EP1082262A1 - Transportation device for deflecting flat consignments - Google Patents

Transportation device for deflecting flat consignments

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EP1082262A1
EP1082262A1 EP99931004A EP99931004A EP1082262A1 EP 1082262 A1 EP1082262 A1 EP 1082262A1 EP 99931004 A EP99931004 A EP 99931004A EP 99931004 A EP99931004 A EP 99931004A EP 1082262 A1 EP1082262 A1 EP 1082262A1
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lower belt
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Holger Schererz
Frank Voss
Matthias Prasser
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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
    • B65H29/12—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands or rollers
    • 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
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/32—Orientation of handled material
    • B65H2301/321—Standing on edge
    • 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
    • B65H2701/1916—Envelopes and articles of mail

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  • Transport device for redirecting flat items
  • the invention relates to a transport device for deflecting flat mail items according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • shipments are sorted according to various criteria. Criteria can be addresses or barcodes, for example.
  • the flat consignments are clamped in the sorting machines and transported between cover bands consisting of a lower and an upper belt. To identify the respective sorting criteria, the fertilizers are guided past special cameras. There are the
  • the deflection takes place via deflection rollers.
  • the upper belt is passed around a main drum.
  • the lower belt is guided past the main drum via a secondary drum and the consignments are requested between the upper belt and the main drum.
  • drums with large diameters can only be produced with great effort and require twice as much space with a 180 ° deflection. (Only the semicircle is required.)
  • DE 196 12 525 a further variant for realizing a deflection consists in forming a cam track from individual rollers. The flat belts are deflected by the roller curve.
  • the disadvantage here is the high costs due to the large number of rolls. A reduction in the number of rollers results in a polygon effect, which puts a lot of strain on the mail items when passing through the curve and leads to additional gap shifts. In the case of mailings with carbon paper (e.g. forms, invoices), the forms or invoices can also become illegible.
  • carbon paper e.g. forms, invoices
  • the invention specified in claim 1 is therefore based on the problem of creating an inexpensive and space-saving transport device for flat mail items for deflecting, in which the mail items are used as little as possible.
  • cover belt system which consists of an endless lower belt and an endless upper belt
  • cover belt system which consists of an endless lower belt and an endless upper belt
  • the upper belt located on the outside must travel a greater distance than the lower belt at a given transport speed. So that the resulting relative speeds can be compensated for without shifting and stressing the flat mail items, the inside running side of the upper belt is equipped with a low coefficient of friction.
  • the curve segment is designed as a circular segment.
  • the lower band is guided in the sliding surface of the guide element by means of a longitudinal groove.
  • alignment sections are arranged at the ends of the guide element in order to compensate for any inclined positions. At the same time, the pick-up and transfer of the mail items is made easier by the wider gap between the deflection rollers for the upper and lower belts.
  • FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a transport device for 180 ° deflection.
  • a lower belt 1 and an upper belt 2 are guided over a fixed guide element 3 with a smooth, low-friction sliding surface in the form of a curved segment, in this case a circular segment, and thereby deflected.
  • the lower belt 1 running inside is driven by a drive roller 5 located within the guide element 3.
  • a deflection of the lower belt 1 takes place via deflection rollers 7 in such a way that the drive roller 5 is wrapped to the extent of the lower belt 1 with the side facing the mail items 6, which has a high coefficient of friction to ensure safe and non-slip shipment transport, that a largely slip-free drive is guaranteed.
  • a certain belt tension must also be maintained.
  • the lower belt 1 Facing the guide element 3, the lower belt 1 has a low coefficient of friction, so that the lower belt 1 slips easily and without wear over the guide element 3. So that the lower belt 1 cannot run up or down on the guide element 3, it must be guided. For this reason there is a longitudinal groove in the sliding surface of the guide element 3 and the lower band 1 on the side facing the guide element 3 a longitudinal application 8 in the form of a strip which is guided in the longitudinal groove.
  • the upper belt 2, which is guided on the lower belt 1 around the guide element 3, is also driven by this.
  • the items 6 are clamped between the two. Since the items 6 have different thicknesses, but clamping must nevertheless be ensured, the upper band 2 is designed to be longitudinally elastic so that it can adapt to the different contours and also a clamping is guaranteed with changing shipment thicknesses.
  • the sliding surface of the guide element 3 has the following properties:
  • the inner side of the upper belt 2 has a low coefficient of friction. So the inevitably occurring relative speed speeds are compensated for, without claiming and shifting the programs 6.
  • the guide element 3 is not designed as a complete semicircle, but as a segment of a circle.
  • Alignment sections 8 are arranged upstream or downstream of the ends of the guide element 3. These consist of two upright baffles and an underfloor belt. At the exit or entrance of the alignment sections 8 are the deflection rollers for the upper and lower belts, these being arranged at such a distance from one another that the mail items are not clamped between the upper and lower belts, i.e. in these areas, the shipments are aligned with and transported through the underfloor belt.

Abstract

The invention relates to a transportation device for deflecting flat consignments (6) that are pinched between an endless lower belt (1) and an endless upper belt (2) and transported. The upper belt (2) is longitudinally elastic and is guided back around in an outwardly-oriented loop. The aim of the invention is to provide a cost- and space-saving means of deflecting the consignments with the consignments being subjected to as little stress as possible. To this end, the driven lower belt (1) is guided on a fixed-position, immobile guide element (3) with a sliding surface in the form of a bend section. The sliding surface has a low friction coefficient in relation to the lower belt (1) and the consignments (6). The lower belt (1) has a low friction coefficient on the side oriented towards the guide element (3) and a high friction coefficient on the side oriented towards the non-driven upper belt (2) and the consignments, and is directed inwards by deflecting rollers (7) in such a way that it loops around a driving roller (5) located inside the guide element (3) with the side with the high friction coefficient.

Description

Beschreibungdescription
Transporteinrichtung zur Umlenkung von flachen SendungenTransport device for redirecting flat items
Die Erfindung betrifft eine Transporteinrichtung zur Umlenkung von flachen Sendungen gemäß dem Oberbegriff des Patentanspruches 1.The invention relates to a transport device for deflecting flat mail items according to the preamble of claim 1.
In Sortieranlagen werden Sendungen nach verschiedenen Krite- rien sortiert. Kriterien können beispielsweise Adressen oder Barcodes sein. In den Sortiermaschinen werden die flachen Sendungen eingeklemmt zwischen Deckbandern, die aus einem Unter- und einem Oberband bestehen, transportiert. Um die jeweiligen Sortierkriterien zu identifizieren, werden die Sen- düngen an speziellen Kameras vorbeigefuhrt. Dort werden dieIn sorting systems, shipments are sorted according to various criteria. Criteria can be addresses or barcodes, for example. The flat consignments are clamped in the sorting machines and transported between cover bands consisting of a lower and an upper belt. To identify the respective sorting criteria, the fertilizers are guided past special cameras. There are the
Verteilinformationen aufgenommen und einer Auswerteelektronik zugeführt. Da für die Auswertung eine bestimmte Zeit notwendig ist, können die Sendungen erst nach Ablauf dieser Zeit mit Hilfe von Weichen sortiert werden. Diese Bearbeitungszeit wird gewahrleistet, indem die Sendungen nach der Kamera inDistribution information recorded and fed to an evaluation electronics. Since a certain time is necessary for the evaluation, the shipments can only be sorted with the help of switches after this time has expired. This processing time is guaranteed by the shipments after the camera in
Abhängigkeit von der benötigten Auswertezeit mehr oder weniger lange Transportstrecken durchlaufen. In diesen Transportstrecken sind Umlenkungen des Deckbandlaufes erforderlich, um den Platzbedarf gering zu halten.Depending on the evaluation time required, run through more or less long transport routes. In these transport routes, deflections of the cover belt run are required in order to keep the space requirement low.
Nach DE 44 37 114 Cl erfolgt die Umlenkung über Umlenkrollen. Das Oberband wird um eine Haupttrommel gefuhrt. Das Unterband wird über eine Nebentrommel an der Haupttrommel vorbeigeleitet und die Sendungen werden zwischen Oberband und Haupttrom- mel befordert. Benotigt man aufgrund des Sendungsspektrums große Umlenkradien, um starke Biegebeanspruchungen zu vermeiden, so sind Trommeln mit großen Durchmessern, die nur mit hohem Aufwand herstellbar sind und bei einer 180 °-Umlenkung doppelt soviel Platz wie notwendig brauchen. (Es wird nur der Halbkreis benotigt.) Eine weitere Variante zur Realisierung einer Umlenkung besteht gemäß DE 196 12 525 darin, eine Kurvenbahn aus einzelnen Rollen zu bilden. Die Flachriemen werden durch die Rollenkurve umgelenkt. Nachteilig hierbei sind die hohen Kosten infolge einer hohen Rollenzahl. Eine Reduzierung der Anzahl der Rollen hat einen Polygoneffekt zur Folge, der die Sendungen beim Durchfahren der Kurve stark strapaziert und zu zusatzlichen Luckenverschiebungen fuhrt. Bei Sendungen mit Durchschlagpapier (z.B. Formulare, Rechnungen) kann es auch zur Unleserlichkeit der Formulare oder Rechnungen fuhren.According to DE 44 37 114 Cl, the deflection takes place via deflection rollers. The upper belt is passed around a main drum. The lower belt is guided past the main drum via a secondary drum and the consignments are requested between the upper belt and the main drum. If you need large deflection radii due to the range of items to be avoided in order to avoid strong bending stresses, then drums with large diameters can only be produced with great effort and require twice as much space with a 180 ° deflection. (Only the semicircle is required.) According to DE 196 12 525, a further variant for realizing a deflection consists in forming a cam track from individual rollers. The flat belts are deflected by the roller curve. The disadvantage here is the high costs due to the large number of rolls. A reduction in the number of rollers results in a polygon effect, which puts a lot of strain on the mail items when passing through the curve and leads to additional gap shifts. In the case of mailings with carbon paper (e.g. forms, invoices), the forms or invoices can also become illegible.
Der im Anspruch 1 angegebenen Erfindung liegt also das Problem zugrunde, eine kostengünstige und platzsparende Transporteinrichtung für flache Sendungen zum Umlenken zu schaf- fen, bei welcher die Sendungen möglichst gering beansprucht werden.The invention specified in claim 1 is therefore based on the problem of creating an inexpensive and space-saving transport device for flat mail items for deflecting, in which the mail items are used as little as possible.
Durch die Fuhrung des aus einem endlosen Unterband und einem endlosen Oberband bestehenden Deckbandsystems über das fest- stehende Fuhrungselement mit einer als Kurvensegment geformten Gleitflache, die Wahl unterschiedlicher Reibwerte wurde eine technisch Losung geschaffen, die bei einem großen Um- lenkradius und damit einer geringen Biegebeanspruchung eine geringe Tiefe beansprucht, bei geringem Fertigungsaufwand.By guiding the cover belt system, which consists of an endless lower belt and an endless upper belt, over the fixed guide element with a sliding surface shaped as a curved segment, the choice of different coefficients of friction created a technical solution which, with a large deflection radius and thus a low bending stress shallow depth, with little manufacturing effort.
Vorteilhafte Ausfuhrungen sind in den Unteranspruchen dargestellt.Advantageous designs are shown in the subclaims.
Das außen befindliche Oberband muß bei einer gegebenen Trans- portgeschwindigkeit gegenüber dem Unterband einen größeren Weg zurücklegen. Damit die dadurch auftretenden Relativgeschwindigkeiten ausgeglichen werden können, ohne die flachen Sendungen zu verschieben und zu beanspruchen, ist die innen laufende Seite des Oberbandes gemäß Anspruch 2 mit einem niedrigen Reibwert ausgestattet.The upper belt located on the outside must travel a greater distance than the lower belt at a given transport speed. So that the resulting relative speeds can be compensated for without shifting and stressing the flat mail items, the inside running side of the upper belt is equipped with a low coefficient of friction.
Weiterhin ist es vorteilhaft, gemäß Anspruch 3 das Kurvensegment als Kreissegment auszufuhren. Um ein unkontrolliertes Weglaufen der Bander auf der Fuh- rungsflache zu verhindern, wird das Unterband gemäß Anspruch 4 mittels einer Langsnut in der Gleitflache des Fuhrungsele- mentes gefuhrt.Furthermore, it is advantageous to design the curve segment as a circular segment. In order to prevent the bands from running away in an uncontrolled manner on the guide surface, the lower band is guided in the sliding surface of the guide element by means of a longitudinal groove.
Darüber hinaus ist es vorteilhaft, gemäß Anspruch 5 die Gleitflache des Fuhrungselementes antistatisch auszufuhren.In addition, it is advantageous to make the sliding surface of the guide element antistatic.
Gemäß Anspruch β sind an den Enden des Fuhrungselementes Aus- richtstrecken angeordnet, um eventuelle Schräglagen auszugleichen. Gleichzeitig wird die Aufnahme und Übergabe der Sendungen durch den breiteren Spalt zwischen den Umlenkrollen für Ober- und Unterband erleichtert.According to claim β, alignment sections are arranged at the ends of the guide element in order to compensate for any inclined positions. At the same time, the pick-up and transfer of the mail items is made easier by the wider gap between the deflection rollers for the upper and lower belts.
Anschließend wird die Erfindung in einem Ausfuhrungsbeispiel anhand der Zeichnung naher erläutert.The invention is explained in more detail in an exemplary embodiment with reference to the drawing.
Dabei zeigt FIG 1 eine perspektivische Ansicht einer Transporteinrichtung zur 180°-Umlenkung. Ein Unterband 1 und ein Oberband 2 werden über ein feststehendes Fuhrungselement 3 mit glatter, einen geringen Reibwert aufweisender Gleitflache in Form eines Kurvensegmentes, in diesem Fall ein Kreissegment, gefuhrt und dadurch umgelenkt. Das innen laufende Unterband 1 wird durch eine innerhalb des Fuhrungselementes 3 befindliche Antriebsrolle 5 angetrieben. Über Umlenkrollen 7 erfolgt e ne Umlenkung des Unterbandes 1 derart nach innen, daß die Antriebsrolle 5 in dem Maße vom Unterband 1 mit der den Sendungen 6 zugewandten Seite, die zur Sicherung einer sicheren und rutschfreien Sendungsmitnahme einen hohen Reib- wert aufweist, umschlungen wird, daß ein weitgehend schlupffreier Antrieb gewährleistet ist. Dazu ist auch eine bestimmte Riemenspannung aufrechtzuerhalten.1 shows a perspective view of a transport device for 180 ° deflection. A lower belt 1 and an upper belt 2 are guided over a fixed guide element 3 with a smooth, low-friction sliding surface in the form of a curved segment, in this case a circular segment, and thereby deflected. The lower belt 1 running inside is driven by a drive roller 5 located within the guide element 3. A deflection of the lower belt 1 takes place via deflection rollers 7 in such a way that the drive roller 5 is wrapped to the extent of the lower belt 1 with the side facing the mail items 6, which has a high coefficient of friction to ensure safe and non-slip shipment transport, that a largely slip-free drive is guaranteed. A certain belt tension must also be maintained.
Zum Fuhrungselement 3 gerichtet, hat das Unterband 1 einen geringen Reibwert, so daß das Unterband 1 leicht und ohne Verschleiß über das Fuhrungselement 3 rutscht. Damit das Unterband 1 auf dem Fuhrungselement 3 nicht nach oben oder unten weglaufen kann, muß es gefuhrt werden. Aus diesem Grunde befindet sich das in der Gleitfläche des Führungselementes 3 eine Längsnut und das Unterband 1 auf der dem Führungselement 3 zugewandten Seite einen Längsauftrag 8 in Form einer Leiste, der in der Längsnut geführt wird. Das Oberband 2, das auf dem Unterband 1 um das Führungselement 3 geführt ist, wird auch durch dieses angetrieben. Zwischen beiden eingeklemmt, befinden sich die Sendungen 6. Da die Sendungen 6 unterschiedliche Dicken besitzen, eine Klemmung aber trotzdem gesichert werden muß, ist das Oberband 2 längs-elastisch aus- geführt, so daß es sich den unterschiedlichen Konturen anpassen kann und eine Klemmung auch bei wechselnden Sendungsdik- ken garantiert ist.Facing the guide element 3, the lower belt 1 has a low coefficient of friction, so that the lower belt 1 slips easily and without wear over the guide element 3. So that the lower belt 1 cannot run up or down on the guide element 3, it must be guided. For this reason there is a longitudinal groove in the sliding surface of the guide element 3 and the lower band 1 on the side facing the guide element 3 a longitudinal application 8 in the form of a strip which is guided in the longitudinal groove. The upper belt 2, which is guided on the lower belt 1 around the guide element 3, is also driven by this. The items 6 are clamped between the two. Since the items 6 have different thicknesses, but clamping must nevertheless be ensured, the upper band 2 is designed to be longitudinally elastic so that it can adapt to the different contours and also a clamping is guaranteed with changing shipment thicknesses.
Bei der geometrischen Gestaltung der Gleitfläche des Führungselementes 3, z.B. bei der Wahl des Umlenkradius ist fol- gendes zu beachten:In the geometric design of the sliding surface of the guide element 3, e.g. When choosing the deflection radius, note the following:
Besonders dicke und/oder steife Sendungen können sich bei zu klein gewähltem Radius nicht komplett an die Gleitfläche 3 anlegen und führen so zu einem zusätzlichen Abheben des elastischen Oberbandes 2 vom Unterband 1. Werden im Wechsel sehr dünne und sehr dicke und steife Sendungen 6 bei minimalen Lücken transportiert, so kann es bei zu kleinem Radius zum Loslassen der dünnen Sendungen 6 kommen, was unzulässige Lük^ kenverschiebungen zur Folge hat.Particularly thick and / or stiff mail items cannot set themselves completely against the sliding surface 3 if the radius is selected too small and thus lead to an additional lifting of the elastic top band 2 from the bottom band 1. Alternately, very thin and very thick and stiff mail items 6 with minimal If gaps are transported, the thin mail items 6 can be released if the radius is too small, which results in inadmissible gap displacements.
Die Gleitfläche des Führungselementes 3 hat folgende Eigenschaften:The sliding surface of the guide element 3 has the following properties:
1. niedriger Reibwert gegenüber dem Unterband 1 und den Sendungen 6;1. low coefficient of friction compared to the lower belt 1 and the consignments 6;
2. optimal glatte Oberfläche zur Gewährleistung eines ver- schleißfreien und geräuscharmen Gleitvorganges;2. optimally smooth surface to ensure a wear-free and low-noise sliding process;
3. verschleißresistent und vorzugsweise antistatisch.3. wear-resistant and preferably antistatic.
Da das Oberband 2 gegenüber dem Unterband 1 bei gegebener Geschwindigkeit einen größeren Weg zurücklegen muß (die neutra- le Faser läuft auf dem größeren Radius) , weist die innen anliegende Seite des Oberbandes 2 einen niedrigen Reibwert auf. So können die zwangsläufig auftretenden Relativgeschwindig- keiten ausgeglichen werden, ohne dabei die Sendungen 6 zu beanspruchen und zu verschieben.Since the upper belt 2 has to travel a greater distance than the lower belt 1 at a given speed (the neutral fiber runs on the larger radius), the inner side of the upper belt 2 has a low coefficient of friction. So the inevitably occurring relative speed speeds are compensated for, without claiming and shifting the programs 6.
Das Führungselement 3 ist nicht als vollständiger Halbkreis ausgeführt, sondern als Kreissegment. Den Enden des Führungselementes 3 sind Ausrichtstrecken 8 vor- bzw. nachgelagert. Diese bestehen jeweils aus zwei aufrecht stehenden Leitblechen und einem Unterflurband. Am Ausgang bzw. Eingang der Ausrichtstrecken 8 befinden sich die Umlenkrollen für Ober- und Unterband, wobei diese in einem solchen Abstand voneinander angeordnet sind, daß die Sendungen zwischen Ober- und Unterband nicht geklemmt sind, d.h. in diesen Bereichen werden die Sendungen am Unterflurband ausgerichtet und durch dieses transportiert . The guide element 3 is not designed as a complete semicircle, but as a segment of a circle. Alignment sections 8 are arranged upstream or downstream of the ends of the guide element 3. These consist of two upright baffles and an underfloor belt. At the exit or entrance of the alignment sections 8 are the deflection rollers for the upper and lower belts, these being arranged at such a distance from one another that the mail items are not clamped between the upper and lower belts, i.e. in these areas, the shipments are aligned with and transported through the underfloor belt.

Claims

Patentansprüche claims
1. Transporteinrichtung zur Umlenkung von flachen Sendungen (6), die zwischen einem endlosen Unterband (1) und ei- nem endlosen Oberband (2) eingeklemmt befördert werden, wobei das Oberband (2) längselastisch ausgeführt ist und in einer nach außen gerichteten Schleife zurückgeführt wird, d a d u r c h g e k e n n z e i c h n e t, daß das angetriebene Unterband (1) auf einem örtlich festen, unbeweglichen Füh- rungselement (3) mit einer als Kurvensegment geformten Gleitfläche, dessen Gleitfläche einen geringen Reibwert gegenüber dem Unterband (1) und den Sendungen (6) aufweist, geführt ist, das Unterband (1) auf der zum Führungselement (3) gerichteten Seite einen geringen Reibwert und auf der zum nichtangetriebenen Oberband (2) und zu den Sendungen (β) gerichteten Seite einen hohen Reibwert besitzt und das Unterband (1) mittels Umlenkrollen (7) so nach innen geleitet ist, daß es eine innerhalb des Fuhrungselementes (3) angeordnete Antriebs- rolle (5) mit der Seite mit hohem Reibwert teilweise umschlingt .1. Transport device for deflecting flat mail items (6) which are transported clamped between an endless lower belt (1) and an endless upper belt (2), the upper belt (2) being designed to be longitudinally elastic and returned in an outwardly directed loop is characterized in that the driven lower belt (1) is guided on a locally fixed, immovable guide element (3) with a sliding surface shaped as a curved segment, the sliding surface of which has a low coefficient of friction compared to the lower belt (1) and the mail items (6) the lower belt (1) has a low coefficient of friction on the side facing the guide element (3) and a high coefficient of friction on the side facing the non-driven upper belt (2) and the mail items (β) and the lower belt (1) by means of deflection rollers ( 7) is guided inwards in such a way that there is a drive roller (5) arranged inside the guide element (3) with the side with high partially wraps around the coefficient of friction.
2. Transporteinrichtung nach Anspruch 1, d a d u r c h g e k e n n z e i c h n e t, daß das Oberband (2) auf seiner Innenseite einen geringen Reibwert aufweist.2. Transport device according to claim 1, so that the upper belt (2) has a low coefficient of friction on its inside.
3. Transporteinrichtung nach Anspruch 1, d a d u r c h g e k e n n z e i c h n e t, daß das Führungselement (3) als Kreissegment ausgeführt ist.3. Transport device according to claim 1, d a d u r c h g e k e n n z e i c h n e t that the guide element (3) is designed as a segment of a circle.
4. Transporteinrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 oder 3, d a d u r c h g e k e n n z e i c h n e t, daß das Führungselement (3) auf seiner Gleitfläche eine Längsnut und das Unterband (1) auf seiner zum Führungselement (3) gerichteten Seite einen in einer Längsnut geführten leistenförmigen Längsauftrag (8) aufweisen. 4. Transport device according to one of claims 1 or 3, characterized in that the guide element (3) on its sliding surface a longitudinal groove and the lower belt (1) on its side facing the guide element (3) have a strip-shaped longitudinal application (8) guided in a longitudinal groove .
5. Transporteinrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1, 3 oder 4, d a d u r c h g e k e n n z e i c h n e t, daß die Gleitfläche des Führungselementes (3) antistatisch ausgeführt ist .5. Transport device according to one of claims 1, 3 or 4, d a d u r c h g e k e n n z e i c h n e t that the sliding surface of the guide element (3) is antistatic.
6. Transporteinrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 5, d a d u r c h g e k e n n z e i c h n e t, daß dem Eingang des Führungselementes (3) eine Ausrichtstrecke (8) vor- und dem Ausgang des Führungselementes (3) eine Ausricht- strecke (8) nachgelagert ist, wobei diese jeweils zwei seitliche Führungen und ein Unterflurband beinhalten und die Umlenkrollen (7) zum Umlenken von Ober- und Unterband (2,1) sich mit einem solchen Rollenabstand voneinander am Ein- bzw. Ausgang der Ausrichtstrecken (8) befinden, daß in diesen Ge- bieten die Sendungen (6) durch das Unterflurband transportiert und an diesem ausgerichtet werden. 6. Transport device according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the input of the guide element (3) is an alignment section (8) upstream and the output of the guide element (3) is an alignment section (8) downstream, each two contain lateral guides and an underfloor belt and the deflection rollers (7) for deflecting the upper and lower belt (2,1) are located at such a distance from each other at the entrance and exit of the alignment sections (8) that in these areas the Shipments (6) are transported through the underfloor belt and aligned with it.
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