CN1845800A - Device for automatically merging manually processable mail flats - Google Patents
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- B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
- B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
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- B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
- B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
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Abstract
According to the invention, movable containers (3) are provided above a section of a section conveyor belt (1) onto which postal items are deposited in the order of distribution. Said containers revolve in a closed transport loop (5) and have a plurality of compartments (4) for one postal item (8) each that can be opened downwardly in a controlled manner. Said compartments (4) can only be emptied when the containers (3) are in a rest position in a sorting station (6). The automatic emptying onto the sections associated with the delivery destinations is carried out in accordance with the recognized destination address of the postal items (8). Once a container (3) is emptied, it is taken to a charging station (9) where the compartments (4) are filled with postal items (8), the compartments (4) containing the postal items (8) are associated with the delivery destinations in accordance with the respective destination address and this association is transmitted to a device for opening the compartments (4) in a controlled manner.
Description
The present invention relates to a kind of by claim 1 device as described in the preamble.
In sending the sophisticated category of article, these are sent article and press assignment order and classify according to sending.
In all known so far automation solutions (DE 199 43 362 A1) of classifying of being used for according to assignment order, wherein also to send article flow or send compile (DE 198 29 484 C1, WO 20,04/,007 102 A1) of stack, but total some send article because its feature (size, rigidity) can only be handled by hand.Just they can not join to mechanization and send in the stack.This finishes by the postman.Reason to this mainly is the specification feature.If these are sent article and are not joined each and send in a little " small packet " or add at least on the tram in the stacking, it is very little that the time that can realize during sending is so saved, and has manual second stacking of sending article because the postman also will handle except " small packet " stacking.
In addition because the automation solution is to carry out in classification center, sends in the article flow or send in the stack and can not finish by the postman in the ordinary course of things what this craft sent that article automation ground adds that mechanization produces to.If the article of sending that can handle by hand must be added (" incorporating into ") to sending in the stack by assignment order mechanization classification by assignment order, so by assignment order mechanization classification send stack usually equally will by the postman again manual sort in identical shelf, in these shelfs, also carry out manual classification of sending article.But this process is very bothersome.
Therefore task of the present invention provides a kind of be used for handling by hand flat and sends the device that article pool together automatically, have a current drainage moving by assignment order automatically classification send article, utilize this device can reduce necessary hand labour.
Solve according to the feature of this task of the present invention by claim 1.
Placed automatically by assignment order above driving on the part of the segmented conveyer belt of sending article and be provided with mobile container, it is in delivery track cocycle of sealing operation, and container has a plurality of shelfs of opening that are controlled to be respectively downwards and respectively is used for one and sends article.Have only when shelf could being emptied when static on the sortation station of container in fixed-site, and this empty automatically be corresponding to the destination address of sending article that is identified with send a corresponding section on carry out.This container is movable to the loading station after a container empties termination, here pack into and send article to shelf, it is corresponding according to sending of each destination address and assignment order to have the shelf of sending article, and this corresponding relation is delivered to and is used to control the device of opening shelf.Further alleviated the burden of manual sort task for thus the postman.
The preferred improvement project of the present invention is described in the dependent claims.
If receiving a shelf of sending article that is on the stand up position, each has the bottom that to open, then help realizing cheap embodiment, open on the sortation station of container the bottom is to be used for will sending article by the executing agency of fixed-site to spill, and this executing agency acts on the corresponding opening mechanism of shelf.
In order to guarantee to make that send article slips in the segmentation of segmented conveyer belt of motion definitely, when shelf recedes with respect to the throughput direction of segmented conveyer belt, be favourable.
Also advantageously,, settled executing agency regularly, be used to close shelf, can reduce the technical fee that shelf opens and closes mechanism thus at the back location of sortation station along the throughput direction of container.
Can separate for the loading and unloading process that makes container, the delivery track of container is arranged like this, the container that has loaded that is about to quantification remains on the enough time on its memory location before load station and/or before the sortation station, vacate up to each station.
Be provided for the load station of manually load shelf, and having one, to be used for the code device that manual input sends the address also be favourable.
In order to reduce online coding fee usefulness, load station has a frame wall and is used for presorting and sending article loading shelf remote holder worker.In this common address explanation, before loading beginning, shelf pre-determines, so that make the article flow of sending that to classify automatically observe affiliated processing sequence by machine control unit for each dispensing section of presorting.Only need encode thus to number.
Also advantageously, for fear of input error, the current range of distribution that will import is shown on the shelf of the display of " loaded " position and frame wall.
With an embodiment the present invention is described with reference to the accompanying drawings below.
Accompanying drawing illustrates:
Fig. 1 shows the diagrammatic top view by device of the present invention;
Fig. 2 shows the diagrammatic side view of the container in sortation station.
As shown in Figure 1, segmented conveyer belt 1 will be sent article 2 (article of sending a little of sending are all arranged) and from left to right be transported to unshowned collection station by assignment order in every section, send article then and collect according to assignment order in collecting station.Also have a packing station before collecting station, the article of sending a little of sending are packed or are wrapped up in this packing station.
Send article 2 and be in the segmentation that after assorting process automatically, is placed on segmented conveyer belt 1.Moving the delivery track 5 of the container 3 of recycled back above the part of segmented conveyer belt 1, this container 3 has a plurality of narrow shelfs of sending article 4 that are in stand up position that respectively are used for.The container 3 that a plurality of asynchronous movements are arranged in a running.This can realize by making each container 3 have oneself a drive unit, the drive unit that this drive unit can not rely on other container 3 activates, perhaps continuous circular flow of continuous conveying device, controllably be coupled and decoupling zero at this conveying device upper container, for example on some holding fix or by static container 3.Making on segmented conveyer belt 1 in sortation station 6 packs into can not stop at the container that sending article 83 that minute time-like is handled automatically, corresponding to the emptying in corresponding segmentation with the corresponding segmentation in address of sending of sending a little and it is known of segmented conveyer belt 1, this also will describe in detail in the back then.
If current container 3 empties on its sortation station 6 fully, if and container 3 preventions that are not positioned at its front move on, then its delivery track 5 by circular flow is transported to load station 9, and in this load station, it stops and manually load in " loaded " position.When loading, also encode to respectively sending article 8 by the operator, that is to say that the operator is input to the data of sending address (destination address) that read in the code device (keyboard) 11.Automatically obtain to send a little by means of a file by these data then, send in this document a little and alternatively its order according to assignment order be corresponding with destination address.To send a little correspondingly then, and and be delivered to and be used for controlling the device of opening shelf 4, the unloading of shelf 4 in sortation station 6 in the segmentation of this device control segmented conveyer belt 1 with each shelf 4.This device will determine that also which conveyer belt segmentation and which send correspondingly, and the conveyer belt segmentation of mistake is positioned at its following time and just corresponding shelf 4 is opened when moving like this.In order to make every coding fee of sending article 8 keep lowly as far as possible, send article 8 and in a frame wall 10, presort by range of distribution (for example street).If, so these ranges of distribution are shown by display that this display is activated by machine control unit, when loading, only need encode thus to number with the sending in the shelf that article 8 are loaded into container of some range of distribution.Not only before load station 9, and before sortation station 6, container 3 can suspend on the memory location, in the station 9,6 below it can be received.
According to Fig. 1, this device is after segmented conveyer belt 1 upper edge throughput direction is positioned at classifier, and it takies segmented conveyer belt 1 automatically.The article 8 of sending that can only handle by hand thus are positioned in each segmentation topmost.This device can certainly be arranged in the classifier front, the manual like this article of handling 8 of sending are located in the bottom.
Showing in detail container 3 in Fig. 2 empties on sortation station 6.Container 3 have a plurality of narrow, be in tilted layout-recede-shelf 4 along the throughput direction of segmented conveyer belt 1, send article 8 and stand in wherein with its narrow side.Each shelf 4 has a bottom that can rotate 13, is provided with a lever that outwards passes on it.When container 3 arrives classification position, can stop.Settled the opening mechanism 12 (for example lifting magnet) of a fixed-site from the side below the lever of propelling container 3 at each.The segmented conveyer belt 1 that loads in classifier moves along the direction of arrow to the right below container 3.A mistake if partition running is just in time arranged below shelf 4, this segmentation have with in this shelf 4 send article 8 identical send point correspondence, then the parts of the motion of opening mechanism 12 are pushed down lever and are made bottom 13 to lower swing from below, send article 8 like this and just paragraph down at this.In order to realize piling up well, shelf 4 tilts to make that sending article 8 slips in the segmentation.When container 3 empties fully, just the throughput direction against segmented conveyer belt 1 continues to carry, this also can carry out along throughput direction, and shutoff device 14 through fixed-site, this shutoff device pushes back its original position with all levers, that is to say to make bottom 13 upwards turn round and again shelf 4 be closed thus.
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1. be used to make manual handle flat to send the device that article (8) compile, have moving in classifier, classify automatically, be placed on of a current drainage and send article (2) on the segmented conveyer belt (1) according to assignment order, this segmented conveyer belt will be sent article (2,8) piecewise and be transported to the collection station, in this collection station, send article (2) and be collected in together, it is characterized in that by assignment order:
-on the part of segmented conveyer belt (1), be provided with mobile container (3), its delivery track (5) cocycle campaign a sealing, and it has a plurality of shelfs of controllably opening (4) respectively downwards and respectively is used for one and sends article (8);
-wherein have only the container (3) in sortation station (6) could empty shelf (4) when remaining static;
-and empty automatically with send a corresponding segmentation on carry out corresponding to the destination address that has identified of sending article (8);
-and after a container (3) emptied termination, this container moved to a load station (9), and shelf (4) loads in this load station sends article (8);
-wherein to have a shelf (4) of sending article (8) corresponding corresponding to sending of each destination address and assignment order, and this corresponding relation is delivered to and is used for control and opens the device of shelf (4).
2. by the described device of claim 1, it is characterized in that: the shelf of sending article (8) (4) that each reception is in stand up position has an openable bottom (13), its executing agency (12) by fixed-site in sortation station (6) opens to be used to make and sends article and fall, and this executing agency acts on the corresponding opening mechanism of shelf (4).
3. by the described device of claim 2, it is characterized in that: described shelf (4) recedes with respect to the throughput direction of segmented conveyer belt (1).
4. by the described device of claim 1, it is characterized in that: in the fixing executing agency (14) of the back location of sortation station (6), be used to close shelf along the throughput direction of container (4).
5. by the described device of claim 1, it is characterized in that: the delivery track (5) of described container (4) constitutes like this, make the container (4) of loading of quantification in load station (9) front and/or sortation station (6) front remain in the memory location, vacate up to each station (6,9).
6. by the described device of claim 1, it is characterized in that: described load station (9) is provided for manually load shelf (4), and has and be used for manual input and send the code device (11) of address,
7. by the described device of claim 6, it is characterized in that: described load station (9) has a frame wall (10) and is used for presorting and sending article (8) loading the preceding craft of shelf (4), and sends the preceding input of article (8) for address explanation in each zone of presorting what shelf is loaded this segmentation.
8. by the described device of claim 7, it is characterized in that: on the shelf of " loaded " position and frame wall (10) display is set, it shows the current dispensing section that will load.
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| DE10342804.6 | 2003-09-16 |
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