EP0926087A1 - System zum Sortieren und Zwischenspeichern von Dokumenten - Google Patents

System zum Sortieren und Zwischenspeichern von Dokumenten Download PDF

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EP0926087A1
EP0926087A1 EP98403222A EP98403222A EP0926087A1 EP 0926087 A1 EP0926087 A1 EP 0926087A1 EP 98403222 A EP98403222 A EP 98403222A EP 98403222 A EP98403222 A EP 98403222A EP 0926087 A1 EP0926087 A1 EP 0926087A1
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Yves Thebault
Renaud Jarry
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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
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/58—Article switches or diverters
    • B65H29/62—Article switches or diverters diverting faulty articles from the main streams
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/38—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by movable piling or advancing arms, frames, plates, or like members with which the articles are maintained in face contact
    • B65H29/44—Members oscillated in arcuate paths
    • 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
    • B65H2301/42—Piling, depiling, handling piles
    • B65H2301/421—Forming a pile
    • B65H2301/4212—Forming a pile of articles substantially horizontal
    • B65H2301/42122—Forming a pile of articles substantially horizontal by introducing articles from under the pile
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
    • B65H2701/1914—Cards, e.g. telephone, credit and identity cards

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  • the invention relates to a sorting and storage system for documents.
  • a printing or document manufacturing machine such as passports, identity cards, etc., depending on the document, either to authorize its storage in a tank, or to refuse this storage to it and to direct it to a secondary output.
  • a quality check on the document if it is not not of sufficient quality, it can be directed to the secondary output.
  • one types of documents can be referred to be stored in the tank while the other types are directed to the secondary output.
  • a machine thus designed must therefore have two routing outputs to different levels.
  • Referral and storage to level higher poses a problem especially when the document is not a simple sheet and has a certain thickness, or when it occurs in the form of a notebook with several pages such as a passport.
  • the invention solves this problem.
  • a document processing machine as shown schematically in FIG. 1, comprises the FAB processing machine proper which provides processed documents such as PASS.
  • Such a machine is by example, printer, photocopier, manufacturing machine secure documents.
  • a CONV conveyor system transports each document PASS leaving the FAB machine towards exit zones Z1 and Z2.
  • This conveyor system is represented as a conveyor belt but it could take any other form.
  • a referral system directs the PASS document according to its nature. This referral is made either on the basis of information provided by the FOB machine that knows the type of document it has printed, either under the command of a DEC1 sensor which, on leaving the document from the machine, detects its type or verifies that it meets the desired quality standards.
  • the PASS document is led to a switch valve 2 located between zones Z1 and Z2. Before the document reaches the flap, it is put in the position allowing to direct the document to the appropriate Z1 or Z2 area.
  • valve 2 If the document must be routed to zone Z1, valve 2 is put in the position of figure 2a.
  • the PASS document meets the part 24 of valve 2.
  • the PASS document pushed by the conveyor system, is forced by the part (or plate) 24 of the valve to descend into the zone Z1.
  • the valve 2 is placed in the position indicated in FIG. 2b.
  • the PASS document is pushed onto the part (or plate) 21 of the valve. When it is pushed enough on the valve, it lifts up high position (figure 2c) so that part 21 lifts the document and places it in the reserve tray 3.
  • Putting the "mechanical" valve in the high or low position is made by rotation about an axis 22.
  • the rotation of the valve is controlled by a control circuit CC.
  • This control circuit receives from the FAB machine or the detector DEC1 the order to put the valve in high or low position.
  • a second DEC2 detector can be placed in an area just before the valve, between the FAB machine and the valve, to detect the arrival of the document at near the valve and trigger its correct positioning.
  • a third DEC3 detector can also be provided to detect the position of the document on the part (or plate) 21 of the valve (when the document must be directed to zone Z2) and to control by the control circuit CC rotation in the high position of the valve.
  • the reserve tank 3 is provided with removable stops 33, 34, 36, 37 located at the bottom of the tank when the tank is upright. These stops are for example articulated in such a way that they rise under the pressure of a document and press against the walls of the tank. The document can therefore enter the tray. Valve 2 raises the document higher than the stops; these can therefore return to their original horizontal position. This return to a horizontal position can be provided by return springs. The document is then retained by the stops. Under control of the control circuit, valve 2 returns to the position of Figure 2b. The document then descends and rests on the stops. For example, four stops have been provided on the tank shown in Figure 5. Distribution (one stop per side of the tank) ensures good retention of PASS documents in the tray.
  • Figure 6 shows an embodiment of a stop removable, for example 33, provided with return springs 38.
  • FIG. 3 represents an exemplary embodiment of the valve 2.
  • This valve is in the form of a plate, mainly the part 21 is tilted so that on the one hand a document can slide on the valve (see Figure 2b) when pushed by the conveyor system CONV and on the other hand to be more surely introduced into the tank when it is raised as shown in Figure 2c.
  • Part 20 of the valve allows it to give an angled shape in zone 21-23 so that the valve enters the tank for lift the document inside the tray.
  • the part (plate) 23 serving to lift the articulation forms a angle with the part (plate) 21 so that it can penetrate into the tank for the same reason as before, i.e. the introduction of the document into the bin.
  • Part 24 is welded or glued to part 20 but has less orientation stress than the other parts of the valve. This part simply has the role of directing the document towards the lower zone.
  • Block 3 is removably mounted on the machine. According to the embodiment of Figure 5, it is mounted on a frame articulated 30.
  • the articulation axis 31 of this frame makes it possible to put it in a horizontal position (figure 4) to allow the tray to be changed.
  • the container is plugged in at one end onto a centering device 35 and fixed by a locking device 32 at the opposite end. As shown in Figure 2a, the tray rests (is plugged in) by its part lower on the centering device 35 and is fixed to its upper part by the locking device 32 secured to the frame.
  • This system includes a valve 4 having a system of switch plates (or switch parts) 41-42-43 mounted at the end of an articulated arm 44.
  • the articulation axis 40 of the arm is located on the side C2 of the tank 3 opposite the arrival area for PASS documents.
  • the rotation of the arm 44 around its axis is controlled by a cam 6 acting on a pot 46 provided on the arm 44.
  • an articulated part 5 has a pushing part of the documents 51 which is mounted at the end of another articulated arm 52.
  • the articulation axis 53 of this part 5 is situated substantially from the side C1 of tank 3 towards the arrival area for PASS documents.
  • the movement of the articulated part 5 is controlled by a pot 45 provided on the articulated arm 44 of the valve 4.
  • Figure 7a shows the assembly in the low position. As we can see it, the CONV conveyor is at the level of the upper part 42 of the valve 4.
  • Figure 7b shows the assembly in the high position.
  • control circuit control command CC controls the switching on of the system high or low position depending on whether the document is to be routed to the area Z1 (lower zone) or zone Z2 (towards tank 3).
  • the control circuit CC controls a motor which controls the rotation of the cam 6 which then pushes the stud 46 and causes the upward movement of the articulated arm 44. As a result, the pot 45 pushes also upwards the articulated arm 52.
  • the system thus passes into the high position of figure 7b.
  • the PASS document which is at this time on the plate 42 and the push piece of the document 51, is raised inside from tray 3.
  • the PASS document pushes the valves such as 33. Then, when the system returns to the low position, the PASS document remains on valves such as 33.

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FR9716338A FR2772648B1 (fr) 1997-12-23 1997-12-23 Systeme de tri et de stockage de documents
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EP1158455A2 (de) * 2000-05-23 2001-11-28 Wincor Nixdorf GmbH & Co KG Vorrichtung zur geordneten Ablage von ID-Karten
IT201900001605A1 (it) * 2019-02-05 2019-05-05 Ixla S R L Sistema di allineamento e impilamento carte plastiche per dispositivi di trattamento delle carte

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FR442409A (fr) * 1912-04-10 1912-08-31 Georg Spiess Machine à trier les feuilles de papier
GB1396138A (en) * 1972-11-03 1975-06-04 Spicers Stationery Ltd Apparatus for delivering and stacking folded sheet material
GB1496556A (en) * 1975-11-06 1977-12-30 Burroughs Corp Sheet handling device particularly useful as ledger feeder and stacker for accounting machines
JPS5953358A (ja) * 1982-09-17 1984-03-28 Toshiba Corp 区分集積装置

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FR442409A (fr) * 1912-04-10 1912-08-31 Georg Spiess Machine à trier les feuilles de papier
GB1396138A (en) * 1972-11-03 1975-06-04 Spicers Stationery Ltd Apparatus for delivering and stacking folded sheet material
GB1496556A (en) * 1975-11-06 1977-12-30 Burroughs Corp Sheet handling device particularly useful as ledger feeder and stacker for accounting machines
JPS5953358A (ja) * 1982-09-17 1984-03-28 Toshiba Corp 区分集積装置

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EP1158455A2 (de) * 2000-05-23 2001-11-28 Wincor Nixdorf GmbH & Co KG Vorrichtung zur geordneten Ablage von ID-Karten
EP1158455A3 (de) * 2000-05-23 2002-05-08 Wincor Nixdorf GmbH & Co KG Vorrichtung zur geordneten Ablage von ID-Karten
IT201900001605A1 (it) * 2019-02-05 2019-05-05 Ixla S R L Sistema di allineamento e impilamento carte plastiche per dispositivi di trattamento delle carte
WO2020161752A1 (en) 2019-02-05 2020-08-13 IXLA S.r.l. System for aligning and stacking plastic cards for card handling devices

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