JPS591750Y2 - Paper sheet bundle sorting device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention relates to a bundle sorting device for paper sheets such as postcards and sealed letters.

Normally, a centralized bureau separates postal letters accepted through internal bureaus, its own counters, mailboxes, etc., as well as miscellaneous bundled letters, bundled letters, and mailbag personal injury letters that arrive from external bureaus, and dispatches them to other bureaus. , delivery to your own station is classified.

To explain in detail the dispatch classification mentioned above, the internal bureau opens, sorts, and stamps the postal letters accepted by the internal bureau and sorts them according to postal code, etc., and also categorizes the miscellaneous bundles of letters that arrive from external bureaus into Kanto bureaus. do.

Next, the sorted stacked letters are bundled with destination (direction) information added, and these bundled letters are sorted and packed together with the bundled letters arriving from the external office into mail bags.

Then, these mailbags are sorted together with the mailbags arriving from the foreign station, and the delivery sorting to other stations or the own station is completed.

However, in the past, the sorted and accumulated letters were manually taken out, bundled together with destination information cards through a bundler, and then sorted by mailing bag by destination, which required a lot of labor. have.

The present invention was developed based on the above circumstances, and its purpose is to provide a paper sheet bundle sorting device that saves labor from taking out paper sheets to sorting bundles of paper sheets. The aim is to provide the following.

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described based on the drawings.

In Fig. 1, 1 and 1 are automatic postal code reading and sorting machines (bundle paper sheet feeding device) that have auxiliary processing devices 1a and 1a on the back side, and 2 is these automatic postal code reading and sorting machines 1 and 1. A bundled letter conveyance path (
(bundled paper sheet conveyance path).

3.3 is a bundled letter sorting machine (bundled paper sheet sorting machine) that sorts the bundled letters A'... conveyed via the bundled letter conveyance path 2; This is a bundled letter auxiliary supply section (bundled paper sheet auxiliary supply section) provided upstream of the bundled letter sorting machines 3, 3.

Reference numerals 5 and 5 designate automatic sorting, arranging and stamping machines as pre-processing devices connected to the automatic postal code reading and sorting machines 1 and 1 via connectors 6 and 6.

The automatic postal code reading and sorting machines 1, 1 are constructed as shown in FIG.

That is, on the left side of the front of the machine body 10 are letters (paper sheets) A... automatically sent from the automatic sorting, arranging, stamping machine 5.
...and hand-delivered letter (paper leaf) A...
A supply/take-out section 11 is provided for taking out the sheets one by one.

After the postal code of the letter A taken out from the supply/takeout section 11 is read by the reading device 12, it is conveyed via the main conveyance path 14 to the sorting/accumulating section 13 formed on the right side.

The sorting and accumulating section 13 has a large number of sorting boxes 15...
are arranged in multiple stages, and the group of sorting boxes 15 in each stage are opposite to the branch conveyance path 16 branched from the main conveyance path 14, respectively. There is.

Further, a branch conveyance path 1 branching from the middle part of the main conveyance path 14 is provided.
A first gate 17 is disposed at the branch section 6, and a second gate 18 is disposed in the middle of the branch conveyance path 16, facing the sorting box 15.

Then, by the action of the first gates 17, 17, the branch conveyance path 16... is selected, and the second gate 18
The selection of each classification box 15 is performed by the functions of .

Thus, the letter group A placed on the supply/takeout section 11...
. . . are taken out one by one and sorted and accumulated in predetermined sorting boxes 15 . . . corresponding to the postal code.

In addition, the accumulated letters A... sorted in the sorting boxes 15... are made of transparent plates individually arranged on the front side of the sorting boxes 15... Part 19...
... is full and the switch (not shown) is letter A...
. . . is activated by detecting that it is full, or by moving backwards in response to a predetermined processing loft end signal, etc., it is automatically taken out from the sorting box 15 . . . to the auxiliary processing device 1a side. The configuration is as follows.

On the back side of the sorting/accumulating section 13, there are sorting box groups 15 and 15 for each stage mentioned above.
A frame-equipped take-out belt 20 is arranged in multiple stages corresponding to..., and picks up the accumulated letters A... automatically taken out from each sorting box 15... It is designed to be transported to the right side of the fuselage 10 in that state.

In addition, a delivery conveyor 21 is stretched so as to be perpendicular to the vicinity of the conveyance end of the frame-equipped pick-up belt 20, and the delivery conveyor 21 is positioned below the picked-up and conveyed stacked letters A... It is configured to be delivered on a conveyor 22.

The conveyor 22 described above is configured to convey the accumulated letters A... to the right side.

Further, on the conveyance path of the conveyor 22, a destination (direction) information adding device 23 for adding a destination information card B and a bundling device 24- are sequentially arranged.

Therefore, each sorting box 1 of the automatic postal code reading sorting machine 1, 1
As shown in Figure 3 and a part of Figure 4, the stacked letters A... that have been sorted into 5... are automatically taken out and placed on paper bills etc. on the top surface. Destination information card B including destination number 25, barcode 26, destination name 27, handling station name 28, etc.
is applied, and then bundled with a binding band 29.

Next, the bundled letter A'... is transferred to the bundled letter conveyance path 2.
The paper is automatically supplied to the bundled letter sorting machines 3 and 3.

On the other hand, the bundled letter auxiliary supply section 4 includes a keying section 30 and an adjustment section 3.
1, and the bundled letters A', which are manually sorted at the own station or arrived from other stations, are transferred to the bundled letter conveyance path 2.
When a break occurs in the flow of the bundled letters A' being conveyed, the bundled letters A' are fed by interrupting this interruption.

In this way, the stacked letters A are supplied to the bundled letter sorting machines 3, 3 in an empty state and automatically taken out from the sorting box 15.
. . . or keystroke information from the keystroke section 30, the mail is sorted into predetermined sorting and accumulating sections 32 and packed into mail bags.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, the destination information card B is attached to the automatically taken out stacked letters A and then they are bundled with the binding band 29, but the present invention is not limited to this. First, the destination information may be printed on the binding band 29 after the collected letters A, . . . are bundled.

Further, although the destination information card B is provided with a barcode 26, it may be omitted.

In addition, it goes without saying that the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, and that various modifications can be made without changing the gist of the present invention.

As explained above, the present invention is based on a bundled paper sheet supply device that automatically takes out paper sheets, accumulates them, bundles them, and supplies them as bundled paper sheets, and A bundle of paper sheets transport path that transports the supplied bundle of paper sheets, and a bundle that sorts the bundles of paper sheets transported through this bundle of paper sheets into predetermined sorting and stacking sections. A paper sheet sorting machine is installed in front of the bundled paper sheet sorting machine, and when an interruption occurs in the flow of the bundled paper sheets conveyed through the bundled paper sheet conveyance path, a The paper sheet bundle sorting device is characterized by comprising a bundle paper sheet auxiliary supply section that feeds the bundle paper sheets.

Therefore, after paper sheets are automatically taken out, stacked, and bundled, the bundled paper sheets are automatically sorted into bundles in the sorting and stacking section, which was previously done manually. The work from taking out the leaves to sorting the bundles of paper leaves can be performed automatically, resulting in significant labor savings.

In addition, an auxiliary bundled paper sheet supply section is provided upstream of the bundled paper sheet sorting machine, so that when a break occurs in the flow of bundled paper sheets from the bundled paper sheet supply device, the Since the bundles of paper sheets are fed in a concentrated manner, the bundles of paper sheets can be fed in an empty state as much as possible, and the operating rate of the bundles of paper sheets sorting machine can be increased and used effectively. be effective.

Therefore, for example, paper sheets in a bundle can be automatically sorted by feeding them to this sorting machine.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention, in which Fig. 1 is a schematic plan view of a bundle sorting device, Fig. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram of an automatic postal code reading and sorting machine, and Fig. 3 is a schematic plan view of a bundle sorting device. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the state leading to the bundled letter, and FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the sequence of operations. A... Postal letter (paper leaf), A'...
Bundled letters (bundled paper sheets), 1...Automatic postal code reading and sorting machine (bundled paper sheet supply device), 2...Bundled letter conveyance path (bundled paper sheets) 3...Bundled letter sorting machine (Bundled paper sheet sorting machine), 4...Bundled letter auxiliary supply section (Bundled paper sheet auxiliary supply section) ), 32...
...Separate accumulation section.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A bundled paper sheet supply device that automatically takes out paper sheets, stacks them, bundles them, and supplies the bundled paper sheets as bundled paper sheets, and a bundled paper sheet supply device that A bundle paper sheet conveyance path to be conveyed, a bundle paper sheet sorting machine that sorts the bundle paper sheets conveyed via this bundle paper sheet conveyance path into predetermined sorting/accumulating sections, and this bundle paper sheet conveyance path. It is installed in the front stage of the bundled paper sheet sorting machine, and when a break occurs in the flow of the bundled paper sheets conveyed through the bundled paper sheet transport path, it cuts into the break and separates the bundled paper sheets. 1. A bundle sorting device for paper sheets, comprising: an auxiliary supply section for supplying bundles of paper sheets.