EP2316581B1 - Procédé et dispositif de transport et de tri d'objets à l'aide d'un récipient - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif de transport et de tri d'objets à l'aide d'un récipient Download PDF

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EP2316581B1
EP2316581B1 EP10189654A EP10189654A EP2316581B1 EP 2316581 B1 EP2316581 B1 EP 2316581B1 EP 10189654 A EP10189654 A EP 10189654A EP 10189654 A EP10189654 A EP 10189654A EP 2316581 B1 EP2316581 B1 EP 2316581B1
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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
    • B07C3/008—Means for collecting objects, e.g. containers for sorted mail items
    • 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
    • B07C1/00—Measures preceding sorting according to destination
    • B07C1/02—Forming articles into a stream; Arranging articles in a stream, e.g. spacing, orientating
    • B07C1/025—Devices for the temporary stacking of objects provided with a stacking and destacking device (interstack device)
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B25/00—Packaging other articles presenting special problems
    • B65B25/14—Packaging paper or like sheets, envelopes, or newspapers, in flat, folded, or rolled form
    • B65B25/141—Packaging paper or like sheets, envelopes, or newspapers, in flat, folded, or rolled form packaging flat articles in boxes
    • B65B25/143—Packaging paper or like sheets, envelopes, or newspapers, in flat, folded, or rolled form packaging flat articles in boxes by introducing successive articles
    • 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
    • B65H31/22—Pile receivers removable or interchangeable
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
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    • B65H2301/33—Modifying, selecting, changing orientation
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • B65H2301/422—Handling piles, sets or stacks of articles
    • B65H2301/4225—Handling piles, sets or stacks of articles in or on special supports
    • B65H2301/42254—Boxes; Cassettes; Containers
    • B65H2301/422542—Boxes; Cassettes; Containers emptying or unloading processes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
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    • B65H2301/4225—Handling piles, sets or stacks of articles in or on special supports
    • B65H2301/42254—Boxes; Cassettes; Containers
    • B65H2301/422548—Boxes; Cassettes; Containers filling or loading process
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
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    • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
    • B65H2701/1916—Envelopes and articles of mail

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  • the invention relates to a method and a device for transporting and sorting objects, in particular flat mail items, by means of a container.
  • mail items from receiving points and mailboxes are spent in containers and transported in these containers to a sorting system.
  • the sorted mail items are returned to containers and in these containers z.
  • a mail carrier uses a container to deliver mail. In this case, the deliverer takes successive mail items from the container.
  • the containers can be reused for various transport tasks.
  • a sorting system for flat mail is described.
  • the mailpieces are sorted into a collecting container 1 in such a way that the mailpieces lie on an inclined bottom 5 of the collecting container 1.
  • handling means 2 z. B. handle holes, embedded.
  • a longitudinal wall inside vertical channels 3 are embedded, in the other longitudinal wall vertical recesses 5.
  • Gripper fingers 8 of the gripper 6 are thereby pushed through the recesses 4 through the underlying mail , Subsequently, the gripping fingers 8 are connected with opposing tines 9 temporarily.
  • the stack 10 with mailpieces is thereby held between the gripping fingers 8 and the tines 9.
  • the gripper 6 spends the held stack 10 from the collecting container 1 into a transport container 7.
  • the gripper 6 releases the connection between the gripping finger 8 and the prong 9. As a result, the stack 10 slides into the transport container 7.
  • the arrangement has a sorting system, a shelf wall, a robot and a plurality of containers ("cartridges").
  • the sorting system has a feed device, a discharge device and a plurality of sorting end points, which are arranged in a matrix.
  • the shelf wall has a variety of storage spaces for containers. Each container has a rectangular bottom and two wide and two narrow side walls.
  • the robot is able to spend an empty container from a parking space of the shelf wall in a sorting end, so that the discharge device is able to generate a stack of flat mail items in this container.
  • the robot can remove a full container from a sorting end and put it on a parking space of the shelf wall and to transport from a parking space of the shelf wall to the feeder.
  • the container is rotated about a vertical axis of rotation and placed on a conveyor belt of the feeder.
  • a method of processing mailpieces is described.
  • the mailpieces 100 are collected at various points of disposal and transported in transport containers 120 to letter centers.
  • a sorting device 110 has a plurality of unloading stations 130.
  • a conveying section 140 transports filled containers 120 intermittently to the picking stations 130. Previously, transport containers 120 filled in charging stations 105 were placed on the conveying path 140.
  • a converter 135 sets filled transport containers 120 from the conveyor line 140 to a further conveyor line 145.
  • a transport container 120 slips obliquely downward from the conveyor line 140 onto the converter 135.
  • a sorting system (“article handling system 10") with a feeder device (“autofeeder 50"), a discharge device (“sorter 15”) and a matrix of output units ("array 19 of output compartments 20”) is described, cf. Fig. 1 ,
  • the output units 20 are arranged in a plurality of rows and columns.
  • Each dispensing unit 20 is capable of holding a special container ("cartridge 25").
  • the sorting system 10 generates in each container 25 each have a stack of flat mail items.
  • Fig. 1 shows the sorting system 10 and a shelf wall ("buffer shelf 40").
  • the shelf wall 40 includes a plurality of parking spaces (“array of compartments 45"). On each pitch 45, a container 25 can be set.
  • a handling robot (“handling robot 30") is able to transport containers 25 back and forth between the output units 20 of the sorting system and locations 45 of the shelf wall.
  • the shelf wall 40 has in one embodiment a chassis with wheels. The shelf wall 40 can therefore be moved back and forth between a receiving position and a dispensing position. In the receiving position, the handling machine 30 spends filled containers 25 from an output unit 20 into a corresponding parking space 45 of the shelf wall 40, cf. FIGS. 11A to 11C. In the dispensing position can filled container 25 from the shelf wall 40 spend on the feeder 50, cf. FIGS. 11D to 11F.
  • Each "dispatch subsystem 22" has a “transport mechanism 50" with several storage spaces for containers.
  • a “vertical lift 56" is able to move a parking space with a container up and down, cf. Fig. 7.
  • Another mechanism is able to move a container by a “horizontal movement” in a holding device ("associated cart 52"). In the holding device 52, the container can be moved up and down.
  • Sorting plants with containers are also in US 6,501,041 B1 and in US 5,421,464 described.
  • This cassette 1 has a bottom, two wide side walls, two narrow side walls and a "cover assembly”. On a narrow side wall, a handle 14 is attached.
  • the "cover assembly” comprises an “outer cover member 11" and “inner cover member 12".
  • the “inner cover member 12" is capable of stacking ("bundle 13") flat objects, e.g. B. banknotes, depress in the interior of the cassette 1.
  • the rectangular “outer cover member 11" can be pivoted between a closed position and an open position back and forth. In the closed position, the "outer cover member 11" extends parallel to the floor and closes the interior.
  • the "outer cover member 11" In the open position, the "outer cover member 11" is arranged parallel to a narrow side wall and obscures this narrow side wall.
  • the “inner cover member 12" can also swing between an open position and a closed position back and forth, z. B. by a rotation about a longitudinal axis of the "inner cover member 12".
  • the “inner cover member 12" is rotatably connected to a wide side wall.
  • the opposite wide side wall, so that side wall which is not connected to the "inner cover member 12" has at the upper end a rectangular recess, so that this opposite broad side wall is less high than that wide side wall to which the "inner cover member 12" is connected.
  • the "inner cover member 12" acts as an extension of a wide side wall. If both "cover members 11, 12" have been pivoted into the closed position, the "outer cover member 11" conceals the "inner cover member 12".
  • the cassette 1 has an opening facing upward, through which objects can be introduced into the interior, cf. Fig. 2a, 2b, 2c ,
  • a platen below the horizontal bank notes descends to form a stack of bills on the platen 21.
  • a "compacting device 26" compresses the stack of banknotes. After so many banknotes are filled as specified in the interior of the cassette 1, first the "inner cover member 12" and then the “outer cover member 11" are pivoted to the closed position.
  • the support 21 pushes the stack upwards.
  • bank notes can be pushed away from the stack by a horizontal movement parallel to the floor through the recess above the opposite wide side wall, e.g. B. by means of a conveyor belt or a roller.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a method and an arrangement for transporting stackable articles by means of a container, whereby the risk of damaging the articles during loading or unloading is reduced.
  • At least one container is used, preferably several similar containers.
  • Each container used extends along a container axis wall.
  • the container comprises a bottom and several parallel walls.
  • the vertical wall is perpendicular to the container axis.
  • the parallel walls are arranged parallel to the container axis.
  • a parallel wall is pivotable, in particular rotatable, connected to another parallel wall of the container.
  • the step of transferring the container from the filling position to the transfer position comprises the step of rotating the container together with the objects located in the interior of the container around the container axis. It is possible that the container axis is horizontal, while the container is moved from the filling position to the reloading position. It is also possible that the container from the transfer position is first moved to a third position in which the container axis is vertical or inclined, the container is then rotated about vertical or oblique axis and then the rotated container is moved to the transfer position.
  • the rotation about the container axis may be a ninety degree rotation of the container or an angle of less than or greater than 90 degrees.
  • the opening can point vertically or obliquely upwards.
  • the opening may be perpendicular or oblique to the side.
  • the articles are brought from above through the opening into the container, which is in the filling position.
  • This embodiment requires less work than if the container had to be tilted for filling. It is possible, but not necessary, to use an automatic handling machine or a handling device for loading the Insert container. It is possible that a system allows the items to automatically slide into the container. The gravity and thus the weight of the items accelerate and facilitate the filling of the items through the upward opening.
  • the objects are removed by a lateral movement out of the container, which is in the reloading position.
  • This lateral movement reduces the risk of items being damaged or lost during unloading.
  • the invention reduces the risk that the order among the objects of the stack in the container is changed. Often, it is desired that the order be maintained during transportation, which is enabled by the invention.
  • the lateral movement requires less mechanical work than if the container had to be placed on the head for unloading or the items would have to be removed upwards out of the container.
  • the container is moved directly from the filling position in the reloading position, and at the destination or even before. It is also possible that the container is first moved from the filling position to a third position and then from this third position to the transfer position.
  • the container is spent at least once in a transport position in which the pivotable parallel wall is closed.
  • the container is transported at least once in the filling position to the destination. The container thus remains in the filling position while being transported to the destination. This embodiment saves the step of tilting or otherwise pivoting the filled container, before the container is transported.
  • the container is moved to the transfer position, with the container being rotated about the currently horizontal container axis. This turning requires little mechanical effort and little power.
  • the pivotable parallel wall closes the opening. This makes it possible to provide a large opening through which to quickly fill objects and remove them from the container.
  • the method is used for sorting stackable items.
  • a sorting characteristic is specified.
  • two sort runs are performed.
  • a first sorting pass the articles are distributed according to the predetermined sorting feature on the sorting end points of the sorting system.
  • a first sorting plan is preferably used, which assigns each sorting point to each possible value of the sorting feature.
  • the sorting system distributes the stackable articles according to the predetermined sorting feature to the sorting end points.
  • a second sorting plan is preferably used, which assigns each possible value of the sorting feature to a sorting end location.
  • a transport process is carried out for each sorting end point of the sorting system.
  • all stackable objects which the sorting system has discharged in the first sorting pass into this sorting end point are transported to the feeding device of the sorting system.
  • This transport to the feeding device makes it possible for the articles from this sorting end point to pass through the sorting system again in the second sorting pass.
  • This transport process comprises the steps of the method according to the invention. In this transport process, a solution container is used.
  • a container according to the solution is used to temporarily store flat postal items (large letters, standard letters, catalogs, magazines, etc.).
  • Fig. 1 shows a container according to the solution Beh, which stands on its bottom, so that its longitudinal axis LA is vertical.
  • the container Beh possesses six delimiting walls which delimit an interior space in.
  • the container Beh has a longitudinal extent in the direction of a longitudinal axis LA. If the container BE is oriented so that this longitudinal axis LA is perpendicular, then the container Beh stands upright on a wall Bo, which is referred to below as "bottom". This floor Bo is rectangular or trapezoidal.
  • the longitudinal axis LA is not necessarily the longest axis of the container Beh.
  • two side walls Sw-1, Sw-k have the form of rectangles, namely the shape of a smaller rectangle and the shape of a larger rectangle.
  • the rectangular side wall Sw-1 in the form of the larger rectangle is referred to as the "longest sidewall", the opposite rectangular sidewall Sw-k being referred to as the "shortest sidewall”.
  • the remaining two side panels Sw-b, Sw-s have identical dimensions, four corners each and the shape of a rectangle from which a right-angled triangle has been cut out. These two sidewalls are referred to as "bevelled sidewalls" Sw-b, Sw-s.
  • the longitudinal axis LA acts as the container axis in the sense of the claims.
  • the bottom Bo acts as a vertical wall, because the bottom Bo is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis LA.
  • the four side walls Sw-1, Sw-k, Sw-b, Sw-s function as the four parallel walls, because the longitudinal axis LA is parallel to each of these four side walls Sw-1, Sw-k, Sw-b, Sw -s.
  • the four side walls Sw-1, Sw-k, Sw-b, Sw-s do not collide with each other at right angles. Rather, the bottom Bo is designed trapezoidal. The edge of the bottom Bo in which the longest side wall Sw-1 adjoins the bottom Bo is shorter than the opposite edge. If the container Beh is positioned so that the longest side wall Sw-1 down and the shortest side wall Sw-k faces upward and the longitudinal axis is horizontal, so the container Beh widened upward, that is tapers down.
  • This embodiment makes it possible to stack several containers according to the solution with completely opened shortest side walls Sw-k into one another and one above the other, which saves space.
  • the wall of the container Beh which is at the top when the container with the vertical longitudinal axis LA stands on its bottom Bo is referred to as the "lid" De.
  • the lid De is movably connected to a side wall, preferably to the longest side wall Sw-1 which has the shape of the larger rectangle.
  • the lid De can be rotated or open and close by another swinging. In the closed state, the lid De lies on the two beveled side walls Sw-b, Sw-s and the shortest side wall Sw-k.
  • the lid rotation axis D-DA, around which the lid De is rotatably mounted, at the same time forms the upper end edge of the longest side wall Sw-1.
  • the lid De is slightly smaller than the rectangular opening bounded by the upper edges of the four side walls Sw-1, Sw-k, Sw-b, Sw-s.
  • the closed lid De fills this opening almost and preferably concludes binding with the four upper edges.
  • At least one fastener of the lid holds the lid De in this position.
  • the at least one fastening element engages in a corresponding receiving element of a side wall.
  • the fastener snaps into the receiving element.
  • the lid De has a handle to make it easier to open and close.
  • the shortest side wall Sw-k is also rotatably mounted, namely about a side wall rotation axis S-DA.
  • the shortest side wall Sw-k is rotatably connected to one bevelled side wall Sw-b and is not connected to the bottom Bo, not to the lid De and not to the other bevelled side wall Sw-s.
  • This bevelled sidewall to which the shortest sidewall Sw-k is rotatably mounted is hereinafter referred to as the attaching tapered sidewall "Sw-b.”
  • the other tapered sidewall is referred to as the "supporting tapered sidewall" Sw-s.
  • the shortest side wall can be displaced or otherwise pivoted relative to the fastening bevelled side wall Sw-b.
  • the shortest side wall Sw-k can be rotated by 270 ° about the sidewall rotation axis.
  • the shortest side wall Sw-k lies with its free end on the supporting bevelled side wall Sw-b or on this up.
  • the shortest side wall Sw-k lies flat against the fastening beveled side wall, ie on the side wall Sw-b, is rotatably connected to the shortest side wall.
  • the shortest side wall Sw-k may comprise a door frame.
  • the door frame is fixedly connected to the bottom Bo and the two bevelled side walls Sw-b, Sw-s.
  • a door is inserted, which is rotatably mounted about the side wall axis of rotation S-DA.
  • the longest side wall Sw-1 is fixedly connected to the bottom Bo and to the two beveled side walls Sw-b, Sw-s.
  • the bottom Bo is firmly connected to the two bevelled side walls Sw-b, Sw-s.
  • recesses are embedded in both bevelled side walls Sw-b, Sw-s and in the longest side wall Sw-1, which will be explained below.
  • Fig. 1 are a recess Aus-b in the mounting beveled side wall Sw-b, a recess Aus-s in the supporting beveled side wall Sw-b and three recesses Aus-1.1, Aus-1.2 and Aus-1.3 in the longest side wall Sw-1 see.
  • two flat guide elements FE-1, FE, 2 are arranged on the edge of the lid De. If the lid De is closed, then these flat guide elements FE-1, FE, 2 abut against the two bevelled side walls, preferably outside. The guide elements FE-1, FE, 2 are thus located outside of the container interior.
  • the container Beh preferably has a locking device. Thanks to this locking device, the opened lid De can be locked in at least one specific position.
  • Fig. 1 shows the locked lid De.
  • the locking device is not discrete but continuous, ie the lid De in any position between the complete closing and the complete Opening is able to lock.
  • the lid De can only be moved against a certain mechanical resistance. If the lid De can be locked continuously or in a plurality of discrete positions, it is indeed possible to reach into the container, but the lid De protects the objects in the container Beh, z. B. from rain or splashing.
  • all six walls or at least the four side walls are made of a transparent material, e.g. B. made of scratch-resistant plastic. This makes it possible to see from the outside what is inside the container.
  • all walls are made of opaque material, eg. B. made of hard plastic.
  • the walls and also the recesses have rounded corners.
  • At least one fastening element is attached to the free end of the shortest, rotatably mounted side wall Sw-k, z.
  • a snap closure as a briefcase.
  • This fastening element engages in at least one corresponding receiving element of the supporting bevelled side wall Sw-s.
  • the elements are designed such that an operator or an automatic handling machine can open the side wall Sw-k.
  • recesses Aus-b, Aus-s are embedded in both beveled side walls Sw-b, Sws. Or on both side walls handles are attached.
  • a processor or automatic handling machine can transport the container, preferably so that the longitudinal axis LA is perpendicular during transport.
  • a multiplicity of containers according to the invention is used to transport mail items to a sorting system and to transport them within this sorting system.
  • Fig. 2 shows a sorting system that sorts mail using a plurality of solution containers. Two containers Beh-1, Beh-2 are shown.
  • the sorting system Sa sorts the mailpieces according to a predetermined sequence of delivery ("delivery sequence") under predetermined delivery points ("delivery points”), eg. B. under delivery addresses. After the sequence sorting, the mailpieces are sorted according to this sequence.
  • the mail carriers can distribute these mail items without having to sort them again.
  • the sorting system Sa has a multiplicity of sorting end points Se.1, Se.2, .... Each sorting end point Se.1, Se.2,... Is designed such that mailpieces can be transported at this sorting end position in a container according to the invention. However, because there are significantly more possible destination points for mail items than sorting stations on the sequence, the mail items pass through the sorting system ("n-pass sequencing") in at least two sorting runs.
  • the mailpieces are collected from mailboxes, PO Box facilities and or collection points and transported to a pretreatment facility. There are not machine-capable mail items and other items sorted out.
  • the sorting system has a feeding device ZE ("feeder") with a separator ("singulator").
  • feeder feeder
  • separator separator
  • the separator is configured to separate a stack of upright mailpieces.
  • the singler singulates the mail so that a stream of upright and spaced apart mail leaves the singler.
  • the sorting system Sa reads in the first sorting pass the respective destination point on the mailpiece, stores an identification of this destination point and discharges the mailpieces into a sorting end point Se.1, Se.2, ....
  • sorting end the sorting system ejects the mail item, depends on the respectively read destination and a given sorting plan, which the sorting system automatically evaluates.
  • the mail items are transported in the containers according to the invention Beh-1, Beh-2 from the respective sorting Se.1, Se.2, ... back to the feeder ZE.
  • the containers are on a conveyor Fb of the sorting system Sa, z. B. a system of horizontal endless conveyor belts.
  • the mailpieces are removed from the container and returned to the feeding device ZE in the form of at least one stack.
  • the feeder ZE transports the stack to the separator, and the separator separates the mail items.
  • the mail items pass through the sorting system Sa again in the second sorting pass.
  • the sorting system Sa determines the respectively stored destination point for each mailpiece.
  • the sorting system again divides the mail items onto the sorting end points Se.1, Se.2,... And uses the stored and determined target points for this purpose.
  • the mailpieces are in accordance with the predetermined sequence of courses and the given sorting plan on the sorting endpoints Se.1, Se.2, ... distributed and sorted within a sorting end according to the course sequence.
  • the containers according to the invention are used exclusively within the sorting system Sa, namely to transport mail items back from a sorting station Se.1, Se.2,... To the feeding device ZE after a sorting run, so that the mailpieces in a subsequent sorting pass go through the sorting system again.
  • the containers according to the invention therefore remain in the sorting system Sa in this embodiment.
  • Other containers are used in this embodiment.
  • the container In order to fill a container according to the solution with postal items, the container is brought into a filling position. The container is then both in the filling position, if the mail items are to be transferred to the container before the first sorting pass, ie also when the sorting system Sa fills the container after a sorting pass in a sorting end point Se.1, Se.2,...
  • Fig. 3 shows in a side view of the container in the filling position, wherein the longitudinal axis lies in the plane of the drawing.
  • Fig. 4 shows the container of Fig. 3 in another side view, wherein the longitudinal axis is perpendicular to the plane of the drawing.
  • a solution container Beh-1 is shown in a filling position below the sorting end point Se.1.
  • the longest side wall Sw-1 points down and the shortest side wall Sw-k upward.
  • the bottom Bo is vertical.
  • the longitudinal axis La of the container is horizontal.
  • the longest side wall Sw-1 with the lid rotation axis D-DA, around which the lid De is rotatably mounted, lies on a support surface.
  • the rotatably mounted shortest side wall Sw-k is or is rotated so that an upwardly opening in the container is formed. If the shortest side wall Sw-k previously rested on both beveled side walls Sw-b, Sw-s, then the shortest side wall Sw-k and the side wall rotation axis Sw-DA are rotated.
  • the shortest side wall Sw-k is also connected at its free end to the fastening bevelled side wall Sw-b, so that the two side walls Sw-k, Sw-b are parallel to each other.
  • the lid De is closed when the container is in the filling position, so that no mail can fall out of the container.
  • a container according to the solution is used for the purpose of transferring mailpieces to the sorting installation before the first sorting pass to the feeding device ZE.
  • the feeder ZE acts as a target point.
  • the feeding device ZE comprises a singulator.
  • the separator is configured to separate a stack of upright mailpieces.
  • the mailpieces to be separated must first be aligned at two edges.
  • the singler singulates the mail so that a stream of upright and spaced apart mail leaves the singler.
  • the feeder ZE also has an alignment device, which is connected upstream of the separator.
  • the mail items are already aligned as far as possible in the container and already partially aligned reach the subsequent alignment device.
  • the container is spent for this purpose in succession in two alignment positions.
  • the lid De and the shortest side wall Sw-k are closed.
  • one beveled sidewall faces down and the other beveled sidewall up.
  • the longitudinal axis LA is horizontal. Gravity straightens the mail items standing upright in the container so that the mailpieces are aligned at the edges with which the mail items stand on the lower slanted sidewall.
  • the container with closed lid De and closed shortest side wall Sw-k spent in the other alignment position.
  • the bottom Bo is down, and the longitudinal axis La is vertical.
  • the mail continues to stand upright in the container. Gravity aligns the mail now at the bottom Bo.
  • the mailpieces are then aligned on two edges.
  • FIG. 5 shows the container according to the solution Beh-1 in the reloading position on the feeder ZE.
  • Fig. 6 shows the container of Fig. 5 in another side view, wherein the longitudinal axis is perpendicular to the plane of the drawing.
  • a solution container Beh-2 is shown on the feeder ZE.
  • a container according to the solution is always brought into the transfer position when the mail items are to be reloaded from the container to the feeder ZE, in order then to go through the sorting system in a sorting pass.
  • the longitudinal axis LA of the container is horizontal.
  • the fixing beveled side wall Sw-b faces upward, the supporting beveled side wall Sw-b downward. The container thus rests on the supporting bevelled side wall Sw-s.
  • the shortest side panel Sw-k and the lid De are opened.
  • the shortest side wall Sw-k is rotated as far as possible about the sidewall rotation axis S-DA and thereby completely opened, so that the shortest side wall Sw-k lies on the fastening bevelled, now upper side wall Sw-b.
  • the lid De is opened at least so far that the lid De and the longest side wall Sw-1 form a plane, preferably even further opened.
  • the mail pieces stand upright on the supporting bevelled, now lower side wall Sw-s.
  • the holding element has a support surface and has z. B. the shape of a stamp or a mushroom with a horizontal handle.
  • recesses Aus-1.1, Aus-1.2, Aus-1.3 are embedded in the longest side wall Sw-l in the form of slots, which run parallel to the longitudinal axis. Thanks to these slots another holding element is able to intervene in the interior of the container.
  • This further retaining element has z. B. a fork-shaped element, each fork of this fork fits through a slot. Slots and forks are designed accordingly. This makes it possible for the holding element and the further holding element to clamp the stack of upright mailpieces between them and to move them out of the container by a synchronized movement of the two holding elements.
  • the two holding elements grasp the stack and the container is withdrawn. In both cases, a relative movement between the held stack and the container is carried out.
  • the further, fork-shaped holding element engages from the outside through the longest side wall Sw-1 in the interior of the container.
  • the fork-shaped further holding element is guided through the opening, which is formed by the opening of the lid De, through into the container interior. As a result of this movement, the stack of mailpieces is pressed off the longest side wall Sw-1.
  • a person or a handling machine removes the stack of mail items by means of the two holding elements or manually from the container and spends the stack to the feeding device ZE of the sorting system.
  • the stack of mail is promoted to singler and singled by this singler.
  • the mailpieces are distributed to the sorting end points Se.1, Se.2,...
  • a solution according to container is transported.
  • Sorting with Sortiertstellen and containers are z. B. off US 6,501,041 B1 and US 5,421,464 known. These containers according to the solution were previously brought into the filling position.
  • the mail items reach the container from above through the respective opening which results from the opening of the shortest side wall Sw-k.
  • Fig. 2 shows the container according to the solution Beh-2 in the filling position below the sorting Se.1.
  • a cache or a holding device for mail is located above the container.
  • the container stands on a support surface.
  • the buffer or the holding device is moved to a discharge position relative to the container.
  • Each mail item in the buffer or on the holding device slides by its own weight in the container.
  • a storage pocket acts as a temporary storage.
  • This storage bag can accommodate letters of many format classes, especially large letters.
  • the mailpieces are from the top or side into the storage bag spent.
  • the storage pocket has a closable opening in the lower area, z. B. a flap. Once the storage bag is in the dump position relative to a container, the opening is opened and all mail slides from the storage bag into the container.
  • each mail item by means of its own holding device ("escort").
  • the mail item is temporarily connected to the holding device.
  • This holding device can be configured as a clamp and have a data memory in which sorting information about the mailpiece is stored. During sorting, the sorting system reads this data memory.
  • the connection between the holding device and the mailpiece is released, z. B. by the clip is opened. The mail item slides or falls into the container.
  • the support surface, on which the container is filled in the sorting end belongs to a conveyor belt.
  • the filled container is pushed onto a conveyor belt.
  • the conveyor transports the filled container back to the feeder, e.g. B. as in US 6,501,041 B1 or US 5,421,464 described.
  • the container remains in the filling position while the conveyor belt transports the filled container back to the feeder. This saves the step of manually moving the container to a different position for transport back to the feeder. Rather, the filling and the return transport can be carried out completely automatically.
  • the shortest side wall Sw-k remains open during transport back to the feeder ZE. It is detachably connected by the fastening and receiving elements with the fastening bevelled side wall Sw-b or locked in a certain position. Also, the lid De is attached or arrested. The lid De remains in the position it was in while the container was being filled. This prevents that the lid De or the shortest side wall Sw-k moves relative to the container during transport, which could damage the sorting system or the lid De or the side wall Sw-k.
  • the container is transported back in the filling position together with the mail to the feeder ZE.
  • a retaining element engages, as described above, through the opening into the interior of the container which has been created by opening the shortest side wall Sw-k. Because this opening points upwards, the retaining element engages from above into the container.
  • the filled container is moved to the transfer position.
  • the container is rotated about its longitudinal axis LA.
  • the container lies on the supporting bevelled side wall Sw-s.
  • the shortest side panel Sw-k remains open. Only after turning the lid De is opened, so that a further holding element can engage through the opening, which results from the opening of the lid De, in the interior of the container.
  • the stack of mail items in the container with the holding element described above is pressed during rotation against the longest side wall Sw-1.
  • the holding element engages through the opening which has arisen through the opening of the shortest side wall Sw-k.
  • the holding member holds the stack while the filled container is rotated.
  • the stack of mailpieces is transferred to the feeder ZE, preferably with the aid of the holding device.
  • the stack is transported to the separator.
  • the singler singles the pile.
  • the mail items pass through the sorting system Sa in the second sorting pass.
  • the sorting system distributes the mailpieces to the sorting end points Se.1, Se.2, ....
  • the mail items are returned to containers as described above.
  • the containers are also spent after the second sorting run in solution according to the container, which are in the Behellposition.
  • each container is transported to the mail carriers. During transport, each container is in a transport position.
  • a deliverer takes a filled container and transports the container along a delivery route.
  • This delivery route is part of the overall sequence.
  • the deliverer with the container reaches the destination points of his delivery route one after the other.
  • the deliverer distributes the mail correctly to the destination points.
  • the mailpieces are already sorted according to the course sequence. Therefore, the deliverer only needs to remove the foremost item of mail or the front items of mail from the container in which the items of mail are standing upright. It is also possible that the deliverer takes a mail item from inside the stack in the container.
  • the container In order to facilitate the removal of mail, the container is moved to a removal position.
  • the longitudinal axis is vertical or oblique.
  • the container is standing on the floor Bo.
  • the mail pieces stand upright on the floor Bo.
  • the container is oriented so that the shortest, now vertical side wall Sw-k points to an operator or an automatic handling machine.
  • the inclination is achieved by placing the container on an inclined surface.
  • the lid De is opened and the shortest side wall Sw-k remains closed.
  • the lid De is locked by means of the locking device. Now an agent can access the mail items inside the container.
  • Sorting stations of sorting plant sa Sw-b Fastening beveled sidewall of container Beh acts as a parallel wall Sw-DA Sidewall axis of rotation Sw-k shortest side wall of the container Beh, acting as a parallel wall, is pivotally connected to the fastening side wall Sw-b Sw-1 Beh longest side wall, acts as a parallel wall Sw-s supporting beveled sidewall of container Beh, acts as a parallel wall ZE Feeding device of the sorting system Sa

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  1. Procédé de transport de plusieurs objets empilables
    en utilisant au moins un récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ), dans lequel
    chaque récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) utilisé comprend
    - un espace ( In ) intérieur, qui s'étend le long d'un axe ( LA ) de récipient, et
    - une paroi ( Bo ) perpendiculaire et plusieurs parois ( Sw-1, Sw-k, Sw-b, Sw-s ) parallèles,
    dans lequel
    - la paroi ( Bo ) perpendiculaire et les parois ( Sw-1, Sw-k, Sw-b, Sw-s ) parallèles délimitent l'espace ( In ) intérieur,
    - la paroi ( Bo ) perpendiculaire est perpendiculaire à l'axe ( LA ) du récipient,
    - chaque paroi ( Sw-1, Sw-k, Sw-b, Sw-s ) parallèle est montée parallèlement à l'axe ( LA ) du récipient et
    - une paroi ( Sw-k ) parallèle est reliée de manière pivotante à une autre paroi ( Sw-b ) parallèle et
    le procédé comprend les stades dans lesquels on met chaque récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) utilisé dans une position de remplissage,
    - dans laquelle le récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) repose sur une paroi ( Sw-1 ) parallèle, de sorte que l'axe ( LA ) du récipient est horizontal, et
    - la paroi ( Sw-k ) parallèle fixée de manière pivotante est tournée vers le haut et est ouverte, de manière à créer une ouverture tournée vers le haut,
    on met les objets empilables par le haut en passant par l'ouverture dans l'espace intérieur du récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ),
    de manière à ce que les objets forment, après y avoir été mis, une pile se trouvant dans le récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ),
    on transporte le récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) ensemble avec les objets à un poste ( ZE ) de destination et
    on fait passer le récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) d'une position de remplissage à une position de déchargement, de sorte que le récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) se trouve dans la position de déchargement au poste ( ZE ) de destination,
    dans cette position de déchargement
    - le récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) repose sur une paroi ( Sw-s ) parallèle, de sorte que l'axe ( LA ) du récipient est horizontal et
    - la paroi ( Sw-k ) parallèle fixée de manière pivotante est tournée vers un côté, de manière à créer une ouverture tournée vers ce côté et
    on retire la pile ayant les objets de l'intérieur du récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) en passant par l'ouverture tournée vers le côté,
    dans lequel le stade, dans lequel on fait passer le récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) de la position de remplissage à la position de déchargement,
    comprend le stade
    dans lequel on fait tourner le récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) ensemble avec les objets dans le récipient autour de l'axe ( LA ) du récipient.
  2. Procédé suivant la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la pile, que l'on prélève du récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) se trouvant en la position de déchargement, est maintenue au moyen d'un dispositif de maintien et est déplacée,
    un élément du dispositif de maintien pénétrant dans l'ouverture tournée vers le côté.
  3. Procédé suivant la revendication 2,
    caractérisé en ce que
    - la pile penche, après la mise du récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) dans la position de déchargement, sur une paroi ( Sw-1 ) parallèle et
    - un autre élément du dispositif de maintien pénètre par au moins un évidement ( Aus-1.1, Aus-1.2, Aus-1.3 ) dans cette paroi ( Sw-1 ) parallèle.
  4. Procédé suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 3,
    caractérisé en ce que
    les objets empilables sont répartis sur plusieurs accumulateurs intermédiaires,
    les accumulateurs intermédiaires sont mis l'un après l'autre dans une position de transfert par rapport au récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) et
    ensuite, lorsqu'un accumulateur intermédiaire se trouve dans la position de transfert,
    une ouverture est ouverte dans l'accumulateur intermédiaire,
    de sorte que les objets glissent de l'accumulateur intermédiaire dans le récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ).
  5. Procédé suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 4,
    caractérisé en ce que
    on met le récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) rempli des objets au moins une fois dans une position,
    - dans laquelle l'axe ( LA ) du récipient s'étend verticalement ou est incliné vers le haut et
    - les objets reposent sur la paroi ( Bo ) perpendiculaire tournée alors vers le bas,
    on fait pivoter la paroi ( Sw-k ) parallèle fixée d'une manière pivotante, de manière à ce que son extrémité libre s'applique à une autre paroi ( Sw-s ) parallèle du récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ),
    et on ménage une liaison temporaire entre la paroi ( Sw-k ) parallèle fixée de manière pivotante et cette autre paroi ( Sw-s ) parallèle.
  6. Procédé suivant la revendication 5,
    caractérisé en ce que
    du récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) dont l'axe ( LA ) est vertical ou est incliné vers le haut,
    on prélève au moins une fois au moins un objet par un déplacement parallèlement à l'axe ( LA ) du récipient.
  7. Procédé suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 6,
    caractérisé en ce que
    on laisse le récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) dans la position de remplissage pendant qu'il est transporté au poste ( ZE ) de destination, et
    dans le stade dans lequel on met le récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) au poste ( ZE ) de destination dans la position de déchargement,
    on effectue le stade dans lequel on fait tourner le récipient autour de son axe ( LA ).
  8. Procédé suivant la revendication 7,
    caractérisé en ce que
    un élément de maintien pousse la pile dans le récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) sur une paroi ( Sw-1 ) parallèle, pendant que l'on fait tourner le récipient autour de sa paroi ( LA ) parallèle.
  9. Procédé de tri d'objets empilables,
    dans lequel on utilise une installation ( Sa ) de tri, qui comprend
    - un dispositif ( ZE ) d'amenée et
    - plusieurs postes ( Se.1, Se.2, ... ) de tri et
    - le procédé comprend les stades dans lesquels
    - dans une première phase de tri, l'installation ( Sa ) de tri répartit les objets entre les postes ( Se.1, Se.2, ... ) de tri suivant une caractéristique de tri prescrite,
    - pour chaque poste ( Se.1, Se.2, ... ) de tri, les objets triés dans ce poste de tri sont transportés à un dispositif ( ZE ) d'amenée à l'aide d'un procédé suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 8, et
    - dans une deuxième phase de tri, l'installation ( Sa ) de tri répartit les objets entre les postes ( Se.1, Se.2, ... ) de tri suivant la caractéristique de tri.
  10. Agencement de tri d'objets empilables,
    dans lequel l'agencement comprend
    - une installation ( Sa ) de tri et
    - au moins un récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ), l'installation de tri comprend
    - un dispositif ( ZE ) d'amenée et
    - plusieurs postes ( Se.1, Se.2, ... ) de tri,
    chaque poste ( Se.1, Se.2, ... ) de tri comprend respectivement une surface de dépôt d'au moins un récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ),
    le dispositif ( ZE ) d'amenée comprend une surface de dépôt d'au moins un récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ),
    le au moins un récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) comprend
    - un espace ( In ) intérieur, qui s'étend le long d'un axe ( LA ) de récipient, et
    - une paroi ( Bo ) perpendiculaire et plusieurs parois ( Sw-1, Sw-k, Sw-b, Sw-s ) parallèles
    dans lequel
    - la paroi ( Bo ) perpendiculaire et les parois ( Sw-1, Sw-k, Sw-b, Sw-s ) parallèles délimitent l'espace ( In ) intérieur,
    - la paroi ( Bo ) perpendiculaire est perpendiculaire à l'axe ( LA ) du récipient,
    - chaque paroi ( Sw-1, Sw-k, Sw-b, Sw-s ) parallèle est montée parallèlement à l'axe ( LA ) du récipient et
    - une paroi ( Sw-k ) parallèle est reliée de manière pivotante à une autre paroi ( Sw-b ) parallèle et
    l'installation ( Sa ) de tri est conformée, de manière à pouvoir mettre un récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) dans une position de remplissage sur une surface de dépôt d'un poste ( Se.1, Se.2, ... ) de tri,
    le récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) se trouv dans la position de remplissage, reposant sur une paroi ( Sw-1 ) parallèle, de sorte que l'axe ( LA ) du récipient est horizontal, et
    la paroi ( Sw-k ) parallèle fixée de manière pivotante étant tournée vers le haut et étant ouverte, de manière à créer une ouverture tournée vers le haut,
    l'installation ( Sa ) de tri étant conformée pour laisser glisser les objets triés dans ce poste ( Se.1, Se.2, ... ) de tri par le haut par l'ouverture dans l'espace ( In ) intérieur du récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ),
    l'installation ( Sa ) de tri étant, en outre, conformée pour qu'un récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) puisse se mettre dans une position de déchargement sur la surface de dépôt du dispositif ( ZE ) d'amenée,
    dans lequel le récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ) se trouvant dans la position de déchargement repose sur une paroi ( Sw-s ) parallèle, de sorte que l'axe ( LA ) du récipient est horizontal et
    la paroi ( Sw-k ) parallèle fixée de manière pivotante est tournée vers un côté, de manière à créer une ouverture tournée vers ce côté,
    par laquelle la pile d'objets peut être retirée de l'espace ( In ) intérieur du récipient ( Beh, Beh-1, Beh-2 ).
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