EP1611036A1 - Dispositif pour modifier le sens de transport d'envois plats et la position de ces envois par rapport a leur sens de transport - Google Patents

Dispositif pour modifier le sens de transport d'envois plats et la position de ces envois par rapport a leur sens de transport

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EP1611036A1
EP1611036A1 EP04723182A EP04723182A EP1611036A1 EP 1611036 A1 EP1611036 A1 EP 1611036A1 EP 04723182 A EP04723182 A EP 04723182A EP 04723182 A EP04723182 A EP 04723182A EP 1611036 A1 EP1611036 A1 EP 1611036A1
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Prior art keywords
transport
grippers
speed
gripping arms
gripper
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German (de)
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Armin Zimmermann
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Siemens AG
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Siemens AG
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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
    • B07C1/18—Orientating articles other than in a stream, e.g. turning, deflecting or changing direction
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G29/00—Rotary conveyors, e.g. rotating discs, arms, star-wheels or cones
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H5/00—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines
    • B65H5/08—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by grippers, e.g. suction grippers
    • B65H5/12—Revolving grippers, e.g. mounted on arms, frames or cylinders
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G2201/00—Indexing codes relating to handling devices, e.g. conveyors, characterised by the type of product or load being conveyed or handled
    • B65G2201/02—Articles
    • B65G2201/0214—Articles of special size, shape or weigh
    • B65G2201/022—Flat
    • 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
    • B65H2301/33—Modifying, selecting, changing orientation
    • B65H2301/332—Turning, overturning
    • B65H2301/3321—Turning, overturning kinetic therefor
    • B65H2301/33212—Turning, overturning kinetic therefor about an axis parallel to the direction of displacement of material
    • 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
    • B65H2301/33—Modifying, selecting, changing orientation
    • B65H2301/332—Turning, overturning
    • B65H2301/3322—Turning, overturning according to a determined angle
    • B65H2301/33222—90°
    • 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
    • B65H2301/34—Modifying, selecting, changing direction of displacement
    • B65H2301/341—Modifying, selecting, changing direction of displacement without change of plane of displacement
    • B65H2301/3411—Right angle arrangement, i.e. 90 degrees
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2405/00—Parts for holding the handled material
    • B65H2405/50—Gripping means
    • B65H2405/53—Rotary gripping arms
    • B65H2405/532—Rotary gripping arms with means for changing the length of the arms during rotation
    • 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

Definitions

  • the invention is therefore based on the object of providing a device for changing the transport direction of flat mail items and the position of the mail items relative to their transport direction, with which the mail item loads are largely avoided and which requires little space.
  • the object is achieved by a device with the features specified in claim 1.
  • One or more gripping arms with controlled, variable lengths are attached to a driven carousel table, at the free ends of which there are controllable rod ends with two or three degrees of freedom, to which grippers are attached.
  • the gripper arm lengths, the spatial orientations of the grippers during the rotation and the rotation speed are so controllable that the grippers perform linear movements along the transport paths of the transporting and discharging transport means with the approximate transport speed of the transport means in question.
  • the articular heads are included during the linear movements . the grippers to the concerned
  • Transport lanes always spatially aligned. The items are picked up and handed over by the grippers.
  • Trailing edges and at a defined distance from a lateral reference edge can be picked up or put down from the lateral boundaries of the transport tracks.
  • the grippers are designed as clamps with at least one movable jaw.
  • the gripping arms can be pivoted in a controlled manner in the vertical direction.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic plan view of a generic device for pivoting in trans- direction of the flat items standing on their long narrow sides into a lying position and changing the direction of transport by 90 °, the long sides of the item being perpendicular to the new direction of transport and only one gripping arm being shown in different positions during one revolution;
  • FIG. 2 shows a corresponding schematic plan view, which differs from the illustration in FIG. 1 in that the transport direction is changed by 180 ° and that the shorter sides of the mailpiece are then perpendicular to the new transport direction.
  • a continuously rotating carousel table 1 with constant or swelling speed, on which one or more gripping arms are located is the core of the device.
  • the length of the gripping arm 2 designed as a telescopic arm can be changed in a controlled manner.
  • the gripping arms 2 can be pivoted in a controlled manner in the vertical direction.
  • articulated heads 3 At the free end of the gripper arms 2 there are articulated heads 3 which are controllably movable in two or three degrees of freedom and which each have a gripper 4, e.g. a closable bracket to carry and deliver items. If the speed of rotation is not constant, care must be taken to ensure that, in the case of unequal transport speeds, infeed and outfeed means of transport do not simultaneously pick up and deliver mail items 5.
  • a conveying means that is designed as a shroud is arranged above the rotating gripper arms 2 in such a way that it forms a chord to the circle of rotation of the gripper arms 2 which are extended to the maximum extent.
  • the narrow shroud transports items 5 upright at a feed speed V 2 ; u ud a constant distance of equal edges Tz u> where the lower Consignment section protrudes freely from the cover tape.
  • a gripper arm 2 with the gripper 4 open, aligned with the shroud section must also be at the intersection.
  • the gripper arm 2 is continuously shortened at constant speed, as a result of which the gripper 4 executes a linear movement synchronously with the movement of the mail item and the joint head 3 is rotated continuously in the plane of rotation, as a result of which the gripper 4 always remains aligned with the shroud section.
  • the tangential speed v ⁇ of the gripper 4 is equal to the feed speed v Zu .
  • gripper 4 can be closed around the lower part of the mailpiece protruding from the cover band and the mailpiece 5 can leave the cover band without being caught to receive abrupt force introductions to the shipments.
  • the position of a reference edge to be aligned with the gripper 4 is detected in phase 2, for example by means of a light barrier line, and the joint head 3 is pivoted downward through 90 °, as a result of which the item 5 is turned over.
  • the length of the gripper arm is continuously changed to the length corresponding to the fixed edge distance L ⁇ of the mail items 5 lying on a straight path perpendicular to the feed direction minus the detected correction value from the reference edge to the gripper 4, and the joint head 3 helps to maintain the straight alignment the discharge in the plane of rotation is rotated continuously, minus a detected correction value of a possible reference edge twist to the gripper 4.
  • the turn, the edge change and the alignment are carried out harmoniously (bumpless).

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Specific Conveyance Elements (AREA)
  • Attitude Control For Articles On Conveyors (AREA)
  • Feeding Of Articles By Means Other Than Belts Or Rollers (AREA)

Abstract

Le dispositif selon l'invention présente une table tournante (1) entraînée, sur laquelle sont fixés un ou plusieurs bras preneurs (2) dont la longueur peut être modifiée de façon commandée. A l'extrémité libre de ces bras preneurs se trouve une tête articulée (3) commandée présentant deux ou trois degrés de liberté, sur laquelle est monté un preneur (4). La longueur des bras preneurs, l'orientation spatiale des preneurs (4) pendant la rotation et la vitesse de rotation peuvent être commandées de sorte que les preneurs (4) exécutent des déplacements linéaires le long des pistes de transport des moyens de transport d amenée et d évacuation, cela à une vitesse de transport approchant celle du moyen de transport concerné. Pendant les déplacements linéaires, les têtes articulées (3), avec les preneurs (4), sont toujours orientées spatialement de façon identique par rapport aux pistes de transport concernées.
EP04723182A 2003-04-09 2004-03-25 Dispositif pour modifier le sens de transport d'envois plats et la position de ces envois par rapport a leur sens de transport Withdrawn EP1611036A1 (fr)

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DE2003116235 DE10316235B3 (de) 2003-04-09 2003-04-09 Einrichtung zum Ändern der Transportrichtung von flachen Sendungen und der Lage der Sendungen relativ zu ihrer Transportrichtung
PCT/EP2004/003146 WO2004089790A1 (fr) 2003-04-09 2004-03-25 Dispositif pour modifier le sens de transport d'envois plats et la position de ces envois par rapport a leur sens de transport

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CN (1) CN1771174A (fr)
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