Classifications

• • 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
• • 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
  • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
  • B65H2301/445—Moving, forwarding, guiding material stream of articles separated from each other
  • B65H2301/4455—Diverting a main stream into part streams
• • 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
  • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
  • B65H2301/448—Diverting
  • B65H2301/4482—Diverting to multiple paths, i.e. more than 2
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H2408/00—Specific machines
  • B65H2408/10—Specific machines for handling sheet(s)
  • B65H2408/11—Sorters or machines for sorting articles
  • B65H2408/112—Sorters or machines for sorting articles with stationary location in space of the bins and in-feed member movable from bin to bin

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a method of sorting addressed and unaddressed mail pieces for processing the mailpieces for a mailing delivery route having a predetermined sequence of delivery addresses.
• Postautomation which ensures the fast and automated only possible sorting of the mail pieces, therefore, is of paramount importance, so that in particular the delivery of the mailpieces by a postman (postman) can be made efficiently, 5 because here in terms of costs Postal transmission is the highest value added share.
• the post office automation system uses a large number of sorting systems or, more simply, sorters, where the delivery addresses of the mail pieces are first recorded and usually recorded in the form of a bar code on the mail item, the mailpieces subsequently fed into a sorting conveyor and finally in a controlled manner at a the respective delivery address representing destination from the
• sorting methods are particularly preferred in which, as a result, the mail items for a mail delivery person are in the order of the delivery addresses his delivery route are compiled.
• Such methods are known for example from the German patent application DE 197 14 184 AI and the international patent application WO 02/094461 AI.
• a particular problem for the sorting and ZustellRIS represent the so-called unaddressed mail pieces, such as advertising leaflets, household information, some magazines and the like, which have no printed delivery address.
• These unaddressed mail items are distributed either of mostly unrelated to the post office or private companies must be zusortiert from the postman to normal 'addressed mail.
• the delivery companies of the private companies have to go the same way again as the postal delivery service also runs it on each working day.
• the present invention is therefore based on the object of specifying a method for the sorting of addressed and unaddressed mail pieces, with which the above disadvantages can be eliminated.
• a method for sorting addressed and unaddressed mail pieces for processing the mail pieces for a mail carrier delivery route having a predetermined sequence of delivery addresses comprising the following steps: a) the addressed mail pieces are detected for their delivery addresses; b) the unaddressed mail pieces are assigned to specific delivery addresses by means of a selectively compilable Epfnature list; and c) the delivery address defined for the intended distribution route is compared, and in relation to the respective delivery address one or more addressed mailpieces and / or one or more unaddressed mailpieces are present; and d) on the basis of the above comparison, a sorter is controlled in such a way that the addressed and the unaddressed mailpieces are introduced into a sorting pass and eliminated from the sorting pass to the destination station at a destination location representing the respective delivery address, in accordance with a preselected sorting sequence of delivery addresses.
• the method allows the unaddressed mail items to be sorted together with the addressed mailpieces either in an intermediate sorting pass or, more particularly, in the last sort pass of the pass sorting prior to delivery.
• the mail carrier can with the from the recipient address list predetermined selectivity unsubscribe the unaddressed mail pieces together with the addressed mailpieces according to the given delivery route. A renewed expiry of the delivery route for the distribution of unaddressed mail pieces is eliminated. Further, the entrainment of separate containers for the unaddressed mail pieces at the postman so that he can go to the refilling with empty containers in his base, usually a local post office.
• the addressed mail pieces can be detected in terms of their delivery addresses in the context of a preceding sorting run.
• several sorting runs are also necessary, in particular the sorting run preceding the sorting of the unaddressed mailpieces can be used to detect the delivery addresses and in particular to obtain the information for which the delivery addresses provided along the delivery route are currently not an addressed mailpiece present.
• separation cards are printed on the existing sorting systems, namely for those delivery addresses for which there are no addressed items. These separation cards are queued and sorted in the penultimate sorting run in the shipment stream of addressed shipments.
• Mail items are pre-sorted as part of a preceding sorting run in a manner set down on the delivery route, but are only detected with regard to their delivery addresses during the context of the sorting of the unaddressed mailpieces.
• This feature can be implemented, for example, by a so-called Einschussussi, so the unit with the mail pieces in the transport containers of the sorting conveyor are inserted, is used with a number of waiting positions, wherein, the central process control unit located in a waiting position mail pieces with respect to their delivery address knows exactly and then injects the mail pieces after the first-in-first-out principle in the sorting conveyor.
• the selectively compilable recipient address list is derived according to individual profiles which can be defined for the delivery addresses and / or the recipients.
• an automobile catalog, a garden catalog or a children's catalog may be mentioned here for the unaddressed item of mail, which is distributed to delivery addresses at which a car owner or a family house owner or a family with children lives as a recipient.
• This selectively collapsible recipient address list for the automated sorting process is greatly enhanced when the selectively collapsible recipient address list is provided in electronic form.
• a private customer of the mail this recipient address list transmitted in electronic form and the mailpieces to be distributed separately from the printer at the post timely delivery, which, for example, even with periodically recurring orders to a high efficiency and thus too leads to a favorable pricing.
• DP list delivery point list
• the addressed mailpieces can be processed at least in preparatory sorting runs with sequences of delivery addresses that correlate to the delivery path, but not precisely with a sequence of the delivery addresses in the process control exactly corresponding to the delivery route , It is therefore particularly advantageous if an electronically processable series list of delivery addresses is created for the distribution of the mail delivery with the predetermined sequence of delivery addresses, which is processed successively in the calculation of the sorting process by checking in the comparison, whether for the respective entry in the row list of the delivery address is an entry in the selectively compiled recipient address list and / or an entry in a train list for the addressed mail pieces.
• the to-do list may be generated by reading, for one or more of the addressed mail items, an address code located on the addressed mail items quasi in si tu and thus being available to the process controller.
• the mailpieces arriving in the post office (DPA post office - destination point allocation post office) that arrive for the final sorting run are all initially checked for mail
• a particularly efficient way of limiting the number of sorting passes required may be to divide a) the delivery path into a number of sub-segments each having an individually definable number and a predetermined sequence of delivery addresses, b) the addressed postal items into one Sorted by target locations, c) wherein the number of destinations corresponds to the number of delivery addresses in the sub-segment with the most delivery addresses, and d) wherein the sorting in this sorting run is such that in the result all addressed mailpieces for the respective first delivery addresses of all sub-segments in a first of the destination sites collected, all addressed mailpieces for each second delivery addresses are collected in a second of the target sites, etc.
• each DPS sorting process (Delivery Point Sorting) can be sorted according to the intended order of the delivery addresses in the sub-segments and any in this Sort sorted mail to be added until the final sorting process. Accordingly, in an adjoining sorting run, the addressed and now also the unaddressed mailpieces can then be sorted in a number of destination locations, the number of destination locations here corresponding to the number of subsegments, and the sorting being carried out in such a way that in turn first all for which determined in the sub-segments first delivery addresses
• Mail pieces, then all for the designated in the sub-segments second delivery addresses mail items, etc. are sorted into the destination.
• the destination could also be started from the rear in the sense, with the for the last delivery address of the subsegment with the largest number of
• Delivery addresses provided mail pieces is started. In the target locations, the addressed and unaddressed mail pieces are then present in the result in such a way that their sorting exactly takes place in the sequence of delivery addresses occurring on the delivery route.
• the selectively composable recipient address list is subdivided in groups, with all the recipient addresses matching the first delivery address of the subsegments in a first group and all of the second delivery address being in a second group
• Sub-segments matching recipient addresses, etc. are summarized. In this way, the unaddressed mail pieces can be sorted in parallel with or before or after the addressed mailpieces.
• the assignment of the unaddressed mailpieces to the delivery addresses predetermined according to the selectively configurable recipient address list is characterized by an identification of the unaddressed mailpieces with an address code, preferably a bar code.
• the addressed and the unaddressed mailpieces can be introduced into the sorting pass by means of separate individual take-off devices.
• the single trigger device for the unaddressed mailpieces can be specially tailored to their nature, which helps to avoid false or double prints.
• Fig. 1 is a schematic representation of a delivery path of a postal delivery
• FIG. 2 is an exploded view of a selectively aggregated recipient address list for unaddressed mailpieces
• FIG. and 3 is a schematic representation of the destination locations and an assignment of the delivery addresses to these destinations in a preparatory sorting run;
• Fig. 5 is a schematic representation of addressed and unaddressed mailpieces.
• Figure 1 shows schematically a Zustellweg W of a postal deliverer.
• the feed path W is subdivided into five segments Si to S5, each of which has an individual number of delivery addresses Zu to Zs 3 .
• the first of the two preceding indices indicates in which of the segments Si to S 5 the delivery address is and the second index indicates at which point the respective delivery address in the course eg of the postal delivery within the segments Si to S 5 is arranged.
• Z 31 denotes the first delivery address in the third segment S 3 ; Z 46 corresponding to the sixth delivery address in the fourth segment S 4 .
• the arrows shown at the edge of the Zustellweges represent the course of the delivery path W.
• the number of delivery addresses arranged in a segment varies between three in segment S 5 and seven in segment S 3 . That is, based on the smallest number of delivery addresses, the difference is more than 100%. This is justified here in the exemplary representation and means that in an actual
• Sorting process the deviations of the number of delivery addresses per segment are considerably smaller, in order to guarantee a statistically uniform use of all resources.
• FIG. 2 shows a selectively compiled list of recipients L for an advertising brochure devoted to a particular topic, which represents the unaddressed mail piece 4 in this embodiment.
• an advertising brochure devoted to a particular topic, which represents the unaddressed mail piece 4 in this embodiment.
• the delivery addresses Z5 1 and Zs 2 have been doubled to indicate that two unaddressed mailpieces 4 must be delivered to these delivery addresses.
• Receiver without addressed mailpiece 2 to allocate a so-called dummy, on the addition of the delivery address and / or the recipient is noted.
• a numeric and / or a symbolic indication could also be printed on the next addressed postal item 2 to be delivered, which indicates how many delivery addresses have to be delivered before how many unaddressed postal items 4.
• About a required for the output of the numerical and / or symbolic output knowledge has a not shown here process control of a sorter, which has at least temporary knowledge about the assignment of the addressed and unaddressed mail pieces 2, 4 to the delivery addresses / receivers.
• the addressed mailpieces 2 are now sorted to the respective delivery routes. This can be done centrally, but also decentralized, so that at least for the final sorting for the Postal deliverer all provided for his delivery route W addressed mail pieces 2 at a single sorting point (local or municipal or regional post office or sorting center) are present. Subsequently, the addressed mailpieces 2, as shown in Figure 3, in a number of
• Target location Z ⁇ to Z 7 sorted, where the number of target points of the number of the segment with. most delivery addresses. In this case, seven destinations are necessary because the segment -S 3 has seven delivery addresses Z 3X to Z 37 .
• the sorting process is carried out so that all mailpieces 2 for the respective first delivery addresses, here Zu to Z 51 , the segments Si to S 5 in a common target location, here the target location Zi, are collected.
• the delivery addresses to be sorted into the respective destinations are indicated below the destination locations. All mailpieces for the respective second delivery addresses Z i2 to Z 5 are accordingly collected in a different destination, here the destination Z 2 , etc.
• the once recorded delivery addresses Zij can be noted in the form of a barcode 6 on the mailpieces.
• the unaddressed mail pieces 4 are usually present in a stack 8 and can be delivered in appropriate number (with reserve) at the place making the final sorting. For the delivery route W, this means that thirteen unaddressed advertising leaflets 4 must be made available.
• the recipient list L provided for the advertising leaflets now exists in electronic form and can also be structured so that it is sorted for all intended recipients according to the first, second, third etc. delivery addresses provided in the respective segments.
• the final sorting pass shown schematically in FIG. 4 all the addressed and unaddressed mail pieces 2, 4 provided for the delivery path W subdivided here into five segments Si to S5 are then sorted into five destination points ZSi to ZS5 corresponding to the order in the delivery path.
• all addressed and unaddressed mail pieces 2, 4 provided for the first delivery addresses Zu to Z 5i are first sorted.
• the process control knows for this purpose, the delivery addresses, which are provided for the receipt of an unaddressed mail piece 4.
• the delivery addresses Z 51 are served twice here, which is indicated in FIG. 4 with a double border of the delivery address Z 5i . If now all addressed and unaddressed postal items 2, 4 are sorted for the respective first delivery addresses Zu to Z 51 , then the addressed and unaddressed items of mail for the respective second delivery addresses Z i2 to Z 52 are distributed to the destination sites ZSi to ZS5 and so on. In accordance with the recipient address list L, the delivery addresses outlined in FIG. 1 receive one or more unaddressed postal items 4 with previously unattainable efficiency and selectivity.

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