EP1946853B1 - Device and method for tipping top-open boxes containing mail - Google Patents

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EP1946853B1
EP1946853B1 EP08150331A EP08150331A EP1946853B1 EP 1946853 B1 EP1946853 B1 EP 1946853B1 EP 08150331 A EP08150331 A EP 08150331A EP 08150331 A EP08150331 A EP 08150331A EP 1946853 B1 EP1946853 B1 EP 1946853B1
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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
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  • the present invention relates to a device for tipping top-open boxes containing mail.
  • the envelopes and/or postcards are arranged in boxes and placed with an edge thereof on the bottom of the boxes themselves, so as to remain upright and facing each other.
  • the boxes are emptied by arranging the envelopes in a row on a horizontal conveyor, which automatically conveys such a row towards a so-called "singulator” device, i.e. a device which singularly, that is one by one, extracts the envelopes and moves them in an orthogonal direction for handling and sorting.
  • the boxes are emptied manually by an operator, who tips one box at a time, so that the envelopes are placed with an edge thereof on the conveyor, removes the box itself, and then compacts the envelopes underneath towards the row of envelopes which is advancing towards the "singulator" device.
  • Conveyor rollers are disposed upon the four walls of the tubular housing, so that any one of the walls of the tubular housing can effectively serve as the floor member of the housing.
  • the tubular housing is rotatable either in 90 DEG or 180 DEG modes.
  • a device for tipping top-open boxes containing mail is provided as defined in claim 1.
  • numeral 1 indicates a device for tipping boxes 3, each of which contains a pack of mail, e.g. a set of envelopes 7.
  • Each box 3 comprises a corresponding horizontal rectangular-bottom wall 9 (the edge of which is only visible) and a corresponding essentially vertical peripheral wall 10, which defines an upper opening 11 opposite to the wall 9 and consists of two reciprocally opposite portions 12 and of two portions 13, also reciprocally opposite.
  • the envelopes 7 have a corner or edge 15 thereof placed against the wall 9; when the box 3 is almost full, the envelopes 7 are essentially upright, facing each other and reciprocally aligned in a row along an axis orthogonal to the edges 15 and to the walls 13.
  • the height of wall 10 is greater than the height of envelopes 7, but could possibly be less.
  • the device 1 is accommodated in a station 17 wherein the envelopes 7 are extracted from the boxes 3.
  • the entrance of the station 17 is defined by a motorized conveyor 24 of the type featuring a horizontal belt 25, on which the boxes 3 are placed, either manually or by means of an automated device (not shown), with the portions 12 aligned and facing each other along a horizontal direction 26.
  • the conveyor 24 moves the boxes 3 along the direction 26, making them enter into the device 1, and is synchronically controlled with the device 1 by a control unit 28 (diagrammatically shown in figure 2 ).
  • the device 1 comprises a fixed structure 29, specifically a vertical plate, which supports a crown 30 having an essentially horizontal axis 31, parallel to the direction 26.
  • the plate 29 defines an opening 32 coaxial to the crown 30 and carries a plurality of supporting bodies 33, arranged in fixed positions about the opening 32 and reciprocally angularly spaced.
  • the bodies 33 protrude towards the conveyor 24 from a vertical face 34 of the plate 29 and carry two sets of rollers 36, 37 (partially shown), which are arranged on axially opposite sides of the crown 30.
  • the rollers 36, 37 are running coupled on corresponding truncated-cone-shaped tracks 38, 39 external to the crown 30, so as to make the crown 30 rotatable about the axis 31 with respect to the plate 29.
  • the rollers 36, 37 are rotationally idle with respect to the bodies 33, while the crown 30 is rotationally driven about the axis 31 by a motor 41 (diagrammatically shown in figure 2 ) by means of a transmission, which comprises an external toothing 42 axially arranged between the tracks 38, 39 and a pinion (not shown) actuated by the motor 41 and meshing with the toothing 42.
  • a motor 41 (diagrammatically shown in figure 2 ) by means of a transmission, which comprises an external toothing 42 axially arranged between the tracks 38, 39 and a pinion (not shown) actuated by the motor 41 and meshing with the toothing 42.
  • the crown 30 is rotationally driven by one or more rollers 36, 37.
  • the motor 41 is fixed with respect to the plate 29, and preferably of the two-way type and controlled by the unit 28 so as to make the crown 30 rotate by 180°.
  • the crown 30 surrounds a frame 43, which is fixed with respect to the crown 30 and carries two motorized conveyors 44 of the type featuring corresponding belts 45.
  • the conveyors 44 face each other and are spaced along a direction 47 so as to define a seat 48, on the upper and lower sides when the frame 43 is stopped about the axis 31.
  • the conveyors 44 rotate along with the frame 43 about the axis 31 and horizontally move a box 3 exiting from and/or entering the seat 48.
  • the conveyors 44 move the boxes 3 parallelly to the axis 31 of the conveyor 24 onto a surface 51 arranged at a height so as to facilitate the placement and the advancement of the edge of the envelopes 7 arranged under the tipped box, indicated by reference numeral 3a.
  • the surface 51 is coplanar with the upper surface of the belt 25.
  • the entrance and the exit of the seat 48 are preferably reciprocally opposite along the axis 31.
  • the moving direction supplied by the conveyors 44 is orthogonal to the axis 31, and/or the entrance and the exit of the seat 48 reciprocally coincide.
  • the entrance and the exit of the seat 48 could be arranged at 90° (in this case, the conveyors 44 could feature corresponding reciprocally orthogonal belts, or could be of the type generally called "cross point conveyor", i.e. conveyors capable of moving objects in reciprocally orthogonal directions).
  • the conveyors 44 could rotate with respect to the crown 33 about the vertical direction 47.
  • the actuation (not shown) of the conveyors 44 is preferably carried by the frame 43 and defined either by two separate motor reducers or by a motor reducer and a motion transmission between the two conveyors 44.
  • the axis 31 is at exactly half way between the belts 45 along the direction 47.
  • the position of the conveyors 44 along the direction 47 is adjustable; and/or the position of the conveyors 44 along the direction 47 is damped or spring-mounted with respect to the frame 43.
  • damping or spring-mounting there may be included a system for locking the position of the conveyor 44 which defines the seat 48 at its lower part, so as to have a higher fixed resting surface (e.g. by 1 cm) with respect to that of the conveyor 24 and to the surface 51 during the loading/unloading of the boxes 3 from the device 1.
  • the seat 48 is laterally defined by two guide walls (not shown), which form part of the frame 43, face each other, are arranged in positions so as to avoid empty space on the sides of the belts 45, to avoid the loss of mail, could possibly be damped or spring-mounted, and comprise corresponding terminal lead-in portions converging towards the seat 48 for facilitating the entrance of boxes 3 from the conveyor 24.
  • the conveyors 24 and 44 are actuated together to make the tipped box 3a exit from the seat 48 along the axis 31 through the opening 32 and, at the same time, to introduce a next box 3 in the seat 48.
  • the box 3a is taken onto the surface 51, which is associated to a conveyor device 52, e.g. of the conveyor belt type which specifically features a thrust finger 53.
  • the device 52 is synchronically controlled by the unit 28 with the device 1 for moving the box 3a along a horizontal direction 54 orthogonal to the axis 31 ( figure 2 ).
  • an operator manually lifts and removes the box 3a, and then compacts the envelopes 7 underneath, which were contained in the box 3a, atthe bottom of a row 18 which extends along a horizontal direction 19 parallel to the direction 54.
  • the row 18 is automatically transported, in a known and not detailed manner, towards a so-called "singulator” device (diagrammatically shown), i.e. a device which sequentially extracts the envelopes 7 from the row 18 and moves them in a horizontal direction orthogonal to the direction 19.
  • a so-called "singulator” device (diagrammatically shown), i.e. a device which sequentially extracts the envelopes 7 from the row 18 and moves them in a horizontal direction orthogonal to the direction 19.
  • the removal of the upturned box 3a could be automatically performed by means of a robotized device (not shown) either synchronically automatically with the device 52 or in response to a manual control.
  • the device 1 is actuated by the unit 28 so as to make the seat 48 rotate by 180° ( figure 2 ).
  • the rotation speed is such as the centrifugal force contributes to maintain the edge 15 of the envelopes 7 as long as possible in contact with the wall 9 during the rotation.
  • the rotation could possibly be initially either lower or higher than 180°, and then perform one or more subsequent movements towards the final angular position of 180°.
  • a settling oscillation about the final angular position is performed to move the envelopes 7 away from the wall 9 and/or to settle the envelopes 7 downwards at the end of the tipping, and is useful when the boxes 3 are very full and the envelopes 7 tend to stick to the wall 10.
  • the tipping of the box 3 is performed by rotating the crown 30 about the axis 31 in an opposite direction with respect to the tipping direction of the previous box 3a, i.e. preferably the directions of rotation are reciprocally alternating between one tipping and the next: in this manner, the control signals may be simply transferred to the conveyors 44 only by means of wires, i.e. without rotating joints for the electric connection.
  • the device 1 allows to automatically tip each box 3, without requiring the intervention of the operator and maintaining the mail contained in the space defined by the walls 9, 10 and the belt 45 facing the opening 11. Therefore, the risks of loosing mail are eliminated, and the disarrangement of the envelopes 7, which would slow down the process in the station 17 during the compacting operations at the bottom of the row 18, is limited.
  • the device 1 is extremely simple to be coupled to the other components of the station 17, is not very cumbersome and requires a little number of components.
  • the axis 31 could be arranged in a different vertical position from what described with respect to the conveyors 44; and/or only the conveyor 44 could be actuated for advancing the boxes 4 through the seat 48; and/or the rotation of the crown 30 could be again performed in the same direction; and/or the device 52 could be different from that described (e.g. the finger 53 could be absent or replaced by another similar thrust mechanism).
  • the entrance of the station 17 could be defined by a descent which, in a few meters of length, takes the box 3 to be tipped from a relatively high position, e.g. of approximately 3 meters, to the height of the device 1.
  • the gradient of this descent will be limited by the need to prevent the box 3 from running and avoiding the strewing of mail.
  • the rotation of the seat 48 of the device 1 will not be exactly by 180° but will be by an angle of (180° - a) where:
  • sensors or other monitoring device may be included for controlling the correct operation of the devices 1 and 52 and/or the correct positioning of the box 3 in the seat 48 before and after tipping.

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  • Sorting Of Articles (AREA)
  • Control And Other Processes For Unpacking Of Materials (AREA)
  • Sheets, Magazines, And Separation Thereof (AREA)
  • Specific Conveyance Elements (AREA)
  • Supplying Of Containers To The Packaging Station (AREA)
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IT000024A ITTO20070024A1 (it) 2007-01-17 2007-01-17 Dispositivo per ribaltare cassette aperte superiormente e contenenti posta

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