EP3456424B1 - Station de transfert et machine de reprise - Google Patents

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EP3456424B1
EP3456424B1 EP18193759.0A EP18193759A EP3456424B1 EP 3456424 B1 EP3456424 B1 EP 3456424B1 EP 18193759 A EP18193759 A EP 18193759A EP 3456424 B1 EP3456424 B1 EP 3456424B1
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Jürgen Utschig
Thomas Huffer
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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
    • B07C5/00—Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or feature; Sorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
    • B07C5/04—Sorting according to size
    • B07C5/12—Sorting according to size characterised by the application to particular articles, not otherwise provided for
    • B07C5/122—Sorting according to size characterised by the application to particular articles, not otherwise provided for for bottles, ampoules, jars and other glassware
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
    • G07F7/06—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by returnable containers, i.e. reverse vending systems in which a user is rewarded for returning a container that serves as a token of value, e.g. bottles
    • G07F7/0609—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by returnable containers, i.e. reverse vending systems in which a user is rewarded for returning a container that serves as a token of value, e.g. bottles by fluid containers, e.g. bottles, cups, gas containers

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  • the present invention relates to a transshipment station and a method for the automatic transshipment of unsorted, singly supplied standard containers of different types.
  • the present invention also relates to a reverse vending machine with such a transfer station.
  • transhipment station is explained using a return machine for returnable bottles, it is not restricted to this but can also be transferred to other applications and / or other types of standard containers.
  • Return machines for one-way or returnable bottles also known as empties machines, are particularly widespread in countries with a one-way and returnable deposit for beverage containers (e.g. Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Weg, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland).
  • the purpose of the reverse vending machine is to reduce the personnel costs for accepting empties. This is desirable because accepting empties entails significant effort and therefore costs for the operator, but no added value. In known reverse vending machines, however, a certain amount of personnel is always required, especially for sorting and / or handling the empties.
  • FIG. 1 schematically shows such a bottle collecting table 100. This has a slide / conveyor belt indicated by the arrows drawn in, by means of which the bottles A, B, C, D are conveyed in the direction of the end 104 of the bottle collecting table 100 opposite a feed device 102.
  • the EP 0 569 689 A2 describes a device for sorting bottles in which the bottles are supplied in crates.
  • the DE 200 06059 U1 describes another arrangement for sorting of vessels for processing bottles of various types arriving in bottle crates from the consumer.
  • the DE-A-10 2009 011 058 describes a transfer station for unsorted bottles in transport or bottle crates.
  • the present invention is based on the object of specifying an improved transfer station for standard containers.
  • this object is achieved by a transfer station with the features of claim 1 and / or by a reverse vending machine with the features of claim 12.
  • the knowledge on which the present invention is based consists in the fact that, of the returnable bottles fed into reverse vending machines, a main volume of about 80% on average can be assigned to only a few, in particular four, standard bottle types.
  • the idea on which the present invention is based now consists in sorting the main volume of standard bottles automatically and transporting them into specific standard container boxes and only providing manual emptying or sorting into certain (more specific) container boxes for the secondary volume, e.g. B. by merely collecting the incidental items on a bottle collecting table.
  • the standard container boxes required for the main volume are held on a container box supply device and a recognized (standard) bottle of the main volume is assigned a free position in a standard container box intended for its bottle type.
  • the bottle is then automatically moved to this predetermined position by actuating an actuating unit.
  • the proportion of returnable bottles that have to be manually sorted into specific container boxes can thus advantageously be reduced by a very large proportion, in particular by the proportion of the main volume averaging around 80%.
  • personnel costs can be saved to a great extent, whereby the corresponding transfer stations or the corresponding reverse vending machines can be designed more effectively.
  • the displacement device has an actuating unit that can be moved in at least two axes.
  • the movability in at least two axes ensures that the actuating unit can be positioned in such a way that a predetermined position of a standard container box can be approached.
  • a standard container box generally has a grid-like division with partitions or intermediate webs, with a grid element each corresponding to a position provided for receiving a standard container. These positions are distributed lengthways and crossways, i.e. two-dimensionally over the crate, and are each openly accessible from above for placing a standard container.
  • any position of the standard container box can be approached.
  • the displacement device it would also be conceivable for the displacement device to have an actuating unit that can be moved in a rotary manner. Additionally or alternatively, it would also be advantageous if the actuating unit is a robot or has a robot arm.
  • a transport device which is designed to transport the different standard containers.
  • a standard container can thus advantageously be transported in a simple manner.
  • the standard container can be transported to the identification unit by means of the transport device and, after the identification, transported further or transported away by the identification unit.
  • a sorting device which is designed to recognize those standard containers for which no standard container boxes are held in the container box supply device and to discharge them from the transport device.
  • all possible standard containers can advantageously be handled with the transfer station, in particular also those standard containers for which no standard container boxes are kept in the container box supply device.
  • a collecting table is also provided on which the discharged standard containers, for which no standard container boxes are kept in the container box supply device, can be collected.
  • the collecting table can be used analogously to the one in Figure 1 be formed bottle collecting table shown.
  • a secondary volume of the standard containers can thus advantageously be collected on the collecting table.
  • the sorting device and the collecting table thus increase the flexibility of the transshipment station, since despite the automated relocation of the main volume of standard containers, the secondary volume of standard containers can still be turned over. Because the secondary volume only accounts for an average of 20% of the total volume, the transfer station has a comparatively multiple, in particular an average five times higher, automatic running time until the collecting table has to be emptied manually.
  • the actuating unit is designed to carry out an alignment of the container box supply device that corresponds to the predetermined position. After the alignment, the at least one standard container can then be displaced to the predetermined position by the transport device.
  • the actuating unit that can be moved in two axes, it can be designed, for example, as an xy cross table.
  • the transport device can be arranged in a stationary manner in this case. By moving the xy cross table along two axes, the setting unit can always be positioned in a way in which an output of the transport device is located above the position predetermined for the standard container in a standard container box arranged on the xy cross table.
  • the standard container can thus be output directly from the output to the predetermined position by simply being transported along the transport device.
  • an actuating unit that can be moved in a rotational manner, this could be formed, for example, by a rotating rotary table.
  • the transport device contains a slide system which is designed in such a way that a standard container slides therein when being moved to the predetermined position, at least in sections, accelerated by gravity from a higher level to the predetermined position.
  • sliding is to be understood as any movement accelerated by gravity. This means that both low and high frictional forces can act or even a free fall can be provided, at least in sections.
  • the sliding also includes an acceleration or deceleration phase.
  • braking elements can be provided at the output of the transport device, for example, which brake the gravitationally accelerated sliding or falling before entering the standard container box, so that damage to the standard container and the standard container box is avoided.
  • the standard containers can be conveyed to the setting unit by the transport device, the setting unit being designed to move at least one standard container to the predetermined position.
  • the standard container boxes or the standard container box supply device can thus remain stationary during the process of displacement.
  • the actuating unit represents an additional movable module which moves the standard containers directly to their predetermined position.
  • the actuating unit can, if necessary, be movable in more than two axes, preferably in three axes.
  • the setting unit removes the standard container from the transport device and moves it directly to the predetermined position in the standard container box.
  • the sorting device is also designed to eject the types of standard containers, for which standard container boxes are held in the container box supply device, sorted into individual outlets. It is thus advantageously possible to selectively remove only one type of standard container from an outlet by means of the actuating unit.
  • the withdrawal can be tailored to this type and so the Effectiveness and / or the efficiency of moving the standard container can be increased by the setting unit.
  • the setting device is designed to remove a plurality of standard containers of one type from at least one of the outlets and to move them to a corresponding plurality of predetermined positions within at least one standard container box intended for the respective type of standard container.
  • the actuating device is preferably also designed to remove the plurality of standard containers simultaneously from at least one of the outlets. Fewer relocation processes are therefore particularly advantageously necessary, which increases the efficiency of the transshipment station. By removing the majority of standard containers at the same time, the efficiency is further increased.
  • a number of standard containers corresponding to the plurality of standard containers are preferably initially collected in the individual outlets. The plurality of standard containers can then be removed from one outlet at the same time.
  • the plurality of standard containers corresponds to the number or an integral multiple of the number of standard containers which fit into the standard container boxes next to one another in the longitudinal or transverse direction of the standard container boxes. It should be noted that different types of standard container boxes can be different transverse or longitudinal directions. The integer multiple is used in cases in which there are several, for example two, boxes of the same type arranged next to one another.
  • the plurality of standard containers corresponds to four standard containers.
  • Four standard containers arranged next to one another are particularly advantageous to move at the same time, since for different standard container boxes four standard containers correspond to the number that can be arranged either in the transverse direction or in the longitudinal direction within the box.
  • four standard containers also correspond to a favorable number for types of standard container boxes in which only two standard containers in the transverse direction can be arranged.
  • Four standard containers then correspond to the number of standard containers that fit in the transverse direction into two standard container boxes arranged next to one another. In this case, it is therefore an integer multiple, in this case twice the number of standard containers, which fit next to one another in the transverse direction in this type of standard container box.
  • the number of four standard containers corresponds to the number that fits in a beer crate in the transverse direction, in a soda water crate in the longitudinal direction, and in the case of juice pillows in the transverse direction in two boxes standing next to one another.
  • the standard container boxes are also advantageously arranged accordingly in the container box supply device.
  • the alignment of the setting device can be changed according to the respective type of crate, so that it aligns itself as required either in the transverse or longitudinal direction of the standard container transport device of the standard container.
  • the actuating device has a gripper system which is designed to grasp the plurality of standard containers for removal from one of the outlets and to release them again for placing in at least one standard container box.
  • the gripper system is preferably also designed to grasp the standard containers at the same time and / or to release them again at the same time.
  • the transport device has a buffer zone in which standard containers supplied to the transfer station can initially be collected in an unsorted manner. If, for example, an unexpectedly large number of standard containers are fed to the transfer station in a short time interval, such a peak can advantageously be compensated for or absorbed by means of the buffer zone. It is also possible to use the buffer zone, the transshipment station continue to supply bottles, even if one of the following stations of the transfer station in the transport direction is currently being serviced, emptied or otherwise used. This increases or improves the operational availability of the transshipment station.
  • the transport device has a separation device, by means of which the standard containers collected in the buffer zone can then be separated and transported further individually.
  • the standard containers can advantageously be reintegrated individually into the flow of the transshipment station following the buffer zone.
  • the buffer zone is designed as a collecting table.
  • it is a collecting table equipped with a slide / conveyor belt.
  • the slide / conveyor belt preferably conveys the standard containers to the separating device, so that continuous separation of the standard containers is made possible.
  • the separating device is designed as a guardrail guide on the collecting table that tapers to the width of a standard container. A particularly robust and easy-to-manufacture design of the separating device is thus advantageously implemented.
  • the recognition unit is provided downstream of the buffer zone in the transport direction on the transport device.
  • the identification unit can also be provided on the transport device downstream of the separating device in the transport direction. It would also be conceivable to provide the identification unit directly on the separating device.
  • the sequence of the standard containers transported downstream of the identification unit in the transport device is therefore advantageously retained. Since the standard containers are also recognized in this sequence, the information on the sequence can advantageously be used to operate the displacement device, for example, for travel distances of the displacement device to optimize and / or to determine the number of standard containers in the outlets at a certain point in time, knowing the transport time.
  • a control device which has a memory and which is designed to read information about the type of a standard container from the identification unit.
  • the control device is preferably also designed to store current information about already occupied positions within the standard container boxes held in the container box supply device in the memory, to update it and, if necessary, to retrieve it again.
  • the control device is optionally or additionally designed to assign a standard container recognized by the recognition unit to a free position within this standard container depending on the information on its type and the already occupied positions in the standard container box intended for this type.
  • the control device is preferably designed to control the actuating unit or the transport device or both accordingly in order to move the standard container to the position assigned to it.
  • control device is thus designed to control the interaction of the individual components of the transshipment station and, depending on information collected or provided by the individual components of the transshipment station, to carry out an action provided for the respective case.
  • the control device is preferably designed as a computer unit which has a memory, a communication system and a decision logic.
  • the way in which the actuating unit and / or the transport device are controlled depends on the type of design of the transfer station. If, for example, it is a transshipment station in which the transport device is arranged in a stationary manner, the actuating unit is first activated for alignment according to the predetermined position and the transport device is then activated for transporting to the predetermined position. If, on the other hand, it is, for example, an embodiment in which the transport device first transports the standard container to the actuating unit, the Controlled transport device for transporting and then controlled the actuating unit for moving the standard container to the predetermined position.
  • the container box supply device has at least one removal device which is designed to automatically transport away standard container boxes completely filled with standard containers. It is preferably designed to transport away the standard container boxes as a function of the information stored in the memory of the control device.
  • the standard container boxes are thus advantageously not only automatically filled with standard containers, but also automatically transported away after filling.
  • a box stacking device which is designed to stack standard container boxes transported away by the container box supply device.
  • the transported crates are already output in stacks at the end of the transhipment station, so that logistical further processing of the standard container boxes is simplified or made possible without manual stacking of the standard container boxes, which means less handling and thus reduces the costs.
  • the container box supply device has at least one feed device and a box magazine which are designed to automatically replace standard container boxes removed with standard container boxes from the box magazine.
  • the process of replacing a full standard container box is advantageously also implemented automatically, which in turn greatly reduces manual intervention.
  • manual intervention is only necessary when all the crates from the crate magazine have been used up or filled with standard containers.
  • the purely automatic operating time until manual intervention is necessary is advantageously greatly increased.
  • the crate magazine is designed for magazining stacks of crates.
  • the box magazine also has a box unstacking device which is designed to separate standard container boxes that have been stacked in the box magazine.
  • the standard container boxes can thus be stored in stacks of boxes in a space-saving manner and still be fed individually by the feed device to the container box supply device.
  • the identification unit simultaneously forms the bottle scanning unit.
  • An additional identification unit on the rear of the reverse vending machine is thus superfluous, which advantageously means that one component of the handling device can be saved.
  • the control device is designed in such a way that it reads information about the type of reusable bottles scanned from the bottle scanning unit. This information is thus retained for the transshipment station, so that a renewed recognition by means of a recognition unit is advantageously superfluous.
  • information about already occupied positions within the standard container boxes held in the container box supply device is stored in a memory. This information is updated after a standard container has been moved to the position assigned to it in the standard container box in the memory.
  • current information about already occupied or free positions within the container box supply device is always available in the memory and can be called up therefrom.
  • the container box supply device can thus advantageously be operated fully automatically, since the supply and removal of standard container boxes can also be controlled on the basis of this information.
  • a step of transporting away the standard container box is provided after the update if the standard container box no longer has an empty position. Consequently full standard container boxes are transported away from the container box supply device.
  • a step of feeding in a further, preferably empty, standard container box of the same type is also provided after the removal. In this way, the removed standard container box is directly replaced by the standard container box that has been supplied.
  • the step of displacing the supplied standard container comprises the simultaneous displacement of a plurality of standard containers. This increases the efficiency of the process.
  • FIG. 1 shows a bottle collecting table as it is known to the applicant.
  • the bottle collecting table 100 has a bottle collecting surface 101, on which a slide / conveyor belt is provided, the conveying direction of which is indicated by the movement arrow drawn on the bottle collecting surface 101. Furthermore, a feed device 102 is provided, which feeds different bottles A, B, C, D, shown schematically, to the bottle collecting table.
  • the bottle collecting surface 101 is delimited by circumferential bands 103 so that bottles A, B, C, D collected on the bottle collecting table 100 cannot fall down.
  • the bottles are unsorted or mixed up, placed on the bottle collecting table, transported by the slide / conveyor belt to the table end 104 opposite the feed device 102 and accumulated there on the belt 103.
  • the bottle collecting table 100 is provided for receiving several hundred bottles A, B, C, D. At the latest when the bottle collecting table 100 is full, it must be emptied manually so that further bottles can be added.
  • FIG. 2 shows a plan view of a schematically illustrated transhipment station 1.
  • This transhipment station 1 has a container box supply device 2 in which different types of standard container boxes A ', B', C ', D' (hereinafter referred to as “boxes”) are held.
  • a detection unit 3 is provided which detects returnable returnable bottles A, B, C, D (hereinafter referred to as “bottles”) that have been supplied to the transhipment station 1.
  • a transport device 6 is provided, which transports the bottles A, B, C, D from the recognition unit 3 to the container box supply device 2.
  • a displacement device 4 is provided, which is designed to automatically move the bottles A, B, C, D recognized by the recognition unit 3 to a predetermined free position in a position for the respective type of bottle A; B; C; D certain standard container boxes A 'provided on the container box supply device 2; B '; C '; D 'to relocate.
  • the displacement device 4 has an actuating unit 5 which can be moved in two axes x and y.
  • the setting unit 5 aligns the container box supply device 2, which in each case corresponds to the predetermined position for a recognized bottle A; B; C; D corresponds to. If, for example, a low beer bottle B has been detected, the setting unit 5 is aligned in such a way that an output 9 of the transport device 6 is positioned exactly above the predetermined position of the beer crate D ′ provided for the low beer bottle D.
  • the adjustment unit 5 can be aligned before or preferably during the transport of the respective bottles A; B; C; D take place. It is only important that the orientation at the time of dispensing bottle A; B; C; D into the respective box A '; B '; C '; D 'is complete. When a bottle of A; B; C; D reaches output 9, it is directly from above into box A '; B '; C '; D 'fed to the predetermined position.
  • the feeding can be done by means of motorized insertion, sliding under the force of gravity or at least in sections the bottle A; B; C; D take place, wherein the feed movement is preferably braked at the output 9 at the end of the feed process in order to avoid damage to the bottle A; B; C; D or the box A '; B '; C '; D 'to avoid.
  • the transfer station 1 has a control device 20 for assigning a free position and for controlling the actuating unit 5 and / or the transport device 6.
  • This contains a memory 21 and is designed to store information about the type of bottle A; B; C; D to be read from the recognition unit 3.
  • the control device 20 stores current information about already occupied positions within the standard container boxes held in the container box supply device 2 A ', B', C ', D' from. After a bottle of A; B; C; D to a free position within a box A '; B '; C '; D 'was supplied, this information is always updated. In addition, the stored information is called up if necessary.
  • the control device 20 controls the actuating unit 5 and / or the transport device 6 accordingly in order to move the bottle A; B; C; D to relocate to the assigned position.
  • the recognition unit 3, the control device 20 and parts of the transport device 6 are accommodated in a common housing 10.
  • FIG Figure 3 shows a perspective illustration of a schematically depicted transfer station 1 according to FIG Figure 2 .
  • the boxes B 'and C' are not shown therein, but are only indicated with regard to the position of their base area.
  • the housing 10 is shown closed.
  • the transport device 6 has a flat area and a curved or angled area.
  • the output 9 is located at the end of the angled area.
  • the transport device 6 preferably has a feed device (not shown), for example a conveyor belt, conveyor rollers or the like, which is designed to carry a bottle A; B; C; D to convey to the curved or angled area.
  • the curved or angled area has a chute 17 in which the bottle A; B; C; D is accelerated by gravity and its orientation from a horizontal to a vertical position in which it is placed in a box A '; B '; C '; D 'is adjustable, changes.
  • Bottle marriage is preferred braked at output 9.
  • brake flaps 18 are provided on the output 9, which are designed to prevent the fall or the sliding of the bottle A; B; C; D to brake to avoid damaging the bottle and / or crate.
  • FIG 4 is the transhipment station 1 according to Figure 3 shown with a sorting device 7 and a collecting table 8.
  • the sorting device 7 has an actuating part 19 by means of which a bottle A; B; C; D can be discharged from the transport device 6 and fed to the collecting table 8.
  • the sorting device 7 is activated whenever a bottle A; B; C; D is introduced, which is not intended for any of the boxes A ', B', C ', D' held in the container box supply device 2.
  • the control part is designed as a flap 19. When the sorting device 7 is not activated, the flap 19 is folded up so that it does not engage in the transport device 6.
  • the flap 19 is folded down so that it engages in the transport device 6 and a bottle transported in the transport device 6 is fed to the collecting table 8 via the flap 19 and a guide connected to it.
  • a slide, a conveyor belt, a roller conveyor or some other type of feed device can be connected to the flap 19 as a guide.
  • the discharged bottles are in accordance with the in Figure 1 illustrated manner of a bottle collecting table.
  • the collecting table 8 is outside the action area of the actuating unit 5. In the non-activated state, the sorting device 7 and the collecting table 8 therefore do not influence the functions of the handling device 1 for bottle types for which crates A ', B', C ', D' in the Container box supply device 2 are held.
  • Figure 5 shows an alternative embodiment of a transshipment station 1.
  • the displacement device 4 is here in relation to that described above Figures 2-4 described way educated.
  • the embodiment shown differs in the manner in which the bottle is fed.
  • the transport device 6 here has a buffer zone 15 which is designed as a collecting table. In this buffer zone, the different bottles A, B, C, D supplied can be temporarily collected or buffered in an unsorted manner.
  • a separating device 16 is also provided, which is designed as a tapering guardrail guide and separates the bottles A, B, C, D temporarily buffered in the buffer zone 15 so that they can be conveyed further individually by the transport device 6.
  • the collecting table 15 is equipped with a sliding / conveyor belt which conveys the bottles A, B, C, D in the direction shown by the movement arrows to the guardrail guide 16 and accumulates them on the guardrail guide 16.
  • this tapers to the width of a single bottle A; B; C; D, so that only a single bottle A; B; C; D can be introduced into the section of the transport device 6 adjoining the collecting table 15.
  • the recognition unit 3 is provided in this exemplary embodiment. This represents, analogous to that in relation to the Figures 2-4 described manner, the respective type of bottle A; B; C; D fixed, so that the displacement device 4 or the actuating unit 5 can be aligned accordingly.
  • FIG. 6 shows a transfer station 1 according to Figure 2 with a feed device 31 and a removal device 30.
  • the feed device 31 is each connected to a box magazine 32 in which a plurality of boxes A ', B', C ', D' are stored.
  • a box A '; B '; C '; D 'complete with bottles A; B; C; D is filled, it is brought by the actuating unit 5 to a transport device 30 assigned to it.
  • the removal device 30 each has transport means, for example a drive roller or the like, by means of which the respective crate A '; B '; C '; D 'is pulled down from the container box supply device 2 and is transported away. Then the container supply device 2 moved by means of the actuating unit 5 to a position in which a similar box to the position of the transported box A '; B '; C '; D 'can be fed through the feed device 31.
  • a total of four feed devices 31 and four removal devices 30 are provided.
  • the feed devices 31 are shown in FIG Figure 6 Arranged to the left and right of the container box supply device 2, while the removal devices 30 are respectively arranged in front of (in the drawing below) and behind (in the drawing above) the container box supply device 2.
  • the arrangement shown is to be understood purely as an example.
  • the container box supply device 2 is initially aligned by means of the actuating unit 5 to remove the full crate A' at the left rear corner of the action area of the actuating unit 5.
  • the box A ′ is thus oriented in such a way that it can be transported away by the removal device 30 arranged on the left of the housing 10. Then the container box supply device 2 is moved a little forward, ie into a middle left position, in which a box A 'can be fed from the box magazine 32 to the position of the removed box A' by the feed device 31 arranged at the rear left to replace.
  • a new, preferably empty crate A' is positioned on the container crate supply device 2, which can then be filled with sparkling water bottles A again.
  • this procedure can also be carried out in an analogous manner with a crate B 'for tall beer bottles B in the left front corner of the action area or with a beer crate D' for low beer bottles D in the right rear corner of the action area of the setting unit 5.
  • boxes C ' which are provided for juice bottles C
  • two boxes C' are fed in or removed at once. In the exemplary embodiment shown, this takes place in an analogous manner in the front right corner of the action area.
  • FIG. 6 The embodiment shown can additionally be supplemented with a box stacking device 60 and optionally or additionally with a box unstacking device 70.
  • a box stacking device 60 is shown in a schematic side view in FIG Figure 7 shown.
  • Figure 8 FIG. 11 shows a schematic side view of a box unstacking device 70.
  • a box stacking device 60 according to Figure 7 is preferably provided on a removal device 30. Crates 65 transported away can thus be automatically stacked. For this purpose, the removed boxes 65 are transported to a stacking station 61.
  • This stacking station 61 has a lifting device 62, by means of which one or more boxes 65 already located at the stacking station 61 and belonging to a box stack 63 are lifted so that the transported box 65 can be transported under the box stack 63.
  • the stack of crates is then lowered so that it rests on the crate that is currently being supplied. The box stack 63 is thus increased by the additionally supplied box 65.
  • a gripping device 64 of the lifting device 62 is then automatically attached to the currently supplied, bottom crate of the crate stack 63.
  • this can have a spring hinge, not shown, which can be folded down in one direction when the gripping device is displaced and folds out again due to the spring force when the bottom crate is reached.
  • the stacking process can be repeated and the stack of boxes 63 increased by a further box.
  • a predetermined maximum stack height of, for example, four or five boxes is reached, the stack of boxes 63 is then transported further along the removal device 30. In this stacked state, the stacks of crates 63 can then be loaded further directly, for example onto pallets.
  • the box unstacking apparatus 70 shown uses that in relation to FIG Figure 7 described principle of the stacking process in reverse to destacking.
  • the crates are stacked in stacks of crates 73. If an individual box is to be fed by means of the feed device 31, the foremost stack of boxes 73 located at a destacking station is grasped from below by means of a gripping device 74 and a lifting device 72 on the second box and lifted. The bottom crate is then free and can be fed in individually by means of the feed device 31. The remaining stack of boxes 73 is then placed back onto the feed device 31 and the gripping device is transferred from below into the now second box. When all the boxes of the box stack 73 have been fed, a further box stack 73 stored behind it is fed to the unstacking station 71.
  • Figure 9 shows an alternative embodiment of a transshipment station 1. Analogous to the embodiments described above, this has a detection unit 3 and a control device 20.
  • the sorting device 7 is also designed here, in addition to discharging bottles F, for which no boxes are provided in the container box supply device 2, the supplied bottles A, B, C, D, for which Crates A ', B', C ', D' are held in the container box supply device 2, to be pre-sorted.
  • outlets 11, 12, 13 and 14 are also provided, into which the bottles A, B, C, D are separated by type. In these outlets 11, 12, 13 and 14 the bottles A, B, C, D are then lined up according to type.
  • the displacement device 4 has an alternative actuating unit 5 on which a gripper system 41 is provided. That is, in contrast to the previously described embodiments of Figures 2 to 6 In this embodiment, the boxes A ', B', C ', D' and the container box supply device 2 remain during the relocation process of bottles A, B, C, D stationary. Instead, the bottles A, B, C, D are gripped by the gripper system 41 and conveyed to the predetermined position of the associated crates A ', B', C ', D' assigned to them.
  • the gripper system 41 has a total of four grippers 42, which are arranged and aligned in the example shown in such a way that they can each grasp four bottles A, B, C, D from one of the outlets 11, 12, 13, 14 at the same time.
  • the gripper system 41 is thus aligned parallel to the outlets 11, 12, 13, 14.
  • the adjusting device 5 to which the gripper system 41 is attached can be moved three-dimensionally. It is thus designed to hold the bottles A; B; C; D, and along a height dimension which is in Fig. 9 is drawn with a z-axis to lift out of the spout.
  • the gripper system 41 is then moved to a position which, in the z direction, corresponds to that for the captured bottles A; B; C; D predetermined positions within one of the boxes A 'held in the container box supply device 2; B '; C '; D 'cursed. Then the gripper system 41 is lowered in the z-direction. When the predetermined position or the next position due to lack of accessibility of the predetermined position is reached, the bottles A; B; C; D released from the gripper system 41 and thus fed to their predetermined positions.
  • the boxes A ', B', C ', D' are each sorted by type on a conveyor belt, which forms the feed device 31 and the removal device 30 at the same time. Furthermore, the conveyor belt also forms the box magazine 32 at the same time.
  • the boxes can also be stored in box stacks 73, with an unstacking device 70 according to FIG. 8 being interposed.
  • a box stacking device 60 according to FIG Figure 7 be provided. The conveyor belts run parallel, so that the orientation of the gripper system 41 for the individual boxes A '; B '; C '; D 'does not need to be changed.
  • the boxes A ', B', C ', D' are according to their number of bottles A; B; C; D, which in the longitudinal or transverse direction in the respective boxes A '; B '; C '; D 'fit, oriented differently.
  • the boxes B 'and D' for high and low beer bottles B, D are lined up lengthways in the conveyor belt. Both beer crates B ', D' can accommodate four beer bottles B, D in the transverse direction.
  • the gripper system 41 equipped with four grippers 42 can thus completely fill the beer crates B ', D' each in a transverse row.
  • the water boxes A ' are lined up in the conveyor belt along the conveying direction.
  • the water crates A ' can only accommodate three bottles in a row in the transverse direction but four bottles in the longitudinal direction.
  • the gripper system 41 equipped with four grippers 42 can set four water bottles A at a time in the longitudinal direction of the water crates A '.
  • the juice boxes C ' have only three bottle spaces in the longitudinal direction and only two bottle spaces in the transverse direction. Therefore, two juice boxes C 'are lined up next to one another in the longitudinal direction, so that the gripper system 41 can simultaneously feed four juice bottles C into two juice boxes C' arranged next to one another in their transverse direction.
  • this has a flap 19 each at the entrance of the collecting table 8 and at the entrance of the outlets 11, 12 and 13.
  • a flap 19 When the flaps 19 are closed, a bottle A; B; C; D transported past the flaps 19.
  • a bottle A; B; C; D When opened, a bottle A; B; C; D discharged through a flap 19 and fed to the collecting table 8 or one of the outlets 11, 12 or 13.
  • the last outlet 14 does not need a flap, since all bottle types not belonging to this outlet 14 are already sorted out beforehand.
  • the flaps 19 are preferably also controlled by the control device 20.
  • the bottle types A are collected in the outlet 11, the bottle types B in the outlet 12, the bottle types C in the outlet 13 and the bottle types D in the outlet 14.
  • it opens up of a bottle D by the recognition unit 3 none of the flaps 19, while when the bottle type C is recognized, the flap 19 at the outlet 13, when the bottle type B is recognized, the flap 19 of the outlet 12 and when the bottle type A is recognized, the flap 19 at the outlet 11 opens .
  • another type of bottle for example a bottle F, for which no standard container box is held in the container box supply device 2, is recognized, the respective bottle F is discharged into the collecting table 8 by means of the flap 19 provided there.
  • Figure 10 shows a return machine 50 for returnable returnable bottles.
  • This has input device 51 for inputting individual bottles.
  • a bottle scanning unit 3 ' is provided which scans the individual bottles entered and recognizes their type, so that a deposit value can be assigned to an entered bottle.
  • a transport device 6 ' is provided which transports the individual bottles entered from the bottle scanning unit 3'. If the type of bottle is not recognized, acceptance is refused and the bottle is returned by moving the transport device 6 'backwards.
  • the reverse vending machine has a transfer station 1 (not shown here) according to one of FIGS. 2-4, 6 or 9.
  • the transfer station 1 is preferably arranged on the rear side behind the reverse vending machine 50.
  • the bottle scanning unit 3 ′ simultaneously forms the recognition unit 3 of the transhipment station 1.
  • the transport device 6 ′ is preferably designed as part of the transport device 6 of the transfer station 1.
  • the housing 10 of the reverse vending machine 50 corresponds to the housing 10 in which according to FIG Figure 2 and 9 the recognition unit 3 and the control device 20 are provided. However, this is only to be understood as an example.
  • the housing of the reverse vending machine can instead also be an independent housing.
  • the reverse vending machine 50 can also be provided let into a wall, so that it only has a housing on the rear side of the wall, on which the transfer station is then also arranged.
  • the reverse vending machine also has an adjusting device 52 for feeding in standard container boxes. According to the invention, these can also be scanned with a recognition unit 3 ′′ with regard to their deposit value and transported away by means of an additional transport device 6 ′′. Crates entered here can, for example, be fed directly to the removal device 30 of the transfer station.
  • the reverse vending machine 50 also has a deposit request button 53 and a deposit voucher issuing slot 54, wherein a deposit slip which can be issued via the slot 54 can be issued via the deposit request button 53.
  • the deposit request button 53 and the dispensing slot 54 are only exemplary embodiments of a man-machine interface. Instead, another human-machine interface, for example a touchscreen operation or a purely electronic deposit processing system or the like, can also be provided.
  • the return machine can also be suitable for one-way returnable bottles. These are not fed to the transshipment station, but to an upstream or parallel compression and / or shredding station.
  • a return machine for returnable bottles is therefore also to be understood as a return machine which is suitable for returnable and one-way bottles.
  • the entire transfer station can be accommodated in a separate room or in a housing, the input device and / or the setting device and / or the deposit request button and / or the output slot preferably being integrated into a wall of the room or of the housing.
  • the feed devices 31 and removal devices 30 can also be used in another suitable manner, which allows the boxes A '; B '; C '; D 'allowed to be arranged.
  • the removal devices 30, like the feed devices 31, are also arranged laterally.
  • the feed devices 31 and the removal devices 30 at least partially one above the other in a space-saving manner.
  • the actuating device 5 would preferably be movable in three axes, that is to say in addition to the x and y directions also in the z direction, in order to approach the upper and lower feed devices 31 and removal devices 30.
  • Fig. 11 and Fig. 12 show a perspective illustration of a transfer station and a view of the transfer station seen from the front.
  • the transhipment station 1 here has a feed device consisting of two tables 110, several bottle stands 111, a gripper system 112 and a removal device 113.
  • a table 110 is each equipped with a multiplicity of outlets 114, which serve to line up and line up the sorted standard bottles 115 which have been pushed into them.
  • the outlets 114 serve the purpose of specifying a line on the tables 110 into which the different standard bottles 115 are presorted along a line.
  • typically, only one type of standard bottle 115 is provided for each outlet 114.
  • Bottle feeder On the side of the in the Fig. 11 and 12th Bottle feeder, not shown, is provided with a total of 4 bottle holders.
  • the purpose of these bottle stands 111 is to set up standard bottles 115 that have been fed in, which are fed to the side of the tables 110 in the lying position, for example. Then the standard bottles 115 set up in this way are suitably placed (in the Fig. 11 and 12th not shown) sorted into the various outlets 114. Typically, after sorting, only one type of standard bottle 115 is provided for each outlet 114.
  • the sorted standard bottles 115 are then, for example, due to gravity or moved by a drive device, such as a pusher or a conveyor belt, towards the end of the table 104.
  • the gripper system 112 comprises a gripper 118 which can be moved in the x / y direction along and transversely to the two tables 110 via a frame 117.
  • the gripper 118 is designed here as a gantry crane 118.
  • a gantry crane 115 is a stationary but movable crane.
  • the gantry crane 118 spans its work area, such as in the example shown a respective outlet 113, like a portal. It usually runs on rails of the frame 117, on which it is supported with its supports.
  • the gantry crane 118 can move the load in all three directions.
  • This gantry crane 118 is designed to function as a gripper and to pick up at least one, preferably also several, standard bottles 115 located next to one another in a respective outlet 113 and to place them in a corresponding standard container box 119.
  • the gantry crane 118 can also be moved in the z direction, that is to say vertically, in order to place the standard bottles 115 received into the standard container box 119.
  • a standard container box 119 If a standard container box 119 is full, what is in the (in the Fig. 11 and 12th Sensor system (not shown) can be recognized, it can be transported away via the transport device 113 designed as a transport belt 113. Empty standard container boxes 119 are also fed to the transhipment station 1 via this conveyor belt. The feeding or transporting away of the empty or full standard container boxes 119 can take place via a drive device, such as a slide or a conveyor belt. Alternatively, it would also be possible to feed the empty standard container boxes 119 without a drive, for example due to gravity, up to a transfer position 120 in which the gantry crane 118 places the standard bottles 115 received into the standard container box 119. As soon as a standard container box 119 is completely filled with bottles, the standard container box 119 can be transported away by gravity or by a drive device along the removal device 113 by releasing a buffer or stop.

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  1. Station de manutention (1) pour des récipients normalisés (A, B, C, D) de différents types amenés individuellement de façon non triée, en particulier pour différentes bouteilles consignées (A, B, C, D) amenées de façon non triée sous forme de bouteilles individuelles,
    comportant un dispositif de mise à disposition de caisses d'emballage (2) qui est conçu pour tenir à disposition différents types de caisses d'emballage normalisées (A', B', C', D') destinées aux différents récipients normalisés (A, B, C, D),
    comportant une unité de reconnaissance (3) qui est conçue pour reconnaître le type d'un récipient normalisé (A, B, C, D) amené individuellement,
    comportant un dispositif de transfert (4) qui est conçu pour transférer de manière automatisée au moins un récipient normalisé (A ; B ; C ; D) reconnu par l'unité de reconnaissance à une position libre prédéterminée à l'intérieur d'une caisse d'emballage normalisée (A' ; B' ; C' ; D') destinée au type respectif de récipient normalisé (A ; B ; C ; D) et mise à disposition au dispositif de mise à disposition de caisses d'emballage (2).
  2. Station de manutention selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisée en ce
    que le dispositif de transfert (4) présente une unité de positionnement (5) qui peut être déplacée au moins selon deux axes (X, Y) et/ou en rotation et/ou qu'il est prévu un dispositif de transport (6) qui est conçu pour transporter les différents récipients normalisés (A, B, C, D).
  3. Station de manutention selon l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée en ce
    qu'il est prévu un dispositif de tri (7) qui est conçu pour identifier les récipients normalisés (F) pour lesquels aucune caisse d'emballage normalisée n'est tenue à disposition dans le dispositif de mise à disposition de caisses d'emballage (2) et pour les évacuer du dispositif de transport (6), en particulier sur une table d'accumulation prévue à cet effet.
  4. Station de manutention selon l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée en ce
    que l'unité de positionnement (5) est conçue pour effectuer un alignement du dispositif de mise à disposition de caisses d'emballage (2) correspondant à la position prédéterminée et, après l'alignement, ledit au moins un récipient normalisé (A ; B ; C ; D) peut être transféré à la position prédéterminée par le dispositif de transport (6).
  5. Station de manutention selon l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée en ce
    que les récipients normalisés (A ; B ; C ; D) peuvent être transportés par le dispositif de transport vers l'unité de positionnement (5) et l'unité de positionnement (5) est conçue pour transférer au moins un récipient normalisé (A ; B ; C ; D) à la position prédéterminée.
  6. Station de manutention selon la revendication 5,
    caractérisée en ce
    que le dispositif de tri (7) est en outre conçu pour évacuer, de façon triée dans des sorties individuelles (11, 12, 13, 14), les types de récipients normalisés (A, B, C, D) pour lesquels des caisses d'emballage normalisées (A', B', C', D') sont tenues à disposition dans le dispositif de mise à disposition de caisses d'emballage (2) et/ou
    que le moyen de positionnement (5) est conçu pour prélever une pluralité de récipients normalisés (A ; B ; C ; D) d'un type, en particulier simultanément, d'au moins une des sorties (11, 12, 13, 14) et pour les transférer vers une pluralité correspondante de positions prédéterminées à l'intérieur d'au moins une caisse d'emballage normalisée (A' ; B' ; C' ; D') destinée au type respectif de récipients normalisés (A ; B ; C ; D), la pluralité de récipients normalisés (A ; B ; C ; D) correspondant en particulier au nombre ou à un multiple entier du nombre de récipients normalisés (A ; B ; C ; D) qui peuvent être rangés côte à côte dans les caisses d'emballage normalisées dans la direction longitudinale ou transversale des caisses d'emballage normalisées.
  7. Station de manutention selon l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée en ce
    que le dispositif de transport (6) présente une zone tampon (15) dans laquelle des récipients normalisés (A ; B ; C ; D) amenés peuvent être d'abord accumulés sans être triés,
    le dispositif de transport (6) présentant un dispositif d'individualisation (16) au moyen duquel les récipients normalisés (A ; B ; C ; D) accumulés dans la zone tampon (15) peuvent être individualisés et ensuite transportés individuellement.
  8. Station de manutention selon la revendication 7,
    caractérisée en ce
    que la zone tampon (15) est conçue comme une table d'accumulation (15), en particulier comme une table d'accumulation équipée d'une bande glissante/transporteuse et/ou
    que le dispositif d'individualisation (16) est conçu comme une glissière de guidage (16) se rétrécissant à la largeur d'un récipient normalisé (A ; B ; C ; D) sur la table d'accumulation.
  9. Station de manutention selon l'une des revendications 7 ou 8,
    caractérisée en ce
    que l'unité de reconnaissance (3) est prévue sur le dispositif de transport (6) en aval de la zone tampon (15) et/ou du dispositif d'individualisation (16) dans la direction de transport.
  10. Station de manutention selon l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée en ce
    qu'il est prévu un moyen de commande (20) qui présente une mémoire (21) et qui est conçu pour :
    - lire des informations sur le type d'un récipient normalisé (A ; B ; C ; D) à partir de l'unité de reconnaissance (3) ;
    - stocker, mettre à jour et rappeler en cas de besoin dans la mémoire (21) des informations actuelles sur les positions déjà occupées à l'intérieur des caisses d'emballage normalisées (A' ; B' ; C' ; D') tenues à disposition dans le dispositif de mise à disposition de caisses d'emballage (2) ;
    - attribuer une position libre à l'intérieur d'une caisse d'emballage normalisée (A' ; B' ; C' ; D') à un récipient normalisé (A ; B ; C ; D) reconnu par l'unité de reconnaissance (3) en fonction des informations sur son type et sur les positions déjà occupées dans la caisse d'emballage normalisée (A' ; B' ; C' ; D') destinée à ce type ; et
    - commander l'unité de positionnement (5) et/ou le dispositif de transport (6) en conséquence pour transférer le récipient normalisé (A ; B ; C ; D) à la position qui lui a été attribuée.
  11. Station de manutention selon l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisée en ce
    que le dispositif de mise à disposition de caisses d'emballage (2) présente au moins un dispositif d'enlèvement (30) qui est conçu pour enlever automatiquement des caisses d'emballage normalisées (A' ; B' ; C' ; D') entièrement remplies de récipients normalisés (A ; B ; C ; D), en particulier en fonction des informations stockées dans la mémoire (21).
  12. Automate de reprise (50) pour bouteilles consignées (A ; B ; C ; D)
    comportant un dispositif d'entrée (51) pour l'introduction individuelle de bouteilles consignées,
    comportant un dispositif de transport (6'),
    comportant une unité de scannage de bouteilles (3') et comportant une station de manutention (1) selon l'une des revendications précédentes.
  13. Automate de reprise selon la revendication 12,
    caractérisé en ce
    que l'unité de reconnaissance (3) forme en même temps l'unité de scannage de bouteilles (3').
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