
Guides or slots in the rear wall of the sliding drawer define the spatial size of the separators. The vertical alignment of the separator plates, ie the vertical alignment of the slots or guides, is particularly economical in terms of space. However, embodiments in which the guides or slots and even the separator plates are arranged at an angle are also possible.
In another advantageous development, the slots in the rear wall of the sliding drawer are provided outwards, for example in the rear wall of the sliding drawer, in particular a guide stub supporting the lateral support of the separator plate when the sliding drawer is pulled out. It may be provided. This guide stub additionally performs the function of stabilizing the slotted rear wall. Such stubs can be configured to increase the effective thickness of the rear wall, for example when the rear wall is a thin wall.
It is particularly preferred that the separator is made to be removable from the sorting facility. In this manner, the user can insert the separator plates in various numbers and at various intervals as needed and depending on the demand.
To ensure that the separator plate does not move with the withdrawal process of the sliding drawer, the separator plate can be connected to the holder or to an element fixedly connected to the holder. In the case of a releaseable separator, such a connection can also be released. This may be a problem for example of latch elements, magnetic connections or articulated connections. In particular, at least one separator plate has a hook disposed rearward in the withdrawal direction of the sliding drawer and cooperates with a retaining edge or retaining rod, which hook is fixedly connected to the holder, wherein the retaining edge or retaining rod is a sliding drawer Particular preference is given to embodiments in which they are aligned parallel to the rear wall of and are arranged at a height corresponding to the vertical position of the hooks of the separator plate in the inserted state of the separator plate. When the hook is caught by the retaining rod or the retaining edge, the separator cannot move in the withdrawal direction. When the sliding drawer is withdrawn, the hooks hold the divider at the retaining rod or retaining edge, such that the sliding drawer moves without the divider and the divider loses its splitting function. The retaining edge or retaining rod is preferably horizontally aligned and the opening of the hook of the separator plate faces downward. The hooking of the retaining edge or retaining rod is affected by or supported by the gravity of the separator.
Here, the term "hook" generally refers to an element having a cut-out to engage around a retaining rod or retaining edge.
Another particularly advantageous improvement of this embodiment is characterized in that the hook is chamfered or rounded on the outside thereof and / or the retaining rod or the retaining edge is chamfered or rounded on the side facing the sliding drawer. In this aspect, when the separator and the retaining rod or retaining edge move relative to each other, the hook slides at the retaining edge or retaining rod until the hook opening can engage around the retaining rod or retaining edge. In particular, in embodiments where the hook opening is downward, the separator plate falls downward, causing the hook to be caught on the retaining edge or retaining rod.
For this advantageous embodiment the following procedure can be carried out, for example. In the withdrawal state of the sliding drawer, the separator plate can be inserted into the sliding drawer, for example, in the desired number and at the desired spacing. These separator plates are for example held by guides or slots in the rear region of the sliding drawer. The sliding drawer is then pushed into the holder along with the separator. At the end of the push-in process, the hooks of the separator plate are struck on the retaining rod or the retaining edge, causing upward movement due to chamfering, at least in the rear region of the separator plate. As the sliding drawer is pushed further, the hook can engage around the retaining rod or retaining edge such that the lifted separator plate falls down to engage the retaining rod or retaining edge. Thus, the separator plate is firmly fixed in the withdrawal direction so that it can no longer move with the sliding drawer. The article to be sorted may be sorted in a lower compartment of the sliding drawer defined by the separator. After sorting the article to be sorted, the withdrawal of the sliding drawer can be made without moving the separators, so that the separators lose their separation function.
In order to support the separators, in particular to maintain the spatial orientation of the separators while the sliding drawer is being pulled out, a support is provided which is fixed to the holder of the sorting facility, and is separated in the support during the withdrawal of the sliding drawer. The plates are inserted. Preferred is a support provided with a slotted support mount for the separator. For example, this support may be provided in the retaining rod or retaining edge region of the embodiment, and the slots may be aligned in a direction corresponding to the desired spatial direction of the separator.
Another preferred refinement of this aspect provides that the support has an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust the support mount for the separator plate. According to its structure, the adjustment mechanism functions to adjust the angular alignment of the slots of the support parallel to the slots of the rear wall of the sliding drawer, and / or adjust the slot position of the support relative to the slots of the rear wall of the sliding drawer. Function to set correctly.
For this purpose, for example, an adjusting screw can be provided which can move the entire slot of the support by several millimeters relative to the holder. In another embodiment that is simple to handle, the adjustment screw can be accessed from the side, for example by a bore in the side wall of the holder in the form of a carcass.
Particularly preferably, the individual separators in the sliding drawer are not held only by the guides or slots in the rear wall area of the sliding drawer during the sorting process, so that the separators are held tightly in multiple during the sorting process. To this end, in particular, each divider plate may be provided with a protrusion that engages with a corresponding protrusion mount in the sliding drawer when the sliding drawer is pushed in, while releasing from the protrusion mounting when withdrawing the sliding drawer.
In this way, in the state where the sliding drawer is put in, the separator plates can be additionally supported not only by the guides or slots in the rear area of the sliding drawer and optionally by the support present, but by the protrusions engaged with the protrusion mountings. . Thus, this ensures that the position of the separators also does not change if one of the lower compartments formed by the separators is overfilled.
To this end, particularly advantageously, the projections are provided at their lower edges in the front region of the divider in the withdrawal direction of the sliding drawer, and correspondingly the projection mountings are arranged at the front region in the withdrawal direction at the base of the sliding drawer. do.
In order to ensure that the protrusions of the at least one separator plate slide out unobstructed from the corresponding protrusion mount, another advantageous improvement is that the protrusions and / or the protrusion mounts are chamfered so that they slip off each other as they pull out the sliding drawer. do. Correspondingly, for example, the rearward facing edges of the projections provided at their lower edges in the front region of the separator plate may in particular be chamfered or rounded.
When at least one separator plate is held by both the protrusions accommodated in the protrusion mounting portion and the guides or slots on the rear side of the sliding drawer, the protrusions of the separator plate from the edge of the separator plate on the rear side in the withdrawal direction of the sliding drawer The distance is greater than the distance of the protrusion mount from the rear wall of the sliding drawer. In this way, when the protrusion of the at least one separator plate engages the protrusion mount with the sliding drawer pushed in, it ensures that the separator plate engages in a guide or slot on the rear side of the sliding drawer in the rear region. In this way the separator is reliably supported at at least two points.
A separator having such a structure can be used as follows. First, the sliding drawer is withdrawn. The separator plates are inserted at desired intervals and desired numbers, with each protrusion encased in the protrusion mount, and fitted in a guide or slot on the rear side of the sliding drawer. In this way, the sliding drawer to which the separator is fixed is pushed back into the holder.
The separator may be made in various ways, for example as a grid-like structure. Metal or plastic plates are particularly simple and comfortable to apply.
The at least one separator may be molded from various materials, for example metal or plastic. Separators are particularly simple and cost effective as injection molded plastic parts. In addition, the separator plates made of plastic have sufficient flexibility to have specific tolerances for overfilling of the subdivisions formed by these separator plates.
The invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the drawings, an embodiment according to the present invention for sorting mail is shown.
1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of a mail sorting application according to the present invention seen from the front side,
2 is a view showing an oblique view from the front of the sliding drawer of the embodiment according to the present invention,
Figure 3 is a view showing the oblique view from behind the sliding drawer of Figure 2,
Figure 4 is a detailed view of the sliding drawer is inserted into the separator variously,
5 is a view showing a separator of an embodiment according to the present invention,
6 is a view showing another embodiment of the separator of the embodiment according to the present invention;
7 is a front view of the classification compartment of the embodiment according to the present invention,
FIG. 8 is an enlarged detailed view of the embodiment shown in FIG. 7;
9 is a detailed view of the sliding drawer of the embodiment shown in FIG.
10 (a) to 10 (c) is a view showing a moving process when the withdrawal of the sliding drawer of the embodiment according to the present invention,
11 is a view showing in detail while withdrawing the sliding drawer of the embodiment shown in FIG.
12 is a view showing a later point in time during the withdrawal in detail,
13 is a view showing a state in which the sliding drawer is drawn out in detail,
14 is a view showing the sorting facility according to the present invention seen from the rear without the rear wall,
15 is a view showing a support of an embodiment of the present invention,
16 is a view showing the detailed structure of the sorting facility according to the present invention seen from the rear in a state where the support is removed;
FIG. 17 is a view showing a support area viewed from the front in the sorting section of the sorting facility according to the present invention with the sliding drawer removed;
18 is a perspective view of a holder of an embodiment according to the present invention.
Elements of the same kind in the drawings are generally given the same reference numerals. Although a plurality of similar elements may be found in the figures, the reference numerals are not necessarily indicated for all of them.
1 shows a
The sorting
The
In addition, as described below , a postal item is disposed in the sliding
In FIG. 2, the sliding
3 is a view showing the same sliding drawer obliquely from the rear. In this figure in particular the
In FIG. 4, the detail view of the sliding
The separating plate has a protrusion in the front lower region, which is not visible in FIG. 4. For example, the shape of the
5 and 6 show two exemplary embodiments for the
It can be seen that the downwardly directed
The
The thickness of the embodiments of the separator shown is thinned upwards.
In FIG. 7, the sliding
8 shows the detailed structure of FIG. In this figure, in particular, the
The end face of the
9 shows another view of the sliding
10 (a) to 10 (c) schematically show how the sliding
In FIG. 10 (a), the sliding
The state in which the sliding
11 to 13 show the withdrawal process shown in FIG. 10 starting from the state of FIG. 7 in a different perspective view. The state shown in FIG. 7 especially corresponds to FIG. 10 (a), while FIG. 12 corresponds to FIG. 10 (b) and FIG. 13 corresponds to FIG. 10 (c). 11 shows the sliding
In FIG. 14, the sorting installation seen from the rear in the state which removed the rear wall of the
15 shows an embodiment of the
In FIG. 16, the sorting installation was seen from the rear. In this figure, the
Fig. 17 shows what is seen from the front into the rear region of the sorting compartment made in accordance with the invention. This figure shows without the sliding drawer so that the cooperation of the
18 shows an embodiment of a holder constructed in accordance with the invention and configured for four sorting
Possible dimensions for the individual elements are described below but this should only be taken as an example.
The
The holding
The
The separator plate is formed from a plastic plate about 35 cm long and about 21 cm high. In the lower region, the separator has a thickness of 4 mm, which is thinned upwards as can also be seen in FIGS. 5 and 6.
The sliding
The sorting facility according to the invention is assembled as follows. The retaining
The
You can use it like this: The user first selects the distance at which the
Thus, the sorting
The mail can now be sorted with the sliding drawer fitted with the separator plate pushed in. Individual mails are arranged in individual subdivisions corresponding to the delivery area. After the mail has been completely sorted into the individual subdivisions, the sliding
The withdrawal process is also shown in detail in the order of FIGS. 9 and 11-13 starting from the state of FIG. In FIG. 7 the
Now, the user can put his hand into the sliding drawer and push the sorted mails together to the
Thus, the subdivisions of the sorting section with respect to the delivery area are individually emptied one by one each time so that the contents do not need to be placed in a postal bag. Thus, this sorting process, in particular the removal process from the sorting section, is substantially simplified, saving time to a considerable extent than for sorting sections without sliding drawers.
After removal, the
This sorting facility is mechanically operated and therefore very inexpensive and robust.
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10: sorting equipment
12: holder or carcass
14: classification compartment
16: classification compartment
17: shelf
18: sliding drawer
20, 21, 22: separator
23: table
24: base of sliding drawer
26: sidewall
28: center wall
30: rear wall of sliding drawer
32: slot on the rear wall
34: protrusion mounting portion
35: distance of the protrusion mounting portion from the rear wall of the sliding drawer
36: pull out handle
38: guide stub
40: narrow area of the projection mounting portion
42: marker
43: rear edge of separator
44: protrusion
45: chamfered edge of protrusion
46: hook
47: rounded outer part of hook
48: hook opening
49: spacing of protrusions from rear edge of separator
50: retaining rod
52: withdrawal direction
54 support
56 support carrier
58: support extension
60: slot
62: support mount
63: adjusting screw bore
64: screw bore
66: retaining rod mounting
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