EP1590285B1 - Compartiment d'empilage etroit pour envois plats - Google Patents

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EP1590285B1
EP1590285B1 EP04706658A EP04706658A EP1590285B1 EP 1590285 B1 EP1590285 B1 EP 1590285B1 EP 04706658 A EP04706658 A EP 04706658A EP 04706658 A EP04706658 A EP 04706658A EP 1590285 B1 EP1590285 B1 EP 1590285B1
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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
    • B65H31/00—Pile receivers
    • B65H31/30—Arrangements for removing completed piles
    • B65H31/3009—Arrangements for removing completed piles by dropping, e.g. removing the pile support from under the pile
    • 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
    • B07C3/008—Means for collecting objects, e.g. containers for sorted mail items
    • 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
    • B65H29/26—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by dropping the articles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H31/00—Pile receivers
    • B65H31/04—Pile receivers with movable end support arranged to recede as pile accumulates
    • B65H31/06—Pile receivers with movable end support arranged to recede as pile accumulates the articles being piled 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
    • B65H33/00—Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles
    • B65H33/16—Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles by depositing articles in batches on moving supports
    • B65H33/18—Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles by depositing articles in batches on moving supports with separators between adjacent batches
    • 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
    • B65H2301/4214—Forming a pile of articles on edge
    • B65H2301/42146—Forming a pile of articles on edge by introducing articles from above
    • 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
    • B65H2301/4224—Gripping piles, sets or stacks of articles
    • B65H2301/42242—Gripping piles, sets or stacks of articles by acting on the outermost articles of the pile for clamping 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
    • 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
    • B65H2301/4226—Delivering, advancing piles
    • B65H2301/42261—Delivering, advancing piles by dropping
    • 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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  • the invention relates to a stacking tray for flat items according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the stacking compartments In order subsequently to sort the items for the next distribution section of this or another postman, the stacking compartments must be emptied as quickly as possible and with little effort.
  • a stacking tray for flat broadcasts in a standing position with a stacking bottom, a stacking wall perpendicular thereto, a stacking point at which the mailings are directed into the stacking tray, and with a stacking support along the stacking wall, holding the stack of mail stacking support outside a draining process according to increasing stack thickness of the stacking point is movable away described.
  • a drive For emptying the stacking tray in the stacking direction before the stacking point by a drive also displaceable in the stacking direction push unit is arranged. During its shift, the mail stack is supported from below.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a stacking tray of the type mentioned, which is emptied quickly and automatically and which allows transport of the stack of mail from adjacent stacking compartments with the best possible retention of the stack formation for further processing.
  • the drive of the thrust unit is so controlled that the thrust unit moves to the narrow stack and the stack over the stack bottom out quickly moves and drive the stack support so controlled that the stack support and the thrust unit in the course of the emptying process to empty the stacking tray be moved simultaneously, the stack support covers a greater distance than the push unit.
  • the clamping of the stack between the pushing unit and the stacking support is released, so that the stack falls into the receiving device due to its gravity.
  • the drive of the thrust unit is controlled so that at the open end of the stacking tray on the thrust unit and thus on the mail stack an acceleration is exercised, due to the inertia of the shipments and the friction between the Broadcasts during the displacement of the stack of mail beyond the end of the stack bottom and during its fall on the receiving device does not allow a substantial change in formation within the mail stack.
  • a receiving conveyor with a section conveyor belt, inclined in the emptying direction from the vertical, for transporting the stacks of mail to an outfeed unit.
  • a section conveyor belt At the lower side boundary of the section conveyor while a narrow transport path is inclined at an angle of about 90 °, on which the broadcasts are supported with their narrow sides, whereby the maintenance of the orientation and orientation of the items is ensured among themselves.
  • the section conveyor belt stands still, with each section being assigned a stacking compartment. After emptying all stacking compartments on the section conveyor this is set in motion.
  • shipments for a particular area are to be sorted on individual delivery points. This is done in two Sorting machines 10,20, in which the shipments arrive via switches in the terminals.
  • a roller conveyor 11 mailing container 12 with broadcasts of the Verteil capablees the input part of the first sorting machine 10, consisting of a feeder bed 13 and a separating device 14, respectively. There they are unloaded and placed the shipments on the feeder bed 13 in an upright position. The consignment stack is then successively pushed to the separating device 14, where the respective foremost consignment is withdrawn.
  • each stacking tray 17 is associated with a particular group of delivery points.
  • the emptying of the stacking compartments 17 takes place in consignment containers 12, which are then transported via a further transport roller conveyor 18 to the input part 19 of the second sorting machine 20.
  • the mail items are sorted by the mailing section 21 in the sorting section 22 on the individual delivery points in the distribution order, that is to say in the order of dispatch.
  • the series adjacent to each other, designed as stacking compartments 23 terminals are assigned to the delivery points in the distribution order.
  • the emptied consignment containers are fed back to the first sorting machine 10 via an upper transport path 25 in order to load the sorted consignment groups from the stacking compartments 17 therein. Since in the second sorting machine 20 each delivery point is assigned a stacking tray 23, and therefore the shipment load for each stacking tray 23 is relatively small, they have a limited capacity (about 30 - 50 mm in length).
  • both the destination addresses and the thicknesses of each shipment are determined in the first sorting machine 10, it is therefore also known, if for a particular delivery point the total thickness of the mail exceeds the capacity of a stacker. In this case, two or more stackers are assigned to this delivery point.
  • the emptying of the stacking compartments 23 with upright shipments 12 on the section conveyor belt 24 is automatic and is in FIG. 2 a and b shown in more detail.
  • the mailpieces 2 are fed laterally into the stacking tray 23 as a terminal to a baffle, not shown, using a stacking roller 30 and held there on the stacking tray 31 upright by a powered stacking support 32 in the upright position.
  • a stacking roller 30 in addition to the stacking roller 30 further means, such as in EP 0 143 818 B1 described, are used.
  • the relatively fast movement of the stack support 32 and the thrust unit 34 is generated by corresponding drives 33,35, wherein the stack support 32 travels a greater distance, thereby canceling the clamping of the stack.
  • the drives 33,35 can be realized as known per se, for example as a linear drive or as a rack and pinion drive.
  • the thrust unit 34 is designed so that as evenly as possible on the surface of all broadcast formats a force can be initiated. Due to the rapid movement and the consequent shock-like force on the stack this is due to the inertia without significant change in formation pushed over the edge of the short shelf 31.
  • a narrow conveyor track 36 designed as a roller conveyor, inclined at an angle of approximately 90 °, is arranged on the lower side boundary, on which the items 2 are supported with their narrow sides.

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L'invention concerne un compartiment d'empilage étroit pour envois plats en position verticale, comprenant un fond d'empilage (31), un emplacement d'empilage ainsi qu'une butée d'empilage (32) maintenant la pile d'envois et pouvant être déplacée dans une direction d'empilage approximativement horizontale. Un dispositif de poussée entraîné (34), pouvant être déplacé dans la direction d'empilage et destiné au vidage, est installé en amont de l'emplacement d'empilage dans la direction d'empilage, l'entraînement (35) du dispositif de poussée (34) étant commandé pour le vidage, de sorte que ce dispositif de poussée (34) avance rapidement la pile sur le fond d'empilage (31) et l'entraînement (33) de la butée d'empilage (32) étant commandé, de sorte que cette butée d'empilage (32) parcourt une plus grande trajectoire que le dispositif de poussée (34) au cours du processus de vidage.

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  1. Compartiment d'empilage d'envois plats en position debout, comprenant un fond ( 31 ) d'empilage, une paroi d'empilage qui lui est perpendiculaire et sur laquelle les envois ( 2 ) s'appliquent dans le compartiment ( 23) d'empilage, un point d'entrée d'empilage où les envois ( 2) sont conduits dans le compartiment ( 23 ) d'empilage et un appui ( 32 ) d'empilage, qui peut coulisser dans une direction d'empilage à peu près horizontale le long de la paroi d'empilage qui maintient la pile d'envois et qui peut être déplacé en s'éloignant d'une manière correspondante du point d'entrée d'empilage avec une épaisseur de pile croissante en dehors du temps pendant lequel on vide le compartiment, le compartiment ( 23 ) d'empilage étant ouvert à l'extrémité à l'opposé du point d'entrée d'empilage, dans lequel en amont dans le sens d'entrée d'empilage du point d'entrée d'empilage est disposé, pour vider le compartiment d'empilage, une unité ( 34 ) de poussée entraînée et pouvant coulisser également dans la direction d'empilage, et dans lequel, à l'extérieur du compartiment ( 23 ) d'empilage, est prévu, à son extrémité ouverte dans la direction d'empilage en dessous du fond ( 31 ) d'empilage, un dispositif ( 24, 36 ) de réception capturant une pile d'envois sortie du compartiment ( 23 ) d'empilage, caractérisé en ce que, pour vider le compartiment, l'entraînement ( 35 ) de l'unité ( 34 ) de poussée peut être commandé de façon à ce que l'unité ( 34 ) de poussée se déplace sur la pile étroite et déplace la pile rapidement au-delà du fond ( 31 ) d'empilage et un entraînement ( 33 ) de l'appui ( 32 ) d'empilage peut être commandé de manière à ce que l'appui ( 32 ) d'empilage et l'unité ( 34 ) de poussée soient déplacés simultanément au cours de l'opération dans laquelle on vide le compartiment, l'appui ( 32 ) d'empilage parcourant un chemin plus grand que l'unité ( 34 ) de poussée et mettant fin ainsi au serrage de la pile, de sorte que la pile tombe sous l'effet de la force de gravité dans le dispositif ( 24, 36 ) de réception.
  2. Compartiment d'empilage suivant la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que dans le compartiment ( 23 ) d'empilage se trouve un capteur de niveau qui, lorsqu'une épaisseur fixée de pile est atteinte, produit un signal pour vider le compartiment qui est transmis aux commandes ( 33, 35 ) d'entraînement de l'unité ( 34) de poussée et de l'appui ( 32 ) de pile.
  3. Compartiment d'empilage suivant la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que l'entraînement ( 35 ) de l'unité ( 34 ) de poussée peut être commandé de manière à ce que, à l'extrémité ouverte du compartiment ( 23 ) d'empilage, il s'applique à l'unité ( 34 ) de poussée et ainsi à la pile d'envois une accélération qui, en raison de l'inertie de masse des envois ( 2 ) et du frottement des envois ( 2 ) pendant la poussée de la pile d'envois au-delà de l'extrémité du fond ( 31 ) d'empilage et pendant sa chute sur le dispositif ( 24, 36 ) de réception, n'autorise pas une modification sensible de formation à l'intérieur de la pile d'envois.
  4. Compartiment d'empilage suivant la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que, pour plusieurs compartiments ( 23 ) d'empilage se trouvant les uns à côté des autres, il est prévu, comme dispositif ( 24, 36 ) de réception, une bande ( 24 ) convoyeuse segmentée, inclinée sur la verticale pour le transport de la pile d'envois à une unité de livraison, à la démarcation latérale inférieure de laquelle est disposée une voie ( 36 ) de transport étroite, inclinée d'un angle d'à peu près 90°, sur laquelle les envois ( 2 ) s'appuient par leur côté étroit, la bande ( 24 ) convoyeuse segmentée se trouvant au repos jusqu'à ce que tous les compartiments ( 23 ) d'empilage soient vidés et un segment étant associé à chaque compartiment ( 23 ) d'empilage et la bande ( 24 ) convoyeuse segmentée se mettant en mouvement après que tous les compartiments ( 23 ) d'empilage ont été vidés.
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