EP1753681B1 - Dispositif pour inverser le sens de marchandises plates - Google Patents

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EP1753681B1
EP1753681B1 EP05732326A EP05732326A EP1753681B1 EP 1753681 B1 EP1753681 B1 EP 1753681B1 EP 05732326 A EP05732326 A EP 05732326A EP 05732326 A EP05732326 A EP 05732326A EP 1753681 B1 EP1753681 B1 EP 1753681B1
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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
    • B65H29/00—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
    • B65H29/58—Article switches or diverters
    • B65H29/60—Article switches or diverters diverting the stream into alternative paths
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H15/00—Overturning articles
    • B65H15/008—Overturning articles employing 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
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
    • B65H2301/33—Modifying, selecting, changing orientation
    • B65H2301/333—Inverting
    • B65H2301/3331—Involving forward reverse transporting means
    • B65H2301/33314—Involving forward reverse transporting means forward reverse 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
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S271/00—Sheet feeding or delivering
    • Y10S271/902—Reverse direction of sheet movement

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  • the invention relates to a device for reversing the direction of flat shipments in consignment sorting systems with feeding and discharging cover belt conveyors.
  • this distribution information must be in fixed positions. If this is not the case, the consignments must be brought by rotation about their longitudinal and / or vertical axis in the working position.
  • JP-A-61-64658 a device for reversing the direction of flat objects by means of rollers described.
  • the successively supplied items alternately passed over a switch in two reversibly driven conveyor lines. While an object is being transported in the one conveyor line, the respective preceding object is simultaneously conveyed out of the other conveyor line again.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a low-cost device for reversing the direction of flat shipments in consignment sorting with incoming and outgoing shroud conveyors, with a collision-free rotation of flat, with small intervals successive programs is possible about its vertical axis.
  • the feeding shroud conveyor consisting of two endless circulating belts, between which the shipments are trapped in a row, follows a switch for splitting the programs alternately on two apart at an acute angle Deckbandtransportrangen with two endless belts, which each one controlled and reversible drivable conveyor line, in which the items are also transported clamped, connects.
  • Both conveyor sections can be driven by a drive roller arranged between them and the items can be guided around the drive roller in such a wrap angle that the items can be braked and accelerated approximately slip-free, taking into account the frictional forces.
  • Each conveyor line is designed so that the items can be routed during return transport at an acute angle to the respective feeding shroud transport path in a laxative shroud transport means with two endless, circulating belts.
  • the braking process is only started when the trailing edge of the respective program has left the shroud transport path. At any time, the broadcasts are frictionally guided in the device.
  • a further possibility for the low-effort execution of the controlled and reversibly drivable conveyor lines, but with limited range of broadcast formats, is to provide for these in each case an outer, endless shroud, which is guided over two pulleys, and the common drive roller.
  • the flat programs 30, 31, 32 are alternately directed by way of a cover belt conveying means 1, not shown in detail here, and a controllable switch 2 to two feeding conveyor belt conveyor sections which run apart at an acute angle.
  • the right-hand cover belt transport path consists of a first endless belt 3, which is deflected and returned via a first deflection roller 4, and a second endless belt 5, which is deflected and returned via a second deflection roller 6.
  • the left shroud transport path also consists of a third endless belt 9, which is deflected and returned via a third deflection roller 10, and a fourth endless belt 11, which is deflected and returned via a fourth deflection roller 12.
  • Each shroud conveyor route directs the shipments into a controlled and reversibly driven conveyor line. Both conveyor lines converge in the inlet direction at an acute angle.
  • the conveyor belt section following the right conveyor belt conveyor consists of a fifth, outer endless belt 15, which is deflected by two deflection rollers 16 and a sixth, inner endless belt 17, which runs over a larger drive roller 18 and a smaller guide roller 19.
  • This endless belt 17 is at the same time on the opposite side, the inner endless belt of the left cover belt transport path following conveyor line, which still has a seventh, outer endless belt 20, which is deflected over two pulleys 21 has.
  • the deflection rollers 16, 21 of the conveyor lines located close to each other are at such a distance from one another that the thickest packages 30, 31, 32 that do not need to be transported back or that are longer than the reversible conveyor line, pass through the gap between the deflection rollers 16, 21 can be fed freely to a following means of transport. Since the transport directions of the shroud transport paths and the respective subsequent conveyor lines are inclined to each other, there is a necessary angle of wrap, with which the programs 30,31,32 are guided around the drive drum 18. Since the conveyor lines are inclined inwards, the consignments 30,31,32 are passed on the outside back to the feeding Deckbandtransportrangen and the feeding Deckbandanisch 1 on both sides in laxative Deckbandtransportstoff.
  • FIGS. 2a-d The timing is based on the FIGS. 2a-d illustrated.
  • the first consignment 30 of the incoming consignment stream has left the upper or in the feed direction the right conveying path 50 and is reversed by the associated laxative shroud transport means 60 reversed at rated speed.
  • the following second consignment 31 still retracts at nominal speed into the conveying path 51 of the other side and is braked starting at the illustrated point in time at which the trailing edge just leaves the assigned shroud transport path 41.
  • FIG. 2a the first consignment 30 of the incoming consignment stream has left the upper or in the feed direction the right conveying path 50 and is reversed by the associated laxative shroud transport means 60 reversed at rated speed.
  • the following second consignment 31 still retracts at nominal speed into the conveying path 51 of the other side and is braked starting at the illustrated point in time at which the trailing edge just leaves the assigned shroud transport path 41.

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L'invention concerne un dispositif comprenant deux voies de transport (50, 51) à sangle présentant un sens de transport réversible, lesquelles sont entraînées par un rouleau de commande (18) commun. Les marchandises (30, 31, 32) du flux de marchandises sont réparties alternativement sur les voies de transport (50, 51) à sangles. Les marchandises transportées en retour (30, 31, 32) sont dirigées dans un moyen de transport (60, 61) à sangle. Le rouleau de commande (18) est commandé, de manière à ce qu'au départ d'une marchandise suivante (32) sur une voie de transport (50, 51) à sangle, la marchandise (31) transportée en retour est activée à une vitesse nominale, puis le processus de ralentissement est activé, lorsque le bord arrière de chaque marchandise (32) a quitté la voie de transport (40, 41) à sangle et que la marchandise précédente (31) n'est plus calée dans une voie de transport (50, 51) à sangle commandée et réversible.

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  1. Dispositif pour inverser le sens d'envois plats dans des installations de tri d'envoi, comprenant un moyen ( 1 ) d'amenée à convoyeur de type sandwich, constitué de deux bandes sans fin, tournantes et entre lesquelles les envois ( 30, 31, 32 ) peuvent être transportés les uns derrière les autres en étant serrés, un aiguillage de répartition des envois ( 30, 31, 32 ) en alternance sur deux sections ( 40, 41 ) de transport à bande sandwich tournantes, s'écartant l'une de l'autre suivant un angle aigu et ayant respectivement deux bandes ( 3, 5, 9, 11 ) sans fin auxquelles se raccorde respectivement une section ( 50, 51 ) de convoyeur commandée, pouvant être entraînée de manière réversible, dans laquelle les envois ( 30, 31, 32 ) peuvent être transportés également en étant serrés, les deux sections ( 50, 51 ) de convoyeur pouvant être entraînées par un rouleau ( 18 ) d'entraînement disposé entre elles et les envois ( 30, 31, 32 ) pouvant être guidés autour du rouleau ( 18 ) d'entraînement suivant un angle d'enroulement tel que les envois ( 30, 31, 32) peuvent, en tenant compte des forces de frottement, être freinés et accélérés presque sans glissement, chaque section ( 50, 51 ) de convoyeur étant réalisée de manière à ce que les envois ( 30, 31 , 32 ) lors du retour puissent être guidés sous un angle aigu vers les sections ( 40, 41 ) de transport à bande sandwich d'amenée respective dans un moyen ( 60, 61 ) de transport à bande sandwich d'évacuation, ayant deux bandes ( 3, 7, 9, 13 ) sans fin, la commande d'entraînement du rouleau ( 18 ) d'entraînement étant réalisée de façon à ce que, lors de l'entrée d'un envoi ( 32 ) suivant dans l'une des sections ( 50, 51 ) de convoyeur, l'envoi ( 31 ) précédant transporté en retour de l'autre section ( 50, 51 ) de transport est déjà accéléré à une vitesse nominale, le processus de freinage n'étant débuté que lorsque le bord arrière de l'envoi ( 32 ) respectif a quitté les sections ( 40, 41 ) de transport à bande sandwich et que lorsque l'envoi ( 31 ) précédent n'est plus serré dans l'autre section ( 50, 51 ) de convoyeur et dans lequel les envois ( 30, 31, 32 ) sont guidés à complémentarité de force dans le dispositif à chaque instant.
  2. Dispositif suivant la revendication 1, dans lequel les deux moyens ( 60, 61 ) de transport à bande sandwich évacuant les envois (30, 31, 32 ) lors du transport en retour peuvent être guidés sur une jonction ayant une sortie.
  3. Dispositif suivant la revendication 1, dans lequel les extrémités des sections ( 50, 51 ) de convoyeur, commandées et pouvant être entraînées de manière réversible, sont si éloignées l'une de l'autre que des envois à transporter plus loin, sans inversion du sens, peuvent être transportés sans obstacle à un troisième moyen de transport à bande sandwich d'évacuation se raccordant.
  4. Dispositif suivant la revendication 1, dans lequel les deux sections ( 50, 51 ) de convoyeur, commandées et pouvant être entraînées de façon réversible, sont constituées respectivement d'une bande ( 15, 20 ) de type sandwich extérieure sans fin, qui passe sur deux rouleaux ( 16, 21 ) de renvoi et d'une bande ( 17 ) de type sandwich intérieure commune, qui passe sur le rouleau ( 18 ) d'entraînement et sur un autre rouleau ( 19 ) de renvoi.
  5. Dispositif suivant la revendication 1, dans lequel les deux sections ( 50, 51 ) de convoyeur, commandées et pouvant être entraînées de façon réversible, sont constituées respectivement d'une bande ( 15, 20 ) de type sandwich extérieure sans fin, qui passe sur deux rouleaux ( 16, 21 ) de renvoi et du rouleau ( 18 ) d'entraînement commun.
  6. Dispositif suivant la revendication 5, dans lequel il est prévu pour serrer les envois ( 30, 31 , 32 ) dans les deux sections ( 50, 51 ) de convoyeur encore un rouleau ( 19 ) presseur qui n'est pas entraîné.
  7. Dispositif suivant la revendication 1, dans lequel il est prévu respectivement comme bande extérieure sans fin de chacune des sections ( 40, 41 ) de transport à bande sandwich suivant l'aiguillage ( 2 ) ou comme bande intérieure sans fin du moyen ( 60, 61 ) de transport à bande sandwich associé et évacuant lors du transport en retour, seulement une bande (3, 9 ) sans fin tournante, entraînée et guidée par des rouleaux ( 4, 10 ).
  8. Dispositif suivant la revendication 1, dans lequel les distances de serrage fixées par les points de contact de rouleaux ( 4, 10, 18, 19 ) avec les bandes ( 5, 7, 11, 13, 15, 20 ) sont plus petites que l'envoi le plus court.
  9. Dispositif suivant la revendication 1, dans lequel il est prévu des cellules ( Li1, Li2, Li3 ) photoélectriques comme moyen de détection des bords des envois.
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