EP0608161B1 - Dispositif de stockage temporaire d'objets plats - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a device for temporary storage of flat objects, especially for machines postal sorting.
- Such a device is notably described in the application FR-A-2 677 626 and in the patent application European EP-A-0 480 822.
- the temporary storage device includes a drum rotary equipped at its periphery with several grooves longitudinal and arranged in the extension of a entry conveyor on which flat objects circulate a to one following a given direction in a weakly plane tilted vertically.
- a flat object leaves the input conveyor, its longitudinal bottom edge is received in one of the drum grooves and its rear side comes to bear against one of the pallets of a conveyor reception moved in synchronism with the drum.
- the drum turns a quarter turn, the flat object is held parallel to itself by conjugate advancement of the conveyor reception and its bottom edge is presented in an area nip between a drum edge and a roller motorized which injects the object into the bucket an output conveyor located below.
- the next groove in the drum is presented in the extension of the entry conveyor to receive a new flat object leaning against another pallet of the receiving conveyor.
- Such a device is suitable for operating the delay line type, but it is not suitable for operate in stacker-destacker, that is to say when the moving flat objects between the entry and exit of the device is not synchronous.
- EP-A-0 480 822 also describes a delay line type temporary storage device using two motorized helical spirals which receive one by one the flat objects circulating according to a direction given in an input conveyor, move them in synchronism, one by one, in an orthogonal direction to their direction in the input conveyor, and the deliver to an exit station where they are ejected individually in buckets of an output conveyor located under the helical spiral device.
- Such a device is a technical achievement delicate, in particular due to the cantilever mounting of the helical spirals and the need to plan between the input conveyor and the helical spirals of the arms adjustable with drive belts capable of directing one by one flat objects to a suitable position along helical spirals. Furthermore, as in the case of the patent application FR-A-2 677 626, the device described in this document EP-A-0 480 822 can only operate in mode delay line.
- Document US-A-3,519,145 describes a device for temporary storage consisting of two superimposed wheels with regularly distributed radial fins and defining two by two of the boxes suitable for receiving flat objects.
- the two coaxial and superimposed wheels are separated by a disc with a slot and a second disc also provided with a slot is provided under the wheel lower.
- the two wheels and the intermediate disc are motorized, while the lower disc is fixed.
- the radial cells march past an entrance conveyor from which they receive one by one of the letters.
- letters from the input conveyor can be transferred from the upper wheel to the lower wheel through the slot of the intermediate disc, and of the lower wheel towards an output conveyor through the disc slot fixed lower.
- Such a device operates in stacker-destacker mode, that is, the upper wheel receives the letters at flow of the inlet conveyor and the lower wheel delivers at the output conveyor flow.
- the device plays so the role of a buffer in which flat objects can stay for varying lengths of time if there is no synchronization between the input flow and the flow of exit.
- the device of the document US-A-3,519,145 presents a number of limitations. This is how its storage capacity is depending on the number of boxes in the wheels, boxes which must be narrow enough to maintain letters in a substantially vertical position while having a entry opening of sufficient width to ensure the introduction one by one of the letters from the entry conveyor.
- Increasing the capacity of storage therefore requires an increase in the diameter of wheels and a decrease in the angle at the center formed between the walls of a hut. but this increase leads quickly to a significant bulk of the device.
- the increase in the diameter of the wheels is also reflected by an increase in weight likely to pose inertia problems for stepper wheel drive upper in synchronism with the inlet conveyor and the lower wheel in synchronism with the conveyor exit.
- this temporary storage device offers no possibility modulation according to the space available between inlet conveyor and outlet conveyor, which can be variable from one machine to another.
- the letters are necessarily evacuated to the exit conveyor without be able to be directed to another direction, for example in case of non-recognition of address.
- a device for temporary storage of flat objects in accordance the preamble of claim 1 is also known from document DE-B-1 121 866
- the invention aims to provide a storage device temporary which allows, without deterioration, to transfer individually at high speed and safely flat objects of an entry conveyor, on which said objects move in the same plane in a direction data, to an output conveyor.
- Another object of the invention is to provide such a storage device that is simple in design and few expensive, while offering great safety high flow operation for heavy objects and variable dimensions in large ranges.
- a temporary storage device intended to receive one by one of an input conveyor for flat objects passing through a same plane in a first direction and to move them one by one to an output conveyor, said device comprising a station fixed receiving and stopping in a slightly inclined position on the vertical of said flat objects coming from said input conveyor and a receiving conveyor comprising a plurality of movable receptacles on at least part of their journey in a second direction substantially orthogonal to said first direction, each receptacle being able to receive a flat object resting in a weak position inclined on the vertical and to move it towards the exit conveyor, characterized in that said post reception desk is interposed in said part of the path of said receptacles and has a shape combined with that of said receptacles so that an object resting on said post reception is transferred in said second direction by a receptacle resting in a receptacle during the passage of the latter in the plan of said reception station.
- the movement of said receptacles and movement of said objects dishes in said input conveyor are synchronized for ensure the transfer of a flat object from said reception in a receptacle in the time interval separating the arrivals in said reception station from said flat object and the next flat object.
- said fixed reception station comprises a plate arranged according to said orientation slightly inclined to the vertical and having several cutouts parallel to each other extending from one of its edges and each receptacle includes a comb with parallel teeth arranged so that they can pass through said cuts.
- the receiving conveyor can be designed so that receptacles describe their movement in a horizontal plane or in a vertical plane.
- the length of the conveyor, and by therefore the storage capacity of the device can, all other things being equal, be optimized by as a function of these space constraints.
- the device storage according to the invention can be adapted for operate in delay line mode, stacker-destacker mode FIFO ("First in First out") type or in FILO type stacker-destacker ("First in last out").
- a temporary storage device 1 for flat objects is interposed between an input conveyor 2 with belts 3 and 4 and an outlet conveyor 5 with buckets 6.
- the temporary storage device 1 comprises a fixed reception and stop station 7 comprising a plate 8 slightly inclined to the vertical by an angle of preferably between 10 and 20 ° and arranged in the extension of the input conveyor 2.
- the plate 8 presents from its lateral edge opposite the input conveyor 2 of the cutouts horizontal 9 extending over most of its length.
- An articulated and motorized flap 10 having a concavity facing upwards is arranged horizontally along the lower edge of the plate 8 so as to make projection on the side of the front face of this plate, which is the one visible in figure 1.
- the temporary storage device 1 comprises also a receiving conveyor 11 consisting of several carriages 12 (only one of which is shown in the Figure 1) driven along a horizontal loop path closed as shown in Figure 6.
- each carriage 12 comprises a receptacle defined by a comb 13 whose teeth 14 are horizontal and by retaining means 15 from the lower longitudinal edge of the flat object intended for be received in the receptacle.
- the dimensions and the spacing of the teeth 14 of the comb 13 are chosen in such a way that they can pass through the cutouts 9 of the plate 8 during the gripping stroke of the carriages 12 in the direction F1, which is orthogonal to the direction F2 of displacement of flat objects on the input conveyor 2.
- the number of teeth and spacing between teeth are chosen from so as to keep the objects in the receptacle throughout the range of permissible dimensions, being understood that the smallest object must be in support at minus two zones depending on its height.
- the teeth 14 of the comb 13 and the retaining means 15 are carried by a console 16, itself suspended from a structure 17 with rollers 18 for rolling and guiding on a T-rail 19 forming part of the structure 20 of the conveyor reception 11.
- the bearing and guide structure 17 is coupled to a drive means 21 such as a chain or a cable passing over a driving wheel 22 and a wheel reference 23 (figure 6).
- the retaining means 15 of the carriages 12 are arranged horizontally under the lower tooth 14 of the comb 13, at enough distance from this tooth to leave a passage to the lower part of the plate 8 and to the flap 10 when the carriage 12 passes through the plane of the reception 7.
- the retaining means 15 comprise a frame 24 carrying a fixed flap 25 arranged horizontally, the lower part extends substantially in the plane of the comb 14 while its upper part is bent towards the rear relative to the plane of the comb 13, considering the direction F1 of advancement of the carriage. This curved part backwards is intended to prevent light objects and deformable to escape out of the receptacle under the tooth bottom of the comb.
- the retaining means 15 include a second substantially flat flap 26 and ending in a rim 27 folded down on the front side of the carriage.
- the flap 26 is articulated around an axis of rotation 28 itself allowing to switch between a weak position inclined to the horizontal as shown in Figure 3 and a strongly inclined position in which the flaps 25 and 26 define between them a gravity ejection slot of a flat object.
- the flaps 25 and 26 define a horizontal edge dihedral 29, open upwards, in which the edge comes to rest lower a flat object P taken from the reception station 7.
- the motorized shutter 10 of the reception and stop station 7 is articulated around a horizontal axis 30 so as to ability to quickly switch between the position of restraint shown in solid lines and the position of release of an object represented in phantom on the Figure 3.
- the shape and dimensions of the flap 10 and its relative position with respect to the retaining means 15 are chosen so as to allow its retraction towards the rear when a carriage 12 is substantially present in the plan of the reception and stop station 7.
- flap 10 releases the lower edge of a flat object P which can fall substantially parallel to itself in the aforementioned dihedral while coming to bear by its rear face against the comb 13 which, like the plate 8, is substantially inclined on the vertical from an angle between 10 and 20 ° approximately in order to maintain the position by gravity of the flat objects on the receptacles of the carts.
- the tilting of the flaps 10 and 26 is controlled by conventional motorization means not shown, by example a stepping motor for shutter 10 and a mechanism with spring and electromagnet for each flap 26.
- each carriage 12 is associated with a movable jogging plate 31 connected to the console support 16 by a shock absorber 32, for example of the type hydraulic.
- the jogging plate is arranged in a plane vertical perpendicular to the plane of the associated comb 13 and extends forward relative to it so that the plate 31 protrudes from the front side of the plate 8 when the comb of the corresponding carriage is still found behind this turntable.
- the conveyor 2 includes an output motorized pulley or the like shown in phantom in Figure 1 and providing a pinching flat objects to ensure their introduction complete in reception station 7.
- the flat object P1 which was conveyed at the outlet of the inlet conveyor 2 substantially with the same inclination as that of the plate 8, finishes its race in the reception and stop station 7 where it is braked by friction on plate 8 and its front edge comes to rest against the jogging plate 31 thanks to the associated damper 32 which preferably has a damping frequency of around 0.3 hertz.
- the carriage 12 arrives substantially in the plane of the plate 7 and, as described previously, the flap 10 swings down and releases the flat object P1 which is received in the means of retainer 15 of the carriage 12 as shown in FIG. 5 (on which, as is the case in Figures 4 and 6, all the combs were not shown for reasons of clarity).
- the movement of the carriages 12 and the movement of flat objects in the input conveyor 2 are synchronized to ensure the transfer of a flat object from receiving station 7 in a carriage receptacle 12 in the time interval between arrivals at the post reception 7 of this flat object and of the following flat object.
- This synchronization is ensured, for example, by controlling by conventional means the movement of carriages 12 at constant speed and by slaving the introduction of a flat object into the input conveyor 2 depending on the passage of a carriage 12 through a position determined.
- the object P1 is being introduced by gravity in a bucket 6 of the output conveyor 5 under the effect of tilting the flap 26 which released the edge object P1.
- a P2 object is being gripped by the next carriage, while a third object P3 is still on the conveyor input 2.
- the carriages 12 are synchronized in speed and in phase with the buckets 6 of the outlet conveyor 5.
- the temporary storage device which has just been described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 6 has an operation of the delay line type, i.e. all objects are delivered to the output conveyor with a constant delay by compared to their entry into the device.
- a device as described above makes it possible to treat objects with a maximum length of 381 mm, a thickness maximum of 20 mm with a conveying speed on the input conveyor 2 equal to 1.85 meters / second.
- the time of minimum clearance is 70 milliseconds, allowing clear the thickest object (20 mm) while having a 10 mm safety margin before injecting the object following. This time allows to accept desynchronizations between objects (advance or delay of the object) in a range of 120 milliseconds (+ 50 milliseconds, - 70 milliseconds).
- the device allows accepting debits higher with higher conveying speeds up to about 3 m / s on the input conveyor 2 while keeping the vertical and horizontal jogging of the objects, for masses up to about 1kg.
- the device described also has the advantage of accepting catches multiples of objects without risk of jamming.
- FIG. 7 illustrating a variant in which the elements counterparts but in different forms from those represented in Figures 1 to 6 are designated by the same reference increased by the number 100.
- the temporary storage device of Figure 7 essentially differs from that shown in Figures 1 to 6 by the fact that the carriages 112 carry out their displacement in a plane which is vertical instead of being horizontal, the teeth 114 of the combs 113 being arranged in vertical planes, while the overall plan of the comb retains inclination backwards between 10 and 20 ° approximately.
- the cutouts 109 of the plate 108 of the reception and stop station 107 are arranged in vertical planes and the jogging plate lateral 131 is fixed and is part of the receiving station and 107.
- This jogging plate 131 is mounted on a fixed support 140 by means of a shock absorber hydraulic 132 of the same type as the shock absorbers 32, but having a damping frequency at least equal to the flow objects from the conveyor 2.
- the means of retaining the lower longitudinal edge of the flat objects are constituted by fixed legs 110 formed by parts of the plate curved substantially horizontally towards the front and terminated by an upward facing rim and intended to retain and guide the lower edge of objects upon receipt.
- These legs 110 are separated by the cutouts 109 which extend from the bottom of the stage 108.
- these cutouts 109 have heights different, the three cutouts closest to the input conveyor 2 having for example a height greater than the three most distant cuts like shown in Figure 7.
- the teeth 114 of combs 113 have different heights which are chosen so as to ensure the retention of objects throughout the range of admissible dimensions and to allow the passage of comb through the receiving plate 108.
- These teeth of reduced height are intended to facilitate entry downstream objects out of the carts by a mechanism including a example will be given next to figure 8.
- the retaining means 115 are constituted by a flat or slightly concave plate preferably having an adherent upper surface from which the comb teeth 114 extend.
- the foot of each tooth 114 is fitted with a wedge-shaped hoof and suitable slope to clear the bottom edge of an object flat above the upward-facing edges plate 108 when this object is released by a carriage 112.
- the operation of the device of FIG. 7 is similar to that described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 6, with this difference near that the release of the bottom edge of a flat object on the receiving station 7 a place by simple lateral translation of the lower edge of the object under the effect of driving the comb 113, until the bottom edge falls from the 110 hooves on the retaining plate 115 whose adherent surface prevents dragging of the object, after which the object is caught loaded by the cart that received it.
- the storage device temporary 101 operates in the stacker-destacker mode of FIFO type, i.e. a mode in which the first object dish entering the device is the first to exit.
- This device 101 is of the type described in FIG. 7 in which, in addition, the carriages 112 are controlled step by step to present themselves at the reception and stop station 107 in synchronism with the arrival of an object. They are then disengaged from their drive means at 141 by any known suitable means, such as for example the mechanisms used for disengaging the cabins of a gondola at the ascent and descent stations of users. From station 141, the carriages 112 are therefore advanced over a distance l at reduced speed and come to bear against each other so that the outlet conveyor 106 is fed at constant pitch for feeding the device 101 by the conveyor 102 which can be of variable pitch (we do not call the nominal time interval which separates the passage of two consecutive objects by the same position).
- an unstacking mechanism 142 comprising an arm likely to perform movements at once following the F1 direction back and forth and in one plane vertical inclined in this direction.
- This arm moved by a motor 143 carries suction cups 144 which are applied against the flat object to be grasped during its advance at low speed by the carriage 112 which carries it.
- the arm of the mechanism 142 runs in the direction of arrow F1 to accompany the movement of the object and the carriage which door, then the arm performs a lateral movement which has for effect of escaping the flat object from the comb of the carriage and to present it at the entrance of the exit conveyor 106.
- a such unstacking mechanism with reciprocating arms and suction cups is described in particular in the patent French No. 2 615 840 to which reference may be made.
- unstacking mechanisms can be used to extract flat objects from the storage 101, for example a belt mechanism suction mounted oscillating so that it can accompany the movement of the flat object during its capture on the cart.
- a belt mechanism suction mounted oscillating so that it can accompany the movement of the flat object during its capture on the cart.
- Such a mechanism includes at least two belts horizontal arranged in a substantially vertical plane and whose dimensions and spacing allow the passage of comb of carts. In this case, of course, the combs should have horizontal teeth as in the example Figures 1 to 6.
- the carriages 112 After passing through the object unstacking area flat, the carriages 112 are engaged to an area of storage located at the bottom of the conveyor and not visible in Figure 8. From this storage area, the carriages are again engaged so as to present to the reception and stop station 107 in synchronism with the arrival of an object as indicated previously.
- FIG. 9 represents another embodiment of the temporary storage device in which the latter works in FILO type stacker-destacker mode, i.e. that the first object entering the device is the last to leave.
- the receiving station plate and stop 207 consists of two suction belts perforated 208a-208b arranged horizontally so as to ability to pass combs 213 between teeth 214 when these pass through the reception station plan and stop 207.
- the belts 208a-208b are moved so intermittent as will be described below.
- the post of reception and stop 207 is supplemented by means 210 of the lower longitudinal edge of flat objects, this medium 210 consisting of a fixed plate provided of notches 244 in which can engage hooves 245 carried by the combs 213 at their lower part.
- objects from the entry conveyor 202 arrive one by one at the reception and stop 207 from where they are removed one by one by the carriages 212 moving in the direction of the arrow F1 (figure 9).
- a buffer stock of flat objects is thus set up downstream of reception station 207, in the direction of arrow F1.
- the belts 208a and 208b are stopped and no depression applied to them.
- the carriages 212 are moved opposite direction and the perforated belts 208a and 208b are driven in the direction indicated by the arrow F3.
- An object flat brought into abutment against these belts by a carriage 212 is pressed against them under the effect of depression which is then applied to them, then trained towards outlet conveyor 206.
- the reception and stop station 207 plays both the role of stacking and unstacking means depending on the phase of operation of the device.
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- Dispositif de stockage temporaire (1 ; 101 ; 201) destiné à recevoir un à un d'un convoyeur d'entrée (2 ; 102 ; 202) des objets plats défilant dans un même plan suivant une première direction (F2) et à les déplacer un à un vers un convoyeur de sortie (5 ; 106 ; 206), ledit dispositif comprenant un poste fixe de réception et d'arrêt (7 ; 107 ; 207) dans une position faiblement inclinée sur la verticale desdits objets plats en provenance dudit convoyeur d'entrée et un convoyeur de réception (11) comprenant une pluralité de réceptacles mobiles (12 ; 112 ; 212) sur au moins une partie de leur trajet selon une seconde direction (F1) sensiblement orthogonale à ladite première direction, chaque réceptacle étant apte à recevoir un objet plat en appui dans une position faiblement inclinée sur la verticale et à le déplacer vers le convoyeur de sortie, caractérisé en ce que ledit poste fixe (7 ; 107 ; 207) de réception est interposé dans ladite partie du trajet desdits réceptacles et a une forme conjuguée de celle desdits réceptacles (12 ; 112 ; 212) de sorte qu'un objet en appui sur ledit poste fixe de réception se trouve transféré selon ladite seconde direction par un réceptacle en appui dans ce dernier lors du passage dudit réceptacle dans le plan dudit poste de réception.
- Dispositif selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le mouvement desdits réceptacles (12 ; 112 ; 212) et le mouvement desdits objets plats dans ledit convoyeur d'entrée (2 ; 102 ; 202) sont synchronisés pour assurer le transfert d'un objet plat dudit poste de réception dans un réceptacle dans l'intervalle de temps séparant les arrivées dans ledit poste de réception (7 ; 107 ; 207) dudit objet plat et de l'objet plat suivant.
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 et 2, caractérisé en ce que ledit poste fixe de réception (7 ; 107) comprend une platine (8 ; 108) disposée selon ladite orientation faiblement inclinée sur la verticale et présentant plusieurs découpes (9 ; 109) parallèles entre elles s'étendant à partir de l'un de ses bords et en ce que chaque réceptacle comprend un peigne (13 ; 113 ; 213) dont les dents parallèles (14 ; 114 ; 214) sont disposées de manière à pouvoir passer à travers lesdites découpes.
- Dispositif selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que ladite platine et ledit peigne comprennent à leur partie inférieure des moyens (10, 15 ; 110, 115 ; 210) de retenue du bord longitudinal inférieur desdits objets plats.
- Dispositif selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que lesdites découpes (9) et lesdites dents (14 ; 214) de peigne sont horizontales.
- Dispositif selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que lesdits moyens de retenue associés à ladite platine (8) comprennent un premier volet (10) mobile entre une position de retenue d'un objet sur ledit poste de réception (7) et une position escamotée de libération dudit objet vers les moyens de retenue (15) associés à un réceptacle (12).
- Dispositif selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que lesdits moyens de retenue (15) associés à chaque réceptacle (12) comprennent un second volet mobile (26) entre une position de retenue d'un objet sur ledit réceptacle et une position escamotée de libération par gravité dudit objet vers ledit convoyeur de sortie (5).
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 5 à 7, caractérisé en ce qu'à chaque réceptacle est associée une pièce mobile (31) de butée pour le bord avant desdits objets plats et des moyens amortisseurs (32) interposés entre ladite pièce mobile de butée et des moyens (16) de support dudit réceptacle.
- Dispositif selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que lesdites découpes (109) et lesdites dents (114) de peigne sont disposées dans un plan vertical.
- Dispositif selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que lesdits moyens de retenue sont constitués respectivement par des pattes (110) en saillie vers l'avant à la partie inférieure de ladite platine (108) et par une plaque concave (115) supportant chaque peigne (113).
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 9 et 10, caractérisé en ce que ledit poste fixe de réception (107) comprend une pièce mobile (131) de butée pour le bord avant desdits objets plats et des moyens amortisseurs (132) interposés entre ladite pièce mobile de butée et un support fixe.
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 11, caractérisé en ce que lesdits réceptacles (12) sont montés sur des moyens d'entraínement synchrones (21-23).
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 11, caractérisé en ce que lesdits réceptacles sont constitués par des chariots (112 ; 212) associés à un mécanisme comprenant des moyens de débrayage propres à assurer un déplacement asynchrone desdits chariots.
- Dispositif selon la revendication 13, caractérisé en ce que ledit mécanisme d'entraínement est adapté pour assurer l'entraínement desdits chariots (212) sélectivement dans un sens et dans le sens opposé.
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