WO1998055008A1 - Procede et dispositif pour effectuer la distribution d'envois postaux plats - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif pour effectuer la distribution d'envois postaux plats Download PDF

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WO1998055008A1
WO1998055008A1 PCT/DE1998/001417 DE9801417W WO9855008A1 WO 1998055008 A1 WO1998055008 A1 WO 1998055008A1 DE 9801417 W DE9801417 W DE 9801417W WO 9855008 A1 WO9855008 A1 WO 9855008A1
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integrated
mail
microprocessor chip
flat
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Jens Zschorlich
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Jens Zschorlich
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Priority to AU84308/98A priority Critical patent/AU8430898A/en
Priority to DE19880746T priority patent/DE19880746D2/de
Priority to EP98934781A priority patent/EP1005284A1/fr
Publication of WO1998055008A1 publication Critical patent/WO1998055008A1/fr

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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
    • G07B2017/00233—Housing, e.g. lock or hardened casing
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
    • G07B2017/0025—Storage of, e.g. ribbon
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00362—Calculation or computing within apparatus, e.g. calculation of postage value
    • G07B2017/0037—Calculation of postage value
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00661—Sensing or measuring mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00685—Measuring the dimensions of mailpieces

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  • the invention relates to a method and a device for handling the distribution of flat mail items, preferably letter mail items.
  • mail is provided with tokens to a container which is accessible by means of a flap and is usually box-like or tower-shaped and designed as a mail receiving container and which can hold a larger quantity of mail.
  • This container is used exclusively for the storage of this letter mail and is emptied after arbitrarily determined times.
  • the postal mail contained is checked optoelectronically and / or manually for its proper franking according to weight and size in a collection point and sorted according to the intended main direction of transport. This generally known principle has not changed for decades.
  • Securing devices are often designed as a lock, as provided in DE-OS 2 619 125.
  • DE-Gm 93 09 359 describes a handling device for classifying the mail according to the dimensions length, width and thickness, representative of other applications.
  • DE-PS 524 836 provides a construction in which a circulating belt provided with advertising is attached to the front of the box, which is gradually moved further when the flap is opened, so that it is multifunctional.
  • the mail acceptance box is also provided with a Spiegel combines, so that the person sending the post is able to assess its personal appearance.
  • This device is suitable for the selective storage of mail or other small items, if applicable, which are given in or taken out by special authorized persons of this device.
  • a concentrated recording, sorting and evaluation according to different, from external characteristics or the mass of individual postal units after a money-quasi-unit and their consideration in the clarification of the access authorization is not possible.
  • the previous system of mail acceptance and distribution is characterized in that a relatively large number of operations are required in order to bring this mail to the definitive recipient.
  • tokens are stuck on, the value of which is determined by the factors size of the cubic dimensions taking into account the weight.
  • the user must buy and store these tokens in different denominations beforehand or join a franking system.
  • so-called directional mailboxes are set up in large cities, as is also integrated in the solution according to US Pat. No. 3,747,752 to a minimum without fundamentally changing the further treatment of posted mail.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to develop a method and a device for handling flat mail items, preferably letter mail items, in which a change in the evaluation of the characteristics of the mail items to be transported, which are relevant for classification, enables a further mechanization of the mail item acceptance for transportation in a territory defined from the start , the mail acceptance box is intended to compensate for a restriction of mail pick-up at short intervals and is designed to be multifunctional in a customer-friendly, technically appropriate manner.
  • the object is achieved by providing the transporting flat mail items, preferably letter mail items, first differentiated according to thickness and width, which is derived from the length of the shorter of the two edges determining the area, by the readiness for acceptance of such a mail acceptance device, preferably a mail post box a card with integrated magnetic stripe and rechargeable microprocessor chip carried by the person in charge of the postal task is temporarily brought about by giving this card with magnetic stripe and rechargeable microprocessor chip to the mail acceptance device, a counting device integrated in the mail acceptance device, the number of mail items placed in different formats and, if required, after separating a stack, depending on the width and / or its weight by an integrated counting device the number of different mailed format determined in accordance with a basic value that is fictitious for individual formats, made available to a built-in microcomputer as a calculation variable and, in the case of individual mailings that differ in weight from the fictitious basic value, a multiple The multiple of the basic value is adequately multiplied, this fictitious value is converted into an adequate
  • the device according to the invention essentially consists of a floor-based, regularly column-shaped mail acceptance device which, on at least one of its sides facing the main traffic flow, adequately has the number of usual flat formats of mail items to be transported, preferably letter formats, mechanically operated and operated lockable cut-out openings, the free openings of which are available in the open state Width essentially corresponds to the smaller of the two edges delimiting the area of formatted mail, on the side of the area of the letter mail acceptance device provided with closable recess openings there is a receiving device for a card with an integrated magnetic strip and a rechargeable microprocessor chip, in which the card with an integrated magnetic strip remains during the dwell time and rechargeable microprocessor chip in the microprocessor chip generates field changes and these in elec electrical impulses are converted, while the mechanically operated and operated lockable recesses opening openings are kept open and the level of the microprocessor chips present in the card with a magnetic strip and integrated microprocessor chip is influenced in inverse proportion to an adequate total value depending on
  • the tolerance range for the weight corresponds to an arbitrary gradation. If a value is exceeded, the mail item is assigned to the next higher level.
  • a separating device is arranged downstream of each cutout opening, which provides the individual value for the sum formation taking place depending on the smaller width of the edges of the two formatted flat mail items and the number of flat mail items .
  • the cutout openings are preferably designed as pull-in mechanisms, the locking mechanisms of the cutout openings being designed to be open and lockable electronically, electrically or hydraulically.
  • An intercom can be integrated in the housing, for example to be able to call for help in an emergency situation.
  • the mail acceptance device is connected to other communication networks, which is preferably done wirelessly.
  • the mail receiving device can be equipped with a photovoltaic element and a buffer device for the energy obtained.
  • the outside of the housing is at least partially designed as an advertising medium or can carry further information-useful signs, displays or the like, such as a city map.
  • a display integrated into the housing, via which the fill level of the microprocessor chips present in the card with an integrated magnetic strip and rechargeable microprocessor chip is displayed in the associated receiving device during the stay of the card with an integrated magnetic strip and rechargeable microprocessor chip, with each card anyway integrated magnetic stripe and rechargeable microprocessor chip an identifiable signal can be read or this emits such a signal that is stored for detection and control purposes.
  • a printer is integrated in the mail receiving device, which on the basis of the determined dimensions of the individual mail items and taking into account their total number ejects a document which confirms the number of mail items, also separated according to formats.
  • the printer can also be used for other integrated functions, for example in a system of integrated ticket sales, postcard or admission ticket sales and the like functions, in the context of which a specific confirmation in the form of a printed product is expedient.
  • the delivery side is preferably on the main loading side of the mail acceptance device.
  • a monostable flip-flop is integrated, which ensures that after a short presettable time has passed - usually this is an order of magnitude in the range of seconds - after using the mail acceptance device, it usually falls into a sleep mode, from which it can be operated via the Entering a living being, which is registered via a motion detector integrated in the housing and provided with a switching element, switches back to the working mode, provided that this is not provided for in terms of circuitry by giving up the card with an integrated magnetic strip and rechargeable microprocessor chip.
  • the mail acceptance device is preferably set up at points at which an operation and loading of individual means of transport, for example a passenger car, can take place.
  • An acceptance device for flat mail items designed as a letter mail acceptance device in which only inner-city letters from a large city are accepted for distribution, has four cut-out openings which are closed by locked and mechanically operated flaps, the width of which corresponds to the narrow side of the most common letter formats plus a tolerance value.
  • the formats C6, DIN long, C4 and B4 were specified with a tolerance of 1 cm.
  • the mail has been handed over to the mail receiving facility, it will be separated in the mail receiving facility. If a significant deviation in the width is determined by sensors, the letter thus recognized and evaluated is fed via a swiveling guide device to a delivery opening which is expediently arranged on the operator side, so that it can be recognized by the person who posted it and assigned to the correct cutout opening can be relinquished.
  • Each individual letter triggers impulses in the interior of the mail acceptance box, which respond to a specific identification signal of the card used with integrated Free magnetic stripe and rechargeable microprocessor chip, based on the width of the letters and / or their weight are different and evaluated by comparison with a fictitious base value, if necessary multiplied by the ratio resulting from the comparison, and counted.
  • the sum of the impulses is determined with a fictitious concept of value, which is preferably expressed in monetary values.
  • This total value has the effect that the level of the microprocessor chip present on the card with an integrated magnetic strip and rechargeable microprocessor chip is reduced in inverse proportion and the card with an integrated magnetic strip and rechargeable microprocessor chip is ejected again, so that the person who posted the mail has this card with an integrated one Magnetic stripe and rechargeable microprocessor chip removed again.
  • a display integrated in the housing and attached to the operating side shows the fill level of the microprocessor chip present in the card with integrated magnetic stripe and rechargeable microprocessor chip. This means that the person who posted the mail to the mail receiving facility has knowledge of the residual value of their card with an integrated magnetic stripe and rechargeable microprocessor chip.
  • the person issuing the mail has the option of responding to a signal, as with telephone cards with insufficient residual value, it is customary to add a second card within a defined time. If this is not done, the mail corresponding to the difference value is rejected by the deflection device.
  • the system closes the cut-out openings again.
  • a confirmation receipt is issued via the integrated printing device, which is an integrated laser printer, via the central unit, which documents information about the time, the date and the number of individual formats that have been submitted.
  • an existing level sensor system triggers a signal in a central point, so that the useful value of the mail receiving device can be restored by emptying it at the latest, provided that this cannot be guaranteed at short notice anyway by regular emptying.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un procédé et un dispositif pour effectuer la distribution d'envois postaux plats, de préférence des lettres. En modifiant l'estimation des caractéristiques de triage des envois postaux plats à transporter, on peut mécaniser dans une large mesure la réception d'envois postaux plats à transporter dans un territoire défini au préalable. La boîte de réception du courrier compense une limitation du service de retrait du courrier à de courts intervalles et a une conception technique multifonctionnelle aisée à manier par le client. A cet effet, la valeur à affranchir des envois postaux plats à transporter est évaluée en fonction de leur épaisseur et de leur largeur, cette valeur étant en outre comparée à un poids standard et le cas échéant corrigée. Une carte avec une bande magnétique intégrée et une puce de microprocesseur rechargeable permettent d'une part d'ouvrir le dispositif de réception de courrier décrit et d'autre part de débiter de la puce de microprocesseur intégrée la valeur des envois postaux expédiés. Le dispositif de réception de lettres a la forme d'une colonne fixe avec des ouvertures, des dispositifs de triage, un micro-ordinateur et d'autres dispositifs requis pour mettre en oeuvre le procédé.
PCT/DE1998/001417 1997-06-05 1998-05-16 Procede et dispositif pour effectuer la distribution d'envois postaux plats WO1998055008A1 (fr)

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AU84308/98A AU8430898A (en) 1997-06-05 1998-05-16 Process and device for the distribution of flat mail
DE19880746T DE19880746D2 (de) 1997-06-05 1998-05-16 Verfahren und Einrichtung zur Handhabung der Verteilung von flächigen Postsendungen
EP98934781A EP1005284A1 (fr) 1997-06-05 1998-05-16 Procede et dispositif pour effectuer la distribution d'envois postaux plats

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DE19740113A DE19740113C2 (de) 1997-06-05 1997-09-12 Verfahren und Einrichtung zur Handhabung der Verteilung von flächigen Postsendungen

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DE2516885A1 (de) 1975-04-17 1976-10-28 7100 Heilbronn Briefkasten oder dergleichen
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DE524836C (de) 1928-01-12 1931-05-13 Elisabeth Castenholz Hausbriefkasten mit Reklamevorfuehrung
US3747752A (en) 1971-10-22 1973-07-24 A Reader Method and apparatus for mail distribution
DE2516885A1 (de) 1975-04-17 1976-10-28 7100 Heilbronn Briefkasten oder dergleichen
DE2619125A1 (de) 1975-11-25 1977-06-02 Martens Brandkasten Bv Sicherungsvorrichtung fuer einen briefkasten oder dergleichen
US4225359A (en) 1979-04-27 1980-09-30 Schneider Gordon L Acidic earthen cemented compositions for building materials and process
EP0264502A1 (fr) * 1986-10-17 1988-04-27 Wu Sheng-Jung Dispositif automatique pour le traitement du courrier
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DE9309359U1 (de) 1993-06-23 1993-09-23 Wertachtal-Werkstätten GmbH, 87600 Kaufbeuren Einrichtung zur einstufung von postsendungen
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