EP1620210A1 - Procede et dispositif pour aligner des envois plats sur un cote etroit - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif pour aligner des envois plats sur un cote etroit

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EP1620210A1
EP1620210A1 EP04723186A EP04723186A EP1620210A1 EP 1620210 A1 EP1620210 A1 EP 1620210A1 EP 04723186 A EP04723186 A EP 04723186A EP 04723186 A EP04723186 A EP 04723186A EP 1620210 A1 EP1620210 A1 EP 1620210A1
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channel
conveyor
conveyor channel
shipment
item
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EP1620210B1 (fr
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Michael Schwarzbauer
Rainer Vogel
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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
    • B07C1/02—Forming articles into a stream; Arranging articles in a stream, e.g. spacing, orientating
    • B07C1/06—Orientating; Aligning ; Aligning to one 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
    • 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
    • B65H2404/00—Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
    • B65H2404/20—Belts
    • B65H2404/26—Particular arrangement of belt, or belts
    • B65H2404/261—Arrangement of belts, or belt(s) / roller(s) facing each other for forming a transport nip
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/10—Size; Dimensions
    • B65H2511/13—Thickness
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/20—Location in space
    • B65H2511/22—Distance
    • B65H2511/224—Nip between rollers, between belts or between rollers and belts
    • 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 relates to a method and a device for aligning flat mail items on a narrow side according to the preambles of claims 1 and 3.
  • the alignment section is designed for a limited range of goods with regard to the thickness, ie either for letters and cards or large letters, magazines etc. If a large range of thicknesses is to be processed, i.e. both thin letters and magazines or magazines, the distance between the lateral boundaries must be of the transport channel can be designed for the maximum consignment thickness. Thin consignments with low inherent rigidity can then at least partially collapse when passing through the much wider conveying channel. When transferring to the subsequent transport route to the process devices If this is not the case, the alignment is missing, transport malfunctions, damage to the consignments and reading errors can result.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a method and an apparatus for aligning flat mail items on a narrow side with a U-shaped conveyor channel, in which the mail items are transported standing on a narrow side without lateral clamping, with which both thick and thin mail items with low stiffness can be aligned without the thin soft mail items collapsing.
  • the object is solved by the features of claims 1 and 3.
  • their thickness is measured.
  • the distances of the lateral boundaries or of the boundary sections are changed by means of adjustment mechanisms for each consignment in such a way that the consignment at the end of the conveying channel is aligned on the lower narrow side due to its gravity and the distance of the lateral boundaries of the conveying channel from each consignment during its transport through the
  • the delivery channel is only so large that it does not collapse, or does not partially collapse, even with low inherent rigidity.
  • the conveyor channel If several consignments are to pass through the conveyor channel at the same time, it is advantageous to flexibly design the side boundaries. From the known transport speed and a detected front and / or rear edge, the shipment length and the position of each shipment during its transport through the conveyor channel are determined as a function of time, and with this data the flexible side boundaries over the length of the conveyor channel at their intervals changed to each other for each shipment so that the side boundary sections adapted to the respective shipment thicknesses and lengths move along with the shipments like standing waves.
  • driven rollers are provided as side boundaries of the conveying channel, between which guide plates attached to the bearings of the rollers are provided, the circumferential speed of these rollers corresponding to the transport speed of the underfloor belt.
  • the adjusting mechanism adjusts all the rollers together by the same amount, which means that the adjusting mechanism can be implemented very inexpensively.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic plan view of a generic device with lateral conveyor belts guided over rollers, the position of the rollers being separately adjustable on one side
  • FIG. 2 shows a schematic plan view of a generic device with lateral conveyor belts guided over rollers, with the rollers on one Page can be adjusted jointly and uniformly in their position.
  • a consignment 2 is transported by means of transfer rollers 11, 12, at least one of which is driven and one is mounted so that it can move locally and is pressed in the direction of the other transfer roller with low tension by means of a spring element (not shown), for alignment supplied, the driven underfloor belt is not shown for the sake of clarity.
  • the movably mounted transfer roller 12 is pressed outwards by the mail item 2. This movement is evaluated by a thickness sensor 13, the measured value of which is fed to a control unit 15.
  • the lateral boundaries of the conveying channel consist of lateral conveyor belts 4 which are guided over rollers 5, 6 and run at the same speed as the underfloor belt, one of the rollers 5, 6 being driven in each case.
  • the rollers 5 of the lateral conveyor belt 4 on the side of the locally fixed transfer roller 11 are also arranged locally.
  • the corresponding rollers 6 of the lateral conveyor belt 4 on the other side of the conveyor channel 3 after the locally movable transfer roller 12 are movably and rotatably mounted on roller levers 7.
  • the roller levers 7 can be pivoted about a pivot point 8 and are held in a rest position with the narrowest channel width provided by means of compression springs 10.
  • the swiveling movements are in each case released by a servomotor with an eccentric 9 acting on the roller lever 7.
  • a light barrier 14 which is also connected to the control unit 15. With the light barrier 14 which detects the front and rear edges of the items 1, 2 and the known transport speed, the position of each item 1, 2, its length and, via the thickness sensor 13, its thickness is determined in the control unit 15. Accordingly, control signals are transmitted to the connected actuators with the eccentrics 9. The eccentrics are thus adjusted and the roller levers 7 are pivoted in such a way that the rollers 6 move outwards with the conveyor belt 4 and each item 1, 2 is transported through the conveyor.
  • the channel 3 finds a channel width that is slightly larger than its greatest thickness. The items 1, 2 can thus pass through the conveying channel 3 without clamping and align themselves on their lower narrow side, but cannot collapse.
  • the roller 6 at the conveyor channel entrance is correspondingly moved outwards shortly before the consignment leading edge has reached the conveyor channel entrance. This can therefore only happen after the rear edge of the consignment 1 in front has left the entrance area.
  • Each locally movable roller 6 is moved in accordance with the thickness of the mail item 1, 2 located in its area. This creates a kind of movement of standing waves at this side boundary, which move with the programs 1, 2.
  • the conveying channel 3 is set to the measured mail item thickness plus a fixed value which guarantees jam-free transport while avoiding flexible mail items 1, 2 which collapse. Due to the common adjustment via the push rod 16, the restoration into the rest position only has to be carried out on a roller lever 7 by means of an attacking compression spring 10.
  • the adjustment of the lateral conveyor belts 4 can of course also be carried out with other drives which are familiar to the person skilled in the art.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Sorting Of Articles (AREA)
  • Delivering By Means Of Belts And Rollers (AREA)
  • Controlling Sheets Or Webs (AREA)
  • Separation, Sorting, Adjustment, Or Bending Of Sheets To Be Conveyed (AREA)

Abstract

L'invention concerne un procédé servant à aligner des envois plats sur un côté étroit dans un conduit de transport (3) en forme de U dans lequel les envois sont transportés debout sans être serrés. A cet effet, on mesure l'épaisseur des envois (1, 2) avant qu'ils ne parcourent le conduit de transport (3) pour l'alignement. On modifie ensuite, pour chaque envoi (1, 2), les écartements des délimitations latérales ou les écartements de segments de délimitation du conduit de transport au moyen de mécanismes de réglage (7, 8, 9, 10) de sorte que, à l'extrémité du conduit de transport (3), chaque envoi est aligné sur son côté étroit inférieur par sa force de gravité et que, pendant le transport de chaque envoi dans le conduit de transport (3), l'écartement des délimitations latérales (4) du conduit de transport (3) par rapport à l'envoi (1, 2) est maintenu tel que l'envoi ne s'affaisse pas, même partiellement, et ce même si sa rigidité intrinsèque est faible.
EP04723186A 2003-05-02 2004-03-25 Procede et dispositif pour aligner des envois plats sur un cote etroit Expired - Lifetime EP1620210B1 (fr)

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DE10319723A DE10319723B3 (de) 2003-05-02 2003-05-02 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Ausrichten von flachen Sendungen auf eine Schmalseite
PCT/EP2004/003147 WO2004096454A1 (fr) 2003-05-02 2004-03-25 Procede et dispositif pour aligner des envois plats sur un cote etroit

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