EP1159088B1 - Method and device for unloading a postal container that has an open top - Google Patents

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EP1159088B1
EP1159088B1 EP00908958A EP00908958A EP1159088B1 EP 1159088 B1 EP1159088 B1 EP 1159088B1 EP 00908958 A EP00908958 A EP 00908958A EP 00908958 A EP00908958 A EP 00908958A EP 1159088 B1 EP1159088 B1 EP 1159088B1
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Armin Zimmermann
Peter Enenkel
Dirk Nolte
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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
    • B07C1/00—Measures preceding sorting according to destination
    • B07C1/02—Forming articles into a stream; Arranging articles in a stream, e.g. spacing, orientating
    • 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
    • B65H2301/422—Handling piles, sets or stacks of articles
    • B65H2301/4225—Handling piles, sets or stacks of articles in or on special supports
    • B65H2301/42254—Boxes; Cassettes; Containers
    • B65H2301/422542—Boxes; Cassettes; Containers emptying or unloading processes

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  • the invention relates to a method and an apparatus for Unload an open-top shipment container according to the generic terms of independent claims.
  • the object of the invention is therefore a method semi-automatic or fully automatic emptying from above open consignment containers with obliquely outwards Side walls so that the consignments are gently under Maintaining orientation and alignment can be unloaded.
  • a device in this regard is to be created.
  • the shipments are made using the specified steps and means so taken that the aligned location of the shipments remains in the stack and none that moves the shipments and wrinkling forces occur. This will be the stack compressed and clamped between support brackets with circumferential Conveyor belts transported during unloading. When entering the support brackets, the conveyor belts are moved so that in addition to the normal force, none of the items touched other forces are exerted.
  • the swiveling and traversing movements are carried out by means of usual and known and therefore not closer here Handling systems shown with NC-controlled axes.
  • the mail container 1 is inclined to the outside running side walls shown transparently. Loaded he is with a loose stack of 2 standing programs.
  • the stack of mail is compressed, by using the handle recesses on the side Stamps, which are not shown, against the Shipments is pressed (indicated by the arrows 3). there If necessary, the pressures can also be measured to achieve a to maintain the specified compression pressure.
  • the shipment container is here in a holding and not shown Positioning device fixed.
  • support posts 4 are attached to the stack of items 2 from above and in the free space between the stack and the container side wall hazards.
  • the rotating conveyor belts are driven so that the touching band sections to the shipments always motionless are.
  • the shipments become damaging stresses avoided by the support brackets 4.
  • Support brackets 4 and stamp are coordinated so that they are in the Keeping the stack of items 1 does not interfere with each other.
  • FIG. 2a shows the state according to FIG. 1c again. How to recognize shipment container 1 was on a roller conveyor executed transport path 5 transported.
  • the support brackets 4 each have three conveyor belts.
  • the holding and positioning device for the shipment container 1 is the overview because not shown. But it is a pivot point 7 in a longitudinal axis about which the holding and positioning device with the shipment container 1 and the shipments is pivotable. There is also a movable stop wall 6 to recognize whose function will be explained.
  • To FIG. 2b was the shipment container 1 with the shipment stack 2 and the support brackets 4 pivoted about 95 °. This ensures that in the event of shipments breaking out of the stack push them against the container wall below.
  • stop wall 6 for safety to the other Longitudinal side of the stack of mail 2 driven to break out a particularly unstable batch of mail 2, e.g. at especially big differences of the consignments regarding size and Avoid thickness to this side (FIG 2c).
  • the shipment container 1 is indicated by the arrow released from the holding and positioning device and falls below on the transport track 5, which transports it to the right (FIG 2e).
  • the bottom plate 8 with the one on it jammed batch of mail 2 has such a distance of the transport path 5 that the shipment container 1 during transport on it from the base plate 8 and the stack of items 2 not be hindered.
  • the shipment stack 2 can now be the be further processed. This can be sorting be in a sorting plant. This is the batch of mail 2 transported with the base plate 8 on the material input.
  • the support brackets 4 can go up be moved away so that the batch of mail 2 from the Cutting knives is taken over and sent to the separation point can be transported.
  • a shipment container 1 is not completely filled, be the shipments by a clamp that is on the shipment container attached, prevented from tipping over.
  • the holding clamp is shaped so that the stamp passes through it Can compress batches of mail.

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Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren und eine Vorrichtung zum Entladen eines oben offenen Sendungsbehälters nach den Oberbegriffen der unabhängigen Ansprüche.The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for Unload an open-top shipment container according to the generic terms of independent claims.

In den Sendungsverteilprozessen werden schmale Sendungen, z.B. Briefe, in entsprechenden Behältern transportiert. Um die Sendungen in Sortieranlagen entsprechend der Empfängeradressen zu sortieren, müssen die Behälter entladen werden und einer Stoffeingabe zugeführt werden. Dieses Entladen und Zuführen wurde bisher im wesentlichen manuell durchgeführt. Es wurde zwar auch in der DE 194 45 716 C1 eine Lösung zur automatischen Beschikkung der Stoffeingaben von Sortiermaschinen beschrieben, dabei wird aber der gefüllte Behälter mit Schwung auf die Stoffeingabe ausgekippt. Eine schonende Übergabe des Sendungsstapels im ausgerichteten Zustand ohne Gefahr der Beschädigung der einzelnen Sendungen ist hiermit nicht möglich. Ist es dabei notwendig, die Ausrichtung der Kanten beizubehalten, so muß der Stapel anschließend wieder zurückgedreht werden. Durch diese Vorgänge ist die für die weitere Verarbeitung notwendige Kantenausrichtung nicht zu gewährleisten.In the shipment distribution processes, narrow shipments, e.g. Letters, transported in appropriate containers. To the shipments in sorting systems according to the recipient addresses sort, the containers must be unloaded and a substance input be fed. This was unloading and feeding previously carried out essentially manually. It was too in DE 194 45 716 C1 a solution for automatic charging described the input of substances from sorting machines but the filled container with momentum on the substance input dumped. A gentle transfer of the batch of items in the aligned condition without risk of damage to the individual Shipments are not possible with this. Is it necessary To maintain the alignment of the edges, the stack must then be turned back again. Through these processes is the edge alignment necessary for further processing not guaranteed.

Aufgabe der Erfindung ist es daher, mit einem Verfahren ein halbautomatisches bzw. vollautomatisches Entleeren von oben offenen Sendungsbehältern mit schräg nach außen verlaufenden Seitenwänden so zu ermöglichen, daß die Sendungen schonend unter Beibehaltung der Orientierung und Ausrichtung entladen werden. Dazu soll eine diesbezügliche Vorrichtung geschaffen werden.The object of the invention is therefore a method semi-automatic or fully automatic emptying from above open consignment containers with obliquely outwards Side walls so that the consignments are gently under Maintaining orientation and alignment can be unloaded. For this purpose, a device in this regard is to be created.

Diese Aufgabe wird erfindungsgemäß durch die Verfahrensschritte gemäß Anspruch 1 gelöst. Die entsprechende Vorrichtung ist im unabhängigen Anspruch 4 dargestellt. This object is achieved according to the method steps solved according to claim 1. The corresponding device is in independent claim 4.

Die Sendungen werden mit den angegebenen Schritten und Mitteln so entnommen, daß die ausgerichtete Lage der Sendungen im Stapel erhalten bleibt und keine die Sendungen verschiebende und knitternde Kräfte auftreten. Dazu wird der Stapel komprimiert und eingeklemmt zwischen Haltestützen mit umlaufenden Förderbändern beim Entladen transportiert. Beim Einfahren der Haltestützen werden die Förderbänder so bewegt, daß auf die berührten Sendungen neben der Normalkraft keine weiteren Kräfte ausgeübt werden.The shipments are made using the specified steps and means so taken that the aligned location of the shipments remains in the stack and none that moves the shipments and wrinkling forces occur. This will be the stack compressed and clamped between support brackets with circumferential Conveyor belts transported during unloading. When entering the support brackets, the conveyor belts are moved so that in addition to the normal force, none of the items touched other forces are exerted.

Die Ausführung der Schwenk- und Verfahrbewegungen erfolgt mittels üblicher und bekannter und deshalb hier nicht näher dargestellter Handlingsysteme mit NC-gesteuerten Achsen.The swiveling and traversing movements are carried out by means of usual and known and therefore not closer here Handling systems shown with NC-controlled axes.

Vorteilhafte Ausgestaltungen der Erfindung sind in den Unteransprüchen dargestellt.Advantageous embodiments of the invention are in the subclaims shown.

Anschließend wird die Erfindung in einem Ausführungsbeispiel anhand der Zeichnung näher erläutert.
Dabei zeigen

FIG 1a
eine schematische Seitenansicht eines mit stehenden Sendungen beladenen Sendungsbehälters
FIG 1b
eine schematische Seitenansicht des Sendungsbehälters mit komprimiertem Sendungsstapel
FIG 1c
eine schematische Seitenansicht des Sendungsbehälters mit komprimiertem, zwischen Haltestützen mit Förderbändern gehaltenem Sendungsstapel
FIG 2a-e
schematische Darstellungen gemäß dem Schnitt B-B der FIG 1c von hintereinander ablaufenden Vorgängen beim Entladen des Sendungsbehälters
The invention is then explained in more detail in an exemplary embodiment with reference to the drawing.
Show
FIG 1a
is a schematic side view of a shipment container loaded with standing mail items
1b
is a schematic side view of the mail container with compressed mail stack
1c
is a schematic side view of the mail container with compressed, stack of mail held between holding supports with conveyor belts
FIG 2a-e
schematic representations according to the section BB of FIG 1c of successive processes when unloading the mail container

In der FIG 1a ist der Sendungsbehälter 1 mit schräg nach außen verlaufenden Seitenwänden durchsichtig dargestellt. Beladen ist er mit einem lockeren Stapel 2 stehender Sendungen. Als erstes erfolgt gemäß FIG 1b die Komprimierung des Sendungsstapels, indem seitlich durch die Griffaussparungen mittels Stempein, die nicht näher dargestellt sind, gegen die Sendungen gedrückt wird (durch die Pfeile 3 angedeutet). Dabei können bei Bedarf auch die Drücke gemessen werden, um einen festgelegten Kompressionsdruck einzuhalten. Der Sendungsbehälter ist hierbei in einer nicht dargestellten Halte- und Positioniervorrichtung fixiert.In Figure 1a, the mail container 1 is inclined to the outside running side walls shown transparently. Loaded he is with a loose stack of 2 standing programs. First, according to FIG. 1b, the stack of mail is compressed, by using the handle recesses on the side Stamps, which are not shown, against the Shipments is pressed (indicated by the arrows 3). there If necessary, the pressures can also be measured to achieve a to maintain the specified compression pressure. The shipment container is here in a holding and not shown Positioning device fixed.

Danach werden von oben Haltestützen 4 an den Sendungsstapel 2 und in den freien Raum zwischen Stapel und Behälterseitenwand gefahren. Während dieser Abwärtsbewegung der Haltestützen 4 werden die umlaufenden Förderbänder so angetrieben, daß die berührenden Bandabschnitte zu den Sendungen stets bewegungslos sind. Dadurch werden die Sendungen schädigende Beanspruchungen durch die Haltestützen 4 vermieden. Haltestützen 4 und Stempel sind so aufeinander abgestimmt, daß sie sich beim Halten des Sendungsstapels 1 nicht gegenseitig behindern.Then support posts 4 are attached to the stack of items 2 from above and in the free space between the stack and the container side wall hazards. During this downward movement of the holding supports 4 the rotating conveyor belts are driven so that the touching band sections to the shipments always motionless are. As a result, the shipments become damaging stresses avoided by the support brackets 4. Support brackets 4 and stamp are coordinated so that they are in the Keeping the stack of items 1 does not interfere with each other.

Ist der Sendungsstapel 2 auch zwischen den Haltestützen 4 eingeklemmt, so werden die Stempel entfernt (FIG 1c).Is the batch of mail 2 also between the support posts 4 pinched, the stamps are removed (FIG 1c).

In den folgenden Figuren 2a-e wird der weitere Ablauf, im Schnitt B-B gesehen, erläutert.In the following Figures 2a-e the further process, in Section B-B seen, explained.

FIG 2a zeigt noch einmal den Zustand gemäß FIG 1c. Wie zu erkennen, wurde der Sendungsbehälter 1 auf einer als Rollenbahn ausgeführten Transportbahn 5 antransportiert. Die Haltestützen 4 besitzen jeweils drei Förderbänder. Die Halte- und Positioniervorrichtung für den Sendungsbehälter 1 ist der Übersicht wegen nicht dargestellt. Es ist aber ein Drehpunkt 7 in einer Längsachse angegeben, um den die Halte- und Positioniervorrichtung mit dem Sendungsbehälter 1 und den Sendungen schwenkbar ist. Ferner ist noch eine bewegliche Anschlagwand 6 zu erkennen, deren Funktion noch erläutert wird. Nach FIG 2b wurde der Sendungsbehälter 1 mit dem Sendungsstapel 2 und den Haltestützen 4 um ca. 95° geschwenkt. Dadurch ist gesichert, daß bei einem eventuellen Ausbrechen von Sendungen des Stapels diese gegen die unten liegende Behälterwand stoßen. Aufgrund des Schwenkens etwas über 90° hinaus entsteht eine kleine Kraftkomponente, die verhindert, daß beim Wegschwenken des Behälters der Sendungsstapel sich mit zurückbewegt und eine große Kraftkomponente, die auf die zweite ausgerichtete Kante wirkt. Anschließend wird nur der Sendungsbehälter 1 soweit zurückgeschwenkt, daß ein Spalt zwischen Sendungsstapel 2 und Sendungsbehälter 1 entsteht und eine Bodenplatte 8 in diesen Spalt an die freie Längsseite des Sendungsstapels 2 fahren kann.FIG. 2a shows the state according to FIG. 1c again. How to recognize shipment container 1 was on a roller conveyor executed transport path 5 transported. The support brackets 4 each have three conveyor belts. The holding and positioning device for the shipment container 1 is the overview because not shown. But it is a pivot point 7 in a longitudinal axis about which the holding and positioning device with the shipment container 1 and the shipments is pivotable. There is also a movable stop wall 6 to recognize whose function will be explained. To FIG. 2b was the shipment container 1 with the shipment stack 2 and the support brackets 4 pivoted about 95 °. This ensures that in the event of shipments breaking out of the stack push them against the container wall below. Due to the pivoting a little more than 90 ° arises a small force component that prevents it from swinging away of the container the batch of mail moves back with and a large component of force aimed at the second Edge works. Then only the shipment container 1 pivoted back so far that a gap between the batch of mail 2 and shipment container 1 is created and a base plate 8 in this gap on the free long side of the stack of items 2 can drive.

Außerdem wird die Anschlagwand 6 zur Sicherheit an die andere Längsseite des Sendungsstapels 2 gefahren, um ein Ausbrechen eines besonders labilen Sendungsstapels 2, z.B. bei besonders starken Unterschieden der Sendungen hinsichtlich Größe und Dicke zu dieser Seite hin zu vermeiden (FIG 2c).In addition, the stop wall 6 for safety to the other Longitudinal side of the stack of mail 2 driven to break out a particularly unstable batch of mail 2, e.g. at especially big differences of the consignments regarding size and Avoid thickness to this side (FIG 2c).

Nun werden gemäß FIG 2d Sendungsstapel 2, Bodenplatte 8, Haltestützen 4 und Sendungsbehälter 1 mit Halte- und Positioniervorrichtung unter Beibehaltung der räumlichen Lage zueinander so zurückgeschwenkt, daß der Sendungsstapel 2 mit der darunter befindlichen Bodenplatte 8 horizontal ausgerichtet ist. Durch den Pfeil angedeutet wird der Sendungsbehälter 1 aus der Halte- und Positionsvorrichtung gelöst und fällt nach unten auf die Transportbahn 5, die ihn nach rechts abtransportiert (FIG 2e). Die Bodenplatte 8 mit dem darauf befindlichen eingeklemmten Sendungsstapel 2 hat solchen Abstand von der Transportbahn 5, daß die Sendungsbehälter 1 beim Transport auf ihr von der Bodenplatte 8 und dem Sendungsstapel 2 nicht behindert werden. Der Sendungsstapel 2 kann nunmehr der weiteren Bearbeitung zugeführt werden. Dies kann das Sortieren in einer Sortieranlage sein. Dazu wird der Sendungsstapel 2 mit der Bodenplatte 8 auf die Stoffeingabe transportiert. Nachdem die Bodenplatte 8 unter dem Sendungsstapel entfernt wurde und der Sendungsstapel 2 direkt auf der Stoffeingabe steht, bewegliche Trennmesser dieser Stoffeingabe an den Stapel bewegt wurden, können die Haltestützen 4 nach oben weggefahren werden, so daß der Sendungsstapel 2 von den Trennmessern übernommen wird und an die Vereinzelungsstelle transportiert werden kann.Now, according to FIG 4 and consignment container 1 with holding and positioning device while maintaining the spatial position to each other pivoted back so that the batch of mail 2 with the underlying base plate 8 aligned horizontally is. The shipment container 1 is indicated by the arrow released from the holding and positioning device and falls below on the transport track 5, which transports it to the right (FIG 2e). The bottom plate 8 with the one on it jammed batch of mail 2 has such a distance of the transport path 5 that the shipment container 1 during transport on it from the base plate 8 and the stack of items 2 not be hindered. The shipment stack 2 can now be the be further processed. This can be sorting be in a sorting plant. This is the batch of mail 2 transported with the base plate 8 on the material input. After the bottom plate 8 under the shipment stack has been removed and the batch of mail 2 directly on the substance input stands, movable cutting knife of this substance input the stack has been moved, the support brackets 4 can go up be moved away so that the batch of mail 2 from the Cutting knives is taken over and sent to the separation point can be transported.

Ist ein Sendungsbehälter 1 nicht vollständig gefüllt, werden die Sendungen durch eine Halteklemme, die am Sendungsbehälter befestigt wird, am Umkippen gehindert. Die Halteklemme ist so geformt, daß auch durch sie hindurch der Stempel den Sendungsstapel komprimieren kann.If a shipment container 1 is not completely filled, be the shipments by a clamp that is on the shipment container attached, prevented from tipping over. The holding clamp is shaped so that the stamp passes through it Can compress batches of mail.

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  1. Method for unloading a mail container open at the top and having side walls which run obliquely outwards, which is loaded with narrow items of mail standing beside one another on their narrow sides and has handle cutouts on the opposite narrow sides, characterized by the following steps:
    picking up the mail container in a pivotable holding and positioning apparatus,
    compressing the stack of mail in the horizontally aligned mail container with horizontally moveable plungers through the handle cutouts,
    inserting pivotable and moveable holding supports having driveable circulating conveyor belts from above beside the plungers in order to hold the stack of mail in the compressed form, the conveyor belts of the holding supports being driven in such a way that the conveyor belt sections touching the items of mail do not move with respect to the items of mail,
    removing the plungers from the mail container,
    pivoting the filled mail container with the holding supports by > 90° about a longitudinal axis to such an extent that the stack of mail can be supported on what is now the lower side wall of the mail container,
    pivoting the mail container back until a moveable and pivotable baseplate can be inserted between mail container and stack of mail,
    inserting the baseplate between the mail container and the stack of mail,
    pivoting back the mail container, the baseplate and the stack of mail clamped in between the holding support, while maintaining their positions in relation to one another, into a horizontal position of the stack of mail,
    detaching the mail container from the holding and positioning apparatus and removing the mail container.
  2. Method according to Claim 1, characterized in that in the pivoted positions of the stack of mail with pivoting angles of > 90° with respect to the horizontal, a stop wall supports the stack of mail.
  3. Method according to Claim 1, characterized in that the baseplate with the stack of mail held by the holding support is moved onto the material inlet of a mail sorting system, the baseplate under the stack of mail is pulled away and the stack of mail is accepted by dividing blades in the material inlet after the holding supports have been moved up.
  4. Apparatus for unloading a mail container (1) open at the top and having side walls which run obliquely outwards, which is loaded with narrow items of mail (2) standing beside one another on their narrow sides and has handle cutouts on the opposite narrow sides, characterized by
    horizontally moveable plungers to compress the stack of mail through the handle cutouts in a horizontal basic position of the mail container (1),
    holding supports (4) which accept and hold the compressed stack of mail (2) in the container, can be pivoted and moved and have driveable conveyor belts,
    a pivotable holding and positioning device for the mail container,
    a baseplate (8) which can be pivoted and moved
    and a control unit and also sensors for implementing the method steps according to Claim 1.
  5. Apparatus according to Claim 4, characterized by a moveable stop wall (6) for supporting the pivoted stack of mail (2) in the event of a pivoting angle of > 90° with respect to the horizontal.
  6. Apparatus according to Claim 4, characterized by a horizontally aligned transport track (5) for feeding and discharging the mail containers (1).
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