EP0820818B1 - Procédé de tri d'envois postaux - Google Patents

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EP0820818B1
EP0820818B1 EP97810511A EP97810511A EP0820818B1 EP 0820818 B1 EP0820818 B1 EP 0820818B1 EP 97810511 A EP97810511 A EP 97810511A EP 97810511 A EP97810511 A EP 97810511A EP 0820818 B1 EP0820818 B1 EP 0820818B1
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Jean-Claude Oppliger
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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
    • B07C3/00—Sorting according to destination
    • B07C3/02—Apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution
    • 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
    • B07C3/00—Sorting according to destination
    • B07C3/02—Apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution
    • B07C3/08—Apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution using arrangements of conveyors
    • B07C3/082—In which the objects are carried by transport holders and the transport holders form part of the conveyor belts
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/447—Moving, forwarding, guiding material transferring material between transport devices
    • B65H2301/4476—Endless transport devices with compartments
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2405/00—Parts for holding the handled material
    • B65H2405/30—Other features of supports for sheets
    • B65H2405/35—Means for moving support
    • B65H2405/352—Means for moving support in closed loop
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S209/00—Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
    • Y10S209/90—Sorting flat-type mail
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S209/00—Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
    • Y10S209/919—Rotary feed conveyor

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  • the invention relates to a method according to the preamble of Claim 1.
  • a delivery signal are generated with which the adjustment of the cover element from the closed position to the open position is initiated when the delivery cell off that tray a number in a row along a delivery section below the collecting path of arranged trays happens, which the Delivery district for which the package in question is destined is assigned. The packages then fall for delivery to this tray automatically out of the feed cell.
  • the US - A - 5'042'667 mediates a system in which the Packages after reading the address in a store be stored temporarily, with the assignment of shipping addresses to the storage compartments not from those actually processed Packages depends.
  • the invention has for its object a method of to propose the type mentioned at the beginning, which is to be carried out takes up less space for a corresponding device and can be optimized accordingly.
  • this task is carried out according to the characteristic of Claim 1 solved. In this way of filing there is no need for a storage compartment for each individual shipping address be available.
  • the device shown in the drawing has a carousel-like Conveyor 10 with a number along one closed conveying loop of conveyable conveying cells 12 on.
  • the conveyor loop is made up of two in a horizontal plane rectilinear sections 18 and 19 over two semicircular in the same horizontal plane Sections 16 and 17 are interconnected.
  • a number of trays 50 in the form of storage compartments are one after the other along the rectilinear sections 18 and 19 arranged.
  • the conveyor cells 12 are in the indicated by the arrows 15 along the conveyor loop drivable all around.
  • the feed cells 12 each have two vertically opposite one another Boundary walls 12a, 12b, between their outer, free and vertically extending edges an insertion opening 13 for flat packages 14 in the form of a vertical slot is formed.
  • This package transfer device 30 has a two vertical rollers 32 and 34 revolving conveyor belt 36, the main plane of which is vertical is aligned with the flat packages 14 from one Stack 40 upright packages with any Order deducted individually and, as indicated by arrow 38 indicated, standing upright in the horizontal direction, i.e. in a position in which its main planes are substantially vertical are aligned through the insertion openings 13 to the Delivery cells 12 are passed.
  • essentially rectangular Letters 14 passed to the conveyor cells 12 in such a way that their shorter side edges at handover essentially in the vertical direction approximately parallel to the insertion openings 13 extend.
  • the shipping addresses of the packages 14 with a reading device 42 read automatically and via a signal line 44 of a control device 60 entered.
  • the control device 60 a signal is input via a signal line 46, which denotes the conveyor cell 12 to which the package, whose shipping address was read with the reading device 42, is handed over. This results in the control device 60 the assignment between each conveyor cell and the shipping address of the assignment data representing the shipping item transferred to it determined.
  • the packages 14 pass through after they have been handed over to the Conveying cells 12 the semicircular section 17 of the conveyor loop.
  • the insertion openings 13 of the conveyor cells 12 covered by a cover member 20. This prevents that the packages 14 through the in the semicircular Section 17 acting centrifugal force from the production cells 12 are thrown out. Then go through the conveyor cells the rectilinear section 19, the semicircular section 16 in which the ejection the packages 14 through the insertion openings 13 in turn is prevented with a cover member 20, and get there straight section 18.
  • control device 60 uses the data obtained in this way to determine the assignment between each conveyor cell 12 and the shipping address of the package 14 transferred thereon Allocation data determined.
  • control device 60 via a signal line 49 from a memory device 62 also entered default data, which is an orderly one Order of all possible, i.e. all with the device display sortable shipping addresses.
  • this data is determined in the control device 60 which of the arranged along the rectilinear sections 18 and 19 Storage compartments 50 which are transferred to the conveyor cells 12 Packages 14 are to be delivered.
  • the control device 60 determines 60 the position of all conveyor cells at all times 12 with respect to all storage compartments 50. For this purpose it is sufficient if the position with the control device 60 a conveyor cell 12 with respect to the storage compartments 50 continuously is monitored and the positions of the other production cells 12 with regard to the storage compartments 50 on the basis of the thus determined Position of a delivery cell and a given one Positional relationship between the conveyor cells determined become.
  • the cell bottom 11 (cf. Figure 2) of the relevant feed cell 12 in a release position relocated, so that the package delivered to it 14 in the designated by the arrow 51 in Figure 2 Fall downwards into the corresponding storage compartment 50 can.
  • the packages 14 are in the storage compartments 50 ordered according to the given order.
  • the storage compartments 50 are stationary on the conveyor 10 specified subdivision elements 52 with which the individual Storage compartments are separated, and below arranged, assigned to a number of storage compartments together Drawers 54 formed (see Figure 2).
  • Drawers 54 For removal of the packages 14 from the storage compartments 50 can Drawers 54 from a solid line in FIG drawn recording position in a dashed line in Figure 2 shown removal position are relocated.
  • In the Dispensing position are the shipping items 14 for sorting required subdivision elements 52 separately, so that it without hindrance from these subdivision elements 52 can be removed from the drawers 54.
  • the invention is not based on the exemplary embodiment explained above limited. For example, it is also thought to arrange the conveyor line on several levels one above the other, or to arrange the packages according to delivery districts.

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  1. Procédé de transformation d'une succession d'envois livrés en un ordre quelconque en une succession ordonnée suivant leurs adresses pour un certain nombre d'adresses possibles, dans lequel on remet les envois qui se succèdent en leur ordre quelconque individuellement à respectivement une cellule convoyeuse constituée d'un certain nombre de cellules convoyeuses pouvant être transportées les unes derrières les autres le long d'un chemin de convoyage, on relève l'association entre chaque cellule convoyeuse et les données d'association représentant l'envoi qui lui est remis et on dépose les envois en réponse à des signaux de dépôt, qui sont produits sur la base des données de l'association, sélectivement conformément à la succession ordonnée sur respectivement un dispositif de dépôt parmi un certain nombre de dispositifs dé dépôt disposés l'un derrière l'autre le long d'un tronçon de dépôt du chemin de convoyage, caractérisé en ce que l'on détermine sur la base de la succession ordonnée des adresses de tous les envois remis aux cellules de convoyage et des données d'associations pour chaque envoi remis aux cellules de convoyage, un dispositif de dépôt, dont la position dans la succession des dispositifs de dépôt le long du tronçon de dépôt correspond à la position de l'adresse de l'envoi concerné dans la succession ordonnée des adresses de tous les envois remis aux cellules de convoyage, les envois étant remis aux cellules de convoyage pendant une première circulation des cellules de convoyage le long de la boucle de convoyage, puis le dispositif de dépôt correspondant pour chaque envoi remis est déterminé et les envois sont ensuite déposés pendant une deuxième circulation des cellules de convoyage le long de la boucle de convoyage sur les dispositifs de dépôt.
  2. Procédé suivant la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les cellules de convoyage sont convoyés le long d'une boucle de convoyage fermée.
  3. Procédé suivant l'une des revendications 1 et 2, caractérisé en ce que les envois, sont pour être remis aux cellules de convoyage, retirés individuellement d'une pile d'envois et remis aux cellules de convoyage.
  4. Procédé suivant la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que les adresses des envois sont lues et relevées automatiquement après le retrait.
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