DE2264350C3 - Search system for card-shaped recording media - Google Patents

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The invention relates to a search system for card-shaped recording media with codes at the bottom Edge in which the cards are grouped together and stored in individual departments of a memory and a desired group of these cards controlled by a keyboard by means of a Transport device can be conveyed to a card selection device where the fao A searched card is sorted out, with cards removed earlier from the individual card boxes or new cards until they are sorted into the associated card boxes in separate card boxes are filed. he>

In US-PS 35 36 194 such a search system is described in which the recording medium or Cards are grouped together and stored in individual departments of a memory. By suitable means of transport becomes a desired keyboard controlled group of cards Card selector conveyed where the required card is discarded Time-consuming sorting does not have to be carried out for each card individually the discarded, no longer required cards initially in the buffer or in separate Filing boxes are collected, only to be sorted again at once. However, this has the disadvantage on that cards that are discarded but no longer required are stored in the buffer and are no longer subject to access by the search system.

The object of the invention is to design a search system of the type described above so that all recording media that are not currently being processed can be controlled and found.

This object is achieved in that the system is equipped with a second card selection device is in the during the search process of the first card selection device that in separate boxes stored »cards are also subject to a search process.

Since it can happen that a card is not found because it is wrong in the memory is classified, provides an embodiment of the invention that the card selection device a Detector device for detecting incorrectly classified recording media is assigned and this Detector device is connected to a control signal generator, the detector device from a A further embodiment of the invention provides that the card selection device a further detector device for determining the absence a wanted recording medium is assigned to a control device for the The transport device belongs to the in the case of the lack of a wanted recording medium Searched card case returns to its compartment, the weather detector device from a There is a light source and a photo converter. Accordingly, there is a light source and a photo converter provided in the selector on opposite sides and to the rear of one Remote card case are housed towards the presence of a card located therein Find those not selected d. H. which was not removed as a result of a selection sequence. So if a Card box is fetched and placed in the selection device, the selection device is caused to carry out a selection sequence for selecting all cards, the coded identification information corresponding to the address of this box a wrongly sorted card is not selected and remains completely untouched in the box pile. as such is the wrongly sorted card through the combination of the display device of the photo converter and light source determined and z. B. by a flashing light or the like. Displayed so that the operator then the wrongly sorted card by hand for correct further processing can remove.

The second selection device temporarily saves the documents before they are actually sorted into the respective card boxes for longer periods of time

cuts, ζ. B. once a week. So saves the second or buffer selector e.g. B. temporarily idle new cards to specific periodic weekly Intervals can be transferred to the respective card lists in the storage row field. Furthermore stores the second or buffer selector also temporarily cards that are awaiting fetching from the main selector for further processing were selected. Processing in this regard can consist of the cards on the to bring up to date, to update, to reproduce and dgL Often times, cards are presented on a more or less continuous basis during the taken all day from the main selection device from the respective card boxes in order to continue writing them, to duplicate or dgL, the process of updating or duplicating only at a time during the day, e.g. B. at the end of the day, is made. In such a case, the continuously picked cards will get their revenge Find transferred from the main selector to the buffer selector

As the main selector and the buffer selector at the same time as an accompanying process a card box locating and search process are searched, the card is fetched on command, notwithstanding the fact that they are due to: m expected copying process or the like is not in their respective box Cards during replication or propagation neither in the buffer selector nor in available in the relevant card case. Du »does not pose a serious disadvantage, however, especially considering that all of the cards in the system can be found during most of the day are ready, although many have been picked out of the respective card cases during the day and in the Buffer selector have been saved for further processing.

An embodiment of the invention is based on the Drawings described in more detail. It shows

F i g. 1 is a perspective view of the search system according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, in which the relative orientation of the storage rows suitable for finding, the main selection device and the Buffer selector devices are shown;

2 shows a partially cut-out schematic Representation of the storage rows of the card boxes, the fetcher and the main selection device;

F i g. 3A-3E are schematic perspective views of a Selection device in connection with the cards, the plate, the sorting and locking bars and the movable one Magnets during the various stages of card selection

To facilitate understanding of the search system according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, first the apparatus shown in Figures 3A-3E This has a housing 13 and a stationary, horizontally arranged flat plate 20 carrying a pile of unsorted standing cards 22 All cards have in common a transversely aligned one elongated magnet 24, which engages with the bits inserted in the front edges of the cards 22 23 of ferromagnetic material is in alignment and has a drawer-like structure 26 The suspension in the housing 13 permits sliding displacement from an outer position (FIG. 3E) an inner position (Fig.3A, 3B). There can be multiple card sets, each on different Territories related represent a map storage system in conjunction with a single selection device. However, in such a multi-rate card system with only one selection device, only one at a time a single set of cards at a given time are entered into the selection device for search purposes, while the other decks of cards are housed and stored away from the selector are.

3A-3E clearly show that a card 22 each has a toothed sorting edge 32, which alternates with the teeth 34-1 to 34-6 and the Notches 35-1 to 35-6 are provided. Each of the teeth 34-1 to 34-6 can be coded in binary form by optional removal, e.g. by notching, of the tooth will. The sorting edge 32, preferably the lower tooth edge, also has a locking notch 36, which is located between the group of encodable teeth 34 and the registration notches 35, the transverse lying card edge 38 is referred to as "trailing edge". Next to the locking notch 36 is located a distal portion 40 of the card that lies between the Locking notch 36 and the trailing edge 38 harbors the cards 22 also have ferromagnetic Pieces 23 which are inserted into the card at the corner of the sorting edge 32.

If the cards of a set or pile in the selector are not selected in their normal Position on the selection plate 20, the registration notches 35-1 to 35-6 and the locking notch 36 are located with a plurality of transversely lying sorting bars 48-1 to 48-6 and the locking bar 50 in alignment, the transverse are arranged for all cards and are common to all cards. There are both the sorting bars 48-1 to 48-6 and the locking bar 50 in the slots in the correct position formed in the upper surfaces of the plate 20. The bars 48-1 to 48-6 and 50 can be raised in the vertical direction from a return position in which their upper edges come to lie exactly against the upper surface 20a, and in their associated notches 35-1 to 35-6 and 36, respectively the cards in storage position penetrate. A Raising the rods 48-1 to 48-5 and 50 is achieved by solenoids (not shown) the z. B. by a control panel (also not shown) can be controlled with a keyboard.

In the case of a pile of cards lying correctly on the plate 20, from which one card 22 or several with a specific code, e.g. B. the card 22a from which teeth 34-2 and 34-6 were removed from one Select group of cards 226 in the joint where teeth 34-2 and 34-6 are not removed, the relevant sorting bars 48 are raised above the plate surface 20a to the setting position, In particular, the sorting bars 48-2 and 48-6, which correspond to the removed tooth pattern of the desired Card 22a correspond, lifted into the position shown in Fig.3B. Are the sorting bars

w> 48-2 and 48-6 once in the setting position, the desired cards 22a, in which the teeth 34-2 and 34-6 are removed, laterally in the direction 46a of the arrow 46 be shifted over a distance that equals a tooth width so that an onset

ti i separation of the desired cards 22a of the pile of cards 22 from the undesired cards 22b comes about. The undesired cards 226, in which the teeth 34-2 and / or 34-6 are not removed, are produced

but prevented from lateral displacement in the direction indicated by arrow 46a by one or both of the sorting rods or sorting rods 48-2 and 48-6 which are in the set position or are raised and which in this setting position with the teeth 34-2 and 34-6 of the undesired cards Z2b become mechanically disruptive.

If, if the sorting bars 48-2 and 48-6 match the pattern of the removed teeth of the desired card 22a, these bars are in the setting position, the magnet 24, which is suspended in the manner of a drawer, is moved in the direction 46a indicated by the arrow 46a over a spatial section which is equal to a width of a tooth, shifted to the position shown in Fig.3C. The cards which can move freely, ie the desired cards 22a, move with the magnet 24 by a tooth width, whereby a separation of the desired and the undesired cards is initiated. By displacing the desired cards 22a, the removed section 40 of the desired cards opposite the locking bar SO are brought into alignment in this way. The undesired cards 226 are not displaced in the direction 46a indicated by the arrow 46 due to the engagement of the sorting bars 48-2 or 48-6 which are in the set position with one or more of the teeth 34-2 and 34-6 which have not been removed. As a result, the locking notches 36 of the unwanted cards 22b remain in alignment with the locking bar 50. At this point, the initial or exit phase of the card selection process is then over.

A further separation of the desired cards 22a from the undesired cards 22b of the stack 22, in order to carry out the final card selection phase of the search process, is achieved by lifting the locking rod 50 into the setting position and by returning the sorting rods 48-2 and 48-6 (FIG 3D) reached into the non-adjusted position. Adjustment of the locking bar 50 has the effect that the undesired cards 22b of the stack 22 absolutely cannot move in the direction 46a of the arrow 46 as a result of the continued movement of the magnet 24. Resetting or lowering the adjusted sort bars 48-2 and 48-6 after the initial card selection phase allows the selected cards 22a to move in the direction 46a of arrow 46 upon the movement of the magnet 24 due to the alignment of the removed portion 40 with the raised or adjusted The locking bar 50 is in the set position and the sorting bars 48 are all in their lower reset position, the magnet 24 is advanced further in the direction 46a indicated by the arrow 46 to position (3E), whereby the desired cards 22a are further separated from the undesired cards 226 . At this point the final card selection phase of the search sequence or the card finding process is over.

The search system according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, in which the card selection device 8 (Figs. 3A-3E) a significant element in the plant according to FIG. 1 and 2, in addition to that in Relation to the type shown in FIGS. 3A-3E the selection device 8-1 a measuring memory or Receipt bank 60 with a plurality of accessible stacks or piles of cards 22, but generally the The stacks described in connection with the selector 8 of Figures 3A-3E are similar. the Card stacks 22 are in separate card boxes 11 stored or stored In a preferred embodiment of the receipt bank 60 there are sixty such card boxes 11, which are combined into four stacked stacks of fifteen each. the Card boxes U can use a control panel 10 with keyboard by entering a z. B. off Digits existing card address found or made accessible and the fixed card selection-ο device 8-1 are fed.

The system according to the invention, as shown in FIG. 1 has two independent buffer selectors 8-2 and 8-3, each of which has a card box 11-2 and 11-3 with cards 22-2 and

! 5 22-3 are assigned The number of used Buffer selectors can be smaller or larger as needed. The independent buffer selectors 8-2 and 8-3 look for their respective card boxes 11-2 and 11-3 of the encoded cards 22-2 and 22-3 while searching for the cards 22-1 of the in the Selection device 8-1 located card box 11-1. Boxes 11-2 and 11-3 of the selection devices 8-2 and 8-3 can be used in whole or in part in Compartments can be subdivided to accommodate the cards with a view to the particular function to be performed.

It can e.g. B. Box 11-2 of the selector 8-2 as a whole for temporarily picking up new cards, e.g. B. serve for a day or a week; thereafter, the cards are finally deposited in the bank 60 in the case of the temporary deposit new cards that finally go to bank 60, these cards are in box 11-2 of the Buffer selector 8-2 for the search and

! 5 selection process available, although the new Card has not yet been placed in its special box U, which is normally stored in bank 60 If z. B. a new, intended for storage in a card case 11 card within the bank 60 is first inserted into the card case 11-2 of the buffer selector 8-2 and such If card is then to be found out, the card is selected even if it is not on its own Box stands The only difference to the selection of one in box 11-1 of the selector 8-1 stored card consists in selecting the new cards by ejecting them from the card case 11-1, which is displayed in the selection device 8-1. The others can do the same

ίο card boxes like 11-3 of the buffer selection device 8-3, the cards fetched from the bank 60 are determined with a view to others to be executed To save functions temporarily. So it is B. required for certain systems that are in

t5 the card boxes 11 of the receipt bank 60 stored To pick out and copy cards 22 periodically. For example, at the end of one day, they become the Copying picked cards and removed from compartments 11-35 and copied afterwards

• λ are the cards then in compartments 11-34? to the Resorting given.

It is important, however, that the data from the receipt bank 60 selected for copying, reproducing and updating and in their respective copy,

t >> Duplication and Update Sections 11-3A 11-34 11-3C in the attachment remain and can be found at any time, except during the short period of time in which they actually

taken from their respective card cases at the end of the day for duplication, copying or updating will.

As shown in FIG. 2 can be seen, opposite left and right matrices 61 and 62 of the individual card box storage rows Q which are arranged on opposite sides and are open to a central aisle 63. In this corridor 63, which separates the left matrix 6t from the right matrix 62, there is a card box fetcher 64. This fetcher 64 conveys the selected card boxes 11 between the respective rows C and the selection device 8-1 according to the control via the console 10 ( Fig. 1). The left matrix 61 of the rows C has a front standing column or a stack 6t F of the front rows C and a rear stack 61 /? of the back rows C, each stack preferably having fifteen such superimposed rows. Similarly, the right matrix 62 has a front stack 62F and a back stack 62 /? of each preferably fifteen superimposed rows. The number of columns or stacks per matrix and / or the number of rows per column can be varied and adapted to the respective purposes of use.

To determine whether a card 22a-1, to which addresses have been entered via the keys 10, has now been selected by the selection device 8-1 after the fetcher 64 has found its associated card case and placed it on the plate 20-3 as a result of a card search operation was, is - as F i g. 1 shows a photo converter 270 and an associated light source 271 are provided. The light source 271 is arranged on the main frame MF to the right of the card case placed in the selection device and directs a beam 273 in the Y-direction over the path of the cards 22a-1, which are selected by the card case and then by the advance of the magnet 24-, which is suspended like a drawer. 1 have been partially removed. The photo transducer 270 is located on the main frame MF in a left of the card case in order to receive the beam 273 when it is not interrupted by a selected card 22a-1. If the beam 273 emitted by the source 271 is now received by the photo converter 270 on a card selection made by the selection device 8-1, in which the magnet 24-1 has been advanced into the position shown in FIG this is an indication that a card 22 has not been removed from the card case 11-1 and that the card selection made has in fact not found the desired card To generate a suitable signal for control purposes, so that the transport device 64 feeds the card case back to its compartment C by a command

A second light source 275 and a further photo converter 276 are provided for automatic detection of whether a card 22 stored in a card case 11-1 that has been searched for has been incorrectly sorted, ie does not belong there. The light source 275 is located on the main frame to the right of the card case parked in the selection device 8-1 in a position that it emits a horizontal beam in the Y-axis through the on the rear portion of the crosswinds 75 and 77 between the dividers 82 and the common Divider and support walls 91 formed and aligned holes H therethrough. The photo transducer 276 is linked to the main frame AfF to the left of the parked card case 11-1 so that it is aligned with the holes H and is able to receive the beam 277 if it is not interrupted by one contained in the card case 11-1 Card that has not been advanced to the pile of cards under the action of the magnet 24-1 according to the card selection process.

ίο When the system is operated, an in the Device 8-1 parked card box 11-1 stored card that was incorrectly sorted therein, thereby determined by only entering the corresponding address digits into the keyboard 10, with a There is no need to enter additional identification numbers as a result of only receiving card box identification numbers - if the addressed box has already been picked out from its compartment by the fetcher 64 and clicked on the Selection device 8-1 was set - all the im Chosen box 11-1 located cards partially pulled out with the in the keyboard given card box identification numbers are encoded. Any card removed from card box 11-1 dated

Magnet 24-1 has not been partially pulled out not encoded with the entered identification numbers. The unselected cards remain completely in the Box back and interrupt the beam 277 emitted by the light source 275. The absence the reception of the beam by the photoconductor 276 can lead to the generation of a control signal used to detect the presence of an incorrectly sorted in the box on the selector Map. The control signal can be used to

Operation of a signal light, buzzer or the like.

used so that the wrongly sorted card can then be removed by the operator and fed to the correct compartment 11-3D.

Periodically, the

Buffer selectors 8-2 and 8-3 are located Cards their respective boxes U of the receipt bank 60 after the so-called reconstitution process are fed. According to this renewal process, the card box become recognition digits of all card boxes one after the other. For example, the card box identification code 00 is displayed over the Keyboard 10 entered, from which the box 00 from the Tray or the row C-OO of the receipt bank is found and brought to the selection device 8-1.

so after it has been deposited in the device 8-1, cycle through all of the selectors 8-3,8-2 and 8-1 a card selection sequence to search out all cards encoded with the card box address 0 and can be partially pulled out. Those from the card boxes 11-2 and 11-3 of the buffer selectors 8-2 and 8-3 partially withdrawn cards are the cards which belong in the card case 00 and are therefore manually selected from the buffer selection devices 8-2 and 8-3 removed and in the card case 00 located in the selection device 8-1 inserted, which is then returned to the compartment C-OO. The address numbers of the Card box 01 entered via the keyboard, whereupon this fetched from the compartment GOl and in the Selector 8-1 is turned off. Then will all cards belonging to this box are selected by selectors 8-1,8-2 and »3 from the buffer selectors 8-2 and 8-3

selected cards are then removed by hand and placed in the card case 01 in the selection device sorted The card case is then returned to its compartment C-Ol and the process is continued for the remaining card boxes 02, 03, ... 59 are repeated

After this so-called reconstitution process, all in the buffer selection devices 8-2 and 8-3 at predetermined time intervals, e.g. daily or weekly, in the respective card boxes 01, 02, ... 59 of the document bank 60 be properly classified. In addition, according to this method and with the aid of the detector device 275, 276 the wrongly sorted cards for

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Reconstitution procedures are determined, d. H. if a card case, e.g. B. the code 01, entered and the card box 01 fetched in the selection device turned off and the selection process carried out

s so that all cards that have the identification number 01 are partially withdrawn, any remaining card interrupts the beam 277. This causes the detector device 275, 276 to generate a signal that the presence a card that is not partially pulled out as an incidental circumstance to the card selection process and thus indicates the presence of an incorrectly sorted card.

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Claims (7)

1 claims: 1. Search system for card-shaped recording media with codes at the bottom where the Cards are grouped together and stored in individual departments of a memory and one desired group of these cards controlled by a keyboard by means of a transport device is conveyable to a card selection device, where the A searched card is sorted out, whereby the individual card boxes removed earlier Cards or new cards until they are sorted into the associated card boxes in separate card boxes are filed, characterized that the system is equipped with a second card selection device (8-2) in which during the search process of the first card selection device (8-1) the cards placed in separate boxes are also subject to a search process. 2. Search system according to claim 1, characterized in that that the card selection device (8-1) has a detector device (275,276) for determining incorrectly classified recording medium is assigned - 3. Search system according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that the detector device (275, 276) a control signal generator is assigned 4. Search system according to claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the detector device consists of a light source (275) and a photo converter (276) 5. Search system according to claim 1, characterized in that that the card selection device (8-1) has a further detector device (270, 271) for Determining the absence of a searched record carrier is assigned 6. Search system according to claims 1 and 5, characterized in that the further detector device (270,271) belongs to a control device for the transport device (64) in the case the lack of a wanted recording medium (22a-1) the card case (11-1) again feeds into its compartment 7. Search system according to claims 1, 5 and 6, characterized in that the further detector device consists of a light source (271) and a photo converter (270).