EP2303742B1 - Dispositif de transfert pour envois postaux - Google Patents

Dispositif de transfert pour envois postaux Download PDF

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EP2303742B1
EP2303742B1 EP09780937.0A EP09780937A EP2303742B1 EP 2303742 B1 EP2303742 B1 EP 2303742B1 EP 09780937 A EP09780937 A EP 09780937A EP 2303742 B1 EP2303742 B1 EP 2303742B1
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Holger Schererz
Rolf-Peter Skrdlant
Bertram Wanner
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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
    • B65H29/12—Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands or rollers
    • 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
    • B07C3/08—Apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution using arrangements of conveyors
    • 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
    • B65H2301/32—Orientation of handled material
    • B65H2301/321—Standing on edge
    • 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
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/447—Moving, forwarding, guiding material transferring material between transport devices
    • B65H2301/4474—Pair of cooperating moving elements as rollers, belts forming nip into which material is transported
    • 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
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/447—Moving, forwarding, guiding material transferring material between transport devices
    • B65H2301/4476—Endless transport devices with compartments
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/10—Size; Dimensions
    • B65H2511/13—Thickness
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2511/00—Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences
    • B65H2511/20—Location in space
    • B65H2511/22—Distance
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2601/00—Problem to be solved or advantage achieved
    • B65H2601/10—Ensuring correct operation
    • B65H2601/11—Clearing faulty handling, e.g. jams
    • 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

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  • the invention relates to a transfer device for postal items having a transfer unit, which has an output for transferring the separated postal items to a mail carrier and a transport device for transporting the mailpieces in a transport direction for delivery, the two belts for holding and transporting the mailpieces on both sides and a means for Adjusting the distance of the bands to each other to the thickness of a mail item, wherein the means for adjusting the distance of the bands to each other is a pivotable about a pivot axis rocker, is pivoted by the pivoting movement of one of the bands and is variable in its distance from the other band.
  • Mail such as letters, large letters, postcards, shrink-wrapped magazines, flat parcels and the like, are sorted in letter centers or large post offices in very large numbers by their address and stored in a variety of containers.
  • the mailpieces are successively injected into the horizontally passing bags, with the high number of cycles and the high density of the requested mail flow in each case leaving a very small time window for injecting a mail item into a passing bag.
  • the shipment stream is transported in a loading arm to the pocket wreath, whose output, at which the mailpieces are transferred from the loading arm to the individual pockets, can be moved horizontally with the moved pockets. If a mail item has been shot into a pocket, the loading arm is moved back and the issue aligned to a following bag.
  • the DE 1 101 289 B discloses a sorting system for postal items in which the mail items are conveyed via a vertical transport device to a pocket wreath moving past below the transport device by means of two conveyor belts. Furthermore, the sorting system has a belt rocker pivotable about an axis of rotation on which a spring for adjusting a distance of the conveyor belts from one another to a thickness of the mailpieces is supported.
  • a transport device of a mail sorting system which has a U-channel, formed from a baseband, two guide belts and a pressure belt for stabilizing thin, non-sagging broadcasts.
  • a distance of the bands to each other by means of a pivotable band rocker is realized on the pressure belt.
  • DE 12 62 890 B and NL 7 116 900 A each discloses a device on conveyor systems in which upright conveyed goods are transported by conveyor belt pairs from a first to a second conveyor line.
  • one of the conveyor belts is pivotable about an axis of rotation relative to the other conveyor belt.
  • Adjusting the distance of the bands to each other to the thickness of a currently transported mail item can be achieved by adjusting the pivot angle from the outside, for example by a processing means, or a self-adjustment mechanism of the band rocker.
  • the band rocker may have a deflection roller, preferably directly on the output which deflects the pivotable band, in particular at the outermost point of the band, ie where the band is furthest led to the program carrier.
  • the deflection roller can be pivoted together with the deflected band around the outside of the deflection roller arranged axis of rotation of the band rocker.
  • the output may be a location on the transfer unit at which the mail items leave the transfer unit, for example by a launch or to a guided transfer to the adjacent mail carrier.
  • the bands are preferably motor-driven endless belts.
  • the transfer unit can have an additional base strip on which the mailpieces stand during transport through the two strips on their longitudinal edges.
  • the mailpieces can be mail of all kinds.
  • the consignment carrier can be designed as a pocket wreath with encircling pockets.
  • the transfer unit expediently comprises a Mitzhouantrieb, which is controlled by a process means.
  • the output can be temporarily synchronized with a movement of the mail carrier, which is in particular transversely to the transport direction, wherein transversely below an angle between 70 ° and 110 ° degree is understood.
  • the transfer unit can be swung back, with a high acceleration torque can act on the transfer unit and thus also on the entrained belt rocker due to the high number of cycles of the transported mail.
  • the transport device according to the invention is capable of transporting the mail items of very different thicknesses, even under large lateral accelerations, in particular up to 6 g, at least substantially without slippage.
  • the compensation means may be electronically controlled or self-regulating, for example by means of a sensor.
  • a counterweight which counteracts by its own inertia of an inertial movement of the other components of the belt rocker.
  • the counterweight may be counterweight to the output side mass of the band rocker and be mounted with respect to the axis of rotation relative to the output.
  • it is connected by means of a rigid arm to the output, so that dynamic movements are kept low.
  • the band rocker is expediently with its axis of rotation arranged that an acceleration-related movement of the belt rocker is compensated in an acceleration direction of the output transversely to the transport direction in whole or in part.
  • the transfer unit which can be designed as a loading arm, can be moved without a disadvantage transversely to the transport direction, whereby a high degree of freedom of movement relative to the mail carrier can be achieved.
  • a particularly good compensation of acceleration-related movements of the band rocker can be achieved if the center of gravity of the band rocker lies in the axis of rotation.
  • the transfer device expediently comprises a release means for opening the belt rocker so that a mail item is released between the belts at the delivery.
  • the mail piece can be transported on by the mail carrier without the transfer unit being pulled along.
  • the bands are expediently spaced at least 10 cm apart with the band hinge open at the output.
  • the release means advantageously has a gear for opening the band rocker to such an extent that a mail item is fully released in a range from the output to at least 30 cm against the transport direction in an acceleration direction of the output.
  • the acceleration direction is expediently the transport direction of the mail carrier.
  • the transfer unit or its output can be accelerated, for example, in order to position the output on a subsequent pocket of the mail carrier without a mail item jammed in the mail carrier abutting the band rocker.
  • the opening is so far that the mail item can be moved in the direction of acceleration at least 50 cm far without contact with the belt rocker.
  • the release means advantageously comprises a motor drive for opening the band rocker. It can be a large force introduced at a high speed and the belt swing can be particularly fast and wide open become.
  • the release agent is expediently connected without springs when opening with the belt rocker, so that a spring-free opening of the belt rocker takes place.
  • the band rocker is advantageously at a stationary release means, in particular to a point of the release means on the band rocker, a piece in a spring means swingable.
  • the band rocker comprises a spring element for pressing the bands against each other, for example, to support a belt-related pressure. If the band rocker is opened by a safety function, then this opening movement is opposite in direction to the spring pressure, so that the pressing, if appropriate, takes place against the spring force and is thereby made more difficult.
  • the spring on the transfer unit expediently engages so that an opening movement of the release means causes a relaxation of the spring. An opening of the belt rocker to the safety function can be supported thereby.
  • FIG. 1 shows a transfer device 2 in a schematic plan view. It comprises a transfer unit 4 in the form of a loading arm, which is movable relative to a stationary unit 6, in particular is pivotable. The mobility is indicated by a dashed line, in which the transfer unit 4 is pivoted by 6 degrees to a normal position.
  • a transport device 10 which has two circulating belts 12, 14, in a straight line in the transport direction 16 from the stationary unit 6 into the loading arm or the transfer unit 4.
  • the transport path is slightly angled in the area between the stationary unit 6 and the loading arm.
  • a mail carrier 18 is arranged in the form of a pocket wreath comprising a plurality of bags or consignment containers 20 which are arranged in the form of a train behind each other and movably attached to each other.
  • the mail carrier 18 moves in a carrier direction 22 that runs perpendicular to the transport direction 16 when the transfer unit 4 is not tilted.
  • transported mail 8 are successively shot each in a mail container 20, wherein the foremost end of the transfer unit 4 is synchronized in speed and position synchronized with that mail container 20, in which the next postal item 8 is to be introduced.
  • the mail item 8 When transferring a mail item 8 from the transfer unit 4 to the mail carrier 18, the mail item 8 leaves the transfer unit 4 at an output 24, which is from the frontmost Elements of the transfer unit 4 is formed.
  • These elements can be, for example, two rollers 26, 28 with the two belts 12, 14. If the mail item 8 is stored completely in the desired mail container 20, the transfer unit 4 is swiveled a little way back in a clockwise direction until the dispenser 24 is positioned opposite a following mail container 20, so that a mail item 8 can be inserted into it.
  • the mail items 8 are transported at a speed of 2.5 m / s by the transport device 10 in the transport direction 16 and introduced into the mail containers 20, which move at a speed of 0.5 m / s perpendicular to the transport direction 16. Between the individual mailpieces 8 are small gaps that allow the transfer unit 4 to align in their new position in front of a next shipment container 20. This repositioning is done with a frequency of about 3 Hz.
  • the front part of the transfer unit 4 is accelerated with the output 24 strongly in an acceleration direction, which is substantially parallel or antiparallel to the support direction 22.
  • the roller 26 and with it the front part of the belt 14 is mounted relative to the roller 28 and the belt 12 movable.
  • inertial forces act on the movable support, the roller 26 and the front part of the belt 14, by which a pressing force of the belt 14 against the currently transported mail item 8 would vary without corresponding counteraction. This would lead to a too strong or too weak pressure and thereby to a shipment damage or to a slip of the mail item 8 between the bands 12, 14th
  • the front roller 26 is part a belt rocker 32, with which a part of the belt 14 is pivotally mounted about an axis of rotation 34.
  • the front roller 26 is fixed to a rigid rocker arm 36 which is mounted in the axis of rotation 34 and at its end opposite the roller 26 carries a counterweight 38.
  • the mass distribution of the band rocker 32 is in this case adjusted so that their center of gravity comes to lie in the axis of rotation 34.
  • the band rocker 32 In a pivoting movement of the transfer unit 4 about its axis of rotation 30 and an acceleration in or against the pivoting movement, the band rocker 32 is thereby dynamically balanced, so that cancel the inertial forces of the individual elements of the band rocker 32 and this even at high acceleration relative to the other parts of the Transfer unit 4, for example, to the roller 28, remains dormant.
  • a pressing force of the belt rocker 32 in the direction of the belt 12 is achieved by an advantageous design of the belt run of the belt 14.
  • the band 14 is tensioned with a force of about 300 N. With this force, the front roller 26 is pulled according to the arrow 40 to the rear.
  • the direction of the arrow 40 is the direction of the bisector between the deflected by the roller belt 26 14.
  • the alignment of the swing arm 36, so the direction between the axis of rotation 34 and the axis of rotation of the roller 26 is now chosen so that an angle between the swing arm 36 and the connecting line between the axes of rotation and the force resulting from the arrow 40 results.
  • This non-nesting of Drehachsenverbindenen with the force resulting a torque is exerted on the belt rocker 32 in the direction of the force resulting.
  • This torque causes a pressing force of the belt rocker 32 in the direction of the belt 12.
  • the pressure force is for example between 10 and 20 N, depending on the angular position of the This is dependent on the thickness of the currently transported between the belts 12, 14 mail item 8.
  • a effected by the pressing force closing the belt rocker 32 and thereby effected pinching the mail item 8 between the belts 12, 14 can be further reinforced by a spring element become.
  • a roller 42 is arranged, which deflects the belt 14 and whose axis of rotation is the axis of rotation 34.
  • the distance of the belt 14 between the rollers 26, 42 is equal regardless of the angular position of the belt rocker 32. Due to the angle of the rocker arm 36 to the transport direction 16, however, the distance between the front roller 26 and a rear roller, not shown, or the axis of rotation 30 is reduced when closing the belt rocker 32. This reduces the tension of the belt 14 when the belt rocker 32 is closed something that causes a reduction in the clamping force of the belt 14 and thus the pressing force and the closing force of the belt rocker 32.
  • FIG. 2 shows the transfer unit 4 in a more detailed view from above. Shown is the belt rocker arm 32 with its swing arm 36, the counterweight 38, its role 26 on the output 24 and its An horrband 14. Also shown is a release means 44 with a motor drive 46 and a gear 48, which in a point 50 with a holder 52 is connected to the swing arm 36 is attached.
  • the swing arm 36 is relatively small pivotable relative to the holder 52, as indicated on a bolt 54 in a slot 56.
  • the holder 52 is rigidly supported relative to the drive 46, wherein the swing arm 36 can swing a piece to adapt in its open position to different thicknesses of mail 8.
  • the band rocker 32 at their in FIG. 2 shown position pressed in the direction of its closed position.
  • FIG. 3 shows the transfer unit 4 with fully opened band rocker 32.
  • the band rocker 32 is more than 90 ° degrees to in FIG. 2 rotated in the closed position shown, wherein the pressure belt 14 in its mailing 8 facing area by 90 ° degrees to its in FIG. 2 pivoted illustrated closed position.
  • spring 58 shown is designed as a torsion spring and spirally wound around the axis of rotation 34, wherein the left pending and in FIG. 3 visible end of the spring 58 is shown only for the sake of illustration to the left, to make the spring visible. The illustrated end would be mounted under correct representation under a bracket 60 and not visible in plan view.
  • FIG. 3 shows the belt rocker 32 when triggered safety function.
  • a mail piece 8 has left with its front end, the output 24 and has partially entered into an interior 62 of a mail item 20.
  • the mail item 8 for example, has jammed, so that it is not further introduced into the interior 62 in spite of a force caused by the belts 12, 14 feed force in the direction of the output 24 and thus in the mail container 20 inside.
  • the entire mail carrier 18 is further moved in the carrier direction 22 and the output 24 synchronized carried so that little or no relative movement between the inner space 62 and 24 output occurs.
  • a sensor 64 for example an optical sensor 64
  • the gap between the output 24 and the mail carrier 18 is scanned, wherein the sensor 64 is connected to a processing means 66 and the processing means 66 monitors the gap and thus the insertion of the mail item 8 in the interior 62 ,
  • the process means 66 now recognizes that the optical measuring beam generated by the sensor 64, for example, is still interrupted and the mailpiece 8 has thus not yet been completely introduced into the relevant mail container 20.
  • the transfer unit 4 reaches a position in which the synchronized entrainment with the mail carrier 18 is regularly stopped. This would cause the mail item 8 would be transported with its front end further in the carrier direction 22, wherein the output 24 rests or even returned in the opposite direction.
  • the processing means 66 actuates the drive 46 so that the latter moves the gear unit 48 in accordance with an arrow 68.
  • the gear 48 engages the bracket 52, which is positively connected to the swing arm 36 and this in his in FIG. 3 shown opening position pulls.
  • the band rocker 32 is now open by the opening angle 70 to the closed position.
  • the e.g. 35 cm long mail item 8 is thereby completely released and can now be continued in the support direction 22 without touching the pressure belt 14 or another element of the belt rocker 32 and the transfer unit 4.
  • the risk of damage to the mail item 8 or the transfer unit 4 is thereby greatly reduced. There now remains enough time to stop the mail carrier 18 and to fix the mailing jam without the elements of the transfer device 2 being affected.
  • the swing arm 36 through the Gear 48 moves against the spring force of the spring 58, which is further stretched at increasing opening angle 70.
  • the spring 58 which is provided for applying a pressing force of the belt rocker 32 on the transported between the belts 12, 14 mail item 8 be applied by another or alternative spring 72, the FIG. 3 in the form of a box schematically between the swing arm 36 and the holder 52 is shown.
  • the spring 72 pushes the rocker arm 36 away from the holder 52, so that in the closed position of the belt rocker 32 via the rocker arm 36 and the pressure belt 14 a pressing force on the mail item 8 between the belts 12, 14 is exercised.
  • the holder 52 can rotate a little counterclockwise, without the positive engagement with the rocker arm 36 engages.
  • the spring 72 is first relaxed, so that the pressing force of the two bands 12, 14 is reduced against each other.
  • the spring 72 also aids in the operation of the transmission 48 as it pushes toward its open position.
  • the spring 72 may in this case remain biased a bit far, so that the swing arm 36 is guided without play.

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  1. Dispositif ( 2 ) de transfert d'envois ( 8 ) postaux comprenant une unité ( 4 ) de transfert, qui a une sortie ( 24 ) pour le transfert des envois ( 8 ) postaux individualisés vers un support ( 18 ) d'envois et un dispositif ( 10 ) de transport pour le transport des envois ( 8 ) postaux dans une direction ( 16 ) de transport vers la sortie ( 24 ), qui comprend deux bandes ( 12, 14 ) pour le maintien des envois (8) postaux des deux côtés et leur transport et un moyen pour l'adaptation de la distance des bandes ( 12, 14 ) l'une par rapport à l'autre à l'épaisseur d'un envoi ( 8 ) postal, dans lequel le moyen d'adaptation est une bielle ( 32 ) à bande pivotant autour d'un axe de rotation et par le mouvement de pivotement de laquelle l'une des bandes ( 12, 14 ) pivote et ainsi son éloignement, par rapport à l'autre bande ( 12, 14 ), est variable,
    caractérisé en ce que la bielle ( 32 ) à bande a un moyen de compensation, qui, lors d'une accélération de la sortie ( 24 ) tant dans le sens du support ( 18 ) d'envois que dans le sens contraire, s'oppose à une fermeture ou à ouverture des bandes ( 12, 14 ) due à l'inertie.
  2. Dispositif ( 2 ) de transfert suivant la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que le moyen de compensation est un contrepoids ( 38 ).
  3. Dispositif ( 2 ) de transfert suivant la revendication 1 ou 2,
    caractérisé en ce que la direction d'accélération de la sortie ( 24 ) est transversale à la direction ( 16 ) de transport.
  4. Dispositif ( 2 ) de transfert suivant l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisé en ce que le centre de gravité de la bielle ( 32 ) à bande est sur l'axe ( 34 ) de rotation.
  5. Dispositif ( 2 ) de transfert suivant l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisé en ce qu'une force de tension de l'une des bandes ( 12 ) applique une force de fermeture à la bielle ( 32 ) à bande.
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