EP2355938A1 - Installation de tri postal comportant plusieurs dispositifs de sortie, et procédé de tri postal - Google Patents

Installation de tri postal comportant plusieurs dispositifs de sortie, et procédé de tri postal

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EP2355938A1
EP2355938A1 EP09763901A EP09763901A EP2355938A1 EP 2355938 A1 EP2355938 A1 EP 2355938A1 EP 09763901 A EP09763901 A EP 09763901A EP 09763901 A EP09763901 A EP 09763901A EP 2355938 A1 EP2355938 A1 EP 2355938A1
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stack
sorting system
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Zsolt Balogh
Armin Zimmermann
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Siemens AG
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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
    • 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
    • B65H31/04—Pile receivers with movable end support arranged to recede as pile accumulates
    • B65H31/06—Pile receivers with movable end support arranged to recede as pile accumulates the articles being piled 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
    • B65H2405/00—Parts for holding the handled material
    • B65H2405/20—Cassettes, holders, bins, decks, trays, supports or magazines for sheets stacked on edge
    • B65H2405/21—Parts and details thereof
    • B65H2405/211—Parts and details thereof bottom
    • B65H2405/2111—Parts and details thereof bottom with several surface portions forming an angle relatively to each other

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  • the invention relates to a sorting system for sorting flat objects, in particular mailpieces, and a method for sorting such articles.
  • An apparatus having the features of the preamble of claim 1 and a method having the features of the preamble of claim 14 are known from EP 634957 Bl.
  • Several mail items pass twice through the sorting system described in EP 634957 B1. After the first pass, the sorting system discharges the mailpieces into one of many output devices of the sorting system. A conveyor transports the mail items back to a feeding device of the sorting system. This leads the
  • US 6,634,639 B2 an apparatus for stacking upright objects, e.g. flat postal items, described.
  • the objects are transported upright to an output device.
  • This dispenser comprises a bottom plate 2, a stationary side plate 3, a guide 5 and a support plate 4.
  • the support member 4 is movably mounted on a guide rail 6 of the side wall 3.
  • the floor 2 slopes down to the side wall 3.
  • a single stacking flat object is transported between the guide member 5 and the support member 4, namely two endless conveyor belts 81, 82.
  • the article slides down the sloping floor 2 until it abuts against the side wall 3.
  • a stack of flat objects grows between the guide element 5 and the support element 4.
  • US Pat. No. 6,501,041 B1 describes a sorting system with a sorting mechanism 18. This discharge device discharges a mail item into a path that depends on its delivery address Slide ("chute 28") leads from where the mail falls into a container ("container 30"). A conveyor transports the filled containers back to a feeder.
  • EP 1985380 A1 describes a system for handling mail containers. The containers are removed from dispensing devices.
  • No. 7,080,739 B2 describes a sorting installation with a unit 5 for sorting and recognizing postal articles and two horizontal rows of output facilities (sort outlets 7 with bins 4). The rows 6a, 6b are inclined one above the other.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a device with the features of the preamble of claim 1 and a method having the features of the preamble of claim 14, which is able to hold a stack of ejected objects in the respective output device without the output devices by side walls from each other need to be separated.
  • the object is achieved by a device having the features of claim 1 and a method having the features of claim 14.
  • Advantageous embodiments are specified in the subclaims.
  • the solution sorting system is designed to sort flat objects. Each flat object extends in each case an object plane.
  • the sorting system includes
  • the output devices of the arrangement are arranged one behind the other as viewed along a longitudinal axis.
  • the discharge device is configured to discharge each flat object to be sorted into a respective one of the output devices of the arrangement.
  • the rejection Device ejects the objects so that the discharged into the same output device objects form a stack.
  • the discharge device discharges each item in the same stacking direction.
  • Each output device has a bottom in each case.
  • each output device of the arrangement rises - seen in a direction of increase - against the horizontal.
  • the initial direction is perpendicular to the stacking direction.
  • the initial direction is parallel to the longitudinal axis.
  • An edge occurs between the bottoms of two adjacent dispensers of the assembly. This edge drops - as seen in the direction of approach - vertically or obliquely downward.
  • the bottoms of the output devices have - seen in the stacking direction - a total of a sawtooth-shaped surface, namely a sawtooth per output device.
  • the contour of each sawtooth includes a longer rising area (formed by the rising bottom of an output device in the initial direction) and a shorter steeply or vertically sloping edge (transition between two output devices). This edge prevents a stack from being moved from one output device to an adjacent output device. This at least one edge eliminates the need to separate two adjacent dispensers by a sidewall.
  • the flat objects in an output device are rotated by the gravity and the inclined bottom of this output device, about an axis of rotation which is perpendicular to the object levels of the objects and runs parallel to the stacking direction. Due to their weight, the objects thus rotated slip over the floor in the opposite direction to the approach direction until they strike the edge of the adjacent dispensing device. As a result, the objects are automatically aligned at two edges, namely at the lower edge and a side edge of each article, without the need for side walls are provided for this purpose.
  • the solution according to the device saves space, because no side walls are required. By eliminating sidewalls, at least one of the following two advantages can be achieved:
  • the sequence of the dispensers requires less footprint than side-wall dispensers, as viewed along the longitudinal axis, because a sidewall necessarily has a thickness.
  • Each individual dispensing device can be widened, viewed perpendicularly to the stacking direction, so that it can take up wider objects without the sequence of dispensing devices - seen along the longitudinal axis - becoming longer. This is again achieved because side walls are saved which have a thickness.
  • a wider output device can accommodate a wider range of flat objects.
  • An existing sorting system can be retrofitted by replacing the existing dispensing devices, which still have side walls, with solvent-free dispensing devices without side walls. Further modifications to the sorting system are not required. In particular, an already existing discharge device can continue to be used.
  • a stack of flat objects can be transferred from an output device to a conveying device without the stack first having to be transferred to a separate working surface.
  • the stack can be turned. Even without the stack to implement, it is possible to turn the stack, z. B. so far that the stacking direction of the rotated stack parallel to the longitudinal axis (in which the output devices extend) shows and each object plane is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.
  • the rotated stack is easier to transport than a non-rotated stack.
  • the article that was first ejected is located in the front of the stack after being transposed, which is often desired. Because there are no side walls between the output trays, the area formed by the trays can be used as a work surface. As soon as there is no longer any stack in one dispensing device, a stack which has been discharged into the adjacent dispensing device can be rotated in the direction of advance, and the trays of both dispensing devices are available for turning.
  • the bottom of at least one output device has a scale-shaped surface at least in a partial region.
  • These scales make it difficult to move an item in the approach direction. The edge and the scales thus together hold an object in the dispenser.
  • the bottom of an output device has a steeper and a flatter region, wherein the edge between the two regions is perpendicular to the direction of increase and parallel to the edge between the output device and the adjacent output device.
  • This configuration allows flat objects to be aligned at the edge because the steeper area causes the articles to slide against the edge.
  • the particular center of gravity of an object is above the steeper area, so that the objects rest on the steeper area, not the flatter one.
  • the flatter area reduces the height of the row of dispensers, which is often desired.
  • the articles pass successively through the sorting plant.
  • the sorting system measures for each item what value a given feature will take on that item.
  • the discharge device discharges each object into one of the output devices depending on the measured feature value.
  • Each item to be sorted extends in an object plane.
  • the discharge device preferably discharges the objects in such a way that those articles which have been discharged into the same delivery device are forming a stack.
  • the stacking direction of this stack is perpendicular to the object planes of the flat objects.
  • Fig. 1 four in a row adjacent output devices
  • Figure 2 shows two output devices in cross section.
  • FIG. 3 shows a modification of the embodiment of FIG. 2, in which the base has two regions which are inclined at different degrees;
  • Fig. 5 shows the second step of the method by which the
  • Stack is converted from the output device to the conveyor belt
  • Fig. 6 shows the third step of the method by which the
  • Stack is converted from the output device to the conveyor belt
  • Fig. 7 shows the fourth step of the method by which the
  • Stack is converted from the output device to the conveyor belt
  • Fig. 8 shows the fifth step of the method by which the
  • Stack is converted from the output device to the conveyor belt.
  • Fig. 9 shows the first step in retracting the paddle
  • the third step in retracting the paddle is about a vertical axis of rotation turned ;
  • Fig. 12 shows the fourth step in retracting the paddle: the paddle is pushed back;
  • Fig. 13 the fifth step in retracting the paddle. the stack is pushed out of the dispenser;
  • Fig. 14 shows the sixth step in retracting the paddle.
  • the sorting system is used to sort flat mail items (in particular standard letters, large letters, postcards and / or catalogs).
  • Each mail item extends in an object plane and has a front side and a back side.
  • information about a delivery address to which the item of mail is to be transported is displayed, in a form that can be read by a human, and / or in the form of a bar code or other form Encoding.
  • the sorting plant comprises the following components:
  • a transport device a reading device
  • a stack of mailpieces to be sorted is fed to the feeder.
  • the mail pieces are upright when being fed.
  • a conveyor belt of the feeder transports the mail items to the separating animal.
  • This discloseier singles the stack with the mail by successively deducting each one mail item from the stack. Generated thereby the singler a series of upright mailpieces spaced from each other.
  • the transport device transports the sequence of mutually spaced and upright mail items through the sorting system.
  • the transport device comprises a system of a plurality of vertically arranged endless conveyor belts, of which two each an upright postal item temporarily sandwiched between them and rotate at the same speed.
  • the reading device in each case generates a digital image of that side of a mail item on which the information about the delivery address has been applied.
  • the reading device evaluates this image and first attempts to decipher the delivery address automatically, for Eg by "Optical Character Recognition" (OCR) or by "bar code reading". If this is not successful, the image is displayed on a screen of a video coding station.
  • OCR Optical Character Recognition
  • the machine control evaluates a computer-available sorting plan.
  • This sorting plan assigns each output address of a mail item to an output device.
  • the sorting plan determines that mail items with which delivery addresses are to be ejected into which output device.
  • there are considerably more possible delivery addresses than output devices so that the sorting plan usually assigns a plurality of delivery addresses to an output device.
  • the sorting plan reserves individual output devices for only one delivery address at a time, because many postal items are addressed to this delivery address. For example, an output device functions as an overflow compartment and a further output device as a compartment for postal items which prove to be non-machine-capable.
  • the transport device transports the mail item further to the discharge device.
  • This preferably includes a subscription sequence of points, namely in each case at least one switch per output device.
  • a Ausschleusungspfad connects the transport path with the output device.
  • the switch selectively redirects a mail item into the removal path or leaves the item of mail in the transport path.
  • the actual transport speed of each transport path is measured.
  • the machine controller therefore "knows” when each item of mail is at which point in the transport device. “In addition, the machine controller” knows “the respective delivery address of each item of mail after the reading device has deciphered this delivery address.
  • the machine controller controls that switch which connects the transport path with the discharge path leading to the output device into which the mail item is to be ejected in accordance with the read delivery address and the sorting plan.
  • the mail item is removed from the transport path with the aid of the switch and transported to the discharge device on the discharge path.
  • the plurality of dispensers are arranged one behind the other as viewed along a longitudinal axis.
  • longitudinal direction refers to a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis that points away from the feed device, it is possible that the output devices are arranged in several rows and the rows are arranged vertically or obliquely one above the other
  • FIG. 1 shows four output devices 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 juxtaposed in a row and a conveyor belt 1.
  • the four output devices 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 shown extend in succession in a longitudinal direction L.
  • the endless conveyor belt 1 is configured to convey an object in the transporting direction T when the article stands on the conveyor belt, and is guided around a guide roller 6, among others.
  • Each output device 2.1, 2.2, ... comprises a bottom. This ground rises - seen in a rising direction A - against the horizontal. For example, the ground rises at an angle of 2 degrees to 4 degrees to the horizontal.
  • a "projection direction" of an output device 2.1, 2.2, ... is understood to mean a projection of a straight line or a train path on a horizontal plane.This straight line or line is located on the bottom of the output device 2.1, 2.2, parallel to the longitudinal axis L. The projection is formed by a vertical projection, which is also perpendicular to the longitudinal axis L.
  • the starting direction A runs parallel to the longitudinal direction L, ie also away from the feed device.
  • the approaching direction A runs counter to the longitudinal direction L and counter to the transport direction T, ie towards the feed device. In the figures, this alternative embodiment is shown and indicated by an arrow A.
  • the sorting system has two rows of output devices lying vertically or obliquely one above the other.
  • Such a sorting system is z. As described in US 7080739 B2. It is possible that the bottoms of all output devices are inclined as just described.
  • the dispensers of the upper row have flat bottoms and side walls. Only the bottom row dispensers can be reached so well that their bottoms can be used as work surfaces to turn a stack. Between the bottoms of each two adjacent dispensers an edge occurs. This edge falls - seen in the direction of approach A - vertically or obliquely downwards. As a result, the bottoms of the dispensers of a row have an upper end edge which, when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction L, has a sawtooth configuration. tur, namely one sawtooth per output device.
  • the rising in the direction of increase A ground causes the mail to be rotated about an axis which is parallel to the stacking direction SR and is perpendicular to the article axis of each mail item.
  • the mail items in an output device 2.1, 2.2,... Slip downwards counter to the initial direction A until they abut against the edge to the adjacent output device.
  • the mail items are aligned at their lower edges and at a lateral edge.
  • each floor - seen in the direction of increase A - increases as much as the subsequent edge drops.
  • the bottoms of the dispensers 2.1, 2.2, ... of a row are "on average" at the same height.
  • each floor has an area 3.1, 3.2, ..., in which the surface as the scales of a
  • This scaly area 3.1, 3.2, ... extends in the exemplary embodiment - seen in the stacking direction SR - over the entire width of the soil.
  • the steep edges of these scales or bricks point in the opposite direction of the A direction.
  • Range 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 These shingled areas make it difficult to move an item to the right in the approach direction A.
  • a non-scaly area 4.1, 4.2,... Is located in the exemplary embodiment between the scaly area 3.1, 3.2,... And the conveying device 1.
  • each floor - as seen in the stacking direction SR - initially has in each case a shingled area 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4, which is adjoined by a non-shingled area 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4.
  • This embodiment has the effect that the dandruff makes it difficult to move a mail item while the mail item is being ejected.
  • the friction between the mailpieces of the stack already makes it difficult to move a single item of mail.
  • Fig. 2 shows the two output devices 2.1 and 2.2 in cross section.
  • the conveyor belt 1 is located - seen in the viewing direction of Fig. 2 - behind the two output devices 2.2 and 2.3. Shown are the scales on the floors of the two output devices
  • a support component 5.3 is moved towards the discharge device by a return component counter to the stacking direction SR. As a result, the support component 5.3 supports a stack in the output device 2.3.
  • the stack St.3 is located - as viewed in the viewing direction of FIG. 2 - in front of the support component 5.3 of the output device 2.3.
  • the stacking direction SR is perpendicular to the drawing plane of Fig. 2, and the stack St.3 presses the supporting component
  • each dispenser forms a flat and scaly surface in a region.
  • the bottom of each output surface is subdivided into two regions which, viewed in the initial direction A, lie one behind the other, ie in the stacking direction SR next to one another: a steeper region and a flatter region.
  • a steeper region At the edge between the dispenser and the adjacent dispenser joins - as viewed in the direction of approach A - first an area that is more inclined to the horizontal, and then an area that is less inclined or even horizontal.
  • Fig. 3 shows schematically this modification of the embodiment of Fig. 2.
  • the bottom has two areas which are inclined at different degrees. Shown is the bottom of the output device 2.3, which is divided into a steeper area 11.2 and a shallower area 11.2.
  • the bottom of the output device 2.3 is divided into the two areas 11.1 and 11.2 such that the center of gravity of each mail item is above the steeper area 11.1. This causes the lower edges to be aligned at the steeper area 11.1 and not at the shallower area 11.2.
  • Each output device also has a respective output device support component.
  • This support component comprises a support surface, a connecting member fixedly connected to the support surface and a guide rail.
  • the support surface and the connecting member have in the embodiment together the shape of a paddle.
  • the guide rail runs parallel to the stacking direction SR.
  • the connecting member is fixedly connected to the support surface and is able to slide back and forth in the guide rail.
  • the figures show the paddles 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 as well as the guide rails 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 of the output devices 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4.
  • the paddle 5.1 is reciprocable along the guide rail 7.1 in the stacking direction SR and in the opposite direction, and the corresponding applies to the other three paddles shown 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4.
  • Fig. 2 the paddle 5.2 are shown with the support surface 12.2 and the connecting member 13.2 and the paddle 5.3 with the support surface 12.3 and the connecting member 13.3.
  • the dispenser support component prevents the stack of mailpieces in the dispenser from tipping over.
  • the mail items are placed against the paddle in the output tray. direction discharged.
  • the growing stack moves the paddle in the stacking direction SR away from the switch on the conveyor belt 1 and thus perpendicular to the longitudinal direction L.
  • the connecting member is connected to a return component, preferably a spring.
  • a return component preferably a spring.
  • the growing stack shifts the paddle against the force of the return component. The paddle therefore pushes the stack back to the switch. This prevents the stack from falling over.
  • each dispenser increases in the direction of increase A and also has a scale-shaped surface, the shifting of a stack transversely to the stacking direction SR against the longitudinal direction L is made more difficult.
  • the stack would have to be moved up the slope and over the steep edges of the scales. The steep edges between the dispensers prevent the stack from falling off
  • Output device is moved in the longitudinal direction L in the adjacent output device.
  • the conveyor comprises the horizontal endless conveyor belt 1.
  • This conveyor belt 1 extends in the longitudinal direction L along a series of dispensing devices.
  • the conveyor belt 1 is configured to transport a stack of mail items from an output device counter to the longitudinal direction L back to the feed device, namely in the transport direction T.
  • This enables the sorting system to carry out an "n-pass sorting", that is to say the mailpieces in several sorting runs.
  • the sorting system is able to sort significantly more delivery addresses than the sorting system has output devices.
  • "n-pass sorting” for example, EP 948416 B1, EP 1425113 B1 and US 2005/0205473 A1 are described.
  • a stack of mailpieces must then be removed from an output device 2.1, 2.2, 2.3,... And converted to the conveyor belt 1 if at least one of the following two conditions is met:
  • the output device is filled to a predetermined level with mail.
  • a predetermined time is reached, which depends on a timetable for the onward transport or the delivery of mail.
  • each stack is rotated so that the stack after turning in the longitudinal direction L shows, and implemented after turning on the conveyor belt 1.
  • the stack is implemented in such a way that the item of mail that was ejected as the last item of mail into the delivery device is in the forward direction after being transferred in the transport direction T and therefore reaches the delivery device first. This causes the mailpieces in the reverse order to reach the feeder in which they have been discharged into the dispenser.
  • Figs. 4 to 8 illustrate the transfer according to this first embodiment.
  • the stack St.3 is converted from the output device 2.3 to the conveyor belt 1. the one
  • Mail item Ps-I which was first discharged into the output device 2.3, is located after the transfer at the end of the stack St.3, ie is - as seen in the transport direction T - the last postal item of the stack St.3.
  • the output device 2.2 is additionally used.
  • the starting direction A points in the direction opposite to the longitudinal direction L, ie towards the feed device.
  • the method described below in order to empty an output device 2.3, assumes that the output device 2.2 is empty, which - seen in the approach direction A - immediately after 2.3 lies.
  • the stack St.3 with mail items is removed from the output device 2.3 as follows:
  • the stack St.3 is picked up from both sides, either by a processor or an automatic handling machine.
  • the stack St.3 is rotated about a vertical axis of rotation, which preferably extends approximately centrally through the first discharged mail item of the stack St.3.
  • the stack St.3 is rotated so that a rear portion of the stack St.3 passes to the adjacent output device 2.2.
  • the stack St3 slides in the direction of approach A over the bottom of the two output devices 2.2 and 2.3 away.
  • the force with which the rotation is performed is sufficient to push stack ST3 over the area with the scaly surface.
  • the conveyor belt 1 transports the stack St.3 to the feeder.
  • the stack St.3 is converted in such a way that the mail item that has been ejected first is in the forward direction after being transferred in the transporting direction T and the feeding device is reached first. This causes the mailpieces to reach the feeder in the same order as they were discharged into the dispenser.
  • the initial direction A in the longitudinal direction L ie away from the feeder.
  • the bottom of an adjacent output device is used for the rotation, which - as seen in the direction of increase A - lies immediately after 2.3.
  • this adjacent output device lies - as seen in the longitudinal direction L - also behind 2.3. The rotation is performed as described above.
  • the output devices 2.1, 2.2,... are arranged one behind the other as seen in the longitudinal direction L. They are preferably emptied in the sequence which is predetermined by the longitudinal direction L, that is to say in such a way that first the first dispensing device 2.1 seen in the longitudinal direction L is emptied, then the second dispensing device 2.2 and so on. Accordingly, the output device 2.1 is emptied first, then the output device 2.2, then the output device 2.3 and so on. The output device 2.2 is then already empty when the output device 2.3 is emptied as just described.
  • a flat working surface 10 is preferably arranged in front of the first dispensing device 2.1, as seen in the longitudinal direction L.
  • This work surface 10 is narrower than the first output device 2.1, namely only so wide that the stack St.1 can be rotated from the first output device 2.1.
  • a growing stack St.3 shifts a support component in the form of a paddle, e.g. B. the paddle 5.3 of the output device 2.3, in the stacking direction SR on the conveyor belt 1 of the conveyor to.
  • the paddle 5.3 would be in the way. Therefore, the paddle is moved before the transfer of the stack in a position in which the paddle - seen in the stacking direction SR - is behind the stack St.3, so the stack St.3 is located between the paddle and the conveyor belt 1 and the paddle is between the stack and the discharge device.
  • Each paddle comprises a support surface and a link fixedly connected to the support surface.
  • the link slides in a guide rail back and forth.
  • a return component strives to move the paddle against the stacking direction SR away from the guide belt 1, so that the paddle is pressed against a stack St.3.
  • Figures 9 to 14 show a preferred embodiment of how a paddle 5.1, 5.2, ... is withdrawn. This is explained using the example of the paddle 5.3 with the support surface 12.3 and the connecting member 13.3.
  • the support surface 12.3 is rotatable about two axes of rotation relative to the connecting member 13.3: about a horizontal axis of rotation Dl, which is parallel to the stacking direction SR, and about a vertical axis of rotation, D2, which is perpendicular to the axis of rotation Dl and on the stacking direction SR ,
  • the support surface 12.3 is rotated relative to the connecting member 13.3 about a vertical axis of rotation D2. This situation is shown in FIG. 11.
  • the surface of the support surface 13.3 now points in the stacking direction SR. Because the support surface 12.3 was previously rotated about the horizontal axis of rotation Dl, the stack St3 in the output device 2.3 does not hinder the rotation about the vertical axis of rotation D2.
  • the paddle 5.3 is pushed back against the stacking direction SR.
  • the connecting member 13.3 slides in the guide rail.
  • the return component in this case moves the connecting member 13.3.
  • Fig. 12 shows the pushed back paddle 5.3.
  • the paddle 5.3 is now located between the stack St.3 in the output device 2.3 and the stack St.4 in the adjacent output device 2.4.
  • the stack St.3 is moved out of the output device 2.3, starting with a linear movement in the stacking direction SR. The result of this shifting is shown in FIG. 13.
  • the support surface 12.3 is returned to the starting position relative to the connecting member 13.2.
  • the support surface is around both the horizontal axis of rotation Dl and to the vertical axis of rotation D2 moved. Thereafter, the situation shown in FIG. 14 arises.

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Abstract

L'invention porte sur une installation de tri destinée à trier des objets plats, en particulier des envois postaux, et un procédé pour le tri d'objets de ce type. L'installation de tri comprend un dispositif d'éjection et un agencement comportant au moins deux dispositifs de sortie (2.2, 2.3). Les dispositifs de sortie (2.2, 2.3) sont, vus le long d'un axe longitudinal, disposés l'un derrière l'autre. Le dispositif d'éjection est configuré de façon à éjecter chaque objet plat à trier dans l'un des dispositifs de sortie (2.2, 2.3), de façon que les objets éjectés dans la même direction de sortie forment un empilement. Chaque dispositif de sortie (2.2, 2.3) présente un fond. Le fond de chaque dispositif de sortie (2.2, 2.3) monte – vu dans une direction ascendante (A), par rapport à l'horizontale. Entre les fonds de deux dispositifs de sortie voisins (2.2, 2.3) se trouve une arête (9.2, 9.3). Cette arête (9.2, 9.3) descend, verticalement ou obliquement, vue dans la direction ascendante (A).
EP09763901A 2008-11-14 2009-11-11 Installation de tri postal comportant plusieurs dispositifs de sortie, et procédé de tri postal Not-in-force EP2355938B1 (fr)

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