EP4244162A1 - Mehrfachendstelle für eine sortieranlage - Google Patents
Mehrfachendstelle für eine sortieranlageInfo
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- EP4244162A1 EP4244162A1 EP21805883.2A EP21805883A EP4244162A1 EP 4244162 A1 EP4244162 A1 EP 4244162A1 EP 21805883 A EP21805883 A EP 21805883A EP 4244162 A1 EP4244162 A1 EP 4244162A1
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Definitions
- the invention relates to the technical field of sorting systems for general cargo and in particular terminal equipment and terminal devices of sorting systems for general cargo.
- sorters are arranged one above the other or, after being ejected from the sorter in the chutes, are branched out via mechanical devices.
- the possibilities are limited because the conveyed goods are not actively transported. More terminals are practically only possible by lengthening the sorter.
- the present invention is therefore based on the object of making it possible to increase the sorting depth of a sorting system.
- the terminal device is provided for a sorting system for sorting piece goods.
- the terminal device comprises a receiving device, a transport device and a series arrangement of terminals arranged in a row.
- the pick-up device is designed to accept piece goods from a sorter output of a sorter of the sorting system and deliver them to the transport device.
- the transport device comprises a transport unit which can be moved to each of the end points arranged in the row.
- the transport device is designed to accept the piece goods delivered by the receiving device into the transport unit, to transport the piece goods in or on the transport unit to a desired end point of the end points arranged in the row and to deliver the piece goods to this desired end point.
- the receiving device comprises an intermediate store in order to temporarily store the piece goods received from the sorter output.
- the transport device is designed to move the transport unit to the temporary store.
- the intermediate store is designed to deliver the piece goods to the transport unit. This allows the sorter to be decoupled from the terminals. This can prevent or minimize recirculation on the sorter.
- the temporary store also causes the goods to be transported to calm down after they have been transferred from the sorter, with the transfer preferably comprising a dynamic drop from a load carrier that is not stationary and a subsequent slipping process on the receiving device.
- the receiving device can include one or more buffers.
- the sorter comprises a plurality of sorter exits and is designed to channel piece goods laterally from the main conveying direction of the sorter out of the sorter exits or vertically downwards to the main conveying direction of the sorter.
- the row of terminals at the sorter exit is arranged transversely to the main conveying direction of the sorter.
- the transport device is designed to also move the transport unit linearly, corresponding to the row arrangement of the end points, transversely to the main conveying direction of the sorter, in order to deliver the piece goods to the desired end point.
- the row of terminals is arranged orthogonally to the main conveying direction of the sorter.
- each transport unit is assigned a single linear row arrangement of end points, and the transport device is designed to deliver piece goods exclusively to the end points of this row arrangement.
- linear is to be understood as meaning a one-dimensional arrangement of end points in a line.
- the transport device extends above the row arrangement along this line.
- the transport device includes a drive that is designed to actively drive the transport unit. This enables an active transport of the general cargo. As a result, fewer or no passive means of transport, such as slides, are necessary, which means that a high level of functional safety, a very high packing density of the terminals and the accommodation of more terminals on a given area are made possible.
- the transport unit is designed as a push cart.
- a simple transport device can be implemented which interacts efficiently with the series arrangement of the terminals.
- the pushcar is track-guided.
- a simple transport device can be implemented which interacts efficiently with the series arrangement of the terminals.
- the transport unit is not or does not include an automated guided vehicle (AGV).
- AGV automated guided vehicle
- the transport unit can comprise an AGV.
- the transport unit includes a belt conveyor that is designed to drop the piece goods.
- a reliable and space-saving device particularly with regard to the vertical construction height, can be implemented for transferring the piece goods from the transport device to the end points.
- a conveyor belt of the belt conveyor comprises separating elements that define at least one segment or that divide the conveyor belt into segments.
- the terminal device, the terminal device or the sorting system includes a control device.
- the control device is adapted to control the pick-up device and the transport device and to ensure the transfer of the piece goods from the pick-up device to the transport device and the delivery of the piece goods from the transport device to the desired end point.
- the control device is adapted to control the terminal device and/or the terminal device and/or the sorting system in such a way that at any given point in time, a maximum of one piece good is received in the buffer store.
- the control device is adapted to memorize whether the buffer store is occupied and, as long as it is occupied, to prevent another item being delivered to this buffer store. This makes it possible to avoid a complicated individual treatment of piece goods that are simultaneously located in the buffer store.
- the term "intermediate storage" includes all processes or capabilities of the intermediate store to store a piece of goods. If, for example, one of the intermediate stores consists of a flat receiving surface on which the piece of goods rests, this is also to be understood as storing in the intermediate store .
- control device is adapted to control the terminal device and/or the terminal device and/or the sorting system in such a way that a first and a second piece goods delivered by the sorter to the receiving device are simultaneously received in the intermediate store, provided they are in the same terminal are to be sorted.
- the control device is preferably also adapted to control the terminal device and/or the terminal device and/or the sorting system in such a way that it is prevented that between the first and the second piece goods another item is delivered from the sorter to the receiving device, which is to be sorted to another terminal .
- the terminal device comprises a pull-out drawer device.
- the end points arranged in a row are arranged in the drawer device.
- the terminal device is extendible in the longitudinal direction of the row.
- the drawer device can also be pulled out when, due to its compact design, it is directly adjacent to other drawer devices or rows of end points on the side.
- the drawer device includes exactly one drawer.
- the drawer device comprises exactly two drawers which can be pulled out in opposite directions. This allows the size of the drawer to be reduced and the space to be provided for the pulled-out drawers to be optimized.
- the terminal device comprises a collecting belt conveyor device arranged under the row arrangement.
- Each of the terminals is designed to deliver the piece goods contained in it in a group onto the collecting belt conveyor device.
- the collecting belt conveyor device is designed to transport away the piece goods in the group.
- each sorter output is assigned to exactly one terminal device.
- Each terminal The device includes exactly one linear transport device, which is arranged over a one-dimensional linear array of terminals in order to drop piece goods into a desired terminal.
- each terminal device also includes exactly one buffer store.
- the task of enabling an increase in the sorting depth of a sorting system is achieved by a terminal device.
- the terminal device comprises several of the terminal devices described above.
- Each of the terminal devices is designed to interact with a sorter output of a sorter in order to pick up piece goods from the sorter output and deliver them to their transport device.
- the task of enabling an increase in the sorting depth of a sorting system is achieved by a sorting system.
- the sorting system comprises a sorter and one or more of the terminal devices described above or one or more of the terminal devices described above.
- the object is achieved by a method for sorting piece goods, in the context of which piece goods are transferred from a sorter output of a sorter to a receiving device of a terminal device.
- the pick-up device delivers the piece goods to a transport unit of a transport device.
- a series arrangement of terminals arranged in a row is assigned to the transport unit.
- the transport unit can be moved to each of the end points arranged in the row arrangement.
- the piece goods delivered to the transport unit are transported by means of the transport unit to a desired end point of the end points arranged in the row and handed over by the transport unit to this desired end point.
- the piece goods are temporarily stored in one or more buffer stores of the receiving device before the piece goods are delivered from the receiving device to the transport unit.
- the transport unit is moved to the buffer store.
- the buffer store delivers the piece goods to the transport unit.
- the piece goods are ejected from the sorter outlet laterally to the main conveying direction of the sorter or vertically downwards to the main conveying direction of the sorter.
- the row arrangement of the terminals at the sorter exit is arranged transversely to the main conveying direction of the sorter.
- a single linear row arrangement is assigned to the transport unit.
- the transport device is designed to deliver piece goods exclusively to the end points of this row arrangement.
- the transport device includes a drive that is designed to actively drive the transport unit.
- the transport unit is designed as a push cart, which can preferably be guided in one track.
- the transport unit includes a belt conveyor that is designed to drop the piece goods.
- a conveyor belt of the belt conveyor comprises separating elements that define at least one segment or that divide the conveyor belt into segments.
- a control device controls the pick-up device and the transport device in order to bring about the transfer of the piece goods from the pick-up device to the transport device and the delivery of the piece goods from the transport device to the desired end point.
- control device controls the terminal device, the sorter and/or the receiving device in such a way that at a given point in time, a maximum of one piece good is received in the temporary store.
- control device controls the terminal device and/or the terminal device and/or the sorting system in such a way that a first and a second unit good delivered by the sorter to the receiving device are stored simultaneously in the intermediate store, provided they are to be sorted into the same terminal .
- the end points arranged in a row are arranged in a pull-out drawer.
- the terminal is designed to deliver the piece goods contained in it in a group onto a collecting belt conveyor device, and the collecting belt conveyor device is designed to transport away the piece goods in the group.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic top view of a sorting system which comprises a plurality of terminal devices according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 2 schematically shows a side view of a section of the sorting system and a terminal device from FIG.
- FIG. 1 shows a sorting system 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention.
- the sorting system 100 comprises a sorter 8 and a number of terminal devices 1 .
- the terminal devices 1 can be comprised by a terminal device 10 .
- the sorter 8 includes a conveyor system 80 and sorter outputs 81 .
- the conveying system 80 comprises a conveying path 86 and load carriers 89 and is designed to convey the load carriers 89 along the conveying path 86 .
- the sorter exits 81 are arranged and set up along the conveying path 86 in such a way that an item 5 can be ejected from the load carriers 89 via a desired sorter exit 81 from the sorter 8 .
- the load carriers 89 are designed to receive piece goods 5 for transport along the conveying path and to transfer them to a desired sorter exit 81 in order to discharge the piece goods from the sorter.
- the sorter 8 is designed as a circulating circular sorter on which the load carriers 89 circulate in a closed conveying path 86 .
- a load carrier 89 can include at least one ejection element, for example a tilting tray or a cross belt (also often referred to as a crossbelt in the technical field), which is set up to transfer the piece goods 5 to a sorter exit and thus eject them out of the sorter.
- the cargo carrier 89 can also include a discharge hatch (also known as Bombay) which discharges the piece goods 5 downwards into a sorter outlet arranged on the underside of the conveying path 86 and thus ejects them from the sorter 8 .
- the sorter is not designed as a circular sorter but as another suitable sorter, for example as a linear sorter.
- the load carriers can be guided along the track as part of a coherent train composition or individually.
- the load carriers are encompassed by a driverless transport vehicle and are conveyed by it in a non-track-guided manner.
- the English translation "Automated Guided Vehicle” is also often used in German as a synonym for the term “driverless transport vehicle”.
- the sorter includes a lane intended for the AGVs to drive on, which also leaves room for an AGV to maneuver or overtake other AGVs.
- the conveying path 86 includes a conveyor belt on which the load carriers are mounted.
- the conveying path comprises a carousel on which the load carriers are mounted, or a cable pull to which the load carriers are coupled.
- two sorter outputs 81 are arranged on the left and right of the track as a pair of sorter outputs.
- the sorter outputs 81 can also be arranged on only one side of the sorter 8 , for example only on the outer side of the circular sorter 8 or only on its inner side.
- the sorter outputs 81 can be arranged individually, ie not as a pair of sorter outputs, depending on requirements to the left and right of the conveying path 86 .
- Each of the terminal devices 1 is designed to interact with in each case at least one sorter output 81 of the sorter 8 in order to pick up piece goods from the sorter output 81 and deliver them to their transport device 4 .
- FIG. 2 schematically shows a side view of a section of the sorting system 100 from FIG. 1 according to a further specified embodiment.
- the sorting system 100 includes the sorter 8 and the terminal device 1 .
- the sorter 8 includes a conveyor 84, for example a conveyor belt, which conveys load carriers 89 arranged on the conveyor 84 along the conveyor path 86.
- the load carriers 89 include a drivable crossbelt, which is designed to transport piece goods for transport along the conveying path 86 and to drop them at the sorter exit 81 laterally to the main conveying direction 83 onto the sorter exit 81 designed as a chute.
- "Main conveying direction" means the local main conveying direction, since for a circular sorter the speed vector in three-dimensional space cannot be the same at every point on the closed path.
- the terminal device 1 comprises a receiving device 2, a transport device 4 and a row arrangement 6 of terminal points 61 arranged in a row along the local main conveying direction 83 of the sorter.
- the receiving device 2 includes a chute 23 and an intermediate store 21 .
- the chute 23 is designed to accept the piece goods 5 from the chute 81 and to transfer them to the intermediate store.
- the buffer store 21 is designed to take over the piece goods from the chute 23 , store them temporarily and deliver them to the transport device 4 .
- the intermediate store 21 comprises an openable floor hatch designed as a discharge chute, through which the piece goods 5 can be discharged.
- the floor hatch can include a double drop flap or a single drop flap, on which the piece good preferably rests during its intermediate storage, and through which the piece good is released from the intermediate store to the transport device.
- the intermediate store 21 includes a belt conveyor that is designed to drop the piece goods 5 into the transport device 4 .
- the buffer store 21 is designed to push the piece goods 5 out of the buffer store 21 by means of a pushing device and thus transfer them to the transport device 4 .
- the intermediate store 21 comprises a horizontally displaceable support surface on which the item 5 rests and which can be automatically displaced under the chute 23 so that an item lying on the support surface is prevented by the lower end of the chute 23 from to move with the bearing surface under the chute 23 until in this way it is thrown off the bearing surface and thus from the intermediate store and transferred to the transport device 4 .
- the receiving device 2 does not include an intermediate store 21 , but rather the chute 23 is designed to transfer the piece goods 5 directly to the transport device 4 .
- the transport device 4 comprises a transport unit 41 which can be moved to the intermediate store 21 or to each of the end points 61 arranged in the row in order to receive the piece goods 5 .
- the transport device 4 is designed to move the transport unit 41 to the chute 23 to a suitable position in order to take over the piece goods directly from the chute 23 .
- the piece goods 5 are transferred directly from the chute 81 to the transport unit 41 .
- the terminal device can be defined as a terminal device which comprises the chute 81 , the chute 81 being designed as a receiving device 2 or being comprised by this.
- the transport device 4 is designed to accept the piece goods 5 delivered by the receiving device 2 and to transport them with the transport unit 41 to a desired end point 61 of the row arrangement 6 and to deliver it to this desired end point 61 .
- the transport device 4 is track-guided.
- the transport device comprises a track 43 , for example a rail, a groove or a channel, which interacts with the transport unit 41 , for example in a form-fitting manner, so that the transport unit 41 can be guided along the track 43 .
- the transport unit 41 can be designed as a push cart.
- the transport unit is not track-guided, but is designed as an AGV, for example.
- the transport unit 41 has its own drive 49 which is designed to actively drive the transport unit 41 in order to move it to the desired end point 61 .
- the transport unit is designed to be passive.
- the transport device includes a stationary mounted drive which does not travel with the transport unit but acts on it in order to move it to the desired end point.
- Examples of such drives are linear drives arranged along the track or also an electrically or otherwise driven cable pull or toothed belt pull system which pulls the transport unit 41 in the desired direction like a cable car.
- the transport unit 41 comprises a belt conveyor 45 which is designed to eject the piece goods 5 from the transport unit 41 .
- the belt conveyor 45 comprises a conveyor belt on which the unit load rests while it is being transported to the desired destination.
- the conveyor belt 45 includes separating elements 47, which define at least one segment, or which divide the conveyor belt into segments. A segment takes on a piece of goods 5 .
- the conveyor belt is unsegmented.
- the transport unit 41 comprises a different discharge mechanism, for example a discharge chute with an openable floor hatch, which for example comprises a double drop flap, on which the piece goods 5 lie during transport to the desired end point 61, and through which the piece goods 5 are transported into the desired terminal can be dropped, according to the Bombay principle.
- the floor hatch can also have a single drop flap.
- the transport unit 41 comprises a support surface on which the piece goods 5 rests during transport to the desired end point 61 , and a pushing mechanism which pushes the piece goods 5 down from a support surface in order to eject them into a desired end point.
- the row arrangement 6 of the terminals 61 at the sorter output 81 is arranged transversely, for example orthogonally, to the local main conveying direction 83 of the sorter 8 .
- the transport unit 41 can also be displaced transversely to the local main conveying direction 83 of the sorter 8 in accordance with the arrangement of the row arrangement 6 in order to be able to deliver the piece goods 5 to the desired end point 61 .
- the terminals 61 are arranged in a straight row arrangement 6 .
- each sorter output 81 or alternatively each sorter output pair can be assigned a single linear row arrangement 6 of terminals 61 which can be operated by a linearly displaceable transport unit 41 .
- this enables a simple and Expandable terminal concept and also the accommodation of a large number of terminals in a limited area.
- two or more than two rows of end points are assigned to the transport unit, and the transport device 4 is set up to deliver piece goods 5 to the end points of these two or more rows. As a result, fewer transport units are required per row.
- the terminal device 1 comprises exactly one buffer store 21 and one transport unit 41, as a result of which a high level of flexibility is made possible with little effort.
- the receiving device 2 comprising more than one buffer store 21 and/or by the transport device 4 comprising more than one transport unit 41 , the flexibility for the sorting of piece goods 5 into the end points 61 can be additionally increased.
- the terminal device 1 also includes at least one drawer device 63 designed as a drawer silo.
- the end points 61 arranged in a row are arranged in the drawer device 63 .
- the drawer device 63 can be pulled out in the longitudinal direction of the row arrangement in FIG. This enables easy access for maintenance of the terminals, even in cramped conditions with terminals arranged close together.
- the drawer device comprises two drawers which can be pulled out in precisely opposite directions and which, when retracted, have their front ends adjoining one another, so that the end points are arranged in a single one-dimensional line in the drawers.
- the terminal device 1 also includes a collecting belt conveyor device 7 with at least one collecting belt 71 arranged under the row arrangement.
- the terminals 61 include an ejection mechanism in order to eject the piece goods 5 contained in a terminal 61 in a group.
- this mechanism is designed as an openable floor hatch that includes a double drop flap. Instead of a double drop flap, the floor hatch can also have a single drop flap.
- a conveyor belt mechanism that promotes the piece goods from a terminal
- a tilting mechanism that tilts a terminal in order to empty the piece goods contained in it in a group
- a sliding mechanism which pushes the piece goods in a group out of a terminal.
- the collecting belt conveyor device 7 is designed such that each of the terminals 61 of the terminal device 1 can deliver the piece goods 5 contained in it in a group onto the collecting belt conveyor device 7 .
- the collecting belt conveyor device 7 is designed to transport away the piece goods 5 in the group.
- the terminal device 1 also includes a control device 3, which is adapted to control the receiving device 2 and the transport device 4 and the transfer of the piece goods 5 from the receiving device 2 to the transport device 4 and the delivery of the piece goods 5 from of the transport device 4 in the desired end point 61 to effect.
- a control device 3 which is adapted to control the receiving device 2 and the transport device 4 and the transfer of the piece goods 5 from the receiving device 2 to the transport device 4 and the delivery of the piece goods 5 from of the transport device 4 in the desired end point 61 to effect.
- the control device 3 is also adapted to control the terminal device 1 in such a way that a maximum of one item 5 is received in the buffer store 21 at any given time.
- the control device 3 is adapted to determine or to note whether the buffer store 21 is occupied and, if it is occupied, not to deliver any further piece goods 5 to this buffer store 21 .
- control device 3 is adapted to control the terminal device 1 in such a way that several piece goods are simultaneously received in the buffer store if they have to be sorted into the same terminal.
- control device adapted to recognize that these piece goods must be sorted into the same terminal.
- control device is adapted to recognize that these piece goods are sufficiently small to be taken up in the buffer store at the same time.
- control device 3 is not accommodated in the terminal device 1 .
- the sorting system 100 or the terminal device 10 can include a central control device 30 which performs this functionality and other functionalities for controlling the sorting system or the terminal device.
- control device 3 or the central control device 30 is adapted to control the terminal device 1 and/or the terminal device 10 and/or the sorting system 100 in such a way that a first and a second unit good delivered by the sorter to the receiving device 2 are delivered at the same time is recorded in the buffer store 21 if the first and the second piece goods are to be sorted into the same end point 61 .
- the control device 3 or the central control device is preferably also adapted to control the terminal device 1 and/or the terminal device 10 and/or the sorting system 100 in such a way that it is prevented that between the first and the second piece good another piece good from the sorter 8 the recording device 2 is released, which is sorted to another terminal.
- control device 3 is adapted to cause the terminal device 1 and/or the terminal device 10 and/or the sorting system 100 to place a first and a second piece goods delivered by the sorter 8 to the receiving device 2 simultaneously in the intermediate store 21 to be stored if they are to be sorted into the same terminal 61 .
- the piece goods 5 are temporarily stored in the buffer stores 21 of the terminal devices 1 after they have been dropped from the sorter carrier or other load carrier. Thereafter, in each terminal device, the piece goods are transferred to their transport unit 41 . This transports the piece goods to the end points 61 arranged transversely or orthogonally to the sorter and ejects them there.
- the end points 61 are preferably close together perpendicular to the transport direction of the sorter 8 . If an end point 61 is full, it is emptied down onto one of the conveyor belts 71 . The contents are transported as bulk goods to central packaging units, where the piece goods are sorted into groups and packed into transport containers.
- the piece goods 5 are actively transported to the end points 61 . This minimizes the piece goods from slipping and a very high packing density can be achieved and more terminals can be accommodated on a given area.
- a load carrier designed as a sorter carrier after a load carrier designed as a sorter carrier has been dropped, it is stored in the buffer store 21 in order to decouple the sorter 8 from the multiple terminal 1 . As a result, recirculation on the sorter 8 can be prevented or minimized.
- one or more buffers can be implemented per terminal device.
- the intermediate store also serves to calm the piece goods 5 after they have been dynamically ejected from the sorter 8 and a subsequent sliding process.
- the sorter comprises at least one pair of sorter outlets, each with a lateral sorter outlet on either side of a discharge point of the sorter.
- a terminal device is connected to each of the sorter outputs of the sorter output pair.
- part of a terminal device is arranged under the sorter in order to use the space as optimally as possible.
- an item 5 is transported on a load carrier 89 of the sorter 8 to a sorter output 81 which is assigned to a target address or destination of this item 5 .
- the piece goods 5 are transferred from the load carrier 89 to a receiving unit 2 of this end point 81 .
- the piece goods from the receiving unit 2 of this end point are temporarily stored in a buffer store 21 .
- a transport unit 41 of a transport device 4 is moved to or under the buffer store 21 or is already positioned there.
- the piece goods 5 are transferred from the buffer store 21 to the transport unit 41 .
- the transport unit 41 transports the piece goods to a terminal 61 which is assigned to the target address or destination of this piece goods 5 .
- the piece goods are then transferred from the transport unit to this end point 61 .
- piece goods can be accumulated in the terminals 61, each of which has the same target address or destination.
- the end points 61 are transported away and emptied.
- the piece goods are each emptied in a group onto a collecting belt 71 from a terminal 61 , transported away as a group by means of the collecting belt 71 and processed further as a group.
- the piece goods are not temporarily stored in an intermediate store of the receiving device 2 , but are transferred directly from the receiving device 2 to the transport unit 21 , for example by means of a chute 23 .
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