JPH0920322A - Delivery slip issuing/attaching device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To surely perform works to check an attached delivery slip with coded data attached on a delivery item without mistakes, by attaching the issued delivery slip on a face of the delivery item opposite to a face where the coded data are previously attached. CONSTITUTION: A delivery slop issuing/attaching apparatus includes a transfer device 2 by which delivery items (envelopes) (a) supplied one by one from a feeder 21 are transferred and sent in one direction to a sorter 22, a delivery slip issuing device 3 that reads coded data specified for every delivery item on the upstream side in the transfer direction, and a delivery slip attaching device 4 that attaches the issued delivery slips (registered mail delivery certificates) on the delivery items (a). The delivery slip issuing device 3 reads the coded data via a bar code data reader 6 and put two sets of printers 7a and 7b in operation. A memory 11 where the coded data and delivery data are input and stored, a display 12 to indicate the operating state, etc., of the entire apparatus, and an input device through which outside information is input are respectively connected to a controller 5.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention issues a delivery certificate such as a delivery certificate and a delivery slip necessary for transferring a delivery along a physical distribution route in postal delivery and home delivery services, and delivers this delivery slip. The present invention relates to a delivery slip issuing / pasting device for sticking to a product.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to deliver a delivery by mail delivery or home delivery service, a delivery certificate such as a delivery certificate used for registered mail or a delivery slip used in the delivery business is created and attached to the delivery. Then, the delivery processing is performed. In this delivery slip, the delivery recipient and the delivery information such as the delivery destination and the sender are described, or
It has a stamp field for receipt stamps, and by bringing back the delivery slip, it is possible to confirm that the delivery person has completed the delivery process and manage delivery reliably. In addition, when creating this delivery slip, the delivery address of the delivery, the delivery address, the delivery phone number, the delivery, the sender's address, the sender's name (name),
The sender's telephone number and the handling address of the delivery destination were handwritten with information such as the post office code and the arrival code of the courier.

[0003]

Therefore, if there are a lot of deliveries, it will take a lot of time and effort to create these delivery slips, and the delivery slips to be affixed to the deliveries will be mistaken for other deliveries. There was a problem that it could not be reliably delivered after it was attached. Therefore, the inventor has attempted to develop a delivery form issuing / pasting device capable of automatically issuing and attaching a delivery form to a large number of deliveries. However, in these delivery form issuing and pasting processing operations, however, when the amount of deliverables to be handled is large, the issue of issuing the delivery form is extremely complicated and how to attach it to the deliverables is a problem. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a delivery form issuing and pasting device that does not hinder the delivery form attaching work even in the conventional delivery process in the delivery form issuing and pasting process work.

[0004]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the delivery slip issuing and pasting device of the present invention is a delivery data file storage means for storing in advance code data attached to a delivery and delivery data corresponding to this code data. Then, along a suitable transfer route for transferring the delivered product, the code reading means for reading the code data in which the code data is previously attached to one side of the delivered product, and the delivery data corresponding to the read code data are delivered in the previous period. A delivery form issuing means for retrieving from the data file storage means, printing out the corresponding delivery data and issuing a delivery form, and the issued delivery form on the opposite side where the code data of the delivery is not attached. It is provided with a delivery slip attaching means for attaching.

Further, the delivery is a sealed letter, and the surface to which the delivery slip is attached has a sealing tongue piece of the sealed letter, and the delivery slip attaching means includes the sealed body and the sealed sealing tongue piece. It is configured to be attached to a position that covers Sakai.

[0006]

[Operation] Since the issued delivery slip is attached to the surface on the opposite side where the code data attached to the delivery is not attached beforehand, the delivery slip attaching means is provided, so that the attached delivery slip is attached to the delivery in advance. It is possible to reliably perform the work of checking the attached code data etc. without making a mistake. Further, since the target delivery is a sealed letter, and the surface to which the delivery slip is attached is the surface having the sealed tongue piece of the sealed letter, the delivery slip attaching means includes the sealed body and the sealed sealing tongue piece. The sticker is surely sealed by attaching it to the position where it covers Sakai.

[0007]

The present invention will be described in detail below based on preferred embodiments. FIG. 1 is an overall explanatory view of a delivery slip issuing and pasting device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a surface explanatory view of an envelope handled as a delivery to be processed in FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a back side explanatory view, FIG. 4 is a plan view explanatory diagram in which a delivery voucher is pasted on the back side of the envelope in FIG. 2, and FIG. 5 is a process flow explanatory diagram of the delivery voucher issuing and pasting device in FIG.

Prior to the explanation of the delivery slip issuing and pasting device 1,
Explaining the envelope as the delivery a in FIGS. 2 and 3, the code data B1 attached to the delivery a in advance and the address and name as the delivery destination information 31 are displayed on the front side (FIG. 2). Has been done. 32 is code data corresponding to the code data B1 displayed in Arabic numerals. FIG. 3 has a sealing tongue piece 33 on the back side of the envelope.

FIG. 1 will be described as an embodiment in which the delivery slip issuing and pasting apparatus 1 issues and pastes a registered mail delivery certificate as a delivery slip used when a sealed letter is sent by registered mail. As shown in FIG. 1, the delivery slip issuing and pasting device 1 includes a supply unit 2 one by one.
The delivery means (envelope) a supplied from 1 is transported in one direction (from left to right in the figure) and is sent to the sorting section 22 such as a stocker, and the transporting means 2 is constituted by a conveyor belt, and each delivery is specified individually. A delivery form issuing device 3 configured to read code data (described later) represented as a bar code on the upstream side in the transfer direction on the transfer means 2, and a delivery form 16 (registered mail) issued by the delivery form issuing device 3. Mail delivery certificate)
(See FIG. 4) The delivery slip attaching device 4 attaches (see FIG. 4) to the delivery a on the transfer means 2.

The delivery voucher issuing device 3 is supplied with the delivered products a one by one from the feeding unit, and the code data B1 of the delivered product a.
Is read from the lower side with the bar code reader 6 installed in the conveyor belt of the transfer means 2 on the upstream side with the surface side of the delivered article a facing downward, and the information is sent to the control section 5.
Further, it is composed of two sets of printers 7a and 7b which operate under the control of the control unit 5. Under the control of the control unit 5, the delivery voucher pasting device 4 has a support band 8 on which the delivery vouchers having adhesive means are arranged side by side so that the delivery vouchers can be peeled off. , A guide part 10a for sequentially separating and sticking the delivery slip from the support band 8 toward the pair of roll parts 9 which are sent out so as to pass through the transfer means 2 and wound around the transfer means 2 and the envelope a which moves on the transfer means 2, And 10b.

It should be noted that the control unit 5 has a code data B1 attached to the delivery a in advance and the code data B1.
Under the control of the control unit 5, the storage unit 11 in which the code data and the delivery data 31 are sent and stored from the delivery data file D in which the delivery data corresponding to 1 is stored and the operating states of all the devices are displayed. A display unit 12 and an input unit 13 that gives external input information such as a manual operation instruction to the control unit 5 are connected to each other.

In the delivery form issuing device 3, the bar code reader 6 reads the code data of the delivery a transferred by the transfer means 2, and the delivery data corresponding to this code data is recorded in advance. From the information in the delivery data file, that is, from the storage unit 11, the delivery a
The delivery data obtained by searching the delivery data corresponding to the code data of the
When the delivery slip pasting device 4 separates the printed delivery slip on the transfer means 2 side, the code data B1 attached to the delivery a in advance is read. The delivery slips 16 and 16 with the code data B2 corresponding to the delivered product a are attached. In addition, 6a, 6b and 6c are code data B of the delivery slips 16 and 16 attached to the delivery a.
2 and B2 are bar code readers for collating the code data B1 previously attached to the delivered product a.

On the other hand, these deliverables a may be canceled before they are shipped or may be delivered by another route.
The code data of the delivery a designated to be extracted in the process of the delivery note issuing and pasting device 1 is input from the input unit 13, and the data can be registered in the designated delivery storage unit 14. The data of the designated delivery can be input by inputting Arabic numerals from the input unit 13 or by using another bar code reader or the like, if necessary.

In the subsequent stage of the bar code readers 6a, 6b, 6c, the pickup box 23 for stocking the specified delivery item a and the code data B1 previously attached to the delivery item a can be read by the bar code reader 6. Code data B of the delivery slips 16 and 16 attached to the delivery a by the barcode readers 6a, 6b and 6c
2, a reject box 24 is provided for extracting a code data B1 that has been previously attached to the delivered product a and that cannot be collated.

The pickup box 23 has a bar code reader 6 or bar code readers 6a, 6b and 6c.
When any one of the code data registered in the designated delivery storage unit 14 is read, a sampling drive device 21 for extracting the target delivery a under the control of the control unit 5 is provided to constitute a pickup means. To do. Further, in the reject box 24 as well, in the case of the code data B1 which cannot be read by the bar code reader 6 or the collation failure in the bar code readers 6a, 6b, 6c, the target delivery a under the control of the control unit 5 is performed. An extraction drive device 22 for extracting the components is provided and constitutes reject means.

FIG. 4 shows an example in which the delivery slips 16 and 16 are attached to the envelope body and the position of the sealed tongue piece 33 that covers the Sakai, and as shown in FIG. An adhesive is applied to the back surface of the delivery slip 16 and a transparent film is bonded underneath so that it can be peeled off, and the adhesive is applied to the back surface of the transparent film.
After the various delivery information is output to 6 as described above, it is attached to the delivery a through the adhesive on each back surface. The delivery slip 16 on the right side of the figure is separated from the delivered product a in the delivery process and is used as a picture by the post office.

FIG. 5 shows a work flow when issuing and pasting the delivery slips 16, 16. First, the delivered product a in which the code data is individually specified is supplied (step 10).
1) The process moves to the step (103) of reading the code data B1 from the delivered product (step 102) and searching the delivery data corresponding to the code data B1. If the code data B1 cannot be read as the search result, a read error occurs and reject processing is performed with (NG) (step 107). Although not described in the flow, if delivery data is not obtained as a search result, an error occurs (NG) and a reject process is performed (step 107).

Of course, at least code data is attached to the delivered product in advance, and the code data is associated with delivery data (delivery management data relating to the destination, etc., which is input separately). It is prepared.

When the delivery data is searched and a command for outputting the delivery data is issued, the delivery data is output to the delivery slips 16 and 16 by the command (step 10).
4) Then, the process proceeds to the step of attaching the delivery slips 16, 16 to the delivery a (step 105).

Then, a step of reading and comparing the code data B1 of the delivered product a subjected to step 105 and the code data B2 output to the delivery slip (step 106).
If there is a disagreement (NG) at this stage, the sampling drive device 22 is driven under the control of the control unit 5 to extract the delivery product a and a reject process is performed (step 10).
7).

On the other hand, the delivered product which has become coincident (0K) in step 106 is transferred to the next process (step 10).
8) It will be. In this step 108, when the code data registered in the designated delivery storage unit 14 is read, the extraction drive device 21 is controlled under the control of the control unit 5.
Is driven to pick up the delivered product a for pickup processing (step 109).

In step 108, the designated delivery storage unit 14
When the code data not registered in (1) is read, the code data is sent to the sorting unit 22 in the subsequent stage and sorted by a predetermined number of postal codes, and stacking is performed (step 110).

In the above-mentioned embodiment, two delivery vouchers are issued, but only one voucher may be issued. Code readers 6, 6
The coat data to be read by a, 6b, and 6c is not limited to the barcode, and may be the Arabic number read by the OCR method. In addition, the bar code reader 6c for verification is
It is not always necessary to provide the code data, and the coat data read by the code reader 6 may be collated with the code data read by the code readers 6a and 6b by controlling the transfer timing.

Further, the delivered product a is shown in the form of an envelope, and is displayed from the code data B1 window described in the form of a bar code on the internal document, but is not limited to this. Instead, the code data may be directly written on the outer surface. The delivered product a may have a certain thickness and is not limited to an envelope.

[0025]

[Effects of Gaze] As described above, the delivery note issuing and pasting device of the present invention attaches the issued delivery note to the surface on the opposite side to which the code data attached to the delivery in advance is not attached. Since the delivery slip pasting means is provided, the work to check the pasted delivery slip and the code data etc. attached to the delivery in advance can be surely done without mistake, and the work for issuing and pasting slips is extremely reliable. Not only that, but if the target delivery is a sealed letter, and the surface on which the delivery slip is attached has the sealing tongue piece on the envelope, the delivery slip attaching means is sealed with the main envelope. By sticking the sealing tongue piece at a position covering the Sakai, the sealed letter can be securely sealed and the delivered product can be delivered more safely, and the like, which is highly practical.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view schematically showing an embodiment of a delivery slip issuing and pasting device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a front surface side of a delivered product.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing the back side of the delivered product.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which a delivery slip is attached to the back side of the delivered product.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view schematically showing an embodiment of a delivery slip issuing and pasting method of the present invention in a flow chart.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Delivery slip issuing / pasting device 2 ... Transfer means 3 ... Delivery slip issuing device 4 ... Delivery slip pasting device 5 ... Control unit 6, 6a, 6b, 6c ... Bar code reader 7a, 7b ... Printer 11 ... Storage unit 12 ... Display unit 13 Input unit 14 ... Specified delivery storage unit b ... Delivery B1, B2 ... Code data

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A delivery data file storage means for storing in advance code data attached to the delivery and delivery data corresponding to the code data, and code data along the appropriate transfer route for delivering the delivery. Code reading means for reading the code data attached in advance on one side, and the delivery data corresponding to the read code data are retrieved from the delivery data file storage means in the previous term, and the corresponding delivery data is printed out to obtain a delivery slip. A delivery slip is provided to the delivery item, which is provided with a delivery form issuing means for issuing and a delivery form attaching means for attaching the issued delivery form to the opposite side of the delivery product where the code data is not attached. A delivery slip issuing and pasting device that automatically performs pasting processing. 2. The delivery item is a sealed letter, and the surface to which the delivery slip is attached has a sealing tongue piece of the sealed letter, and the delivery slip attaching means includes a sealed body and a sealed sealing tongue piece. The delivery slip issuing and pasting device for automatically pasting a delivery slip on a delivery according to claim 1, which is attached to a position covering the Sakai.