EP0899230A3 - Method for controlling an intermediate stacking device for flat mail objects - Google Patents

Method for controlling an intermediate stacking device for flat mail objects Download PDF

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EP0899230A3
EP0899230A3 EP98115719A EP98115719A EP0899230A3 EP 0899230 A3 EP0899230 A3 EP 0899230A3 EP 98115719 A EP98115719 A EP 98115719A EP 98115719 A EP98115719 A EP 98115719A EP 0899230 A3 EP0899230 A3 EP 0899230A3
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intermediate stacker
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Frank Gerstenberg
Holger Schererz
Gerhard Obier
Joachim Kühnapfel
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H1/00—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated
    • B65H1/02—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles on edge
    • B65H1/025—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles on edge with controlled positively-acting mechanical devices for advancing the pile to present the articles to the separating device
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H1/00—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated
    • B65H1/30—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated with means for replenishing the pile during continuous separation of articles therefrom
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
    • B65H3/02—Separating articles from piles using friction forces between articles and separator

Abstract

Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren zur Steuerung eines Zwischenstaplers von flachen Sendungen, insbesondere in Briefbearbeitungsanlagen, der eine auf einem verfahrbaren Stapelwagen (SW) befindliche Einstapelvorrichtung (SR), ein Unterflurband (UB), auf dem die Sendungen quer zu dessen Bewegungsrichtung stehen, und eine Vereinzelungsvorrichtung mit einem Abzugsmittel (AR) und einem Sendungssensor (FH2), der die Sendungen an der Vereinzelungsvorrichtung detektiert, aufweist. Zur störungsfreien Beseitigung von Schräglagen des Sendungsstapels an der Vereinzelungsvorrichtung wird bei Überschreitung einer festgelegten Zeit, während welcher keine Sendungen am Abzugsmittel (AR) detektiert werdenn, die Steuerung für den Normalbetrieb des Zwischenstaplers außer Kraft gesetzt, die Sendungszufuhr zum Zwischenstapler unterbrochen, das Unterflurband (UB) gestoppt, der Stapelwagen (SW) in Richtung Vereinzelungsvorrichtung in Bewegung gesetzt. Bei erneuter Detektierung einer Sendung am Abzugsmittel zuzüglich einer zum gemessenen Füllstand des Zwischenstaplers abhängigen, vorzugsweise linear abhängigen Nachlaufzeit wird die Kompressionsbewegung des Stapelwagens (SW) beendet, die Sendungszufuhr zum Zwischenstapler wieder aufgenommen und die Steuerung der Antriebe von Unterflurband (UB) und Stapelwagen (SW) erfolgt wieder im Normalbetrieb.

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The invention relates to a method for controlling an intermediate stacker of flat mail items, in particular in letter processing systems, which has a stacking device (SR) located on a movable stacking cart (SW), an underfloor belt (UB) on which the mail items stand transversely to the direction of movement thereof, and a Separating device with a deduction means (AR) and a mail item sensor (FH2), which detects the mail items at the singling device. For the trouble-free removal of inclined positions of the stack of items at the separating device, if a predetermined time is exceeded during which no items are detected on the trigger means (AR), the control for the normal operation of the intermediate stacker is overridden, the supply of mail to the intermediate stacker is interrupted, the underfloor belt (UB ) stopped, the stacking trolley (SW) started in the direction of the separating device. When a consignment is detected again on the trigger means plus a delay time that is dependent on the measured filling level of the intermediate stacker, preferably linearly dependent, the compression movement of the stacking trolley (SW) is ended, the supply of consignments to the intermediate stacker is resumed and the drives of the underfloor belt (UB) and stacking trolley (SW ) takes place again in normal operation.
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EP98115719A 1997-08-29 1998-08-20 Method for controlling an intermediate stacking device for flat mail objects Expired - Lifetime EP0899230B1 (en)

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DE19737857A DE19737857C1 (en) 1997-08-29 1997-08-29 Letter stacking device control method
DE19737857 1997-08-29

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DE1235818B (en) * 1963-09-26 1967-03-02 Telefunken Patent Device for stopping upright, rectangular, flat mail items, especially mail items, on a stacking wall
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