EP2032273B1 - Installation de tri d'envois comprenant un aiguillage séparateur divisant la ligne de transport - Google Patents

Installation de tri d'envois comprenant un aiguillage séparateur divisant la ligne de transport Download PDF

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EP2032273B1
EP2032273B1 EP07765653A EP07765653A EP2032273B1 EP 2032273 B1 EP2032273 B1 EP 2032273B1 EP 07765653 A EP07765653 A EP 07765653A EP 07765653 A EP07765653 A EP 07765653A EP 2032273 B1 EP2032273 B1 EP 2032273B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
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  • the invention relates to a consignment sorting system with a transport line for generating a broadcast stream from a plurality of longitudinally arranged one after the other to be sorted programs, modules for processing the flowing broadcasts and dividing the transport strand into two parallel strands separating.
  • consignment sorting programs such as letters, singled out of a stack and clamped in a transport strand between two belts transported one behind the other in a shipment stream.
  • a high transport speed of several meters per second is necessary in this case.
  • the transport speed is determined by the throughput to be achieved by shipments multiplied by a distance which is composed of the given shipment length and a minimum distance between the shipments.
  • Processing modules of the consignment sorting system such as printers, image recognition devices and the like, have to be adapted to this high speed and, for example, print a graphic, such as a postage stamp, on the mail moving past the print head. Such powerful modules are expensive.
  • a plant according to the preamble of claim 1 is made DE-C-10223348 known.
  • a consignment sorting system of the type mentioned above which according to the invention a control unit for adjusting a distance between transmissions in the parallel strands, which is smaller than the distance between transmissions immediately before the separating switch has.
  • the parallel strands can be used to divide the consignments of the broadcasting stream, which can create large gaps between broadcasts. These large gaps allow a reduction in speed without having to change a sequence of shipments in the shipment stream.
  • Shipments can be routed past the lower second speed machining modules that need only be designed for the lower second speed. To process both streams equally, each machining module must be paired, but two slower machining modules may be cheaper than a single high-speed, high-performance module.
  • the consignment sorting installation can be a mail sorting installation, in particular a letter sorting installation.
  • a module can be understood as a means of modifying the item, for example in its position-apart from a pure, targeted transport-or in its components, for example by printing.
  • a module may be a means for positive or negative acceleration, sorting, aligning, inverting, printing, gluing, delaying - eg, a waiting route, singulating, collecting, or the like, and may be, in particular, a means that takes up the mailings more than one spatially targeted transport.
  • Sorting the consignment sorting system also means processing the consignments in the form of sorting preparation, for example by applying a sorting code, such as an identity code, a destination code or like.
  • a division of the shipments in at least two containers is understood as sorting.
  • the transport strand can be divided into two or more parallel strands.
  • the delay means not only individual shipments but a total shipment stream, so a plurality of successively arranged items transported at the second speed through the parallel strand.
  • each of the parallel strands comprises a delay means, whereby in the parallel strands same modules can be used.
  • the second speed is not equal to zero and is advantageously in the range of 20% to 80% of the first speed and is expediently the same in the parallel strands.
  • the parallel strands are combined by merging to a continuing total strand.
  • the shipments can thus be further processed in a common shipment stream, for example, sorted.
  • the parallel strands advantageously on such a length that the programs pass through both parallel strands in the same time.
  • a same second speed in the parallel strands is advantageous.
  • the parallel strands expediently the same length.
  • An uncomplicated distribution of the programs in the parallel strands regardless of functions of the parallel strands can be achieved if the parallel strands each have a similar module for processing the broadcasts.
  • both parallel strands have the same structure with respect to all modules assigned to them.
  • the programs can be processed the same.
  • the module can be Coding module, an adhesive module, a print module, a reader module or the like.
  • the consignment sorting system has a control unit for setting a distance between transmissions in the parallel strands which is smaller than the distance between transmissions immediately before the separating switch. This applies expediently to all distances between consignments transported at the second speed.
  • a transport time interval between transmissions in the parallel strands which is smaller than the transport time interval between transmissions immediately before the separating switch. The transport time interval is the distance between the shipments divided by the transport speed of the shipments.
  • the consignment sorting system comprises a control unit for splitting the consignment stream in the separating switch in the manner of a zipper. Gaps between the shipments can be generated evenly, which allow a high reduction of the speed of the broadcast stream without a collision of the broadcasts.
  • the two streams in the parallel strands in a merger are also combined in the manner of a zipper, so that the programs after the parallel strands have the same order - possibly except for sorted out shipments - as before the parallel strands.
  • the parallel strands each have a means for increasing the speed of the transmission current, in particular directly to at least the speed of the transmission current in front of the dividing line.
  • a minimum second speed depends on the first speed and the ratio between transmission lengths and gaps between the transmissions before the divider.
  • the transmission lengths can usually vary between a maximum transmission length of longest permissible transmissions and a minimum transmission length of shortest permissible transmissions.
  • the consignment sorting system expediently comprises a control unit for controlling the second speed as a function of a transmission length of transmissions in the transmission stream.
  • the transmission length may be a measured transmission length or a predetermined maximum or minimum length stored in the control unit.
  • a simple control of the second speed is achievable by a control unit for controlling the second speed, such that when the feeds are alternately fed into the two parallel strands and when only the longest permissible transmissions are fed into a first parallel line and only the shortest permissible transmissions into a second parallel line a collision of transmissions in the first parallel string is avoided.
  • the second speed is substantially the lowest speed that satisfies the above condition.
  • the consignment sorting system comprises a control unit for controlling the transmission current in a parallel train at a second speed, which is smaller than the safe second speed, whereby a small and thus advantageous speed is achieved.
  • the second speed control unit is prepared to be slower than half the first speed, in particular, less than 0.45 of the first speed.
  • the consignment sorting system may have a measuring means for detecting lengths of the items in the delivery stream. Conveniently, the measuring means also serves to detect lengths of gaps between programs.
  • the consignment sorting system advantageously comprises a gap correction module for positioning transmissions in the transmission stream in a parallel strand.
  • the separation means may be arranged before or in a parallel strand.
  • Illustrations of handwritten addresses are usually issued online to an employee who reads the address and enters it into a computer so that the corresponding Broadcast can be encoded according to the input. For this purpose, a small amount of time is required in which the item is transported in a transport path for generating a time delay between a reading module and a coding module.
  • a transport route may have a length of 40 m and more and a plurality of curves that claim the shipments mechanically insignificant.
  • a conservation of the shipments can be achieved if the transport route is kept short. Since the time delay for reading the handwritten address is given, the transport distance can be kept short if the programs go through them slowly.
  • the parallel strands each have a transport path for generating a time delay, so a significant reduction of a shipment run in the transport route and thus a significant protection of the shipments can be achieved.
  • the transport path serves the time delay and not primarily a transport to a destination, since the transport route is particularly longer than a technically meaningful transport path between modules that it connects.
  • the transport path can be one or more parts, so be interrupted by other modules.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of a mail sorting system 2 with a number of modules for processing of items to be sorted 4 on a transport line 6 for transporting the programs 4.
  • the broadcasts 4 are first separated by a separating device 8, also feeder, and between them is from a control unit 10, which is signal-technically connected to all modules and other components of the consignment sorting system 2, sets a predetermined distance.
  • the thus separated items 4 are clamped by the transport line 6 between two elastic bands and transported to an alignment unit 12, which aligns the items 4 in passing at its lower edge. Without interruption, the items 4 are then guided by the transport line 6 past a reader 14, for example a bar code reader, an address reading device or an image recorder which reads an optionally present on programs 24 barcode or a printed on the programs 4 address or a recording of both 4 pages of the broadcast. Since some programs have 4 handwritten addresses that can not be detected by the reader 14, the recordings of these broadcasts 4 of the control unit 10 are supplied, which sends the recordings online to an unillustrated reading center, in which the recordings on screens and by staff be read, which at least inputs parts of the address via a keyboard. This data is returned online to the control unit 10.
  • a reader 14 for example a bar code reader, an address reading device or an image recorder which reads an optionally present on programs 24 barcode or a printed on the programs 4 address or a recording of both 4 pages of the broadcast. Since some programs have 4 handwritten addresses
  • the mail items 4 are fed to a separation divider 16, which splits the transport strand 6 into two parallel strands 18, 20 of equal length and similarly equipped with modules.
  • Both parallel strands 18, 20 include a gap correction module 22 for positioning the Shipments 4 relative to each other in the transmission current.
  • a deceleration means 24 or deceleration module brakes the transmission stream, which is moved in front of the separating separator at a first speed, in each case to a lower second velocity in the parallel strands 18, 20. The second speed is the same in both parallel strands 18, 20.
  • the gap correction modules 22 may also be arranged behind the delay means 24.
  • the mail items 4 are conveyed from the transport line 6 to a divider 38 which distributes the mail items 4 into a plurality of containers according to their address.
  • a dividing device is also conceivable in only two collection points or a consignment collecting means for feeding to a further sorting, for example in a second pass on the consignment sorting system 2 or another system.
  • FIG. 2 shows a section of the consignment sorting system 2 from FIG. 1 with a mailpiece stream 40 with mailings 42a-b, 44a-b, 46a-b and 48a-b, in the parallel strands 18, 20 in two broadcast streams 40a, 40b with the mailings 42a, 44a, 46a, 48a and 42b, 44b, 46b, 48b.
  • the broadcasts 42a-48b are in the transmission stream 40 in FIG. 2 in such a way that each second shipment 42a-48a is a longest allowable shipment with a maximum length L max and the other transmissions 42b-48b are shortest allowable transmissions 42b-48b with a minimum length L min .
  • the control unit each have a very small distance L 2 between programs 42a-48a which is smaller than the distance L 1 and the 42a-48a through faster even at low second speed of the program, than the distance L 1 with the big first speed.
  • the second speed is determined and controlled by the control unit 10 and results as follows.
  • This second speed v 2 is the lowest speed at which, even with this illustrated extreme arrangement of transmissions 42a-48b in the transmission stream 40, collisions of the transmissions 42a-48a in the parallel path 18 do not occur.
  • the second speed v 2 is dependent on the difference in length between the length L max and the length L min .
  • the greater the difference in length the greater the second velocity v 2 .
  • the second speed v 2 is dependent on the difference between the distances L 1 and L 2 . The larger this difference, the smaller the second speed v 2 can be set.
  • the second speed v 2 is determined by the control unit 10 in accordance with the the consignment sorting system 2 transported shipments and set their dimensions.
  • the distance L 3 between the transmissions 42b-48b in the parallel strand 20 results from the second speed v 2 and the length L min and has no essential meaning.
  • FIG. 3 a further consignment sorting system 50 is shown with which a speed v 3 in the parallel strands 18, 20 can be reduced below the safe speed v 2 , which also comes with extreme distributions.
  • the following description is essentially limited to the differences from the exemplary embodiment in FIGS. 1 and 2, to which reference is made with regard to features and functions that are the same.
  • Substantially identical components are basically numbered with the same reference numerals.
  • the mail sorting system 50 comprises in both parallel lines 18, 20 each a sorting means 52 with a separating switch 54, in front of which in each case a measuring means 56 for measuring the position and length of mailings 58a-66b is arranged.
  • the end of the sorting means 52 respectively ends in a container 68 for collecting sorted consignments 66a.
  • the sorting means 52 and the measuring means 56 can just as well be arranged in front of the separating switch 16, whereby the installation can be simplified.
  • two broadcasts 58a-b of approximately medium length L 4 then one short and one long program 60a-b and then again an extreme distribution of alternately longest programs 62a-66a and shortest programs 62b-66b are arranged in the program stream 40.
  • the broadcasts 58a-66a are guided by the separating switch or by control of the control unit 10 in the parallel strand 18 and the broadcasts 58b-66b in the parallel strand 20.
  • the control unit 10 calculates therefrom, according to a predetermined algorithm, that the slow speed v 3 and the rapid arrival of the transmission 66a due to the short transmission 64b make a collision of subsequent transmissions likely or unavoidable, and controls the divider 54 such that the Broadcast 66a is discharged into the screening means 52. It lands in the container 68 and can be manually fed to the separating device 8 for re-sorting.
  • the transmission 66a is missing in the transmission current 40. Otherwise, the transmissions 58a-66b are again arranged in the same order as before the separation switch 16. The displacement of the transmission 64a by the gap correction module 70 is replaced by a again offset the transmission 64a by the gap correction module 36 again balanced.
  • the second speed v 2 , v 3 can be adapted by the control unit 10 to the modules active in the parallel strands 18, 20.
  • a lowest possible second speed v 2 , v 3 is advantageous in relation to the transport paths 26, since in this way the transport paths 26 are kept as short as possible and the shipments 4 can be spared as much as possible.
  • the application modules 28 and labeling modules 30 this need not be the case. If these devices are suitable, for example, up to a speed of 1.75 m / s, for example 0.5 v 1 , then a further reduction of the second speed v 2 is not necessary. results However, that sorted in a pass shipments 4 with extreme differences in length, a control method such as FIG.

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  1. Installation ( 2, 50 ) de tri d'envois comprenant une voie ( 6 ) de transport pour la production d'un courant ( 40, 40a, 40b ) d'envois composé d'une pluralité d'envois ( 4, 40a à 48b, 58a à 66b ) à trier disposés les uns derrière les autres en longueur, des modules de traitement des envois ( 4, 40a à 48b, 58a à 66b ) qui passent et un aiguillage ( 16 ) de séparation subdivisant la voie ( 6 ) de transport en deux voies ( 18, 20 ) parallèles, un moyen ( 24 ) de ralentissement, monté dans une voie ( 18, 20 ) parallèle, pour réduire la vitesse du courant ( 40, 40a, 40b ) d'envois d'une première à une deuxième vitesse, caractérisée par une unité ( 10 ) de commande pour régler une distance entre des envois ( 4, 40a à 48b, 58a à 66b ) dans les voies ( 18, 20 ) parallèles, qui est plus petite que la distance entre des envois ( 4, 40a à 48b, 58a à 66b ) juste avant l'aiguillage ( 16 ) de séparation.
  2. Installation ( 2, 50 ) de tri d'envois suivant la revendication 1,
    caractérisée en ce que les voies ( 18, 20 ) parallèles sont réunies en une voie commune allant plus loin par une jonction ( 34 ).
  3. Installation ( 2, 50 ) de tri d'envois suivant la revendication 1 ou 2,
    caractérisée en ce que les voies ( 18, 20 ) parallèles ont la même longueur.
  4. Installation ( 2, 50 ) de tri d'envois suivant l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée en ce que les voies ( 18, 20 ) parallèles ont respectivement un module de même type pour le traitement des envois ( 4, 40a à 48b, 58a à 66b ).
  5. Installation ( 2, 50 ) de tri suivant l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée en ce que par une unité ( 10 ) de commande pour la subdivision du courant ( 40 ) d'envois dans l'aiguillage ( 16 ) de séparation à la manière d'une fermeture à glissière.
  6. Installation ( 2, 50 ) de tri suivant l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée en ce que les voies ( 18, 20 ) parallèles ont respectivement un moyen ( 32 ) d'augmentation de la vitesse du courant d'envois, notamment jusqu'à la vitesse du courant ( 40 ) d'envois juste avant l'aiguillage de séparation.
  7. Installation ( 2, 50 ) de tri suivant l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée par une unité ( 10 ) de commande pour régler la deuxième vitesse en fonction d'une longueur des envois ( 4, 40a à 48b, 58a à 66b ) du courant d'envois.
  8. Installation ( 2, 50 ) de tri suivant l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée par une unité ( 10 ) de commande pour régler la deuxième vitesse de manière à ce que, lorsque les envois ( 40a 48b ) sont envoyés en alternance dans les deux voies ( 18, 20 ) parallèles et lorsque seulement des envois ( 40a à 48a ) les plus long admissibles sont envoyés dans une première voie ( 18 ) parallèle et lorsque seulement des envois ( 58b à 66b ) les plus courts admissibles sont envoyés dans une deuxième voie ( 20 ) parallèle, une collision d'envois ( 58a à 66a ) soit évitée dans la première voie ( 18 ) parallèle.
  9. Installation ( 2, 50 ) de tri suivant l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée par un moyen ( 56 ) de mesure pour détecter des longueurs des envois ( 58a à 66b ) dans le courant d'envois.
  10. Installation ( 2, 50 ) de tri suivant l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée par une unité ( 10 ) de commande pour réduire la deuxième vitesse de manière à ce qu'elle soit plus petite que la moitié de la première vitesse.
  11. Installation ( 2, 50 ) de tri suivant l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée par un module ( 70 ) de correction de lacunes pour mettre en position des envois ( 40a à 48b, 58a à 66b ) du courant ( 40a, 40b ) d'envois dans une voie ( 18, 20 ) parallèle.
  12. Installation ( 2, 50 ) de tri suivant l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée par un moyen ( 52 ) d'extraction pour extraire des envois ( 66a ) individuels du courant ( 40a ) d'envois.
  13. Installation ( 2, 50 ) de tri suivant l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée par un module ( 36 ) de correction de lacunes après une jonction des voies ( 18, 20 ) parallèles.
  14. Installation ( 2, 50 ) de tri suivant l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée en ce qu'il est monté dans les voies ( 18, 20 ) parallèles respectivement une section ( 26 ) de transport pour la production d'un retard dans le temps.
  15. Installation ( 2, 50 ) de tri suivant l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée en ce qu'un module ( 30 ) d'inscription est monté respectivement dans les voies ( 18, 20 ) parallèles.
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