EP0597784A1 - Erkennungs- und verarbeitungsweg für Auflageprodukte oder Drucksachen - Google Patents

Erkennungs- und verarbeitungsweg für Auflageprodukte oder Drucksachen Download PDF

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EP0597784A1
EP0597784A1 EP93420450A EP93420450A EP0597784A1 EP 0597784 A1 EP0597784 A1 EP 0597784A1 EP 93420450 A EP93420450 A EP 93420450A EP 93420450 A EP93420450 A EP 93420450A EP 0597784 A1 EP0597784 A1 EP 0597784A1
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Catherine Vignon
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • 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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  • the present invention relates to a line of recognition by optical reading and processing, intended for publishing or printed products such as newspapers, magazines, books and other publications.
  • This invention is of interest to press courier companies, publishers and / or distributors of books and publishers of publications, as well as depositaries and groups of distributors in the press field.
  • a particular problem encountered in the field of publishing and the press consists in collecting, sorting and accounting for unsold products, whether they be journals, magazines, newspapers, books ... Most often, the Sorting of unsold items is still done in the traditional, entirely manual manner, the products being recognized visually by their coverage or by their code number.
  • the publications are deposited manually on the first conveyor, their bar codes being located on their visible upper face.
  • the gradual growth of the conveyor speeds causes the spacing of the publications, necessary for the efficient reading of their bar codes and their orientation towards two or more distinct exit routes.
  • Optical reading makes it possible to identify each publication by its bar code, in combination with the control means which can advantageously be carried out in the form of a microcomputer.
  • the publications can thus be directed selectively on three distinct channels, receiving for example respectively the publications to be sorted, the publications to be destroyed and the publications whose bar code is illegible or not recognized.
  • the invention uses a single standardized and universal recognition element, namely the bar code, which is perfectly defined in advance for a given publication, according to a correspondence table for which a simple setting is necessary in operation over time.
  • a single standardized and universal recognition element namely the bar code
  • the bar code which is perfectly defined in advance for a given publication, according to a correspondence table for which a simple setting is necessary in operation over time.
  • the proposed system makes it possible to establish statistics, by depositary and general, concerning these products, allowing more rigorous controls and a more rational management.
  • the reliability of this accounting should thus allow the system operator to obtain from publishers more authorizations to destroy unsold goods and, consequently, to reduce the costs of sorting and storing these.
  • the identification of the lots of unsold items from each depositary, identifiable by coded separation plates, also allows effective control of the declarations provided by the depositaries, concerning the number of unsold items, this control can be followed by an action with defaulting custodians.
  • the means for orienting the products towards at least two separate exit channels comprise, according to a particular embodiment of the invention, at least one conveyor mounted to pivot and capable of tilting, under the control of the aforementioned control means, for delivering a product to a receptacle located at a lower level.
  • the receptacle associated with a tilting conveyor is for example a conveyor, oriented perpendicular to the line of conveyors and used for the evacuation of products such as unsold products to be destroyed. It can also be a bin, for example receiving products that could not be identified automatically, this bin being located at a workstation where an operator is in charge of the "manual" optical reading of bar codes of these products by means of a reading pistol.
  • Figures 1 and 2 show, as a whole, a recognition and processing line for publishing or printed products.
  • the line notably includes a set of conveyors 1 to 7, all of the endless belt type, which are arranged one after the other, in a horizontal or slightly inclined direction.
  • a table 8 Upstream of the first conveyor 1 is arranged a table 8, constituting a station for receiving and loading the products 9 to be identified and treated. At this station, one or more operators place the products 9 manually and individually on the first conveyor 1, ensuring that their identification bar codes are visible and avoiding any overlapping of these products 9.
  • Successive conveyors 1,2,3 etc ... have different speeds from each other, which are increasing from upstream to downstream so in the direction of advance F of the products 9.
  • all these conveyors 1 to 7 can be driven from a common geared motor 10, by means of transmission members 11 such as endless chains or endless toothed belts, whose arrangement allows '' achieve the desired increasing speeds.
  • transmission members 11 such as endless chains or endless toothed belts, whose arrangement allows '' achieve the desired increasing speeds.
  • a barcode reader device 12 with several cells, in particular an optical "laser” reader, carried by a support frame 13. Upstream of the barcode reader 12 is still arranged, above the same intermediate conveyor 4, a photoelectric cell detector 14, which is carried by lateral uprights 15 and is capable of detecting the front or rear edge of a product 9 arriving under the bar code reader 12 .
  • the bar code reader 12 reads and analyzes the bar code of each product 9, and the sorting direction of this product 9 is determined according to its identification (or non-identification) and data stored in computer files.
  • three sorting directions are provided, namely: products identified to be sorted, products identified to be destroyed, and products not identified, that is to say those whose bar code is illegible or unknown.
  • each of the conveyors 5 and 6 comprises an inclination control, consisting of a motor 17 associated with a reduction gear, and a rod 18 and crank 19 device, the assembly being actuated by a static electrical contactor not shown, itself controlled from the computer processing in the microcomputer 16 and from the detection of passage of the products 9 (detector 14), with appropriate time delays.
  • the two conveyors 5 and 6 are kept horizontal.
  • the product 9 thus reaches the last conveyor 7, which finally delivers it to a table 20 for receiving the products to be sorted. From there, the sorting of the products is done manually or automatically, and according to a more or less large number of directions.
  • the penultimate conveyor 6 tilts and the product 9 is thus directed onto a conveyor 21, perpendicular to the conveyors 1 to 7 and located at a lower level.
  • the conveyor 21 is used to evacuate the products to be destroyed.
  • a manual sorting line is also provided for publishing products grouped in packages.
  • This line comprises a roller conveyor 24, horizontal or slightly inclined, parallel to the conveyors 1 to 7.
  • the bundles of newspapers or magazines are deposited manually at the upstream end of the roller conveyor 24, and at the downstream end, these bundles are taken up manually and distributed towards the direction "to be sorted" materialized by a reception table 25, or towards the direction "to be destroyed” materialized by the aforementioned conveyor 21.
  • This sorting is carried out using the scanning gun 23 already mentioned, which is thus common to two functions, a display indicating the sorting direction as soon as the barcode of a packet is entered.

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EP19930420450 1992-11-12 1993-11-10 Erkennungs- und verarbeitungsweg für Auflageprodukte oder Drucksachen Expired - Lifetime EP0597784B1 (de)

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FR2593416A1 (fr) * 1985-11-29 1987-07-31 Meccanizzazione Postale Automa Dispositif permettant de trier des colis
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FR2528402A1 (fr) * 1982-06-11 1983-12-16 Canziani Francesco Dispositif d'alimentation, en particulier pour des machines de transport et de triage d'objets
DE3306175A1 (de) * 1983-02-23 1984-08-23 Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-Gmbh, 6000 Frankfurt Verfahren zur erkennung und indentifikation von gegenstaenden
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EP3088340A1 (de) 2015-04-29 2016-11-02 Stefan Klotzner System zum automatischen sammeln packung von magazinen und zeitungen für jeden einzelnen zeitungshändler
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