EP2547461B1 - Verfahren zum sortieren von postsendungen mithilfe von behälterwagen variabler aufnahmekapazität - Google Patents

Verfahren zum sortieren von postsendungen mithilfe von behälterwagen variabler aufnahmekapazität Download PDF

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EP2547461B1
EP2547461B1 EP11713008.8A EP11713008A EP2547461B1 EP 2547461 B1 EP2547461 B1 EP 2547461B1 EP 11713008 A EP11713008 A EP 11713008A EP 2547461 B1 EP2547461 B1 EP 2547461B1
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Bruno Cartal
Eric Moullard
Damien Hugues
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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
    • 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
    • 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
    • B07C7/00—Sorting by hand only e.g. of mail
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  • the invention relates to a method for sorting postal items in which shipments are placed in stack on edge in an unstacking shop of a postal sorting machine, then the depilated shipments are conveyed on edge by a sorting conveyor to be directed to the sorting outlets of the machine where they are stored in edge stack in storage receptacles associated respectively with said sorting outlets, then the sorted items in the sorting outlets are transferred from these sorting outlets to the unstacking store of the machine or to an unstacking shop of another sorting machine to be sorted again in sorting outlets.
  • a sorting process on one or more machines generally comprises several sorting passes, for example to prepare factor rounds. At the end of a sorting pass, the sorted items in the sorting outlets must be recycled to the machine and thus returned to the unstacking store of a sorting machine to perform another subsequent sorting pass.
  • the patent document US 2002/031284 discloses a locker structure for postal sorting in which hammocks are mounted in the lockers for storage on edge of sorted mail. In order to handle the mail, bins with removable dividers are used.
  • This locker structure does not fulfill the same functions as a postal sorting machine with sorting conveyor and does not specify the stages of implementation.
  • the patent document WO97 / 36805 describes a postal sorting machine with an unstacking shop, a sorter and sorting outlets with bins.
  • a robot is provided to handle the empty or full bins between the sorting outlets.
  • the tray has a tilting, non-detachable side wall connected by a hinge to the body of the tray.
  • Each drawer-type storage receptacle is generally provided in a housing of a sorting outlet of the machine and the items stored in this storage receptacle must be transferred to a handling container or a box to be returned to a machine. unstacking shop. At the unstacking store, the items must still be picked up by hand in the bins to be stacked on edge on the carpet of the unstacking shop.
  • the object of the invention is to overcome these disadvantages and to propose an alternative method for sorting postal items.
  • the subject of the invention is a method for sorting postal items in which items are placed in stack on edge in an unstacking shop of a postal sorting machine, then the unstuck items are conveyed on edge by a sorting conveyor to be directed to exits sorting the machine where they are stacked on edge in storage receptacles associated respectively with said sorting outlets, then the sorted items in the sorting outlets are transferred from these sorting outlets to the unstacking magazine of the sorting machine.
  • shuttle bins with variable storage capacity a) storing the items of a sorting outlet in a shuttle bin comprising a bottom wall on which stacked shipments and a wall of back substantially perpendicular to the bottom wall and on which the stack of shipments on edge is supported, b) position a front wall on the bottom wall of the tray parallel to the back wall in the approaching the back wall so that the stack of mail is clamped between the back wall and the front wall of the trough, said front wall being a plate removable from the bottom wall and being positionable on the bottom wall in several positions to be more or less close to the back wall while remaining parallel to it, c) place the shuttle tray filled with shipments in horizontal alignment with the unstacking magazine of the sorting machine and remove the removable front wall of the tray to slide the mail items
  • shuttle bins with variable storage capacity can still according to the invention be arranged to be used as sorting outlet receptacles, for example of the drawer type, and therefore be positioned in the housing of the sorting outlets including the accumulation type or stacking. In particular, they will have to be arranged each to receive a mobile pallet for storing a standard mailing stack for sorting outings of the accumulation type.
  • flexible partitions for shuttle bins are for example placed on edge stack in the unstacking magazine at the end of a first sorting pass shipments. They are automatically depilated and conveyed to the sorting outlets of the machine as conventional postal items. The machine operator then only has to position each partition in a shuttle tray so as to tighten the stack of items stored in the shuttle tray. The shuttle bins are then taken out of the sorting outlets and taken to the unstacking shop.
  • the machine can be equipped with a shuttle tank recirculation system able to automatically convey the bins from the sorting outlets to the unstacking magazine. Alternatively, a cart or the like can be used to carry several shuttle bins at the same time to the unstacking shop.
  • the machine operator removes the tray's removable flexible partition from one tray to another to empty the contents of the tray into the unstacking magazine.
  • the partitions can then be placed in a stack in the unstacking magazine to be automatically depilated and directed to the sorting outlets.
  • a shuttle tank with variable storage capacity is a tray with a bottom wall on which the ship's edge rest, a back wall secured to the bottom wall being substantially perpendicular to the bottom wall and on which can be supported the front of a stack of shipments and a front wall which is substantially parallel to the back wall and on which can be supported the rear of a stack of shipments.
  • the shuttle tray may comprise one or two sides integral with the bottom wall and the back wall.
  • the front wall is a removable partition which can be positioned at different points relative to the back wall to be more or less close to it so as to clamp a stack of mail between these two back and front walls. .
  • FIG. 1 there is illustrated a sorting outlet 1 of a postal sorting machine (not shown) with a conventional storage bin 2 of the drawer type. It is understood that a postal sorting machine has several dozens of sorting outlets.
  • Shuttle bins are shown here seen from the side under the reference 3 in a handling arrangement on a mobile base 4. They are shown here each with a bottom wall 3A and a back wall 3B. Eight shuttle bins 3 are here grouped on the mobile base 4 forming a kind of loop-shaped support (represented by a rectangular frame) which extends vertically and which is arranged as a carousel so that the shuttle trays 3 can be moved in space following the rectangular loop to be positioned according to the desired height.
  • loop-shaped support represented by a rectangular frame
  • the shipments stored in stack on edge in the receptacle 2 are taken by handle and are transferred to a shuttle tray 3.
  • an empty shuttle tray 3 can be brought to the horizontal level (indicated by the arrow H) of the receptacle 2 to empty.
  • the front of the stack of mail 5 in the shuttle tray 3 presses against the back wall 3B but is held at the back here by one or more removable partitions designated 3C.
  • FIG 2 there is shown the shuttle bins 3 of the figure 1 in front of an unstacking shop 6 of a sorting machine.
  • the base 4 is here shown on a rolling base.
  • a shuttle ferry 3 with variable storage capacity seen in perspective. It is here in the form of a parallelepiped composed of four connected walls and a wall or removable partition 3C. On this figure 3 two removable partitions 3C are shown placed against the back wall 3B. Each removable partition 3C is in the form of a plate that can be fixed to the bottom wall of the tray by a fixing system of the type pion / series of holes for example.
  • a pallet 7 for holding a stack of mail items 5 which is movable in the shuttle ferry 3 is also illustrated inside the shuttle ferry. This configuration corresponds to a shuttle ferry 3 specially designed to replace a ferry receptacle. Sorting output stacking or accumulation and can also have the ability to be extracted from the housing of the sorting outlet to be handled as illustrated on the Figures 1 and 2 .
  • Lids can be provided for these shuttle bins 3 so as to be stacked on top of each other when they are filled for transport by truck in particular.
  • These shuttle bins 3 can advantageously be designed to be nestable empty in each other. They may be provided with electronic identification tags of the RFID type.
  • the removable partitions 3C shuttle bins 3 can be designed as flexible plates can be passed in a sorting conveyor of a sorting machine.
  • the sorting machine can be advantageously equipped with a system for positioning and automatic removal of the flexible partitions in the shuttle bins 3 both at the sorting outlets and the unstacking magazine.
  • these shuttle bins 3 with variable storage capacity according to the invention make it possible to optimize the handling of the items. Indeed, stacks of items can be easily concatenated in these shuttle bins 3 with the help of removable partitions which finally allows to transport in the same volume shuttle bins 3 better filled. This therefore reduces the cost of transport and thus optimize the operating costs of a postal sorting machine.

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  1. Verfahren zum Sortieren von Postsendungen, bei dem die Sendungen im Stapel hochkant in einem Abstapellager (6) einer Postsortiermaschine angeordnet werden, dann die abgestapelten Sendungen hochkant von einem Sortierförderer befördert werden, um zu Sortierausgängen (1) der Postsortiermaschine geleitet zu werden, wo sie im Stapel hochkant in Lagerbehältern, die jeweils mit den Sortierausgängen (1) verbunden sind, gelagert werden, dann die in den Sortierausgängen (1) sortierten Sendungen von diesen Sortierausgängen (1) zum Abstapellager (6) der Postsortiermaschine oder zu einem Abstapellager einer anderen Postsortiermaschine weitergeleitet werden, um neuerlich in Sortierausgänge (1) sortiert zu werden, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass für die Weiterleitung der Sendungen zwischen den Sortierausgängen (1) und dem Abstapellager (6) diese Sendungen mit Hilfe von Pendelbehältern (3) mit variabler Lagerkapazität nach folgenden Schritten gehandhabt werden:
    a) Lagern der Sendungen eines Sortierausgangs (1) in einem Pendelbehälter (3), umfassend eine Bodenwand (3A), auf der die gestapelten Sendungen hochkant liegen, und eine Rückwand (3B), die auf die Bodenwand (3A) im Wesentlichen senkrecht steht und an der der Stapel von hochkant angeordneten Sendungen abgestützt ist;
    b) Positionieren einer Vorderwand (3C) auf der Bodenwand (3A) des Pendelbehälters (3) parallel zu der Rückwand (3B), wobei sie an die Rückwand (3B) derart angenähert wird, dass der Sendungsstapel zwischen der Rückwand (3B) und der Vorderwand (3C) des Pendelbehälters (3) eingeklemmt ist, wobei die Vorderwand (3C) eine in Bezug zur Bodenwand (3A) abnehmbare Platte ist und auf der Bodenwand (3A) des Pendelbehälters (3) in mehreren Positionen positioniert werden kann, um mehr oder weniger an die Rückwand (3B) angenähert zu werden, wobei sie zu dieser parallel bleibt;
    c) Anordnen des Pendelbehälters (3), der mit Sendungen gefüllt ist, in horizontaler Ausrichtung mit dem Abstapellager (6) der Sortiermaschine und Entfernen der abnehmbaren Vorderwand (3C) des Pendelbehälters (3), um die Postsendungen auf die Ebene des Abstapellagers (6) gleiten zu lassen.
  2. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Vorderwand (3C) eines Pendelbehälters (3) eine biegsame Platte ist, wobei das Verfahren den Schritt des Transports der Vorderwand (3C) eines Pendelbehälters (3) in dem Sortierförderer der Postsortiermaschine zwischen dem Abstapellager (6) und einem Sortierausgang (1) umfasst.
  3. Verfahren nach einem der Ansprüche 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Pendelbehälter (3) mit variabler Lagerkapazität als mit den Sortierausgängen (1) verbundene Lagerbehälter verwendet werden.
  4. Verfahren nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass jede abnehmbare Vorderwand (3C) eines Pendelbehälters (3) auf der Bodenwand (3A) des Pendelbehälters (3) im Bereich eines Sortierausgangs (1) positioniert oder von dem Pendelbehälter (3) im Bereich des Abstapellagers (6) mit Hilfe eines automatischen Positionier- oder Entfernungssystems entfernt wird.
  5. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es den Schritt des Zusammenfassens mehrerer Pendelbehälter (3) auf einem beweglichen Sockel (4) umfasst, welcher ein Karussell bildet, in dem die Pendelbehälter (3) im Raum gemäß einer schleifenartigen Bahn, die sich in die Höhe erstreckt, bewegt werden können.
  6. Verfahren nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die schleifenartige Bahn eine rechteckige Form hat.
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