EP3052413A1 - Module de stockage avec des fonctions d'empilage et de dépilage - Google Patents
Module de stockage avec des fonctions d'empilage et de dépilageInfo
- Publication number
- EP3052413A1 EP3052413A1 EP14755856.3A EP14755856A EP3052413A1 EP 3052413 A1 EP3052413 A1 EP 3052413A1 EP 14755856 A EP14755856 A EP 14755856A EP 3052413 A1 EP3052413 A1 EP 3052413A1
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- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- stack
- storage module
- storage area
- articles
- unstacking
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
- B65H3/46—Supplementary devices or measures to assist separation or prevent double feed
- B65H3/54—Pressing or holding devices
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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)
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H1/00—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated
- B65H1/02—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles on edge
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H1/00—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated
- B65H1/08—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated with means for advancing the articles to present the articles to the separating device
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
- B65H3/08—Separating articles from piles using pneumatic force
- B65H3/12—Suction bands, belts, or tables moving relatively to the pile
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
- B65H3/08—Separating articles from piles using pneumatic force
- B65H3/12—Suction bands, belts, or tables moving relatively to the pile
- B65H3/124—Suction bands or belts
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
- B65H3/46—Supplementary devices or measures to assist separation or prevent double feed
- B65H3/56—Elements, e.g. scrapers, fingers, needles, brushes, acting on separated article or on edge of the pile
- B65H3/565—Elements, e.g. scrapers, fingers, needles, brushes, acting on separated article or on edge of the pile for reintroducing partially separated articles in the stack
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- 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
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H31/00—Pile receivers
- B65H31/04—Pile receivers with movable end support arranged to recede as pile accumulates
- B65H31/08—Pile receivers with movable end support arranged to recede as pile accumulates the articles being piled one above another
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H83/00—Combinations of piling and depiling operations, e.g. performed simultaneously, of interest apart from the single operation of piling or depiling as such
- B65H83/02—Combinations of piling and depiling operations, e.g. performed simultaneously, of interest apart from the single operation of piling or depiling as such performed on the same pile or stack
- B65H83/025—Combinations of piling and depiling operations, e.g. performed simultaneously, of interest apart from the single operation of piling or depiling as such performed on the same pile or stack onto and from the same side of the pile or stack
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
- B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
- B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
- B65H2701/1916—Envelopes and articles of mail
Definitions
- the invention relates to a storage module comprising a storage area for storing flat articles in stack on edge, a main conveyor extending transversely to the storage area, a stacking function for transferring a conveyor article. to the storage area and stack it on the back of the stack of items in the storage area, and an unstack feature to retrieve an item from the back of the stack of items and transfer it to the main conveyor.
- Such a storage module of US-2008006509 is already known. This storage module is intended to constitute a sort output receptacle in a postal sorting machine.
- This storage module has stacker operation and unstacker operation.
- the unstacking order of the postal items is of the LIFO type: the first postal item stored in a stack is the last mail item extracted from the stack.
- a coupling element which forms a kind of barrier at the entrance of the storage area when the storage module is in unstacking mode and which forms the shipping conveyor when the storage module is in stacking mode.
- This L-shaped coupling member is pivotally mounted to move from a position where it acts as a barrier to another position where it acts as a conveyor.
- Another barrier which is sliding and which closes the output of the unstacking storage area when the storage module is in stacking mode.
- Such a sliding barrier has the disadvantage of increasing the risk of jamming at the output of the storage module because this sliding barrier can come shear a partially extracted shipment of the stack of shipments when switching from the depilatory operation mode to stacking.
- Patent document EP-1894868 discloses a sheet unstacking system which uses a controlled aspiration of the suction nozzle type connected to a vacuum chamber and cooperating with a perforated belt mounted on driving pulleys.
- the patent document EP-0992443 discloses a destacking device for sheets which is similar to that known from the preceding document but in which there is provided an unstacking plate containing the controlled suction, this unstacking plate being rotatably mounted to be able to tilt and suck the front of a sheet to extract from the stack of leaves.
- separators or dividers known per se must be passed in machine with the flow of the mail to be sorted to fit among the stacks of mail sorted in the sorting outlets. But these separators must also be recovered at each sorting pass of the mail in the sorting machine to be recycled in the sorting process.
- separators are like flat articles similar in size to mail. They are generally made of flexible cardboard sheet and in color. Each separator is thus easily identifiable visually in a sorting outlet when it is interposed between two stacks of mail.
- the object of the invention is therefore to provide a storage device for flat articles and in particular for mail stack separators with stacking and unstacking functions but which does not have the drawbacks indicated above.
- the subject of the invention is a storage module comprising a storage area for storing flat articles in stack on edge, a main conveyor which extends transversely to the storage area, a stacking function. to transfer an item from the main conveyor to the storage area and stack it at the back of the stack of items in the storage area, and an unstacking function for extracting an article from the rear of the stack of articles and transferring it to the main conveyor, characterized in that the unstacking function comprises a perforated belt unstacking plate and controlled suction nozzle disposed between the main conveyor and the storage area, said unstacking plate having a first segment parallel to the stack of articles and a second segment adjacent to the first segment and extending obliquely with respect to the first segment and in that said controlled suction is disposed in the second oblique segment of the unstacking plate.
- the idea underlying the invention is therefore to have an angled unstacking plate having an inclined face in which is disposed the suction system to force a bending deformation of the current flat article to extract from the stack this deformation has the effect of better separating it from the adjacent article in the stack of items to be unstacked.
- This current article is moved by the effect of pneumatic traction to be removed from the rest of the stack of articles at the same time that the stack of articles remains blocked by the jogging edge.
- the storage module can be automatically passed from a stacking mode to an unstacking mode and vice versa in very short delays that remain compatible with the current rates of a postal sorting machine.
- This arrangement of the unstacking system also contributes to the compactness and reliability of the storage module.
- the storage module according to the invention may have the following particularities:
- the second oblique segment of the unstacking plate forms an angle of between 3 and 15 ° with respect to the top of the pile of articles
- said first and second segments of the unstacking plate intersect at about a median longitudinal axis of the stack of articles
- the storage area has a roller stacking pad in contact with the underside of the stack of articles;
- the unstacking function comprises a movable barrier capable of being moved in a first position to block the extraction of an article from the stack of articles and in a second position to allow the extraction of an article from the stack of articles; articles, and this movable barrier is pivotally mounted so as to push back into the storage area an article partially extracted from the stack of articles when it is rotated to move from the second position to the first position.
- FIG. 1 very schematically illustrates a storage module according to the invention in stacking mode with stacks of mail stacks stored in stack on edge in the storage area;
- FIG. 2 very schematically illustrates the storage module in stacking mode with a separator arriving at the input of the storage area
- FIG. 3 very schematically illustrates the unstacked storage module with stacks of mail stacks stored in stack on edge in the storage area
- FIG. 4 very schematically illustrates the storage module in unstacking mode with a separator being extracted from the stack of separators
- FIG. 5 illustrates in more detail the unstacking function with an unstacking plate according to the invention having an oblique segment and when the controlled suction is not activated;
- Figure 6 illustrates the unstacking function with the controlled suction which is activated in the oblique segment of the unstacking plate
- FIG. 7 very schematically illustrates an example of a postal sorting machine for mail integrating a storage module for mail stack separators
- FIGS. 1 to 4 there is illustrated very schematically a storage module 1 for flat articles according to the invention, here by way of example, for storing separators 2 of mail stacks.
- FIGS. 1 to 4 the storage module 1 is shown diagrammatically from above, the separators 2 being seen from above in stack on edge in the storage area 3.
- the storage zone 3 has a bottom or stacking range 4 which extends in a longitudinal direction A and on which the edge separators 2 lie in transverse disposition with respect to the direction A.
- the storage area has a longitudinal edge delimited by a jogging edge 5 which extends along the direction A.
- a pallet 6 is provided in the storage area for sliding along the jogging edge and holding the front of the separator stack 2.
- a return system in the position not shown in the figures such as a spring, is provided to bring the pallet 6 towards the rear of the storage area where an unstacking plate 7 is arranged.
- the pallet 6 with its return system can be replaced by a motorized pallet assembly.
- This motorized assembly is slaved to a sensor placed on the unstacking plate 7 to manage the pressure exerted by the stack of separators 2 on the unstacking plate 7.
- the bottom 8 may be provided movable in the direction A.
- it may comprise a toothed band mounted on free pulleys which are arranged at the front and rear of the storage area.
- the lower end of the pallet can be engaged in one notch of this band so that the displacement of the pallet is synchronized with the displacement of the band.
- the bottom 8 may also advantageously be a free roller stacking pad in contact with the underside of the stack of separators which limits the frictional forces of the separators on the bottom 8 of the storage area.
- FIGS. 1 to 4 show a main conveyor 9 which extends in a main direction D transversely (here perpendicularly) to the storage area (here in the direction A).
- the conveyor 9 is here a double-belt conveyor which is able to move by clamping between the bands of edge separators in series in the direction D.
- the conveyor 9 can be constituted by the sorting conveyor in a machine postal sorting.
- the unstacking plate 7 is arranged between the main conveyor 9 and the storage area 3.
- a secondary conveyor 10 is provided upstream of the storage area in the direction D to perform a stacking function of the storage module and another secondary conveyor January 1 is provided downstream of the storage area in the direction D to achieve an unstacking function of the storage module.
- a switching flap 9A is provided on the main conveyor path at the intersection with the conveyor 10 upstream of the storage area in the direction D to deflect the separator 2 moved in series on the edge of the main conveyor to the secondary conveyor 10 and feed the storage area 3 when the storage module is in the stacking function.
- the unstacking plate 7 is provided with a system 12 with perforated belt and controlled suction which allows to extract a separator of the rear of the separator stack and transfer it to the main conveyor through the secondary conveyor 1 1.
- the unstacking plate 7 has a first segment 7A shown in more detail in FIGS. 5 and 6 which is parallel to the stack of separators 2 in the storage zone and therefore to the direction D in FIGS. 4 and a second segment 7B adjacent to the segment 7A and extending obliquely with respect to the segment 7A and away from the stack of separators.
- the controlled suction represented by 12A (a suction nozzle connected to a vacuum chamber) is disposed in the second segment 7B of the unstacking plate further downstream in the direction D .
- the perforated strip 12B closed loop engaged on two driving pulleys, this perforated strip cooperating with the suction controlled to extract by suction the last separator stored at the rear of the separator stack and transfer it to the secondary conveyor 1 1.
- the space between the oblique segment 7B and the jogging edge 5 must in practice be greater than the thickness of a separator, for example 3 to 4 times greater.
- the controlled suction 12A is actuated, which has the effect of sucking the front part of the current separator 2 against the segment 7B of the unstacking plate while the rear part of the current separator is pressed against the segment 7A of the unstacking plate.
- the perforated belt 12B moves the current separator 2 in motion to separate it from the stack and transfer it to the secondary conveyor 11 through the separation dihedron 13.
- the separator adjacent to the current separator 2 in the stack remains in abutment against the jogging edge 5 during the extraction of the current separator 2 which avoids the risk of double or multiple pickup in the storage module mode unstacking.
- the angle of inclination of the second segment 7B of the unstacking plate may be between 3 and 15 ° relative to the segment 7A which is parallel to the stack of separators. This angle must be compatible with the flexibility of the separators.
- the two segments 7A and 7B intersect around a median longitudinal axis of the stack of articles so that each separator is generally deformed in its middle by the unstacking plate without being damaged.
- FIGS. 1 to 4 show a barrier 14 in the separation dihedron 13.
- This barrier 14 is movably mounted to occupy a first position shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 in which it blocks the extraction of a separator from the separator stack when the storage module is in stacking mode.
- the barrier 14 is moved in FIGS. 3 and 4 to occupy a second position in which it allows the extraction of a separator from the separator stack when the storage module is in unstacking mode.
- the barrier 14 is a pivoting barrier (as represented by an arrow in an arc in the figures 3 and 4) about an axis adjacent to the end of the jogging edge 5 in the separation dihedron.
- the pivoting barrier is able to push back into the storage area a separator 2 which would have been partially extracted from the stack during a double take. This separator is pushed back when the barrier 14 moves from the second position to the first position, that is to say when the storage module switches from the unstacking mode to the stacking mode.
- This arrangement makes it possible to further reduce the risks of double setting or the risk of jamming and consequently increases the reliability of the storage module according to the invention.
- pivoting barrier 14 alone reduces the risk of double taking or jamming in a storage module having an unstacking plate 7 without oblique segment 7B.
- separators 2 are already stored in stack on edge in the unstacking zone 3.
- the switching flap 9A is oriented to divert a flow of objects from the main conveyor 9 to the secondary conveyor 10.
- the controlled suction 12 is stopped and the barrier 14 is in the first position in which it closes the separation dihedron 13.
- FIG. 2 a separator has now arrived in the secondary conveyor 10 and will be stacked at the rear of the stack of separators in the storage area 3.
- the flap 9A has been actuated in a position shown by an arrow such that the main conveyor 9 shunts the storage module 1.
- the flap 9A thus closes the passage of the conveyor 9 towards the conveyor 10.
- the barrier 14 is in the second position according to which it opens the separation dihedron 13.
- FIG 7 there is illustrated by way of example a postal sorting machine 20 with a destacker 21 of mail items that serializes these mail items in the sorting machine.
- the sorting machine here comprises sorting outlets 22 and a storage module for separators 1 according to the invention which is arranged between the sorting outlets 22 and the unstacker 21 along the sorting conveyor of the machine which constitutes here the conveyor main 9 of the storage module 1.
- FIG. 7 also illustrates a control / command unit which controls the actuators of the sorting machine and in particular the actuators of the shutter 9A, the controlled suction 12 and the barrier 14 in the storage module.
- the storage module 1 for mail stack separators can be disposed upstream of this mail loop. return after sorting exits for example.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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FR1359385A FR3011233B1 (fr) | 2013-09-30 | 2013-09-30 | Module de stockage avec des fonctions d'empilage et de depilage |
PCT/FR2014/051779 WO2015044540A1 (fr) | 2013-09-30 | 2014-07-10 | Module de stockage avec des fonctions d'empilage et de dépilage |
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EP3052413A1 true EP3052413A1 (fr) | 2016-08-10 |
EP3052413B1 EP3052413B1 (fr) | 2017-09-06 |
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US (1) | US9611112B2 (fr) |
EP (1) | EP3052413B1 (fr) |
JP (1) | JP3206477U (fr) |
CA (1) | CA2924266C (fr) |
DK (1) | DK3052413T3 (fr) |
ES (1) | ES2644821T3 (fr) |
FR (1) | FR3011233B1 (fr) |
NO (1) | NO3052413T3 (fr) |
NZ (1) | NZ718169A (fr) |
PT (1) | PT3052413T (fr) |
WO (1) | WO2015044540A1 (fr) |
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