EP3362193A1 - Vorrichtung und verfahren zur sortierung buchartiger wert- oder sicherheitsdokumente - Google Patents
Vorrichtung und verfahren zur sortierung buchartiger wert- oder sicherheitsdokumenteInfo
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- Book-type value and / or security documents are usually sent after their production in a letter or package to a desired delivery address.
- individual passports were packaged into bundles in the production facility and handed over manually to a transport facility for shipment to a shipping warehouse facility, which bundles were removed for shipment from the shipping storage facility and packaged in a package.
- Packaging into bundles has been made in light of the fact that production plants usually produce a fixed number of passbooks in a so-called batch mode, e.g. a number of over 500 pieces.
- the technical problem arises of providing a method and a device for sorting book-type value or security documents which, after production, enable a time-saving, cost-saving and packaging-reducing shipping.
- matching document-specific information e.g. with the same document order number or document delivery address, and to deliver this bundle to a shipping warehouse facility.
- Proposed is a device for sorting book-like value or
- Security documents The value and / or security document may be any document that is a physical entity that is against unauthorized manufacture and / or
- Security features are features that make it difficult to falsify and / or duplicate compared to a simple copy at least. Physical entities that include or form a security feature may be referred to as security features.
- a security document may include multiple security features and / or security elements. As defined herein, a security document is always a security element. Examples of
- Security documents which also include value documents representing a value, include, for example, passports, identity cards, driving licenses, identity cards, access control cards, health insurance cards, banknotes,
- Postage stamps bank cards, credit cards, smart cards, tickets and labels.
- the device may serve for sorting passbooks, these books being provided by a single passport book manufacture. This means in particular that no predetermined number in a batch operation by the
- the device may include an input handover device.
- Input handover device are handed over the finished produced and possibly already quality-tested individual documents to the device for sorting. For example, multiple individual documents in a magazine, e.g. stacked in the magazine, to be handed over.
- the input transfer device By means of the input transfer device, the individual documents contained in the magazine can be removed and, as explained in more detail below, transported to a document identification device.
- the input handover facility enables the provision of the
- An individual document can have at least one identification feature.
- Such an identification feature allows a unique identification of the individual document.
- the identification feature can encode, for example, identification information, for example a document identity.
- an individual document can receive further document-specific information For example, in a memory device, in particular in the form of a database, are stored assigned. This will be explained in more detail below.
- the identification feature can be provided, for example, in the form of a barcode, for example a 2D data matrix barcode.
- the identification feature may in this case be arranged on an outer surface, for example on a back side, of the document, e.g. be printed or glued.
- the identification feature may in this case be arranged on an outer surface, for example on a back side, of the document, e.g. be printed or glued.
- Identification feature can also be arranged on a document label, wherein the document label is in turn arranged on an outer surface or at least a part thereof of the individual document.
- the label can be a particular
- Closure label of a book-type value and / or security document Closure label of a book-type value and / or security document.
- the device comprises a document identification device.
- Document-specific information can be determined by means of the document identification device.
- the document identification device e.g. the at least one identification feature is detected and the identification information is determined.
- the single document can be identifiable.
- the previously explained further document-specific information can then be determined, in particular retrieved.
- the document identification device can have at least one means for detecting the previously explained identification feature.
- an optical detection of the individual document and thus a picture-based identification. This will be explained in more detail below.
- An identification can be, for example, an RFID or NFC-based identification, wherein the individual document can have corresponding RFID or NFC devices. Also, an identification can be made by reading and evaluating information stored in a magnetic stripe of the individual document. Also, an identification can be made via the reading and evaluation of information stored in a contact chip of the individual document. Also, an identification can be made by reading out and evaluating a serial number of the individual document, for example by an OCR-based evaluation. For identification, the individual document can be transported into a detection area of the document identification device, for example, by the input transfer device.
- the proposed device may comprise at least one transport device, for example a transport device designed as a transport belt.
- the device comprises at least one individual document storage device.
- the device may also include a plurality, for example, two, three or four, single-document storage facilities.
- the single-document storage device at least one individual document is storable.
- This single-document storage device can also be referred to as an intermediate storage device.
- the individual document storage device is different in particular from the previously mentioned shipping storage device.
- the single-document storage device several individual documents can be stored for a desired period of time.
- a predetermined number of individual documents for example more than 5,000 individual documents, can be stored in the at least one individual document storage device.
- An individual document can hereby be transported from the document identification device to the single-document storage device.
- the document identification device can hereby be transported from the document identification device to the single-document storage device.
- the proposed device may include one or more suitable transport means, e.g. Transport device (s) designed as a conveyor belt.
- Transport device designed as a conveyor belt.
- the device comprises the single-document bundling device.
- the single-document bundling device is dependent on the document-specific information, a document bundle from at least one stored or
- the single-document bundling device e.g. a document bundle is provided, which comprises at least one, but preferably several, individual documents / e. This may mean that one or more of the single-document storage device or the document identification device to the single-document bundling device
- a maximum number of individual documents in a document bundle can be predetermined.
- the Maximum number can be determined in particular depending on a packaging size of a packaging used for shipping.
- a document bundle may be provided by stacking a plurality of individual documents one on top of the other, thus providing the document bundle
- Stack of documents is provided with at least one band.
- the proposed device may further at least one control and / or
- Computing devices e.g. designed as a microcontroller computing devices include.
- control and / or evaluation device By means of the control and / or evaluation device, the individual devices can be controlled.
- a control can also be understood as a regulation.
- a transport between the individual devices of the proposed device for sorting can be controlled.
- the control and evaluation device can also be part of the individual devices, e.g. the document identification device, be.
- the device may also comprise a plurality of control and / or evaluation devices, which each serve for the previously explained control and evaluation.
- the proposed device may further comprise an output handover device. This can provide a document bundle provided by the single-document bundling device to a transport device for transport to the shipping storage device.
- the device may comprise at least one bundle testing device. This will be explained in more detail below.
- the document identification device comprises at least one image capture device.
- the image capture device can be designed, for example, as a camera.
- the image capture device enables optical detection of the individual document.
- Image capture device an optical detection of the previously explained
- Identification feature The image of the individual document or of the identification feature generated by the at least one image capture device can be evaluated by means of one or the previously explained control and evaluation device, wherein identification information and document-specific information in
- the image capture device can correspond to the previously described acquisition range of the document identification device.
- a document identity can be determined by means of the document identification device as document-specific information.
- Document identity can be a unique, unique identity.
- the document identity may be in the form of an identifier, e.g. in the form of a serial number, in particular in the form of a unique letter and / or
- the document identity may be stored in a storage device
- the proposed device may comprise the at least one storage device.
- a document order number can be determined as document-specific information.
- the document order number identifies one
- the document order number can also be stored in a storage device, preferably in the previously explained, for example in the form of another database or the same database.
- a document dispatch time can be determined by means of the document identification device.
- the document dispatch time may indicate the time at which the document must be sent at the latest.
- the document dispatch time can be determined by the ordering process.
- the document delivery time can likewise be stored in a storage device, preferably in the previously explained, storage device, for example in the form of a further database or in the same database.
- a document delivery address can be determined by means of the document identification device as document-specific information. These can also be determined by the ordering process. Furthermore, the document delivery address can be stored in a storage device, preferably explained above, for example in the form of a further database or in the form of the same database.
- the document identification device first the document identity can be determined and then the document order number and / or the document delivery address and / or the document dispatch time is determined depending on the document identity. For example, this information can be retrieved from one or more databases.
- At least one is dependent on the document-specific information by means of an evaluation device
- Document group-specific information can be determined.
- an individual document can be assigned to a document group.
- Document group can hereby comprise one or more individual documents, to which the same document order number and / or the same document delivery address is assigned.
- the evaluation device can be formed by the at least one control and / or evaluation device explained above.
- Document group-specific information can be, for example, a number and / or a document identity of further individual documents with the same document order number. Document group-specific information may also include a number and / or document identity of further individual documents with the same
- This document group-specific information can be determined, for example, by evaluating the previously explained stored information, for example by evaluating at least one or more databases.
- an earliest dispatch time and / or a current storage period of further individual documents can be determined from the document group of the individual document.
- the earliest time of shipment thus indicates the earliest date of all
- the storage period refers to the period of time for which an individual document of the document group is stored in the single-document storage facility.
- a bundle delivery time can also be determined. This indicates the time at which the bundle of documents containing the individual document has to be provided. Also, the document delivery time may indicate the time at which the
- This bundle provisioning time may be, for example, a predetermined period of time prior to the time of shipment.
- the predetermined period of time may be, for example, a period of time necessary for transporting the Document bundle is required for shipping storage facility, storage, packaging and delivery for shipping.
- the bundle deployment time can also be equal to the time of shipment.
- Document group to document bundling device take place if the current storage period is equal to or greater than a maximum allowable storage period.
- the maximum allowable storage period may be a predetermined period of time.
- the document group comprises more documents than permitted in a document bundle
- quantities of individual documents from the document group with the maximum permissible number of document groups or with a number that is smaller than this maximum permissible number can be transported to the document bundle device.
- Storage period can be met in the document storage facility.
- the individual-document storage device comprises at least one shelf, wherein at least one storage compartment of the shelf can be moved in and out.
- the single-document storage device comprise a shelf, wherein a storage compartment on both sides, in particular longitudinal sides, of the shelf is extendable.
- a storage compartment of the shelf to a first page and another storage compartment can be extended to another side of the shelf, the other side of the first side opposite.
- a single-document storage device may also include several shelves, for example, two, three or four shelves.
- a storage compartment can also be referred to as an extract.
- the single-document storage device can guide elements for guiding the inputs and
- Extract movement include.
- a guide element may in particular be a telescopic guide element.
- the shelf may include a plurality of retractable and extendable storage compartments, for example, several retractable and retractable storage compartments per longitudinal side of the shelf.
- the at least one storage compartment of the shelf can be retracted and extended by actuators. This may mean that the entry and exit movement of the
- Storage compartment is effected by means of an actuator or a control device. At least one, but preferably several, individual documents can be stored in or on or at the storage compartment of the shelf. It is possible for the storage compartment to have or form accommodation elements or means for receiving one or more individual documents. For example, a storage compartment may comprise a plurality of rows of receiving elements or means. This results in a particularly advantageous
- the single-document storage device comprises at least one storage transport device, wherein a single document can be transported by means of the storage transport device into a storage position or from the storage position.
- the storage position may designate a position of the single document in which it is located in, on, or at the single document storage facility. This can e.g. be determined by the previously described receiving elements or means.
- a single document can only be transported to a storage position if a storage compartment of the rack is in the extended state.
- the single document can be transported by the storage conveyor only from the storage position, when the storage compartment of the shelf is in the extended state.
- the storage position which, as
- the storage transport device may in particular be designed as a gripper or comprise a gripper.
- the single-document storage device comprises at least two storage transport devices per shelf. In this case, in each case one storage transport device per side, in particular longitudinal side, of the shelf may be present. This can mean that by means of a first storage transport device
- Individual documents can be transported to a storage position or from the storage position if the storage compartment of the shelf has been extended to a first side of the shelf.
- By means of the further storage transport means individual documents in a
- the bearing transport device may also comprise further elements for linear movement and optionally for rotational movement.
- an individual document can be moved by means of the storage transport device in three spatial directions oriented at right angles to one another. It is also conceivable that an individual document can be rotated by at least one of these spatial directions, preferably around each of these spatial directions.
- the single document storage device may include more than one storage transport device. These can be designed and / or controlled in such a way that a temporally parallel storage of a plurality of, for example two, individual documents, a temporal parallel storage of one or more individual documents and a
- one or more transport device (s) for transporting individual documents to the single-document storage device or from the single-document storage device can be designed and / or controllable such that a temporally parallel transport of several, for example two, individual documents to be stored for the individual-document storage device temporally parallel transport of one or more individual documents to be stored for individual-document storage and transport of one or more outsourced individual documents / e of the single-document transport device or a temporally parallel transport of several outsourced individual documents of the single-document transport device is feasible.
- a single document in the single-document storage device is storable standing.
- This may mean that e.g. a book-like single document with a spine portion on a surface of the storage compartment, in particular of the storage shelf, is storable.
- the previously explained receiving elements or means may be designed such that the stationary storage is made possible. This results in an advantageous manner that a plurality of documents in, on or on the storage compartment can be stored, at the same time a simple storage and retrieval of each of these stored individual documents is possible.
- the individual-document storage device comprises at least one device for transferring an individual document from a lying state to a standing state.
- a lying state here refers to a state in which a front or back of the book-like single document rests on a support surface.
- a standing state here refers to a state in which the individual document rests on the support surface with a spine section, an end section or a section opposite the spine section.
- the single-document storage device comprises at least one device for transferring an individual document from the stationary state to the horizontal state.
- the individual-document storage device may comprise a device for transferring an individual document from the lying state to the standing state, wherein the individual document in the lying state is transported to the single-document storage device, then put into the standing state and then in the standing state by means of the previously explained storage transport device is transportable to the storage position.
- the individual document storage device may comprise a device for transferring the individual document from the stationary state to the horizontal state, wherein a single document transported in the stationary state from the storage position is put back into the lying state by means of this device and then to
- the single-document storage device has at least two devices for changing state, in particular two devices per longitudinal side of the shelf.
- the means for dislocation can be used as so-called Sternaktoren
- a star actuator may be configured in a star-shaped cross-section and / or have at least one projecting section.
- the at least one projecting portion may be a contact surface for the
- the at least one cantilevered section can be rotatable in such a way that an individual document resting on / at the contact or contact surface is displaced from the stationary to the lying state or vice versa.
- the single-document bundling device comprises at least one alignment device for aligning the bundles to be bundled
- the alignment device may comprise an image capture device, wherein an image-based positional image and image acquisition device by means of the image capture device
- the alignment device can then be controlled in order to arrange the individual documents to be bundled as desired or to one another.
- the method is practicable by means of an apparatus according to an embodiment described in this disclosure.
- the device is in particular designed such that a method according to one of the in this
- document-specific information of a provided individual document is determined.
- An individual document may in particular be a book-type individual document.
- the individual document will depend on the document-specific information stored in a single-document storage device or transported to a single-document bundling device. Will that be
- single-document storage device Individual document stored in the single-document storage device, so it can be transported to the document-specific storage period from the single-document storage device to single-document bundle device. Furthermore, a single document or several individual documents can be bundled to form a document bundle by means of the single-document bundle device.
- the method advantageously makes it possible to sort individual documents provided in any order, in particular random ones, according to predetermined criteria.
- individual documents with a matching order number and / or matching delivery address are bundled into a document bundle, wherein the
- Document bundle can then be sent later. This saves, as previously explained, shipping costs and advantageously reduces packaging material.
- a document identity and / or a document order number and / or a document delivery address and / or a document dispatch time is / are determined as document-specific information / s. This has been explained previously.
- document-group-specific information is determined as a function of the document-specific information.
- Document group-specific information has already been explained above.
- the document-specific information as well as the document group-specific information can be obtained, for example, by evaluating one or more
- document-specific information can be determined, for example, depending on the particular document identity.
- document group-specific information can then be determined.
- an earliest dispatch time and / or a current storage period of further individual documents of the document group of the individual document provided are determined, insofar as the individual document provided belongs to the document group.
- a Bundle provisioning time This has already been explained above.
- the individual document is stored in the single-document storage device if a bundle provisioning time that depends on the document shipping time is not reached. In this case, as
- Document specific information determines a document dispatch time and the corresponding bundle provisioning time and a current one
- the individual document is stored in the single-document storage device if the bundle-providing time point of further, in particular all other, individual documents of the document group which depends on the earliest dispatch time is not reached.
- the document group refers to the document group to which the provided individual document belongs.
- the individual document is stored in the single-document storage device if a current storage period of further, in particular all further, individual documents of the document group is shorter than a predetermined maximum storage period.
- the maximum storage duration can be predetermined.
- the maximum storage duration may be one day. Also, that can
- Individual documents are stored in the single-document storage facility if the bundle provisioning time or the earliest bundle provisioning time of all individual documents of the document group is more than the maximum storage period before the current time.
- the single document is transported to the single-document bundle device if the bundle-provisioning time dependent on the document shipping time is reached
- the individual document is transported to the single-document bundling device, if the bundle provisioning time of at least one further individual document, which is dependent on the earliest dispatch time, is transported
- Transport single-document bundle device if a current storage period of the individual document and / or at least one other individual document of the
- Document group is longer than or equal to the maximum storage period.
- Single-document storage device to be transported to the single-document bundling device.
- an identified single document can be transported directly to the single-document bundle device without intermediate storage.
- an intermediately stored single document can be transported to the single-document bundling device.
- the single-document bundling device can then be provided a document bundle of individual documents of the document group.
- Document group are transported to the single-document bundle device.
- This can also include or have a bundle storage device for receiving these individual documents.
- the single document is the only document in the document group, the single document can be transported alone to the single-document bundle device.
- the identified single document may be transported directly from the document identifier to the single-document bundle device if a time subsequent to the maximum time period after the current time is a later time than the bundle provisioning time. This results in an advantageous manner that a timely shipment of the
- a single document or multiple individual documents are bundled into a document bundle.
- a bundle of documents can include only a single document.
- several individual documents are bundled into a document bundle.
- a maximum number of individual documents in a document bundle can be limited.
- the maximum number can be 5.
- the bundling may mean that at least one, but preferably two, band / n is arranged around a document stack.
- the bundling may include the application of a bundle-specific identifier.
- the bundle-specific identifier may encode information about a product type and a sub-product type.
- a product type may be, for example, a passport or a travel document.
- a sub-product type may be, for example, an express pass, a direct mail pass, a 32-page pass, or a 48-page pass.
- the bundle-specific identifier can in particular enable an optical detection of this information.
- the bundle-specific identifier can be applied, for example printed, to the document bundle or a banderole as a barcode, in particular as a 2D DataMatrix barcode. This results in an advantageous manner that several
- Document group more individual documents than the maximum allowable number for a document bundle, so several document bundles can be made for individual documents of a document group. It is possible that one of these
- the individual documents to be bundled are arranged one above the other in the document bundle.
- the individual documents in the horizontal state can be arranged on one another, that is, stacked.
- the individual documents are rotated, in particular rotated by 180 °, arranged to each other.
- the individual documents can also be arranged undistorted to each other.
- a height of the thus produced is reduced
- a quality check is performed on a document bundle.
- at least one bundle-specific quality criterion can be evaluated.
- the document bundle can be transported to the previously explained shipping storage facility. If the at least one criterion is not met, then the document bundle can be sorted out. After sorting, a manual inspection or a post-processing or correction can take place.
- a height or thickness of the document bundle can be determined. If the height is greater than a maximum allowable height, the quality criterion is not met.
- the document bundle is transported to a shipping storage facility.
- the document bundle from the explained output transfer device to a transport device, for example a
- this transport means the Document bundles then transported to said bundle shipping warehouse facility.
- the document bundle can be stored in the bundle shipping storage facility until the bundle shipping time.
- the burst shipping time may be the earliest all shipping times of the individual documents in the document bundle.
- Document bundles are packed in a transport packaging. It is possible that several bundles of documents are packed in a transport packaging. Then the packaged bundle of documents can be provided with a corresponding shipping sticker and provided for shipment.
- the shipping storage facility may be part of the proposed device.
- the shipping storage facility can be used to store the document bundles, for example identity card bundles.
- the document bundle can be stored until the earliest time of the quantity
- Bundle shipping warehouse equipment are packed and shipped with the same delivery address.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of a device according to the invention in a first embodiment
- FIG. 2 is a schematic plan view of a single document storage device
- Fig. 3 is a schematic side view of that shown in Fig. 2
- FIG. 4 shows a schematic top view of a sorting device according to a further embodiment
- FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a document bundle
- Fig. 6 is a schematic plan view of a single-document bundling device
- FIG. 7 shows a schematic flow diagram of a method according to the invention.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic plan view of an inventive device for sorting book-type value or security documents.
- the device 1 comprises two input transfer devices 2a, 2b. Furthermore, the device 1 comprises a first document identification device 3a and a further document identification device 3b. Furthermore, the device 1 comprises a single-document storage device 4, a first single-document bundling device 5a and a further single-document bundling device 5b. Furthermore, the device 1 comprises a first bundle testing and transfer device 6a and a further bundle test and
- individual documents 7 are delivered in magazines 8 to the input transfer devices 2a, 2b.
- the individual documents 7 can be removed from the magazines 8 and arranged on conveyor belts 9a, 9b.
- the conveyor belts 9a, 9b form
- the document identification devices 3a, 3b may each comprise at least one image capture device, e.g. an image acquisition device designed as a camera.
- Individual document 7 are generated. On the individual documents can a
- the device 1 comprises a central control and evaluation device 10. This is data and / or signaling technology connected to the document identification devices 3a, 3b.
- the evaluation and control device 10 the images generated can be evaluated.
- a document identity of an imaged individual document 7 can be determined, in particular by the
- Identification feature is detected and evaluated.
- the central control and evaluation device 10 is connected to a memory device 1 1 data and / or signaling technology.
- this memory device 1 1 is the document identity, a document-specific order number, a
- Document-specific delivery address and a document-specific document shipping time stored, for example in the form of a database.
- control and evaluation device 10 can depend on the
- document-specific information ie the document order number and / or the document delivery address and / or the document dispatch time, at least one document group specific information to be determined.
- all document identities of individual documents 7 can be determined, to each of which the same document order number is assigned.
- document identities of all the individual documents 7 can be determined to which the same document delivery address is assigned.
- Individual documents 7 of the document group can, as explained in more detail below, be combined into one or more document bundles 12.
- the central control and evaluation device 10 can also operate the central control and evaluation device 10
- Control conveyor belts 9a, 9b This is not shown in Fig. 1.
- the control and evaluation device 10 is further data and / or signal technology connected to the single-document storage device 4. Thus, the central control and Evaluation device 10 also control an operation of this single-document storage device 4 or provide information to the controller.
- control and evaluation device 10 control such that a single document 7 is stored in the single-document storage device 4, if one of the
- the control and evaluation device 10 can also control the conveyor belts 9a, 9b and the single-document storage device 4 such that an individual document 7 is transported to the single-document bundling device 5a, 5b and thus not in the
- Single-document storage device 4 is stored, if that of the
- Document group is longer than or equal to the maximum storage period.
- the maximum storage period may be, for example, one day. It denotes the duration for which an individual document 7 may be stored in the single-document storage device 4.
- control and evaluation device 10 can control the conveyor belts 9a, 9b and the single-document storage device 4 in such a way that all individual documents 7 of a document group are transported sequentially to the corresponding single-document bundle device 5a, 5b.
- Document bundles 12 are produced, wherein a document bundle 12 a or several individual documents 7 may comprise a document group. A maximum number of individual documents 7 in a document bundle 12 can be limited.
- the document bundles 12 are then from the single-document bundles 5a, 5b by means of further conveyor belts 13a, 13b to the bundle sketch- and
- Transfer devices 6a, 6b transportable. Through this, a quality inspection of the document bundle 12 can be performed. Furthermore, the bundle checking and transfer devices 6a, 6b can arrange document bundles 12 on a further conveyor belt 14, which transports the document bundle 12 into a shipping storage device 15.
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic plan view of the single-document storage device 4 illustrated in FIG. 1. Further illustrated are conveyor belts 9a, 9b on which
- Individual documents 7 are transported from the document identification device 3a, 3b shown in FIG. 1 to the single-document storage device 4. Next can be transported to the single-document bundling device 5a, 5b by the conveyor belts 9a, 9b of the single-document storage device 4 outsourced individual documents.
- the single-document storage device 4 comprises a shelf 16, wherein storage compartments 17 (see, for example, Fig. 3) can be retracted and extended by actuators.
- storage compartments 17 see, for example, Fig. 3
- a storage compartment 17 is shown in the extended state. In the storage compartment, especially on one
- the storage compartment shown in the extended state 17 or another storage compartment 17 of the shelf is also extendable to the opposite side, ie to the side on which the second conveyor belt 9b is arranged.
- the single-document storage device 4 comprises a first storage transport device 18a and a second storage transport device 18b.
- Transport devices 18a, 18b each include a gripper 19a, 19b. From the document identification devices 3a, 3b via the conveyor belts 9a, 9b towards the single-document storage device 4 in the lying state transported individual documents 7 can by not shown controls in storage sections 20a, 20b are moved. This can be done, for example, if the corresponding
- Single documents 7 are to be stored. By means also not shown facilities for transferring a single document 7 from a recumbent state to a standing state, these individual documents 7 can then be placed in the standing state. In the standing state, the individual documents 7 are gripped by the grippers 19a, 19b and transported to a storage compartment 17 in the opened or extended state and at a predetermined
- the corresponding storage compartment 17 is set in the extended state, in which case the desired individual document 7 is gripped by means of the gripper 19a, 19b and transported to a removal section 21a, 21b.
- the gripper 19a, 19b By means not shown means for moving a single document 7 from the standing state to a horizontal state, these individual documents 7 can then be placed in the corresponding section 21 a, 21 b in the lying state.
- these individual documents 7 can then be arranged on the conveyor belt 9a, 9b again by means of unillustrated actuating devices, these being then transported by the conveyor belt 9a, 9b to the single-document bundling device 5a, 5b.
- An operation of the storage compartments 17, the storage transport means 18a, 18b and an operation of the means for transferring to different states can be controlled by the central control and evaluation device 10 shown in FIG. 1 or at least one further control device (not shown).
- an operation of the conveyor belts 9a, 9b and thus a transport of the individual documents 7 can be controlled by the control and evaluation device 10 or at least one further (not shown) control device.
- FIG. 3 shows a schematic side view of the single-document storage device 4 illustrated in FIG. 2.
- a plurality of storage compartments 17 of the rack 16 are shown.
- the storage conveyor 18a the gripper 19a can move in three mutually perpendicular directions in space.
- the gripper 19a can be moved in a vertical direction and in two horizontal directions.
- the storage transport devices 18a, 18b are conceivable.
- Fig. 4 shows a device 1 according to the invention according to another
- the embodiment shown in Fig. 4 is in this case formed similar to the embodiment shown in Fig. 1. Therefore, reference may be made in substantial parts to the explanation of FIG. 1.
- the embodiment of the device 1 shown in FIG. 4 comprises two storage conveyor belts 22a, 22b which transport individual documents 7 (see eg FIG. 1) from the document identification devices 3a, 3b to
- the device 1 comprises two removal conveyor belts 23a, 23b, which enable a transport of individual documents 7 to the single-document bundling device 5a, 5b.
- the storage transport devices 18a, 18b shown in FIG. 2 individual documents 7 can be lifted from the storage conveyor belts 22a, 22b and either stored in a storage compartment 17 or transported directly to the corresponding removal conveyor belt 23a, 23b.
- an unillustrated means for dislocation from the lying in the standing state for example, a star actuator
- a device also not shown for the displacement of the standing in the horizontal state for example, also a star actuator, may be arranged.
- Swap conveyor belts 22a, 22b, 23a, 23b are arranged next to longitudinal sides of the shelf 16.
- sections of the conveyor belts 22a, 22b, 23a, 23b extend along longitudinal sides of the single document storage device 4 comprising a shelf 16. It is of course conceivable that others
- the conveyor belts 22a, 22b and Auslagerungs- conveyor belts 23a, 23b are realized.
- the conveyor belts may be arranged on an upper side of the shelf 16.
- portions of the storage conveyor belts 22a, 22b may be disposed between portions of the outfeed conveyor belts 23a, 23b or vice versa.
- a document bundling device 5a comprises. This may, for example, according to the embodiment shown in Fig. 1, comprise only a conveyor belt 9a. Also, this may comprise, according to the embodiment shown in Fig. 4, a storage conveyor belt 22a and an outfeed conveyor belt 23a.
- one embodiment of the device may include a plurality, e.g. in the transport direction of the document identification device 3a, 3b to the single-document bundling device 5a, 5b arranged in a row, shelves 16 each having a plurality of retractable and retractable storage compartments 17 include.
- the storage compartments 17 can each receiving elements for receiving the
- FIG. 5 shows a document bundle 12 which can be provided by the single-document bundling devices 5a, 5b. Here it is shown that the
- Document bundle 12 comprises a plurality of stacked individual documents 7, which are each rotated by 180 ° to each other stacked. This means that a spine section of the individual document 7 is arranged above a front section of the individual document 7 arranged directly underneath, the front section lying opposite a spine section of the individual document 7
- the ready-made stack of documents is provided with two banderoles 24a, 24b, whereby the document bundle 12 is cross-banded. It is further shown that an identification label 25 for identifying the document bundle 12 and individual documents 7 contained therein is mounted on an outer banderole 24b. This allows the subsequent identification of the document bundle 12 and the individual documents 7 arranged therein as well as the determination of the corresponding ones
- FIG. 6 shows a schematic plan view of a single-document bundling device 5a.
- This comprises an input section 26 for individual documents 7.
- the single-document bundling device 5a comprises an actuating device 28 with a gripper 27.
- the gripper 27 can be moved in three mutually perpendicular spatial directions.
- the gripper 27 can be rotated by the actuator 28. It is possible to grasp by means of the actuator 28 and the gripper 27 arranged in the input section 26 individual document 7 and to arrange in an output section 29.
- the gripped individual document 7 can be arranged on an individual document 7 already arranged in the output section 29 in order to provide a document bundle 12.
- banding devices the document stack thus provided can then be banded.
- Fig. 7 shows a schematic flow diagram of a method according to the invention.
- an individual document 7 (see, for example, Fig. 1) is provided in a first method step S1, for example by an input transfer device 5a, 5b.
- document-specific information of the individual document 7 provided is determined.
- Document delivery address and document shipping time are determined. Not shown is the transport between the corresponding facilities.
- document-group-specific information is determined as a function of the document-specific information, in particular the number and document identities of all the individual documents 7 with the same document order number.
- a fourth step S4a the individual document 7 is stored in a single-document storage device 4 (see FIG. 1) if a bundle provisioning time dependent on the document-specific document delivery time is not reached and if one of the earliest dispatch time of all further individual documents 7 is dependent Bundle provisioning time of the document group is not reached and if a current storage period of further individual documents 7 of the document group is shorter than a predetermined maximum storage period. Otherwise, in a fourth Step S4b transports the individual document 7 to the single-document bundling device 5a, 5b (see FIG.
- a stored individual document 7 is also transported to the single-document bundling device 5a, 5b when these conditions occur. This can be done in an intermediate step S4a_2 after the fourth step S4a.
- a plurality of individual documents 7 are bundled into a document bundle 12.
- the document bundle 12 provided in this way is checked and transported to a shipping storage device 15.
- I Device for sorting book-type value or security documents 2a, 2b Input transfer device
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