EP2139619B2 - Procede de tri d'envois en mode flip/flop - Google Patents

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EP2139619B2
EP2139619B2 EP08762017.5A EP08762017A EP2139619B2 EP 2139619 B2 EP2139619 B2 EP 2139619B2 EP 08762017 A EP08762017 A EP 08762017A EP 2139619 B2 EP2139619 B2 EP 2139619B2
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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
    • B07C3/00—Sorting according to destination
    • B07C3/02—Apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution
    • B07C3/06—Linear sorting machines in which articles are removed from a stream at selected points
    • 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
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    • Y10S209/00—Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
    • Y10S209/90—Sorting flat-type mail

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  • the invention relates to a method for sorting postal items for the purpose of preparing postman's rounds, these items being in particular, but not exclusively, letter-size small items on a postal sorting machine having an entry and a number of postal items. sorting outlets such as the mail sorting machine known as the "Star-Duplex" of the company "Solystic".
  • the second type of equipment concerns postal sorting machines which are installed in postal sorting centers and which include several hundred sorting outlets to be able to carry out the preparation of the postman's rounds in only two sorting passes.
  • the postal sorting machine mentioned above belongs to the second type of sorting machines. With this postal sorting machine, 40 mailman turns can be prepared simultaneously in two sorting passes knowing that this machine debits about 40,000 shipments per hour on an entry and that it can handle about 300 sorting outlets and that Factor tour can include up to 1000 shipments to be spread over up to 600 distribution points.
  • a machine of the second type makes it possible to prepare at the same time a much larger number of rounds of the factor than a machine of the first type.
  • the number of distribution points in a tour of the factor that can be ordered in 2 sorting passes with a sorting machine equipped with S sorting outlets is equal to S 2 .
  • the shipments are taken from the sorting outlets, put in bins, the bins brought in a certain order to the machine inlet and finally the items are recycled to the input of the machine to perform a second passage in the machine (second sorting pass) leading to the scheduling of the items in the different rounds of the factor.
  • the transfer of the bins from the sorting outlets to the input of the machine is usually done manually. Handling the bins to recycle the incoming items of the machine may require a relatively long time during which the sorting machine is stopped. It can be estimated that the handling time of a bin for recycling shipments is about 12 seconds, which means that the total number of sorting outlets can represent about a few hours of handling bins on a preparation cycle of several tours factor on the machine. These bin manipulations also require the presence of several machine operators. These machine downtimes and container handling with operators result in additional costs of preparing for a postman tour and delay mail delivery.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a sorting method that significantly reduces, for the same machine operating constraints, the cost of preparing a tour of the factor.
  • the sorting machine is operated according to an "alternative" or "flip / flop” mode, that is to say that overall the sorting outlets of the machine are cut in half to form two sub-units. disjoint sets of sorting outlets which function alternately in loading and unloading without interrupting the sorting process.
  • the advantage resulting from an alternating operation of the two subassemblies of sorting outlets is that the sorting machine is not stopped during a recycling of the incoming items of the machine and it is easily conceivable that the optimal operation of the machine is obtained when the recycling time of the items for a sorting pass is equal to the sorting time of the items for a sorting pass.
  • Separators can be used to separate batches of items successively entered into a machine.
  • a postal sorting machine comprising an input 1 supplying consignments arranged in series on the edge of a sorting device 2 shipments which from a recognition of the postal address on the surface of a shipment directs this shipment to a sorting outlet determined from a set of 3 sorting outlets.
  • the set 3 of sorting outlets is globally divided into two, ie a first subset 3A of sorting outlets and a second subset 3B of sorting outlets, these two subassemblies of sorting. sorting outlets operating alternately in filling and emptying.
  • the figure 2 illustrates very schematically the chronological sequence of the steps of the method according to the invention in a simple case or 4 batches of items are successively loaded at the input of the machine to prepare 40 rounds of the factor each having 1000 items (these values being here given for example only).
  • a batch of first shipments L1 is first loaded at the input of the sorting machine and the first shipments are thus directed (sorted) in the outputs of the first subset of sorting outlets 3A during a first sorting pass .
  • Another batch of second shipments L2 is loaded at the input of the sorting machine following the consignments of the first batch L1.
  • first sorting pass At the end of the first sorting pass (at time t1A) of the first shipments, these first shipments are recycled to the input of the sorting machine at the rear of the second batch consignments.
  • This recycling step is symbolized by SW and at time t2A the first recycled shipments are sorted again (second sorting pass) to be directed to the sorting outlets of the subset of sorting outlets 3A.
  • the second shipments are sorted to be directed to the sorting outlets of the second subset of sorting outlets 3B.
  • these second shipments are recycled to the input of the sorting machine at the rear of the first recycled shipments.
  • This operation of recycling second shipments is also symbolized by SW and at time t2B the second recycled shipments are sorted again (second sort pass) to be directed to the sorting outlets of the sorting subassembly 3B.
  • the first shipments are ordered according to the distribution points of the first ten rounds of the factors and are evacuated from the sorting outlets. This evacuation operation is symbolized by V.
  • a batch of third shipments L3 is loaded at the entrance of the machine following the second shipments that have just been recycled.
  • the second shipments are in turn evacuated from the sorting outlets which is symbolized by V.
  • a batch of fourth shipments L4 is loaded with entry of the machine after the third shipments.
  • time required for a recycling of the items is greater than the time required to perform a sorting pass on a subset of sorting outlets, but it is possible to arrive at an optimal configuration of the machine to bring these two periods closer together according to the number of sorting outlets of the machine, the number of rounds of the factor to be prepared simultaneously on the machine and the storage capacity of each sorting outlet.
  • Nbst ⁇ dpi ⁇ 1 / ⁇ 2 or dpi is the total number of distribution points of all rounds of the factor to be ordered on the machine in two passes.
  • the preparation time for 40 rounds is around 1.65 hours at an annual cost of 25 keuros.
  • the two subassemblies of sorting outlets 3A, 3B can be arranged one behind the other in the line of sorting outlets, one side parallel to the other (case of a machine designed in U), or one above the other. other (in the vertical direction) for a machine with sorting outlets.

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DE4236507C1 (de) † 1992-10-29 1993-12-02 Licentia Gmbh Umladebrücke
DE4302231C2 (de) † 1993-01-28 1995-08-10 Licentia Gmbh Verfahren zum Sortieren von Sendungen in der Verteilgangsequenz bei Briefverteilanlagen
DE19520057A1 (de) † 1995-06-06 1996-12-12 Licentia Gmbh Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Verteilung von Briefsendungen
US5959288A (en) † 1996-03-12 1999-09-28 Hitachi, Ltd. Apparatus for sorting various kinds of sheets of paper
DE19714184A1 (de) † 1997-04-07 1998-10-15 Siemens Ag Einrichtung zum Sortieren flacher Sendungen in mehreren Sortiergängen
EP0999902B1 (de) † 1997-08-06 2002-02-27 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Verfahren zum sortieren von sendungen
US6107588A (en) † 1997-11-14 2000-08-22 Elsag Spa Method of sorting postal objects
DE19943362A1 (de) † 1999-09-10 2001-03-22 Siemens Ag Einrichtung und Verfahren zum Ordnen von flachen Sendungen
EP1474249B1 (de) † 2002-09-30 2005-11-23 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Verfahren zum verarbeiten von flachen sendungen in sendungsbehältern
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