Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
  • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
  • B07C3/00—Sorting according to destination
  • B07C3/008—Means for collecting objects, e.g. containers for sorted mail items
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
  • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
  • B07C3/00—Sorting according to destination
  • B07C3/02—Apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution
  • B07C3/08—Apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution using arrangements of conveyors
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H1/00—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated
  • B65H1/02—Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles on edge
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
  • B65H2301/30—Orientation, displacement, position of the handled material
  • B65H2301/33—Modifying, selecting, changing orientation
  • B65H2301/332—Turning, overturning
  • B65H2301/3321—Turning, overturning kinetic therefor
  • B65H2301/33216—Turning, overturning kinetic therefor about an axis perpendicular to the direction of displacement and to the surface of material
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H2405/00—Parts for holding the handled material
  • B65H2405/20—Cassettes, holders, bins, decks, trays, supports or magazines for sheets stacked on edge
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
  • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
  • B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
  • B65H2701/1916—Envelopes and articles of mail

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a method of processing mail items in a sorting installation comprising a feed input magazine in which the mail items to be sorted are arranged in stack on edge to be serialized in a sorting conveyor, the serial mail items on edge in the sorting conveyor being directed to stacker sorting outlets, incoming sorting mail items stored in a bin in the magazine and being picked up by a handle of the storage bin to be stacked on edge to be serialized and the mail items sorted in a stacker of a sorting outlet being transferred by handle of the stacker to a storage bin to be recirculated between said sorting outlet and the input store.
• Sorting facilities for non-mixed mail items such as the installation described in WO-A-2016/054103, are now widely known.
• Mail sorting facilities are also known for sorting mixed mail by machine, namely mail comprising letters in C5 format and large format mail, for example envelopes in C4 format.
• these sorting machines use storage bins of sufficient size to store on singing letters and large format mail.
• the object of the invention is to overcome these disadvantages.
• the subject of the invention is a method for processing mail items in a sorting installation comprising a feed input magazine in which the mail items to be sorted are arranged in stack on edge to be serialized.
• a sorting conveyor in which the mail items to be sorted are arranged in stack on edge to be serialized.
• the serial mail items on edge in said sorting conveyor being directed to stacker sorting outlets, incoming mail sorting items stored in a tray in said feed input magazine being picked up; by a handle of said storage bin to be stacked on edge to be serialized and the sorted mail items in a stacker of a sorting outlet being transferred by handle of the stacker to a storage bin to be recirculated between said stacker sorting outlet and said feed inlet magazine, characterized in that the mailpieces are mixed articles comprising letters and objects large format postal mail, in that in a sorting outlet, the mail items stored in a stacker in landscape mode are picked by handle and rotated to be stored on edge in portrait mode in the storage bin, and in that that in the
• the transfer of the mixed mail can also be done with mailboxes from the sorting outlets of the machine to a feed input store of another machine or to a storage area or a packaging zone or analog in a distribution sorting center.
• Figure 1 is a very schematic representation of a mail sorting facility adapted to implement the method of processing mail items according to the invention
• Fig. 2 is a schematic representation of a storage bin loaded with mixed-type portrait mail items at a stacker of a partially depicted sorting outlet;
• Fig. 3 is a schematic representation of a storage bin loaded with mixed mail items that is toggled to a partially represented feed input magazine to present the mail items in landscape mode.
• the method according to the invention makes it possible to sort mixed mail 1 in a sorting installation 2 by using standard storage bins 3, in particular bins designed to store envelopes with a maximum format corresponding to the C5.
• the sorting installation 2 here comprises an unstacker with a feed input magazine 4 in which a machine operator disposes in stack on edge the mail items 1 to be sorted (the mail items are illustrated side in the store), so here mixed mail.
• the installation here comprises a sorting conveyor 5 able to convey serially on edge the mail items 1 (in the unstacker the mail items are illustrated front) serialized by the unstacker, these items of mail being sorted in sorting outlets here at stacker 6.
• stacker sorting outlets 6 are provided for accumulating a number (several tens) of sorted mail items 1 and storing them in stack on edge.
• the bins 3 are here used to recirculate the mail items 1 stored in the sorting outlets 6 to the input supply store 4.
• a machine operator 7 has disposed a tray 3 at the level of the stacker of a sorting outlet to recover handle by handle the mail items stored on edge in landscape mode in the stacker of the sorting outlet 6 and transfer them to the tray 3 by placing them on edge in portrait mode, while keeping the order of the sequence of mail items 1.
• the bins 3 are here for example letter boxes rather small.
• These 3-letter trays have a tray width of about 22 centimeters which is sufficient to store on edge portrait mode mail items 1 large format (A3 format) as shown in Figure 2.
• the tray 3 loaded with mail items 1 arranged on edge in portrait mode is then transported automatically to the input supply store 4.
• the Machine Operator 7 enters the tray 3 and tilts it to the long side as illustrated by the arrow bow Fl.
• Tray 3 tilted to the side is along the floor 8 of the input tray as shown in Figure 3.
• the mail items 1 stored in the tray 3 are then in landscape mode.
• the Machine Operator 7 transfers the items of mail 1 from the tray 3 to the sole 8 by hand-sliding them along the side of the arrow F2 as illustrated in FIG.
• the mail items taken from the tray 3 are stacked on edge in landscape mode on the sole 8 of the input magazine 4 which feeds the stack to the unstacker 9.
• the mail items 1 are serialized on edge in landscape mode as shown in Figure 1.

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• 2018
  • 2018-06-15 EP EP18737006.9A patent/EP3661666A1/de not_active Withdrawn
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