EP2382058A1 - Machine et procédé pour trier des objects postaux grand format et des lettres - Google Patents
Machine et procédé pour trier des objects postaux grand format et des lettresInfo
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- EP2382058A1 EP2382058A1 EP09803819A EP09803819A EP2382058A1 EP 2382058 A1 EP2382058 A1 EP 2382058A1 EP 09803819 A EP09803819 A EP 09803819A EP 09803819 A EP09803819 A EP 09803819A EP 2382058 A1 EP2382058 A1 EP 2382058A1
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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
- B07C3/08—Apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution using arrangements of conveyors
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- the invention relates to a postal sorting machine capable of sorting both "large format" objects also called “flats” and letters.
- the different types of postal items are distinguished according to their dimensions: height, length, thickness and weight.
- These different categories of shipments are defined according to ISO-269.
- an envelope that can contain a sheet in A4 or A5 format is a letter having respectively a C4 or C5 format.
- C4 format envelope has dimensions in width and height of 229 millimeters and 324 millimeters.
- a C5-size envelope has dimensions in height and width respectively of 162 millimeters and 229 millimeters.
- 15 machines mainly includes: letters to other flat objects up to C5 format and having a thickness of less than 8mm for a weight not exceeding 100g, flat objects called "large format" which can be even larger than letters in C4 format and up to 32mm thick and weight
- These machines conventionally comprise a feed inlet with an unstacker for the serialization on edge of postal items, an image acquisition system for the automatic reading of distribution address on the surface of postal items, and a conveyor who directs the mailings to sorting outlets based on the address read.
- Letter post sorting machines have stack type sorting outlets called "packers" in which the letters are stacked on edge in a longitudinal direction one behind the other to form a stack.
- Postal sorting machines for large format objects have a bucket carousel type conveyor and sorting outlets in the form of bins in which large format objects fall by gravity.
- the conveyor can also be a conveyor belt on which large objects are moved flat. Switch flaps are provided along the conveyor to divert these large format objects to the bins.
- Postal sorting machines capable of sorting several types of postal items have the disadvantage of having a low speed which is generally insufficient in view of the requirements of the postal sorting centers.
- Sorting machines are of complex construction and have a high cost of acquisition and maintenance.
- US6239397 discloses a method for sorting both letters and "large format” objects by operating two sorting machines dedicated respectively to letters and large format objects.
- a sorting pass is carried out with "large format” objects in a first machine specialized for this type of objects and distribution addresses read on these objects are carried on tabs.
- a sorting pass with letters and these dividers in a second specialized machine for letters.
- the object of the invention is therefore to provide a sorting machine for sorting postal items including both letters and large format objects having improved performance compared to current sorting machines.
- the subject of the invention is a sorting machine for sorting postal items including both letters and "large format" objects, characterized in that it comprises
- a first sorting system adapted for large format objects including a first conveyor of mail items suitable for directing large objects format "to bin type sorting outlets in which large format objects fall by gravity,
- each sorting outlet of the first sorting system can be equipped with at least two bins to each of which a large format object can be selectively directed by the first conveyor.
- the two bins of a sorting outlet of the first sorting system are juxtaposed and the conveyor of the first sorting system is a bucket carousel.
- the two bins of a sorting outlet of the first sorting system are superimposed and the conveyor of the first sorting system is a conveyor belt on which the large format objects are moved to dish.
- the sorting machine according to the invention may have the feature that the sorting outlets of the sorting system of the large format objects are shifted in the direction of the depth relative to the packers sorting outlets of the second letter sorting system and the bins are mounted on slides.
- the invention extends to a method for sorting mail items including both letters and large format objects using such a machine which comprises the following steps:
- the letters can have different dimensions, for example if one considers letters in the C5 format and letters in an extended format going for example in the C4 format.
- This grouping of letters with different formats can simplify the merge process.
- a grouping of the sorting outlets into several disjoint segments is exploited and two bins of each sorting output of the first sorting system to merge large format objects with letters. This contributes to the increase in the operational flow of the sorting machine according to the invention.
- Figure 1 very schematically illustrates a postal sorting machine according to the invention with the two superimposed sorting systems.
- Figure 2 illustrates in more detail the superposition of sort sorting sorting outlets for large format objects and sorting system tampers for letters.
- Figure 3 shows in more detail the shape of the sort output bins.
- FIG. 4 schematically illustrates a segmentation of the sorting outlets to make a second sorting pass for each segment (or another subsequent pass) with the sorting machine according to the invention.
- Fig. 5 schematically shows the stacking of different letters in a sort output stacker after a first letter sorting pass.
- Figure 6 schematically shows the stacking of different letters in a sort output stacker after a second letter sorting pass.
- FIG. 7 illustrates by a block diagram the different steps of merging the large format objects with the letters which takes into account a segmentation of the sorting outlets.
- a postal sorting machine 20 which comprises in superposition a sorting system 1 adapted for sorting letters and a sorting system 21 adapted for sorting large format objects.
- letters are understood to mean envelopes in C5 format but also envelopes having a larger format such as the C4 format for example.
- Large objects or "flats" are objects with a weight that can go beyond the classic 2kg limit.
- the sorting system 1 comprises a feed inlet with an unstacker 2 for the serialization of letters, an acquisition system 3 for automatically reading a distribution address on each letter, a conveying device 4 with bands which moves on singing the letters to sorting outlets 5 7.
- the letters are stacked on edge one behind the other to form a stack.
- the stack of letters is held by a movable paddle 8 (shown in FIG. 2) that can be raised to allow the extraction of the packer letters.
- Storage bins 9 are arranged in a retracted manner under the packers 7. These bins are used to transport the letters from the sorting outlets 5 to the inlet supply of the sorting system 1 in particular between two successive sorting passes.
- the packers 7 of the sorting outlets 5 are equipped with baffles defining a baffle path at the top to guide the top of the C4 format letters that tend to collapse on themselves. These packers are more particularly described in patent document EP-08164808.
- the sorting system for the letters 1 is arranged under the sorting system for the large format objects 21.
- the sorting system 21 also comprises a feed inlet equipped with a unstacker 22 for the series production large format objects, an acquisition system 23 for automatically reading distribution addresses on large format objects and a conveying device 24 for directing large format objects to sorting outlets 25 of the locker type 26.
- the unstacker 22 is equipped with conveyor belts 27, a movable pallet 28 and blowers (not shown) as described in the patent documents FR-2797856 and FR-0653270.
- the conveying device 24 is a bucket carousel with buckets 30 arranged inclined with respect to the vertical. Inclined conveying provides improved support for large format objects that tend to collapse on themselves when conveyed on edge.
- the carousel defines a closed loop path along which the buckets are moving above the sorting outlets 25 to the trays 26. Large format objects conveyed in the buckets of the bucket carousel 29 are therefore dumped by gravity of the buckets 30 to the lockers 26 by simply opening the bottom of the buckets.
- the bin sorting outlets of the sorting system 21 are superimposed (i.e., vertically aligned) with the sorting sorting outlets of the sorting system 1 respectively. as many sorted sorting outlets as there are stacker sorting outlets and these sorting outlets are mapped in space to facilitate the manual work of blending large format objects and letters made by the operator of the machine 20.
- FIG. 3 shows in more detail the shape of the lockers 26 of the sorting system of large format objects.
- a flat object leaves a bucket, it slides on an inclined guide ramp 31 relative to the vertical and is snapped to the bottom of the rack 26.
- Each rack 26 corresponds to a guide ramp 31.
- a rack 26 mainly comprises a wall jogging 32 postal items in the bottom of the rack 26 and a receiving wall 33 postal items.
- the jogging wall 32 and the receiving wall 33 form an angle of about 90 degrees for the storage of shipments.
- Each rack is placed in a position inclined relative to the vertical so that its receiving wall 33 is in a plane intersecting with the plane of the guide rail 31 and arranged to allow quality stacking in the bottom of the rack.
- FIG. 3 also shows slides 35 on which the bins are mounted to move in translation along the same horizontal axis directed perpendicular to the conveying direction of the carousel 24. As illustrated in FIG.
- each rack can therefore be moved between retracted position in line with the buckets 30 to receive the shipments is the configuration for the sorting process, to an extraction position in which the rack is brought above the corresponding packer for emptying shipments out of the box.
- bucket is the configuration for the bin emptying process for mail merge.
- an access space to the corresponding packer is left free for the operator. This horizontal offset in the direction of the depth of the bin compared to the packer allows the operator to easily access the shipments in the packer.
- the pack sorting system 1 and the bin sorting system 21 are arranged relative to one another so that their outlets of respective sort are mapped one by one.
- Each sorting outlet 25 of the bin sorting system 21 is superimposed (i.e., vertically aligned) with a sorting outlet 5 of the packer sorting system 1.
- Each sorting outlet 25 may comprise two sorting outlet bins 26 (or more than two if necessary) and each sorting outlet 5 may comprise a packer 7.
- the two bins 26 may be juxtaposed. relative to each other (that is to say arranged one next to the other in the horizontal direction) and superimposed on a packer 7 of a sorting outlet 5 corresponding to the sorting outlet 25.
- the two juxtaposed bins of a sorting outlet 25 are dimensioned so as to have a bulkiness in the width direction (conveying direction of the carousel 24) substantially identical to that of a packer. .
- the sorting plan defines a logical correspondence between the two bins 26 and the corresponding packer.
- the distribution points assigned to a packer are assigned in the same way to each of the two compartments 26 associated with the packer. With two bins per sorting outlet 25, these two bins can be filled and emptied alternately, which makes it possible to very significantly increase the rate of processing of the items for the merging.
- the sorting system 21 may be of the flat conveyor type so that it can process an even larger spectrum of large format objects. With this type of conveying, it is possible to provide at each sorting outlet 25 two bins arranged superimposed with respect to one another and with respect to a packer of a corresponding sorting outlet. In this variant, there is still a vertical alignment of the sorting outlets 5 with the sorting outlets 25. It will be understood that each bin may have a width similar to the width of a packer.
- the process begins with the initialization of the sorting systems 1 and 21 with the same sorting plan and the grouping of the sorting outlets into disjoint subassemblies of sorting outlets.
- the set of sorting outputs is grouped logically into several segments, for example six segments, as illustrated in FIG. 4.
- Each segment groups an equal number of adjacent sorting outlets, for example 50 sorting outlets by segment, a total of 300 sorting outputs.
- the machine can sort a total of 60,000 distribution points.
- segment 1 thus includes 100 adjacent bins and the corresponding 50 packers.
- the C4-format mailings (letters) are entered first in the unstacker 2 of the sorting system 1 and are directed to a particular packer 7 according to the dispensing point read on each letter.
- the C5 letters are introduced in the unstacker 2 of the sorting machine 1 to packer and are directed to a particular packer according to the distribution points read on the letters.
- packers 7 the letters in C4 format are therefore grouped in front of the letters in C5 format as illustrated in FIG. 5. It was considered here that the letters are sorted first (before large format objects) because this category Shipments generally represent about 80% of the volume of mail to be processed.
- the process of sorting large format objects can begin after that of letters.
- the large format objects are thus unstacked by the unstacker 22 and directed towards one of the two bins 26 of the sorting outlet 25 to which is assigned the point of distribution read on the shipment.
- the large format objects are directed to only one of the two bins of a sorting outlet, the other bin of the sorting outlet not being used. If, for example, the sorting outlets 25 have juxtaposed bins, the large format objects may all be directed for example to the left bin of each sorting outlet.
- the operator empties the adjacent packers one by one per segment according to their position along the sorting machine 20.
- the bins of the sorting outlets 25 are in a position 30
- the operator places the C4 format items flat in the first bins. storage and shipments in C5 format on edge in second storage bins. These storage bins are then placed on a mobile carriage along the machine 20 or on a recirculation conveyor to be fed to the unstacker 2 of the sorting system 1 to packers to achieve a new sorting pass.
- the order of recirculation of the bins at the input of the sorting system 1 is defined by the sorting plane.
- the large format objects are also emptied of the bins.
- the operator pulls towards him each rack to bring it in line with the corresponding packer.
- the bin to be emptied becomes more accessible for dump.
- the operator then places the postal items of the rack flat in a storage bin which can be brought to the unstacker 22 of the system 21 with the mobile carriage along the machine 20 or with the aid of a conveyor recirculating bins.
- the storage bins filled with large format objects are also at the input of the sorting system 21 in an order defined by the sorting plan.
- the sorting outlets were thus grouped into six disjoint segments of sorting outlets. This grouping in segments intervenes in the second sorting pass where letters and large format objects are merged. It must therefore be understood that in the sorting process, the second sorting pass will be separated for these six different segments of sorting outlets. More particularly, it can be considered that in the first sorting pass, the sorting machine has been operated in the sorting machine with six sorting output segments (on each sorting system) with 50 sorting outputs per segment and 200 distribution points by sorting output. In the second sorting pass, 200 sorting outlets of the machine are operated with 300 distribution points per sorting outlet to sort 60000 different distribution points.
- each sorting output may successively contain the postal items flat segments 1, 2 ... and, as described below, the emptying and merging of items belonging to a segment are performed in parallel sorting postal items of the next segment.
- this arrangement avoids equipping the sorting machine with large packers of sufficient size to accommodate shipments corresponding to 300 distribution points which reduces the overall size of the sorting machine.
- the storage bins of the segment 1 are processed before those of the segment 2.
- the operator Prior to the insertion of the storage bins of the segment 1, the operator indicates to the management unit of the machine 20 that the bins of segment 1 will be introduced. For example, the operator presses a button corresponding to segment 1 at the power input.
- the storage bins are introduced simultaneously into both the unstacker 2 and the unstacker 22.
- the processing of the C4 and C5 format letters (letters) is performed on the stacker sorting system 1 in parallel with the sorting of large format objects on the sorting system 21.
- the letters in C4 format are introduced before the C5 format letters in the unstacker 2.
- the C4-format postal items C5 are arranged in sequence in packers or bins according to the order of the postman's tour.
- the postal items are therefore grouped in sequence by distribution point, with the letters in C4 format placed in front of the C5 format letters for each distribution point.
- the postal items having the distribution point DP1 are therefore in front of the items whose distribution point is DP2, the distribution point DP1 preceding DP2 in the turn of the factor.
- the letters in C4 format are in front of the C5 format letters.
- the C4 format sends as an interlayer or visual cue to identify the change of distribution point in the postman's tour.
- the large format objects belonging to the segment 1 are for example directed by the management unit to the first of the two bins of each sorting outlet.
- the large format objects are arranged in sequence according to the tour of the factor in the first bin of each sorting outlet.
- the second sorting pass of the segment 2 is implemented in a manner similar to what has just been described with reference to the second sorting pass of the segment 1.
- the operator indicates to the management unit of the machine 20 that the bins of the segment 2 will be introduced. The operator then introduces the storage bins of the segment 2 as previously described.
- segment 2 shipments can be stacked while segment 1 shipments are still present.
- an interlayer may have been provided in the sorting process to separate, in the same packer, the mail items belonging to segment 1 of the items belonging to segment 2.
- the management unit of the sorting machine 20 directs the "large format" objects belonging to the segment 2 to the second of the two bins of each sorting outlet. As a result, for the same sorting outlet, the objects belonging to segment 2 are directed to the second bin while "large format" objects belonging to segment 1 are still present in the first bin.
- the management system directs the "large format" objects to the first of the two bins of each sorting outlet and so on for the six segments.
- the management system alternates the bin of the sort output to which the objects are directed.
- the shipments of a segment contained in a bin of a sorting outlet are then extracted and merged while shipments of another segment are sorted in the other bin of the same sorting outlet.
- the operator first extracts from a packer the C4 and C5 format shipments belonging to the segment 1.
- the operator identifies the shipments belonging to the segment 1 by means of the separates it, it raises and moves the movable pallet 8 at the level of the interlayer and it extracts the shipments belonging to segment 1. These manipulations are carried out while the shipments belonging to segment 2 continue to stack in the packer.
- the segment 1 mail items extracted from the packer are then merged with the "large format" objects of the same segment 1.
- the operator identifies the bin corresponding to the segment 1, the one that is already filled and not the box in progress. filling, and it moves the locker from the position in line with the cups of the carousel to an extraction position described with reference to FIG. 3.
- the other locker of the same exit is always at the plumbs the buckets to receive the objects belonging to segment 2.
- the operator extracts the "large format” objects and inserts them into the stack of items extracted from the packer.
- Each "large format" object is manually inserted into the stack by reading its point of distribution written on the object and by marking the point of distribution in the stack of shipments extracted from the packer by means of C4 format mailings acting as interleaves.
- the sorting 51 of the large format objects is carried out in parallel with the sorting 52 of the letters C5 and C4 for the segment 1 as illustrated in FIG. 7.
- the process of merging the segment 1 in which these different types of mail items are merged (in fact the large format objects are inserted in a C5 or C4 format letter stack) to form the Factor Tour is also performed in parallel with the sorting processes 54 and 55 of the large format objects and C5 and C4 format letters for segment 2.
- the following segments are then followed in the same way. This process of processing the sorting outlets by segment contributes to greatly increase the operational flow of the sorting machine.
- a sorting pass prior to the first sorting pass can be implemented for sorting routing.
- the items are sorted according to the postal code written on the shipment to direct shipments to other sorting centers in which a sorting in two passes is made.
- the superposition of the two bins of the same sorting outlet also increases the operational rate of processing of mail items. If the number of sorting outlets is sufficient, the sorting of large format objects by segment can be performed during the sorting pass. According to this In a particular embodiment, at the end of the second sorting pass of segment 1, the objects sorted in the upper bin of a sorting outlet are directed to the lower bin of this sorting outlet. The objects in the lower bin can thus be extracted and merged while the objects in the segment 2 are sorted in the upper bin of the sorting outlet.
- the first sorting pass of the large format objects can be deleted.
- the objects are placed in the bin corresponding to their distribution point but the order of the objects of each bin does not correspond to the sequence defined for the tour of the factor.
- the large format objects to be processed are smaller in number than the other items, the fact that they are not put in sequence does not significantly impact the processing rate.
- the distribution points of "large format" objects are anyway read by the operator before being inserted into the stack extracted from the packer. As a result, even though the large format objects are not in sequence, the operator still places the object at its position in the postman's tour.
- the sorting system 1 adapted for the letters conventionally in the C4 format is extended to also process C4 format mailings so as to sort in this sorting system with sorting outlets. tampers most of the mail.
- the sorting system 21 adapted for large format objects conventionally not exceeding 2kg can also be expanded to be able to sort objects ranging from beyond 2kg so as to obtain a compact sorting machine suitable for a broad spectrum of mixed mail.
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