JPS61274779A - Sheets treater - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a paper sheet processing device applied to, for example, a mail sorting, canceling, and stamping device.

[Technical Prohibitions of the Invention and Problems Therewith] In general, mail sorting, canceling, and stamping devices detect the airmail mark attached to mail, for example, to determine whether the mail is front or back, or whether it is up or down. By detecting the amount of information ridges on the surface of the mail item to determine whether it is front or back, and by detecting the flap shape of the mail item to determine whether it is up or down, the mail items are arranged in a fixed direction.

Further, this type of mail sorting, canceling and stamping device 8 has a forced stamping mode function in which stamps are placed and sorted on mail pieces whose front and back sides and orientations are aligned in advance.

However, in this forced stamping mode, the stacking section where the mail is stacked after stamping is fixed, so even if the lengths of the mail pieces are uneven, they are stacked as they are, which is inconvenient for post-processing. Ta.

[Object of the invention] This invention has been made based on the above circumstances, and its purpose is to be able to sort and accumulate paper sheets according to the length information in the forced stamp mode, and to The present invention aims to provide a paper sheet processing device that can efficiently process leaves.

[Summary of the invention] This invention provides, for example, when the forced stamp mode is set,
Depending on the length of the mail piece detected by the length determination section,
It is designed to separate and accumulate mail.

[Embodiment of the Invention] An embodiment of the invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIGS. 2 and 3 schematically show a mail sorting, arranging, and stamping device applied to the paper sheet processing apparatus according to the present invention. This mail sorting, arranging, and stamping device is provided with an operator panel 32. This operator panel 32 includes various switches that drive and control the mail sorting, arranging, and stamping device, and a mode switch that changes the mode depending on whether the mail to be collected is domestic mail or mail from overseas. A switch 33 and the like are provided. When processing mail, for example, in a normal operation using this mail sorting, canceling and stamping device, the mail P is first transferred to the sorting table 50, and in this state, the operator 1 notes panel 3
A processing mode is set by a mode changeover switch 33 provided at 2. After the mail P on the sorting table 50 is manually sorted and foreign objects are removed, it is inserted into the conveyance path 51 above the slit. The mail P inserted into the transport path 51 is transferred to the take-out section 1 via the leveling section 52.
2. This take-out unit 12 uses a suction chamber (not shown) to collect the mail P1 supplied from the leveling unit 52 or the mail P supplied to the supply unit 11.
The sheets are taken out one by one and conveyed to the conveyance path 13. The supply section 11 can be brought into contact with and separated from the take-out section 12. For example, when performing normal processing using the sorting table 50, the supply section 11 is separated from the take-out section 12, and the sorted mail is separated from the take-out section 12. In the case of forced stamping mode for processing objects, the supply section 12 is brought close to the take-out section 11 . The supply section 11 is moved manually. Further, a switch 48 for detecting the operating position of the supply section 11 is provided near the supply section 11.
It is possible to detect whether or not the forced stamping mode is set based on the output signal of.

The mail P conveyed along this conveyance path 13 passes through a photodetector 10 used for determining the length of the mail, and then passes through the conveyance path 13.
All written information on the front or back side is read as 2 (i information) by a reading section 14.15 disposed opposite to the . This reading section 14
．． 15, the front and entire surface of the postal item P is optically scanned, and pasted stamps, address information, air mail marks, etc. are read as binary information, and the entire back side of the postal item P is optically scanned. The sender information, correspondence, stickers, etc. described therein are read as binary information. Based on these read 2Q reports, signals corresponding to the front and back sides of the mail are outputted to a comparator, which will be described later.

Next, the mail P is sent to stamp detection units 81 and 82 that are disposed opposite to each other on the conveyance path 13. The stamp detection units 81 and 82 detect characteristics such as standardized color, fluorescence, or phosphorescence, and also detect whether the stamp is located on the left or right side of the center of the postal item P. It has become.

Further, the flaps present on the back side of the postal item P are then detected by a flap detection unit 16.17 provided on the conveyance path 13.

Roughly speaking, the mail P is sent to stamp sections 18 and 19 disposed opposite to the conveyance path 13. These stamp parts 18
．． Reference numeral 19 is designed to affix a receipt stamp at the position where the postage stamp is affixed to the postal item.

Of the mail items P that have passed through the stamping units 18 and 19, those for which the front/back and direction determination results have been obtained are classified by a gate 20 provided at the end of the transport path 13. Items that are guided to the conveyance path 21 and for which no judgment result for front/back or orientation is obtained are guided to the reversal conveyance path 22.
It is designed to lead you to. After the mail P guided to this reversing conveyance path 22 is reversed, it is merged into the conveyance path 13 before the reading sections 14 and 15 at the terminal end thereof, and the above-mentioned discrimination operation is performed again. . Further, the mail P guided to the sorting conveyance path 21 is transferred to the gate 23.2.
4.25.26, the accumulation unit 2 according to the determination result
7, 28, 29, 30, and 31, respectively, and are integrated. That is, these accumulation parts 27 and 28
．． At 29.30, for example, the mail P determined to be facing upward on the front side, downward on the front side, upward on the back side, or downward on the back side is sorted and accumulated, and the stacking section 31 has a reversing conveyance path 22. Even after being reversed and defining the transport path 13, mail P whose front and back sides or direction could not be determined is stacked. Here, the front side of the mail means, for example, the side where stamps, address information, and airmail marks are present, the back side means the side where flaps and sender information are present, and upward facing means the side where the above airmail mark is located at the bottom left. This refers to the state in which the air mail mark is transported with the mark on the upper right side, or the case where each letter of the air mail mark is recognized facing upwards. Each letter of the mail mark is facing down to indicate the recognized state.

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of the control circuit. That is, the binary information output from the reading sections 14 and 15 is transmitted to the control section 42.
and is also supplied to the comparator 41. This comparator 41 compares the information input from the reading sections 14 and 15, and the side that has been supplied with a larger amount of information is the surface of the mail piece.
A determination signal is generated such that the side with less information is the back side. This generated signal is transmitted to the flap detection section 16.
17, is supplied to the control unit 42 together with the output information of the stamp detection units 81 and 82. The control unit 42 determines whether the mail P to be conveyed is front or back, up or down, or left or right in accordance with the input information. The control unit 42 also receives front and back discrimination results, direction discrimination results, output information from the stamp detection units 81 and 82, and detection signals from a plurality of conveyance detectors 43 provided at predetermined intervals on each conveyance path. Accordingly, a control signal is supplied to the stamping section 18.19 and the gate driving section 44, and the stamping section 18.19 and the gate 20.23.24.25.26 are driven 11J in response to this control signal.
be controlled.

Further, the take-out section drive section 46 drives the take-out section 12 in accordance with a control signal supplied from the control section 42 . Furthermore, the motor driving section 47 operates the transport paths 13, 21, .
22.51.

Further, the output signal of the front light distribution detector 10 is supplied to the control section 42 and also to the length determination section 45. This length determination 81145 detects the length of the mail piece based on the time difference between the signals corresponding to the leading edge and trailing edge of the mail piece output from the photodetector 10, and sorts information corresponding to the detected length. This generated classification information is i
The signal is supplied to the control unit 42.

Further, the output signal of the switch 48 is supplied to the tilIIl1 section 42, and this control section 42 switches between forced stamp mode operation and normal operation from the sorting table 50 based on the input signal.

In the above configuration, the operation in the forced seal mode will be explained. When the supply section 11 is moved close to the take-out section 12, the moving position of the supply section 11 is detected by the switch 48, and based on this detection output signal, the control section 42 is set to the forced stamping mode. In this state, when a mail item whose front and back sides and directions are aligned is set in the supply section 11 and the operation is started, the mail item being conveyed through the conveyance path 13 is detected by the photodetector 10, and from this detection output signal, The length determining section 45 generates classification information for this mail item. The mail is roughly conveyed along the conveyance path 13, and a receipt stamp is stamped at a predetermined location in the stamp section 18, 19. Thereafter, the gate drive section 44 is driven based on the sorting information generated by the length determination section 45 and the output signal of the conveyance detector 43, and the mail being conveyed is adjusted to a predetermined length. The accumulation unit 27~
31.

According to the above embodiment, when the forced stamping mode is set, the length of the mail is detected, and the stamped mail is sorted and stacked according to the detected length information. Therefore, even in the forced stamp mode, it is possible to accumulate mail items according to their lengths, so that post-processing of mail items can be performed efficiently.

Note that this function is not limited to the mail sorting, arranging, and stamping device, but can also be applied to other devices.

It goes without saying that various other modifications can be made without departing from the gist of the invention.

[Effects of the Invention] As detailed above, according to the present invention, paper sheets can be sorted and stacked according to the length information in the forced stamping mode, and paper sheets can be processed efficiently. It is possible to provide a paper sheet processing device that is capable of

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment of the paper sheet processing device according to the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a control circuit, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the configuration of a mail sorting, arranging, and stamping device. FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the main parts of FIG. 2. P... Mail (paper leaf), 10... Photodetector, 41.
... Comparator, 42 ... Control product, 45 ... Length judgment section, 48 ... Switch.

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) In a paper sheet processing device that stamps a stamp on a predetermined position of conveyed paper sheets and sorts and stacks them, a length detecting means for detecting the length of the conveyed paper sheets, and a length detecting means for detecting the length of the conveyed paper sheets, and aligned paper sheets. forced stamping mode setting means for stamping the seal on the class;
A paper sheet processing apparatus comprising: a control means for sorting and stacking paper sheets according to the detected length information in the forced stamp mode. (2) The paper sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the paper sheets are mail items. (3) The paper sheet processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the front and back sides of the paper sheets are aligned in the forced stamp mode.