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
  • B65H31/00—Pile receivers
  • B65H31/30—Arrangements for removing completed piles
• • 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
  • B65H2301/42264—Delivering, advancing piles by moving the surface supporting the lowermost article of the pile, e.g. conveyor, carriage
• • 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
  • B65H2404/23—Belts with auxiliary handling means
  • B65H2404/232—Blade, plate, finger
• • 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
  • B65H2404/264—Arrangement of side-by-side belts
• • 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
  • Y10S209/00—Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
  • Y10S209/90—Sorting flat-type mail

Definitions

• the invention relates generally to a system for processing mailpieces, and more particularly to a device for sorting flat mail items according to a definable sequence of delivery addresses associated with recipient addresses.
• Postal distribution centers process millions of mail every day to prepare them for delivery to individual recipient addresses.
• the term "mailing” includes letters, magazines and journals, book mailings, and other flat mailings. "For example, before a postman begins to deliver, a mail processing system at a mail distribution center sorts the mailpieces in order to achieve efficient delivery.
• a mail processing system is highly automated to handle the number of daily mailings.
• the mail processing system may include a system that processes the mailpieces and packages them for delivery points and shuffles those volumes (also called DPP system, where DPP stands for Delivery Point Packaging).
• the processing includes, among other functions, the separation of the mailpieces, the reading of their recipient addresses, the grouping and the sequence sorting according to their recipient addresses.
• Such mail processing systems should generally work efficiently and reliably while avoiding excessive use of mail to avoid damaging or minimally damaging the mail.
• a solution has been known for sorting mailpieces in a particular order (EP 820 818Al) which uses a buffer consisting of pockets or similar elements, each of which can receive a mail item and return it to a control command in the actual slot.
• EP 820 818Al which uses a buffer consisting of pockets or similar elements, each of which can receive a mail item and return it to a control command in the actual slot.
• first all to be classified programs are housed in any order in the pockets of the cache. Then the items are removed from the pockets of the buffer and transferred to the storage compartments that they are in the latter in the order to be produced.
• Each shipment has its own storage.
• the sorting is done with two rounds of the pockets of the Caching, a circulation for the affliction of the pockets, another for the emptying of the bags.
• the invention has for its object to provide a device for sorting flat broadcasts according to a definable sequence of the delivery addresses associated with the recipient addresses, in which the broadcasts are processed efficiently and with increased throughput. This is done u. a. in that the items of mail are singled and read only once and placed in the specified sequence by means of circulating buffers, whereby the effort for removing the items is reduced and other items or items can be additionally included.
• an output conveyor device for receiving the items of mail from the buffer store for further transport of the items to a stacking device is arranged beneath a contiguous part of the intermediate storage unit designated as a covering area. The transport speed of the
• the output feeder is tuned to the transport speed of the buffer so that each portion of the output feeder has passed through each memory location of the buffer at least once during its movement along the coverage area, and the messages from the memory locations of the buffer are emptied onto the output conveyor in accordance with the read receiver addresses they leave the output feeder in the stacker in the specified sequence of recipient addresses.
• the device has at least one output. In order to ensure that the items are safely next to or on top of each other, it is advantageous that the
• a buffer memory device for receiving the read mailings is advantageously arranged between the reading device (s) and the intermediate buffer.
• the read programs are loaded in each case in the loading station for the buffer memory in the buffer pockets, which deliver the programs in at least one output to empty storage locations of the sorting buffer and which can be coupled in a further advantageous embodiment of a circulating, endless conveyor and decoupled from the conveyor ,
• the buffer pockets of the buffer memory device are coupled to the conveyor and the transferring buffer memory runs in the same direction at the same speed positioned to the storage location to be loaded. It is also advantageous if the temporary storage and the output conveyor rotate in opposite directions, so that the speed of the output conveyor can be kept relatively low.
• devices for loading with further items to be distributed to the respective recipient addresses are advantageously located above the portions of the output conveyor outside the coverage area
• the shipment volumes must lie one above the other in the fixed sequence of the delivery points in the sections of the output conveyor.
• the exit conveyor under a part of the buffer in a U-shape.
• the buffer and / or the buffer memory have at least one loading and unloading station for the additional removal of mail items from the storage locations according to certain sorting criteria outside the coverage area. This makes it possible, in addition to sorting, too
• the broadcasts can rotate in the same direction in both planes.
• both devices can be nested in one another, whereby the required footprint is almost halved compared to a separate lineup.
• Output conveyor and stacking device to provide a means for portioning, in which the related consignments are packaged for each delivery point before stacking in bags or bags or provided with banderoles or with small flags.
• FIG. 1 shows a schematic overview of a system for sorting mailpieces
• FIG. 2 is a schematic side view of a device for sorting according to the distribution order with loading of the buffer
• 3 is a schematic side view of a device with loading of the subdivided in sections output conveyor
• 4 shows a schematic plan view of a device for organizing
• FIG 6 shows a perspective view of a device for arranging with several levels
• FIG 7 is a perspective view of two nested one another
• Devices for arranging 8 is a schematic representation of an embodiment of a device for sorting with two outputs
• FIG. 9 shows a schematic representation of an exemplary embodiment of a device for arranging with a length-reduced transition of a buffer from one level to another
• FIG. 10 shows a schematic representation of a further exemplary embodiment of a device for arranging with a length-reduced transition of a buffer from one level to another
• FIG. 11a show schematic plan views of various exemplary embodiments with a length-reduced transition
• FIG. 13a shows a schematic representation of the use of two sets of letter containers
• FIG. 14 and FIG. 15 shows a schematic embodiment of a mailbox
• 16 is a schematic representation of an embodiment of a device for sorting with two sorting devices
• FIG. 17 shows a detailed representation of the device from FIG. 16,
• FIG. 18 shows a schematic representation of an embodiment of a device for sorting with a processing of unaddressed broadcasts
• FIG. 19 shows a schematic embodiment of a comb-like removal device.
• FIG. 1 shows a schematic overview of an exemplary embodiment of a system for sorting mailpieces. The overview represents the basic
• Procedures and relationships are shown in FIG. 1 by functional blocks for processing unaddressed broadcasts ADS, a large letter processing (fiats) FS, a
• the function block for processing unaddressed items ADS processes mailings that are delivered by different major customers directly to the mail distribution center. For example, the advertising mailings of a major customer can be delivered on pallets.
• the ADS function block processes the batches into batches, with each batch to be processed containing the mailings of various major customers. At the end of processing, for each postman, e.g. a large number of commercials of major customer A and a large number of commercials of large customer B have been isolated and introduced according to the recipient addresses in the further processing.
• the function block of the large letter processing FS sorts flat large letters according to the order of their delivery. This includes u.a. reading the recipient's address, loading the large letters on a device for sorting and the actual sorting process. At the end of the processing, the large letters for each post office floor have been indexed according to their recipient addresses and merged with the unaddressed items per delivery point.
• the function block of the letter processing LS also sorts smaller letters according to the order of their delivery. Also to this processing belongs u.a. reading the recipient's addresses or an identification code applied in previous processing, loading on a device for sorting and the actual sorting process. At the end of the processing, the letters for each post office floor have been placed in the order of passage according to their recipient addresses and merged with the unaddressed items and the large letters per delivery point.
• the functional block of the packaging PS packs the sorted consignments per
• Each so packaged Delivery volume of a delivery point is assigned to the respective postman in the sequence of his delivery route in containers.
• Sorting each shipment type places different demands on the system, for example, in terms of throughput.
• Characteristic of the system illustrated in FIG. 1 is that it can be used for sorting different types of mail items. Depending on the version, the system allows these items to be sorted separately, then combined and packed per delivery point.
• the functional block of the large-scale processing FS is described in more detail in FIG.
• the items 4 are first separated from a stack in a known manner in a separating device 1.
• the receiver addresses of the programs 4 are recorded and determined in a reading device, not shown.
• the read programs 4 are then passed to a buffer memory device 2.
• each shipment 4 is transported via a loading station in, for example, a circulating buffer bag 3, these buffer bags 3 can advantageously be coupled to the loading again controlled to a rotating conveyor and can be decoupled controlled by the conveyor and the transfer to the buffer in the coupled state can be done.
• the mailings 4 from each separating device 1 are transported into the buffer bags 3 via a separate loading station.
• the buffer bags 3 can be opened in a controlled manner down to deliver the mail items 4 to empty storage locations, for example, pockets 6 of another circulating intermediate storage 5.
• the pockets 6 are firmly connected to the rotating conveyor.
• the buffer 5 has a plurality of storage locations into which the mailings 4 can be transferred.
• the storage locations can be configured as pockets 6, sorting compartments or other such carrier elements. In the following, the storage locations are referred to as pockets 6 without limiting the protection area.
• the storage locations can be loaded and unloaded.
• the buffer and the buffer bags 3 run in the same direction.
• the output conveyor 7 is arranged in U-shaped plan below the buffer, d. H. the buffer 5 is longer than the output requestor device 7.
• the transport speeds are coordinated with each other
• Section 8 of the output conveyor 7 has passed through each pocket 6 of the buffer 5 once during its movement along the covering area with the buffer 5. It is possible to load a plurality of consignments 4 in a section 8 up to a maximum overall height, in which safe transport and safe stacking behavior (see FIG.
• the output conveyor 7 can also be pre-occupied by further sorting or input devices for all or special receivers with broadcasts.
• a stacking device for receiving the stacked items 4 in the specified sequence in container 9.
• a device for portioning can be arranged in the matching consignments of a delivery point before stacking in bags and Bags are packed or provided with banderoles or small flags.
• the mail items 4 can be stacked in the container 9 in an upright or lying position.
• the mail items 4 are loaded on the exit conveyor 7 so that they leave it in the appropriate sequence.
• Are shipments 4 However, if different but adjacent delivery points are loaded into a section 8, they must be superimposed in the specified sequence of delivery points, but can then no longer be packed per delivery point.
• Container in the order from top to bottom blue, red, green, purple as shown in FIG g 5 are stored.
• Latch 5 and output conveyor 7 move in opposite directions.
• the mail marked purple is deposited in a section of the exit conveyor 7 (FIG. 5b). If the program 4 marked with green is located above this section, then it is placed on the program lilac (FIG. 5 c) and the program 4 marked blue runs past this section, since it is the last program in sequence, and becomes unload the following section (FIG Sd). In FIG. 5e, the consignment has reached the red section with the two programs purple, green and is unloaded as the uppermost consignment. This was done on condition that the previously measured transmission thicknesses allow the filing of the three broadcasts into one section. Subsequently, in the stacking device, the mail items 4 are stacked in the desired order in a container (FIG. 5f). In order to accommodate the device for arranging on the smallest possible base area, the buffer 5 can pass through two levels.
• the part of the buffer 5 which does not cover the output conveyor 7 can be folded about a horizontal axis above or below the overlapping part.
• the buffer 5 then basically has the profile of a horizontal figure 8 which has been folded in its node and is included there by the buffer memory device 2 ,
• the actuators for opening the pockets 6 of the buffer 5 can be arranged stationary with constant synchronization between buffer 5 and output conveyor 7.
• a folding can also be done horizontally. In order to keep the system as compact as possible, takes place in accordance with FIG.
• Level transition 540 ° deflection over the interior of the system To recognize are outside the coverage area outputs 10 of the buffer memory device 2 for loading the pockets 6, unloading 11 for additional removal of mailings 4 from the pockets 6 according to certain sorting criteria, a loading station 12 for loading the buffer bags with the items from the singulator 1 and an output 13 of Buffer memory device 2 for discharging separated broadcasts.
• both installations A and B can be inserted into one another, as shown in FIG in a system, the additional level of the buffer 5 above the level of the buffer memory device 2 and in the other system below the level of the buffer memory device 2 is located. As a result, only a small footprint is needed.
• 8 shows schematically a further embodiment, which has an elevated
• This embodiment has more than one output conveyor 7 and thus more than one output.
• An output conveyor 7 can be designed as a transport path or as a closed transport loop with individual sections 8 (section conveyor) or a plurality of jointly transported carrier elements (trays, trays). At its end (or exit), each output conveyor 7 is coupled, for example, to a container 9.
• a device for portioning can also be arranged in this embodiment, in which the associated consignments of a delivery point are packaged before being stacked in bags and bags or provided with banderoles or small flags.
• the throughput is increased in proportion to the number of output conveyor 7, for example, it is doubled in the embodiment shown here.
• the buffer 5 operates two output conveyors 7. As can be seen from the side view shown, the output conveyors 7 are superimposed on two Layers are arranged, wherein in Figure 8, the upper # 2 and the lower is designated # 1.
• the buffer 5 has an upper part 5a which extends over a part of the upper output conveyors 7 and a lower part which extends over a part of the lower output conveyor 7.
• a connecting part 5c connects the upper and lower output conveying devices 7.
• the connecting part 5c is designed in one embodiment in the form of a vertical transition.
• This transition may in one embodiment be a space curve on which the pockets 6 of the buffer 5 move to move between the upper part 5a and the lower part 5b 2x1.
• An embodiment of a space curve is shown in FIG 9 and explained in more detail.
• the output conveyors 7 may also be arranged side by side.
• the buffer 5 also has parts which each extend over part of an output conveyor 7. The parts of the buffer 5 are also connected by a connecting part in this embodiment.
• this embodiment generally enables increased throughput.
• the embodiment also makes it possible to reduce the speed of the output conveyors 7, for example, proportional to the number of output conveyors 7.
• the throughput of each output conveyor 7 can thus be adapted to the maximum throughput of a subsequent packaging or stacking device, for example by means of a combination of throughput increase and speed reduction.
• the buffer 5 which does not overlap with the underlying output conveyor.
• performance can be increased through the use of multiple output conveyors.
• One aspect of the present application relates to a required length-reduced transition of the cache from one level to another. As a result, two output conveyors can be arranged one above the other instead of side by side, resulting in a reduced area requirement.
• the achievable performance of the sorting system is dependent on the degree of overlap between the buffer and the output conveyor. This degree of overlap is reduced by the length of the deflection, from which its importance for the performance of the system is derived.
• the possible use of a helical line results in a longer route as a function of the point of articulation of the traction means against the carrier element (for example a pocket).
• the carrier element for example a pocket
• the proposed reduced-length transition consists of a sequence of three plane curves, typically 90 °, and subsequent rotation of the support elements.
• the carrier elements are pockets.
• the incoming and outgoing route are parallel.
• the first planar curve is about a vertical axis followed by a plane curve about a horizontal axis. The subsequent vertical movement of the bag is used to adapt the
• the black line 100 indicates the locations of the articulation points of the pockets on the traction means. The location of these articulation points allows minimal deflection radii for the pocket composite and therefore a minimized length for the plane transition.
• FIG. 9 likewise shows the two route guides 111 and 113 in the lower horizontal plane 102. The position of a second plane parallel to the plane 102 is determined by the arrow 104. The transition of each pocket conveyor line from one plane to the other takes place through a series of 90 ° curves. The pockets are attached to the traction means in the area of the line 100 with respect to which the movement of the pockets is described. Along the line 111 in the direction of the arrow 132, the pockets initially make a 90 ° curve in the plane 102 as shown by arrow 106.
• the pockets pass through a second 90 ° rotation 114 about their direction of travel, followed by a sixth 90 ° curve 116 about a horizontal axis in the plane parallel to plane 102.
• the pockets then overcome the height difference between the two horizontal planes along the plane 104 and open into the horizontal Level 102 through a seventh 90 ° curve 118 a.
• This is followed by an eighth 90 ° curve 120, after which the pockets continue in the direction 136.
• the preparation of an equal distance of the two routes to each other as in the upper level can be achieved by a subsequent combination of a flat right and a left turn. According to this arrangement, the above advantages result.
• the described arrangement also advantageously allows the use of an annular buffer memory 122, see FIG. 10. It is loaded at the point 123 and delivers the goods at two points 124 into the buffer. The pockets between these two places need about half of their total cycle time.
• FIG 1 a-1 c show the plan view of various exemplary embodiments. While FIG IIa does not include a buffer memory, FIG IIb one and FIG llc two buffer memory. In both cases, two transfer points each from the buffer memory to the buffer are realized to produce a "1 + 1" loading mode, and all the figures share the same number of elements.
• FIGS. 12a-12c show the implementation of the arrangements shown in FIG. 10 in a sorting system.
• the scalability of the system is within the scope of conventional design measures and does not limit the scope of protection.
• FIGS. 13a-13f illustrate another aspect of the system illustrated in FIG. Caching-based machines are less suitable for processing letters, because compared to a shroud system (pinch-belt system), the transport takes place through a buffer with a significantly reduced throughput. Because of this, a separate letter processing unit is proposed which has two tasks to accomplish. One task is to sort the letters of a delivery point into a sort bin as the last thread sequencing subprocess. The second task is to deliver this letter volume per delivery point to the output conveyor system. This embodiment therefore relates to these two objects.
• Sorting compartments for letters are arranged above the intermediate storage 5 in such a way that an output conveyor 7 moves below the sorting compartments.
• Each bin is assigned to a delivery point.
• a loading device fills the sorting compartments for letters independently of and separately from the buffer 5.
• the number of sorting compartments is selected such that the second or last pass of a multistage sorting process can be transferred to the device shown in FIGS. 13a-13f.
• the sorting compartments are emptied, in which their content is transferred to the moving under them output conveyor 7.
• FIGS 13a-13f show a schematic DPP system with two vertically arranged output conveyors. This DPP system is based on one as described above
• the DPP system has a group of
• Sorting fan on each of the two levels.
• An output conveyor is located below each of the sorting compartments.
• FIGS. 13a-13f illustrate another aspect of the device shown in FIG.
• the subsystem described above is designed to solve two tasks, namely separate sorting compartments for letters as part of a
• Sorting fan used. If there are two levels, each level is assigned a second group of bins. To enable continuous operation, the groups are alternately filled and discharged, ie during one Group of bins is filled, the associated alternative group of bins is emptied by the letters of the output conveyor are passed.
• Bin Set 1 and Bin Set 2 two groups of sorting compartments are thus used.
• Bin Set 1 and Bin Set 2 these groups are referred to as Bin Set 1 and Bin Set 2, these figures illustrate for one level the timing of the transfer to the output conveyor 7 (i.e., the emptying of the bins) and the filling of the bins.
• FIGS. 13b-13f lines for the respective status of a set, wherein the status of the first set (status bin set 1) is shown above the status of the second set (status bin set 2).
• FIGS. 13a-13f respectively show two alternately arranged sets of sorting compartments which are designated here for description as red (R) and blue (B).
• Each set of bins contains 30 bins labeled Rl - R30 and Bl - B30, respectively.
• the sets are located above the exit conveyor 7 which moves from left to right.
• the arrangement of the letter containers should take place in the direction of the letter transport in decreasing order (here from the left (R30, B30) to the right (Rl, Bl) decreasing).
• Higher bin numbers are associated with higher delivery point numbers for groups of 30 delivery points.
• FIG. 13a illustrates in line L1 below the output requestor device 7
• FIG. 13b line L2
• the output conveyor device 7 has moved to the right and was loaded with the contents of the sorting bins R1-R29, so that the content of 30 sorting bins R1-R30 is located on the output conveyor 7.
• the first set is thus in the transfer status during a time of, for example, 22 seconds.
• the transfer begins, all shipments assigned to this group of delivery points must already have been sorted into the sorter bin.
• the first set is then in the loading status, for example for 25 s.
• FIG. 13d shows in line L3 that about 9 s, after all the red sorting compartments R1 -
• FIGS. 13f-13g illustrate in lines L5, L6 that the transfer processes of the two sets shown in FIGS. 13a-13e are repeated. In one embodiment, for a set, the time between two transfers is 39 seconds.
• FIGs 13f and 13g also illustrate that in the shown embodiment a pause may arise in the singulation module for letters, for example when the first set has been loaded, the pause is until the second set is started to load a few seconds, eg about 4-6 s.
• this separation break does not reduce the throughput of the system, since this is due to the output conveyors.
• the method described above allows a maximum time for refilling, i. for a given throughput of the output conveyor a maximum break of the singulation module.
• This can be understood as a safety reserve in order to process also above-average shipment volumes per set.
• the described embodiment is based on the use of only two sets of bins that are alternately filled and emptied.
• FIGS. 14-15 illustrate another aspect of the system illustrated in FIG.
• the presented sorting compartment contains the following characteristics for the additional sorting
• the device consists of a shelf, which can fold down and thereby opens the bin.
• This floor can be driven in its pivot above by a resting on the top of the stack rocker arm and be resettable by a spring force.
• the shelf is provided with a powered underfloor belt for active acceleration of the letter stack, supported by gravity.
• a driven pulley on the top of the stack may assist in accelerating the stack.
• the stacking tray may be inclined accordingly. A corner alignment can be achieved by an additional inclination of the stacking tray.
• the proposed solution enables the automatic transfer of a letter stack to one below the other Stacking tray located output conveyor. Due to the kinematic conditions, a larger angle of the stacking tray bottom advantageously arises during stack transfer than during the stacking process into the stacking compartment.
• FIG. 14 The proposed stacking tray is described in more detail by FIG. 14 and FIG.
• a rocker arm 108 with a driving roller 110 rotates about the pivot point 114 as part of the cross-over baffle 106 in accordance with the filling level in the stacking compartment and the angle of the shelf.
• the roller 110 located on the drag lever is provided with a frictional contact surface with respect to the letters, so that in the driven case the letters are accelerated.
• the roller drive 110 and the driven rotation of the finger lever are known in the art.
• the stacker includes a bottom 116 having a bottom flange 118 which is driven by one or both pulleys.
• the execution is a choice of a constructor.
• the axis of a steering roller also serves as a fulcrum 120 of the bottom 116, by which this can pivot up and down.
• the bin 100 further consists of a front wall 124 and a rear wall 122, between which the bottom is arranged. All three walls thus form the sorting compartment for receiving letters.
• a conveyor which in a
• Embodiment of individual trays 126 may already exist with it deposited large letters and unaddressed broadcasts.
• the conveyor moves from left to right according to the indicated arrow 130.
• the bin 100 is stationary, it is not moved. Its number depends on a chosen construction.
• the object of the device described above is the delivery of letters 104 from their bin 100 to the conveyor 126 on which large letters and other mailings 128 may already be located for this delivery point.
• the process of merging is shown in FIG.
• the bin bottom 116 is pivoted about its pivot point 120 down, so that a gap 132 between it and the front wall 124 is formed.
• the underfloor belt 118 and the roller 110 are then driven in the same direction, so that the letters are deposited by the gap 132 on the shipments 128 of the running below the sorting conveyor.
• the roller 110 rotates in the counterclockwise direction 136, while the underfloor belt 118 rotates in the clockwise direction 138.
• the simultaneous movement of roller 110 and underfloor belt 118 accelerates the letters 104 from their sorting compartment 100 through the gap according to the arrow 134.
• the activation required for this purpose is known to the person skilled in the art.
• Another application of the invention disclosure describes an arrangement that requires only the reloading of a cache with the separated shipment volume, but not the re-separating the items. There is no known arrangement or machine in which not the entire shipment volume must be processed again. In addition, knowledge of the volume distribution over the delivery points is necessary in such a tree-sort method.
• the proposed arrangement consists of two largely mirror-image machines according to FIG 1, which are arranged laterally offset from one another.
• Each of the two machines corresponds to the system of FIG. 1, extended by a separating device and loading device of unaddressed mail items to one or more output conveying devices in front of the covering area of intermediate storage and output conveying devices.
• the course of the buffer, intermediate storage and output conveyors is mirrored in an axisymmetric manner, whereas the clockwise circulation orientations are retained.
• the two machines 100 and 102 may be connected to each other via one or more conveyors in the area of the buffer 104, as shown in more detail in FIG.
• the standalone link conveyor 106 logically connects the machine 102 to the machine 100 in the buffers 108a and 108b of both machines. In the non-hatched areas, the buffer 108a passes beneath other conveyors.
• the connection conveyor is loaded in an area 110b from the buffer memory and a non-visible underlying area from the buffer of machine 102 and in the area 110b from the buffer memory of machine 102.
• connection conveyor is unloaded into the buffer 108a of machine 100 in area 110a.
• the two loading areas from the buffer (110b and invisible the second) are located immediately before the two loading stations 112a and X (hidden) of the buffer of machine 102 through the buffer memory 108b.
• the shipment volume which is not included in the batch size to be processed by the machine with contiguous range of delivery points, can be automatically loaded into the buffer memory 108a of another machine 100 without an additional singulation process.
• This shipment volume is then further processed on this machine 100.
• the letter volume associated with this finishing process is automatically redirected from the letter 102 separating device of machine 102 to the letter processing system of machine 100 using a corresponding crossing unit.
• the volume of unaddressed mail items associated with this further processing is no longer singled out by the corresponding machine 102 but by machine 100. For this reason, the two devices are arranged side by side.
• the described arrangement consisting of two logistically coupled machines has the following properties: Extensive mirror-image routing in both machines enables a minimized area requirement with unchanged subsystems. - Side by side separating and loading devices for unaddressed broadcasts allow better use of the operator.
• One or more logistic connection conveyors between the machines also allow processing of batch sizes larger than the storage capacity of the buffer without an additional processing process.
• connection conveyor device allows a functionally comparable logistical linking additionally from machine 100 to machine 102.
• FIG. 18 illustrates a further aspect of the system illustrated in FIG.
• FIG. 18 shows a schematic representation of an embodiment of a
• the device shown has a station in which the unaddressed broadcasts are generally supplied as a stack manually or by a loading device to the individual conveyor elements of the output conveyor 7. In a certain section of the output conveyor 7, a number of dispensers are arranged along the same, into which the unaddressed transmissions are transferred. In one Example of embodiment may have 40 dispensers. If each postman is assigned an issuing office, the consignments can be pre-sorted to 40 postmen with this outgoing request device.
• the individual dispensing stations can each be connected via a further active or passive transport system (eg conveyor belt or chute), which is arranged at right angles to the output conveyor 7, with corresponding containers for receiving the stacks or an area by correspondingly processing and packing these stacks for automatic separation become.
• a further active or passive transport system eg conveyor belt or chute
• the transfer to the delivery location takes place either almost vertically or almost horizontally. Depending on the version, the transfer can be carried out ballistically.
• the unaddressed mailing stacks on the output requesting device 7 can be transferred horizontally to the respective delivery point by a mechanism controlled by a control device or they are transferred vertically to an underlying delivery point. If the consignment stacks are located on individual trays or trays, the control device rotates, for example, in each case a carrier so that the consignment stack slips counter to the direction of movement of the carrier when it is above the desired dispensing point.
• each type of commercial is assigned to a postman, i. each postman is e.g. a large number of advertising mail from major customer A and a large number of advertising mail from major customer B were allotted.
• the function of processing unaddressed transmissions shown in FIG. 21 can be used in a device having one output (FIG. 2-FIG. 7) or two outputs (FIG. 8). It is understood that in a two-output structure, the unaddressed broadcasts can also be arranged at a higher throughput or for more output points.
• the tray is tilted and the material ratcheted by gravity from the shell into a target site.
• the goods to be sorted can be fed to the tilting tray individually or as a stack.
• shipment batches are collected on a tray conveyor and then fed to an extraction unit.
• the shells are inclined in the conveying direction, so that an optimal stacking pattern (orientation along the bound side of the mailings) results when dropped from a Taschesorter.
• tilt trays are unsuitable. Tilting shells would lead to significant deterioration of the stacking image due to the undefined sliding action.
• the transport shells have a connecting edge (bound edge of the items) for the defined orientation of the items;
• the transport trays have depressions or are designed as a fork
• the carrier car of the shells moves during unloading along a curved downward circular path and with rotation of the shells, so that fork-shaped narrow conveyor belts can drive under the stack of mail and take over the stack of mail continuously;
• the acquiring transport belts are designed as a section conveyor and lead the consignment stack to a packaging unit.
• the main advantage of the present solution is the continuous, jerk-free and guided transfer of mailings and mailing stacks from one tray conveyor to another at high speed.

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