WO2014202037A1

WO2014202037A1 - Card dispensing apparatus, box storage system and method for dispensing cards and for operating a box storage system

Info

Publication number: WO2014202037A1
Application number: PCT/DE2014/000159
Authority: WO
Inventors: Heiner Kudrus
Original assignee: Böwe Systec Gmbh
Priority date: 2013-06-18
Filing date: 2014-03-26
Publication date: 2014-12-24
Also published as: DE102013010094A1; DE112014002878A5

Abstract

In order to allow the largest possible volumes of cards to be handled as inexpensively as possible but nevertheless in operationally reliable fashion in a card dispensing apparatus for dispensing cards that are kept in a static box store, said card dispensing apparatus comprising the static box store for storing boxes that hold the cards and a box transportation means for transporting boxes to the box store and/or from the box store, a box delivery means for delivering boxes between the static box store and the box transportation means and also a card dispenser, it is proposed that the card dispensing apparatus have a temporary store with a forwarding device for selectively forwarding individual cards, groups of cards or boxes to the card dispenser and that the box transportation means have a box delivery means for the temporary store. For the same reasons, in the case of a box storage system with a static box store for storing boxes that hold cards, with a card dispenser and also with a box transportation means for transporting boxes and/or a card transportation means for transporting cards from the box store to the card dispenser, at least two separate box stores may be provided, and in the case of a dispensing method for dispensing cards from a box the boxes are first of all fetched from a static box store, temporarily stored and then at least one card is automatically dispensed.

Description

Card issuing apparatus, box storage system and method for issuing cards and operating a box storage system

[01] The invention relates to a card issuing apparatus for issuing cards held in a stationary box storage, comprising the stationary box storage for storing boxes receiving the cards and a box transport for transporting boxes to the box storage and / or the box storage, a box transfer for transferring boxes between the stationary box storage and the box transport as well as a card issue.

[02] The invention also relates to a box storage system with a stationary box storage for storing card receiving boxes, with a card issuing and with a box transport of boxes and / or a card transport for transporting cards from the box memory for card issuance.

[03] The invention also relates to a method for issuing cards from a box and to a method for operating a box storage system.

[04] Finally, the invention relates to a card vault with such a box storage system and / or with such a card issuing device.

[05] In the modern world, a variety of cards, for example in the form of telephone cards, credit cards, bank cards, identification cards, ID cards and the like, are known in the traffic, which is sometimes given a very high value. Often, such cards are individualized or personalized, so that there is the possibility already on the first appearance, such as a name comparison, the comparison with a printed on the card passport photo or the comparison of signatures or other on the map, for example, also electronically or magnetically stored data to map a card to a particular owner. However, even the blanks of such cards already have a considerable value, since these can be assigned in criminal intentions arbitrary personalization or identification data readily to misuse them.

Accordingly, such cards are stored in safes or card safes or the like before being subjected to processing such as personalization or customization.

[07] A card vault can eg have a card issuing apparatus of the type mentioned, with which held in the stationary box memory cards can be transported via a box transport to the card issuing. By providing the card issuing device, the cards stored or stored in the card vaulting system can thus be stored free of immediate access by third parties and, in particular, also reissued free of any direct third party access via the card issuance. The stationary box storage here is usually part of a box storage system, which is located within the card vault. From the hitherto unpublished German patent applications with the file references 10 2012 019 399.8 and 10 2013 006 772.3 card safes or card issuing and corresponding output methods are already known, in which by means of a magazine transport cards are removed from a located inside the card reader sorager magazines and over be fed to this magazine transport the issue. From EP 0 361 989 B1 a box storage is known, in which cards are removed from the boxes individually, being provided for the removal of the cards from the boxes in at least two spatial dimensions conveyor belt devices or the boxes are stored in movable box stores. Even independently of a secure storage, a handle of various cards, such as different types of credit cards, necessary because usually such cards are produced sorted, but in the subsequent processing for jobs in a particular order, the cards of different types contains, must be put together. Significant efforts have recently been made to accelerate the machines and equipment used to complete such jobs. Accordingly, this means that the provision of such card sets in certain orders requires corresponding requirements. For example, in the case of personalization of credit cards, it is not possible to specify in advance that the respective cardholders only want cards of the same type. Rather, for example, one cardholder will require a golden credit card and the next a silver credit card. For example, it can also happen with cards from savings banks that a company has to hold cards from different savings banks and it is not clear which bank must be provided with a savings card corresponding to the respective savings bank, although these savings card cards generally also cease to exist Savings banks are kept sorted.

[09] It is an object of the present invention to enable the most cost-effective but nevertheless reliable operation of the largest possible quantities of cards.

[10] Solutions are a card issuing apparatus having the features of independent claim 1, a box storage apparatus having the features of independent claim 1 1 and a method of issuing cards from a box having the features of independent claim 17, and a method of operation a box storage system with the features of claim 28 proposed. Further advantageous embodiments can be found in the subclaims and the following description. [1 1] These solutions are based on the basic idea of substantially increasing the flexibility and speed of handling the cards, in particular the flexibility and speed of packaging, by providing two separate box stores, in particular a stationary box store and a cache Filling, sorting or sorting cards. Possibly. even a parallelization of processes can be realized thereby, which accordingly can increase the speed. This allows, depending on the concrete implementation of this basic idea, a faster and therefore more cost-effective but nevertheless reliable operation of the cards or the use of less expensive assemblies. In this case, cards are initially distinguished by their thickness, which is above 0.20 mm, in particular over 0.25 mm, as for thinner items other separation and handling methods are useful. Objects with a thickness of more than 5.0 mm or more than 4.5 mm are also no longer referred to as cards in the present sense. As a rule, such cards will not exceed a width / length ratio of 10 cm × 10 cm. Preferably, the cards are sufficiently inherently rigid with a minimum S30 = 150 Nmm ² at a Ausknickkraft of 0.4 N according to DIN 53864 standard. Accordingly, cards may also be referred to as inherently stiff sheets, where they, if one side over its thickness as a clamping depth are clamped, do not bend more than ten times the thickness down below their own weight. Preferably, cards are at least as long as your own! as- as, as long as they are not deflected over 10 times their thickness.

[13] A card issuing apparatus for issuing cards held in a stationary box repository, comprising the stationary box repository for storing card receiving boxes and a box transport for transporting boxes to the box repository and / or the box memory, a box handover for transferring boxes between the card boxes stationary box storage and the box transport as well as a card issue, can enable a cost-effective but nevertheless reliable handling of the largest possible amounts of cards, if they are distinguished by the fact that the card issuing apparatus has a buffer with a forwarding device for the selective transfer of individual cards, groups of cards or Boxing includes the card issue and the box transport has a box transfer to the cache.

By the box transport can be done with a suitable embodiment, a fast and reliable transport of cards for card issuance. This is particularly advantageous for distinguishing between the box storage disclosed in EP 0 361 989 B1, in which cards are removed individually from the magazine and which, given the fact that stocking of the magazine storage must be carried out manually at the different storage locations , is not suitable for an arrangement in a card vault, since ultimately operators at any time during the loading of the magazine memory on access to adjacent memory locations has. As boxes in the present context, any structures in question by which cards can be held in a stapeiförmig. In this respect, in the present context, cartons or other outer packaging for stacks of cards also belong to boxes, in the narrower sense of course including classic magazines, for example of metal or plastic, in which stacks of cards are stored standing or lying, are encompassed by this term. Depending on the specific design of the boxes, but also depending on the opening of a box, the cards can be withdrawn individually or in stacks from a box or introduced into this. The removal or insertion can - depending on the concrete implementation of such a box - by a removal or insertion parallel to a longitudinal extent of the box or arranged in the box stack or perpendicular to this longitudinal extent done, as this from the prior art is known in a variety of ways.

[16] The card issuing apparatus via which e.g. the cards stored in a card vaulting system free of access by third parties can be output via the card issuing unit, has the temporary storage with the transfer device and the box transport with the box transfer to the temporary storage. Through an interaction of the transfer device with the box transfer of the box transport in conjunction with the proposed cache memory, the flexibility and speed of handling even the largest possible amount of cards can be significantly increased. This applies in particular to sorting processes in which cards stored in the box memory are, for example, groups of cards for sorting or for providing sorting. For example, a card sorting may be based on a customer's request or a specific order to be processed subsequently with the respective cards and may include a collation of cards in which at least two cards are of different types or types.

For example, for the purpose of sorting or for the purpose of assembling entire boxes, the cards held for the respective sorting order in the stationary box storage - and there in the receiving boxes - can be transferred to the box transport via the pit transfer and subsequently via the Box transfer to the cache are stored in the cache. Due to the so vornehmbare storage of the cards receiving boxes in the cache the recorded in the boxes cards are available for a sorting process. For sorting, the cards which are stored in the buffer store can then be used to pass on the cards desired or required for the respective sorting operation to the card issuing unit via the transfer device. It is understood that the pit handover for handing over boxes between the stationary box store and the box transport may be identical to the box handover to the cache, but need not be. In particular, the pit handover to the buffer may be another pit handover, which boxes may be handed over from the pit handover to the handover of boxes between the stationary box store and the box transport for caching in the cache. [18] In particular, by means of the relaying device, the sorting of the cards by sorting them in another box - which may also be stored in the buffer and can be used as a temporary storage box - be made such that after sorting the desired according to the respective sort order Card sorting is included in the further box. For this purpose, the relaying device can remove the respective cards from the boxes stored in the buffer and in a first step forward them to the further box in order to record them in the further box or buffer box for sorting in the latter. In a second step, the relaying device can then pass on the further box to the card issuing, so that the respective sorting order is then completed after issuing the further box to the card issuing unit.

The sorting process described above can be carried out very flexibly as a result of the provision of the temporary storage, in particular also as a result of the temporary storage or the intermediate storage enabled short handling paths.

Overall, the card issuing device is a very cost-effective but nevertheless reliable handle even a very large amount of cards possible. Even if the buffer generates additional costs as additional modules, sorting into a further box or card issuing from the intermediate buffer is simpler and faster, so that considerably better assemblies can be used there-that is, in the intermediate buffer.

[21] Thus, the relay and / or the box transport should movably support or carry boxes with respect to the buffer, for example, by having boxes on the relay and / or the box transport movable relative to the buffer locations of the buffer. It is understood that for this purpose, if necessary, the latch formed movable and store the boxes accordingly movable or carry to allow a relative movement between stationary assemblies of the relay device or the box transport. Likewise, the relay device could movably store cards with respect to the buffer by, for example, arranging cards on the relay to the buffer locations of the buffer. For this purpose, if necessary, the intermediate memory with its intermediate memory locations can be correspondingly designed to be movable, while the relaying device or assemblies thereof remain stationary. In essence, it depends on a relative movement of each other with respect to each other movable assemblies, so that it does not matter for the implementation of this idea, whether only one of these two modules is designed to be movable or whether both modules move relative to each other. In particular, therefore, the buffer and the relay device or the box transport can undergo different movement sequences.

[22] In particular, it is advantageous if the buffer holds the boxes stationary with respect to the stationary box storage, that is to say stationary, or if the intermediate storage is stationary. Onär takes place, so that a packaging or sorting of the cards or boxes of resting boxes can go out. This allows a correspondingly simple construction of the overall arrangement or a correspondingly simple process control.

[23] The movement of the boxes or cards is preferably carried out by the relaying device or the box transport, which are already set up and designed for transport tasks.

[24] Preferably, the buffer can be designed as a clipboard. A trained as a clipboard buffer advantageously allows storage of previously arranged in the stationary box storage or storage boxes by simply dropping the boxes on the clipboard by means of the pit transfer to the cache. Such a drop, but also a resumption can be implemented on the one hand very quickly and on the other hand very cost-effectively structurally.

[25] Particularly preferably, the intermediate memory may have intermediate storage locations for a plurality of boxes. By providing intermediate storage locations for a plurality of boxes-in particular also by providing them at the intermediate storage-a rapid sorting of cards can be made possible in that several intermediate storage locations are available for performing a respective sorting operation or sorting order, to which the forwarding device is to perform sorting or sorting order.

[26] In a preferred embodiment of the card issuing apparatus, the transferring means comprises a card transfer for the selective, box-independent transfer of individual cards or groups of cards between the buffer and another box or to the card issuing unit. By means of the card transfer - which is thus set up for selective box-independent transfer of individual cards or groups of cards between the cache and another box or the card output - the sorting process described above can be realized in a simple and practical way that selectively and by means of card transfer regardless of the box, individual cards or groups of cards are taken from boxes stored in the buffer and, for the purpose of sorting, for example, are placed in the further box of this transfer or arranged therein. The further box or staging box may e.g. be arranged on the card transfer or on the cache or on the card issue.

Alternatively, the card transfer can also be a card transfer for the selective box-independent transfer of individual cards or groups of cards to the card issue to take advantage of individual cards or groups of cards stored in the buffer memory boxes and sorted or already sorted accordingly Supply card output. [28] The relay device may comprise a pit handover to the card issuance, wherein preferably the further box is arranged on a carriage which carries the card transfer to the further box. By providing the transfer device with a pit handover to the card transfer can be passed in a simple and reliable way already stored in another box or cache box sorting cards of the card output. By providing the transfer device with a carriage, on which the further box is arranged, and which carries the card transfer to the other box or on which the card transfer is added to the other box supporting, a reliable and especially fast sorting of cards or Passing cards or groups of cards are made. Depending on the specific implementation can also be dispensed with a slide, if, for example, an existing box transport, such as the box transport, which interacts anyway with the stationary box storage and the clipboard, is used accordingly.

[29] In order to implement the above-described selective box-independent transfer of individual cards or groups of cards very reliable, the card transfer may include a gripper, which is preferably arranged on the carriage. Alternatively or cumulatively thereto, the card transfer for the same reasons may also include a card withdrawal, which is provided on the buffer. The card withdrawal may, for example, be a card withdrawal known per se, which for example has a suction device for withdrawing individual cards from a box by suction, or withdraws from the box via a rubbing contact by a rubberized element or similar cards.

[30] The above gripper of the card transfer may be an arbitrarily designed gripper, which may be adapted to one or more cards preferably with a single gripping operation, in particular a box, for example. in the form of a magazine. For this purpose, the gripper may be formed, for example, in the manner of a mechanical detection or clamping device, which detects one or more cards or can receive them by clamping.

[31] Preferably, the boxes or the cards are stored in the buffer store relative to the horizontal at an angle. Due to the intended storage at an angle, a structurally simple safeguard against falling over or tilting can be provided for the boxes or the cards. It is known to align cards to store vertically, and then when the boxes are. Alternatively, it is also known to align the cards horizontally for storage when the boxes are vertically aligned. These two known arrangement geometries make it necessary to secure the cards against falling over or tilting by means of a sufficient enclosure or by an inner guide means of the boxes. In deviation from these known arrangement geometries, it is now preferably provided in the card issuing apparatus to store the boxes in the buffer at an angle to the horizontal. This storage, which is provided at an angle to the horizontal, is hereby used as a storage understanding in which the boxes or the cards are aligned differently from the known horizontal or vertical orientation or are aligned at an angle to this known horizontal or vertical orientation.

[32] Particularly preferably, the card issuing device can have at least two separate box stores. By providing two separate box stores, the flexibility and speed of handling a very large number of cards can be substantially increased due to the fact that this provides the means for box transport to transport boxes to the box store and / or the box store , Especially by suitable arrangement of the separate box storage, can be minimized substantially in a suitable design.

[33] In this case, with regard to a substantial minimization or shortening of the paths for the box transport, an arrangement in which the pit removal sides of the separate box storages face one another and are spaced from one another is particularly advantageous, so that the pit transfer of the box transport between the two pit boxes Pages can be located and thus boxes of the one or the other box storage over the pit handover to the box transport can be handed over or the pit transfer from the box transport to the one or the other box storage can be passed.

In order to allow the most cost-effective but nevertheless reliable operation handle as large amounts of cards, accordingly, regardless of the other features of the present invention, a box storage system with a stationary box memory for storing card receiving boxes, with a card issuance and with a box transport for transporting boxes and / or a card transport for transporting cards of box storage for card issuing characterized in that at least two separate box stores are provided.

[35] For the reasons already set forth above for the card issuing apparatus, the flexibility and speed of handling a very large amount of cards can be substantially increased even in the box storage system by providing the two separate box stores by shortening the ways for box transport or the card transport.

By providing the two at least separate box storage whose respective pit removal pages particularly advantageous facing each other and spaced from each other, a good space utilization is possible with a suitable arrangement of the box memory, which in turn a cost-effective but nevertheless reliable handle a very large Amount of cards is possible. [37] A very good utilization of space can advantageously be realized by providing one of the two box stores on both sides of the box transport and / or the card transport. The two-sided provision of one of the two box storage a significant minimization or shortening of the ways for the box transport or the card transport can be realized, along with a good space utilization, which in turn advantageous with a cost-effective but nevertheless reliable handle a very large amount of cards can be connected.

[38] The box transport and / or the card transport to and from both box stores preferably transport boxes and / or cards. Due to the provided transport option to and from both box stores a cost-effective but nevertheless reliable handle can be realized in particular that only a box transport or transport is necessary. Alternatively, of course, several corresponding box transports or card transports may be provided, in particular also to advantageously increase the operating speed in the handling of a plurality of cards.

[39] In a preferred embodiment, at least two box transports and / or at least two card transports and preferably a box transfer and / or card transfer between at least two of the box transports and / or card transports may be provided, allowing a high operating speed and with appropriate connectivity between the respective transports a high flexibility, especially when a cache, as it is explained above, is used. By providing at least two box transports and / or at least two card transports with a respective box transfer and / or card transfer between at least two of the box transports and / or card transports, boxes or cards can be transferred via the box transfer or card transfer between the box transports or card transports, whereby Even in a very small space a large variety of different box movements or card movements can be realized quickly and reliably.

[40] In the above card issuing apparatus and / or the above box storing apparatus, the boxes in the stationary box storage may be preferably stored at an angle with respect to the horizontal. Due to the intended storage at an angle, a structurally simple safeguard against falling over or tilting can be provided for the boxes or the cards. It is known to align cards to store vertically, and then when the boxes are. Alternatively, it is also known to align the cards horizontally for storage when the boxes are vertically aligned. These two known arrangement geometries make it necessary to secure the cards against falling over or jamming by means of sufficient enclosing or internal guidance by means of the boxes. In deviation from these known arrangement geometries, it is now preferably provided in the card dispenser and / or box storage system, the boxes or the cards in the stationary box storage at an angle to the horizontal store, so that can be dispensed with such enclosures or inner guides, such as tension springs or the like, if necessary. This storage, which is provided at an angle relative to the horizontal, is to be understood as a storage in which the boxes or the cards are oriented differently from the known horizontal or vertical orientation or are oriented at an angle to this known horizontal or vertical orientation. It is understood that such an orientation is also advantageous independently of the other features of the present invention in stationary box storage.

With a card vault with a box storage system above including a card input, wherein the box transport is set up to transport boxes from the card input to the box memory and / or box storage for card issuance, due to the advantages set out above for the box storage system a very cost-effective but nevertheless Reliable handling of a very large amount of cards can be realized. The same applies to a card vault with an above card issuing apparatus including a card input and a card issuing in which the box transport is arranged for transporting boxes from the card input to the box memory and / or the box memory to the card issuing due to the advantages set forth above for the card issuing apparatus.

The low-cost but nevertheless reliable operation of the cards can advantageously be done without access or access by third parties in the Kartentresoranlage using the box storage facility and / or the card issuing device, so that in particular after a sorting - which in particular by the interaction or the Interaction of the box transfer to the buffer with the relay device in conjunction with the cache can be done - the finished card sorting example About a sorting box in which the card sorting is included, can be issued without human access to the card vault via the card output.

A method for issuing cards from a box can be characterized in that the boxes first brought from a stationary box storage, cached and then at least one card is issued by machine to the most cost-effective but nevertheless reliable operation handle as large amounts of cards to enable.

[44] Due to the intended temporary storage of the box or boxes before the at least one card is then output by machine, the mechanical or technical complexity associated with the mechanical output of the at least one card can be significantly reduced. Thus, in a suitable embodiment, the card can be removed and forwarded from the buffer via an easy-to-implement transfer device, which would have to be implemented much more technically without intermediate storage, since the corresponding device would have to realize two functionalities without the buffering, namely the functionality for Get the boxes or cards from the stationary ren box memory and on the other hand, the functionality for outputting the at least one card. The proposed caching then a division of the two functionalities on respective devices is possible, which can then be technically far less complicated in each case for themselves, whereby a total of technical effort can be significantly reduced, along with a cost-effective but nevertheless reliable handle and a large Amount of cards. Even with a suitable embodiment, the paths can be considerably shortened by the intermediate storage, which can bring about the cost or card-throughput advantages already explained above.

[45] In order to achieve a fast and reliable and thus cost-effective handling, the buffering and / or the outputting of the cards can preferably take place in boxes.

In order to be able to advantageously realize space in the buffer for further cards or boxes, a part of the buffered cards can advantageously be brought back into the stationary box storage box by box.

[47] Particularly preferably, the cards for temporary storage on a clipboard, possibly in the form of stored boxes, stored, whereby a simple temporary storage by simply dropping on the clipboard, preferably in the form of dropped boxes, is possible. This brings in particular structural advantages, since such a drop and possibly also a resumption is usually simple and therefore inexpensive to implement.

[48] In a preferred method, a gripper is arranged on a carriage, which can be displaced along the clipboard, and wherein the gripper, if necessary, sorts or presorted the cards on the carriage. By means of the gripper displaceable over the carriage along the clipboard, a reliable sorting or presorting of cached cards can be realized by displacing along the clipboard, gripping the respective cards by means of the gripper and depositing them on the carriage.

[49] Preferably, the gripper, the cards, possibly sorted or pre-sorted, in a box, which is held on the carriage store. In this way, even at high speeds of the carriage or at high accelerations or acceleration accelerations a stationary holding the cards as a result of dropping in the box can be realized on the carriage to advantageously exclude a card loss reliable.

It can also be provided that the cards sorted in the box, which is held on the carriage are stored, and this box, after all cards are sorted, is transported to a card issuance. In this way can advantageously without human intervention -. B. via a suitable designed carriage control - on the carriage output or bring out a finished card sorting eg from a card vault system reali- be siert. However, to transport the box to the card issuing a separate transport device, in particular a box transport, be provided.

[51] The clipboard makes it possible in particular to be able to carry out several process sequences simultaneously or almost simultaneously. Thus, for example, a box transport can deposit several boxes successively on a clipboard, while there from these boxes packaging operations or sorting or presorting but also output to these boxes is performed. Also, for any inventory purposes and the like, the box transport may provide boxing in the cache so that any grippers, cameras, or card transport, if not required for sorting or presorting purposes, may be able to inventory or check cards in the latter boxes Meanwhile, for example, the box transport promotes the ready-made boxes for card issue.

Accordingly, during the sorting or presorting and / or during the output of the cards, it is thus advantageously possible to inventorize and / or check cards via the buffer. Thus, a method for operating a box storage system with a stationary box storage for storing card receiving boxes and a cache and a box transport for transporting boxes between the stationary box storage and the cache, which in the boxes existing cards in the box storage system be inventoried and / or checked over the cache by caching boxes in the cache, inventoried and / or checked the cards of these boxes and then the boxes are spent with these cards in the stationary box memory, correspondingly advantageous.

[53] Preferably, for the purpose of inventory and / or checking, boxes are moved from the stationary box storage to the intermediate storage so that, if appropriate, all boxes or all the cards in the boxes can be subjected to a corresponding inventory or check. Likewise, an input check can also take place in that boxes are initially moved from the card input to the buffer in order to store them in the stationary box memory after an inventory and / or check.

[54] Accordingly, it is also possible for cards from the boxes for inventory and / or checking in the buffer memory and / or from other boxes located in the buffer memory to be sorted, presorted, resorted and / or output during the inventory and / or check so that a very effective and reliable operating procedure is provided.

In particular, the caching of the cards on the clipboard can be made in groups of different types, preferably in groups of unmixed groups of cards, ie groups of cards comprising a plurality of identically constructed or identical cards, whereby due to the proposed caching such already above set out, without great technical effort and a cost-effective but nevertheless reliable operation of a large number of cards or groups of cards for sorting purposes is possible.

Referring to the above Kartentresoranlage, the handling of the cards can be greatly facilitated if the cards are sorted in boxes abandoned the Kartentresoranlage or stored there in the box memory. If a sorted task is envisaged, it is accordingly not possible to abandon the task in the card vaulting system when checking a card or even an entire magazine or an entire box that is abandoned, if there is no type purity. For a sorted storage in the box storage, which also allows a fast and reliable access to different varieties, if necessary, an intermediate storage in the card input or in designated boxes can be done to the corresponding cards sorted in storage boxes or boxes for storage or, if necessary, to sort in advance in a transport box or in a box for transporting.

[57] In this context, it should be explained that the above boxes may structurally differ in terms of their functionality as boxes for storing, boxes for transporting and or boxes for inputting and outputting according to the concrete implementation of the present invention, if this for their respective Tasks is beneficial. On the other hand, this need not necessarily be the case, so that identical boxes depending on their current use or functionality as boxes for storing or storage boxes, boxes for caching or intermediate storage boxes, boxes for transporting or transport boxes or boxes for entering or boxing for Output or input / output boxes are called.

It is understood that very different cards, in particular, of course, in their size different cards can be stored in an above Kartentresoranlage or box storage system. Possibly. For this purpose, the box storage or the stationary box storage on this differently designed memory spaces, for example, if phone cards or SIM cards, which are relatively small today, and credit cards are to be stored in a common vault. Depending on the specific implementation of the present invention, individual card input or card issues as well as individual card submissions for the different types of cards may possibly also be provided. In particular, however, when working with unmixed boxes, card surrenders can at least largely fall away.

[59] It is understood that the features of the solutions described above or in the claims can optionally also be combined in order to be able to implement the advantages in a cumulative manner. [60] Further advantages, objects and features of the present invention will be explained with reference to the following description of exemplary embodiments, which are particularly illustrated in the appended drawing. In the drawing show:

Figure 1 is a schematic three-dimensional representation of an embodiment of a card vaulting system;

FIG. 2 shows the interior of the card vault system according to FIG. 1 or, schematically, a three-dimensional representation of a first exemplary embodiment of a card issuing device and a box storage system;

Figure 3 schematically shows a three-dimensional representation of a second embodiment of a card issuing apparatus and a box storage system, which may be arranged inside a card vault;

FIG. 4 schematically shows the card issuing apparatus according to FIG. 2 from a different perspective;

Figure 5 shows schematically a front view of the card issuing apparatus according to Figures 2 and 4;

FIG. 6 schematically shows a side view of the card dispensing device according to FIGS. 2, 4 and 5;

Figure 7 shows schematically a three-dimensional representation of a detail of the card issuing apparatus according to Figures 2 and 4 to 6 for illustrating the pit transfer;

FIG. 8 schematically shows a further detailed representation, which shows the box transfer in relation to FIG. 7 enlarged;

FIG. 9 schematically shows a three-dimensional representation of a third exemplary embodiment of a card issuing device and a box storage system;

FIG. 10 schematically shows a detail view of the arrangement according to FIG. 9 deviating from the illustration according to FIG. 9;

Figure 1 1 shows schematically a three-dimensional representation of a fourth embodiment of a card issuing device and a box storage system;

FIG. 12 schematically shows an enlarged view of the card issuing apparatus according to FIG. 1 from a different perspective;

FIG. 13 schematically shows a three-dimensional representation of a fifth exemplary embodiment of a card issuing device and a box storage system; and

FIG. 14 shows a schematic representation of a detail of the arrangement according to FIG. 13;

Figure 15 schematically shows a three-dimensional representation of a sixth embodiment of a card issuing device and a box storage system;

FIG. 16 shows the arrangement according to FIG. 16 in an enlargement;

Figure 17 is a detail view of the arrangement of Figures 15 and 16;

FIG. 18 shows the recording of a group of cards with the arrangement according to FIGS. 15 to 17; FIG. 19 shows the group of cards taken in accordance with FIG. 18;

FIG. 20 schematically shows a three-dimensional detail representation of a seventh exemplary embodiment of a card issuing device and a box storage system;

Figure 21 is a detailed view of the carriage of the seventh embodiment; and Figure 22 shows the arrangement according to Figures 20 and 21 in a view from the side on the carriage.

[61] The card vaulting systems 39, shown schematically in the figures, are used for the safekeeping of cards 14, which in some cases have a very high value. This applies in particular to credit cards, bank cards, identification cards and identity cards. For safekeeping of the cards 14 within the Kartentresoranlage 39 they are located within a bounded by a vault wall 48 of the card vault 39 space. Within this space, in turn, the cards 48 are in a box storage system 38, not illustrated in FIG. 1, and in particular boxes 48 accommodating cards 48, which in turn may be located in a stationary box storage 12A, 12B of the box storage system 38. It is understood that corresponding box storage facilities 38 may be provided independently of a surrounding Tresorwandung 48, for example, if the box storage system 38 is already in itself in a correspondingly secure building area or if a corresponding backup of cards does not seem necessary.

The card vault 39 allows the removal and also the introduction of cards 14 free of any third party access or free of human access to the interior of the card vault 39. By appropriate input or output commands can not be shown here via a control device or In the exemplary embodiments illustrated here, for example, for inserting cards 14 into the card vault 39 in boxes 16, the cards 14 can be picked up and into the interior via a card input 40 the card vault 39 can be introduced automatically. Correspondingly, cards 14 located inside the card vault 39, which in turn are accommodated therein in the box storage 12A, 12B of the box storage system in boxes 16, can be automatically led out of the card vault 39 via a card issuing unit 42.

The card issuing apparatus 10 shown in Fig. 2 and disposed inside the card vault 39 for issuing cards 14 stored in a stationary box storage 12A comprises the stationary box storage 12A for storing boxes 16 receiving the cards 14 and a box transport 18 for transporting the boxes 16 and any in the boxes 16 reproached cards 14 to the box memory 12A and / or the box memory 12A, a pit transfer 24 for transferring boxes 16 between the stationary box storage 12A and the box transport 18 and a not further illustrated here card output 42. It is understood that corresponding card issuing devices 10 can also be provided independently of a surrounding vault wall 48, for example, if the card issuing apparatus is already itself in one secured building area or if a corresponding backup of cards does not seem necessary.

[64] The card issuing apparatus 10 includes a buffer memory 20 having a relay device 21 for selectively transferring individual cards 14, groups of cards 14 or boxes 16 to the card output 42. The box transfer 24 of the box transport 18, which is illustrated in greater detail in FIGS. 7 and 8, is also set up for transferring boxes 16 to the buffer 20.

The box transport 18 comprises, in addition to the pit transfer 24, a vertical transport 54 for realizing a vertical displaceability of the pit transfer 24 (see Figure 7) and a horizontal transport 52 with a rail 58 for realizing a horizontal displaceability or horizontal transport of the pit transfer 24 or of boxes 16.

[66] Boxes 16 illustrated in the figures are boxes in the form of a magazine in which the cards 14 are received. As can be readily appreciated, boxes in the form of cartons or even stacks of cards packed in boxes can accordingly be stored in the stationary box storage 12a, 12B.

[67] To achieve a simple handling or to achieve a simple handling by simply placing the boxes 16 over the pit transfer 24 (see Figures 7 and 8) on the buffer 20, this is as a clipboard 26 (see also Fig. 4). educated. In order to achieve a fast sorting, the intermediate memory 20 has a plurality of intermediate memory locations 28 (see also FIG. 4) for a plurality of boxes 16.

In the exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIGS 2 to 8, the forwarding device 21 includes, inter alia, the box transport 18 with the pit transfer 24 (see FIGS. 7 and 8) and a card transfer 22 for selective transfer of individual cards 14 or groups 46 of one box-independent Cards 14 between the buffer 20 and another box 16. The further box 16 may be a box 16 stored in the buffer 20 by being stored on the clipboard 26, or may be a further box 16 disposed on a carriage 30 is who carries the card transfer 22. If a separate box transport is provided for output of the finished sorted boxes 16 or only the output of individual cards 14, it is conceivable that in a slightly modified embodiment the transfer device 21 does not include the box transport 18. In particular, however, it is advantageous if the box transport 18 can then bring finished sorted boxes 16 from the clipboard 26 to the card output 42.

The carriage 30 is guided on a rail 58 parallel to the longitudinal extent of the buffer 20, so that the card transfer 22 parallel to the buffer 20 is displaced in a simple and reliable manner, in particular to allow a quick sorting.

[70] To realize a reliable, selective, box-independent transfer of individual cards 14 or groups of cards 14 between the buffer 20 and the further box 16, the card transfer 22 has a gripper 32 (see in particular FIG. 4), with which cards 14 from the card Latch 20 or from stored in the buffer 20 boxes 16 in a simple and reliable manner from the top laterally and can be taken to store them, for example, in another box 16, which may also be stored in the buffer 20, or order These store, for example, in the arranged on the carriage 30 further box 16 or record in this.

[71] The card issuing apparatus 10 also has a transverse transport 56, which is illustrated very diagrammatically only, via which boxes 16 can be transported from outside the respective card vault 39 into the interior of the card vault 39 via a card entry which is not illustrated in more detail.

The boxes 16 and the cards 14 are for implementing a structurally simple backup of the cards 14 against falling over or tilting in the buffer 20 relative to the horizontal 36 (only schematically shown in Figure 3, in which the vertical 37 is shown schematically ) stored at an angle (see in particular Figure 4).

The box transfer 24 (cf., FIG. 8) serves, inter alia, to transfer boxes 16 between the stationary box storage 12A and the box transport 18 or to the intermediate storage 20. The box 16, each in the form of a magazine accommodating the cards 14, can by means of the pit transfer 24 in a simple and reliable manner between the stationary box storage 12A and the box transport 18 (see also Figure 2) and the buffer 20 are passed.

The card issuing apparatus 10 (see in particular Figure 2) allows a cost-effective but reliable operation of a large number of cards 14 in particular when sorting the cards 14 by using the relay device 21, which includes, inter alia, the box transport 18 and the card transfer 22 in conjunction with the intended temporary storage 20.

Thus, the card issuing apparatus 10, which may be located within the card vaulting system as part of a box storage system 38, can easily and quickly sort cards 14 into one or more of the boxes 16 according to one from outside the card vault 39 make predetermined sorting order reliable, without the interior of the card vault 39 must be entered by persons. [76] The processing of a predetermined sorting request or a sorting specification can be effected, for example, by the box transport 18 transferring the respective cards 14 required for the sorting order or the corresponding boxes 16 in which the required cards 14 are located from the stationary box storage 12A via the pit transfer 24, wherein by means of the pit transfer 24 in the embodiment shown in FIG 2 each have a box 16 removed from a corresponding storage location of the box memory 12A by transferring to the pit transport 18 and then stored on the pit transfer 24 on the buffer 20.

After the required manner the required number of boxes 16 has been placed on the intermediate memory 20 for processing the respective sorting request in the above manner, then the actual sorting process can be carried out by the respective in by horizontal displacement by means of the carriage 30 the intermediate memory 20 in buffer locations 28 cached boxes 16 are approached and at each cached box 16 the required according to the sorting card 14 via the gripper 32 (see Figure 4) are taken, which hereby possibly can be started, if not all required boxes 16 are stored on the clipboard 26. After this, the cards 14 taken can be sorted into a further box 16, which is likewise stored on the buffer 20 for example, and which in this case serves as a sorting box 16, according to the sorting order or according to the sorting specification. After the finished sorting, this box 16 serving as a sorting box can then be transferred from the pit transfer 24 to the box transport 18, and subsequently box transport 18 can move to the card issue 42 (not illustrated in detail in FIG. 2) and the box 16 of this to hand over. As a result, the respective sort order is completed.

[78] Cumulatively or alternatively, the further box 16, which is sorted into, are also located on the carriage 30 of the transfer device 21 and are sorted here. After sorting, the further box 16 can then be moved by a corresponding displacement 16 of the carriage 30 in the direction of the card dispensing and then, e.g. via another - not shown here - further pit transfer from the carriage 30 and removed from the card output.

The third exemplary embodiment shown schematically in FIG. 9 differs from the first exemplary embodiment in that the card transfer 22 provided here comprises a card withdrawal 34 instead of a gripper 32 (see FIG. 2) which is provided on the buffer 20.

The card withdrawal 34 may in particular be a conventional card withdrawal 34, which may individually withdraw the cards 14 received in the individual boxes 16 from the boxes 16. For processing a respective sort order, after the box transport 18 for the respective sort order or sorting from the Boxes storage 12A to be removed boxes 16 have been stored in the buffer 20, which are taken for the respective sorting cards 14 individually from the respective cached boxes 16, by appropriate displacement of the carriage 30 of the card transfer 22 having transfer device 21 and subtracting individual Cards 14 by means of the card withdrawal 34. In order to perform the card removal from the individual boxes 16 reliable, docking stations 60 are provided, to which the boxes 16 can be docked or can be struck.

[81] With the removal of the individual cards 14, they are sorted on the card transfer 22 itself according to the respective sorting order and the finished sorting or sorted group of cards is transported via the carriage 30 to a card issue 42 illustrated in FIG. which has a card transfer 22 which is adapted to supply the finished sorted plurality or group of cards via a pusher 62, which comprises the gripper 32, to a card dispenser 42 which extends and inserts the boxes 16 via a transverse transport 56.

[82] In the exemplary embodiment of a card issuing apparatus 10 shown schematically in FIGS. 11 and 12, similar to the manner provided for in EP 0 361 989 B1, a conveyor belt 50 for transporting individual cards 14 is provided for sorting. As FIG. 12 illustrates in detail, a card withdrawal device 34 is furthermore provided in the form of a suction device, namely for withdrawing individual cards 14 from the respective boxes 16 stored in the intermediate memory 20. To provide a secure card withdrawal, docking stations 60 are also provided here. The output of the sorted boxes 16 takes place in this embodiment, also on the box transport 18, which is therefore in this embodiment, as well as the conveyor belt 50 part of the relay device 21.

[83] The fifth embodiment of a card issuing apparatus 10 shown schematically in FIGS. 13 and 14 differs from the fourth embodiment in that a sliding device 62 is provided for transferring and sorting the cards 14 collected and sorted via the transport belt 50. Collecting in the form of a stack 64 are present, via the pusher 62 supply a not-shown card output by pushing. Thus, in this embodiment, the pusher 62 together with the conveyor belt 50 is part of the transfer device 21, while the box transport 18 b ei this embodiment is not part of the relay device 21.

[84] In contrast to the device known from EP 0 361 989 B1, in the above embodiments only one conveyor of individual cards 14 by means of the conveyor belt 50 is required, which is characterized in that it can only be used in a single spatial direction or spatial dimension. So here parallel to the longitudinal extension of the buffer 20 - must be present, since in consequence of the provision of the buffer 20 from a complicated deflection by means of further conveyor belts in other spatial directions, as required in EP 0361 989 B l, can be advantageously dispensed with.

The second exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIG. 3 comprises a box storage system 38 with two separate box stores 12A, 12B for storing boxes 14 accommodating cards 14. The box storage system 30 further has a card dispenser (not illustrated in detail) and a box conveyor 18 for transporting boxes 16 from the box memories 12A, 12B for card output or vice versa. By providing the stationary box storage 12A, 12B, whose respective pit removal sides are advantageously facing each other and spaced from each other, the respective boxes 16 received in the stationary box storage 12A, 12B are accessible well via the box transport 18 and over short distances, as on both sides of the box Boxes transport 18 each one of the two Boxenspeicherl2A, 12B is provided, along with a good space utilization and an associated very cost-effective handling of the cards 14, especially in sorting operations. Also, the clipboard 26 and the buffer 20 are arranged in this embodiment, between the two stationary box storage 12A, 12B, which - as can be seen - already sufficient only a buffer 20, which is supplied via the box transport 18 or more box transports with boxes 16 and Boxing 16 can be freed.

[86] The box storage system 38 further includes a card issuing apparatus 10 according to the first embodiment described above. The box transport 18 is advantageously arranged to transport boxes 16 to and from both box stores 12A, 12B.

[87] In one embodiment of a method for issuing cards 14 from a plurality of boxes 16 (see Figure 2), the boxes 16 are first fetched from the stationary box store 12A, cached in the cache 20, and then at least one card 14 is machine-transferred the relay 21 issued.

As already stated above, the caching and / or issuing of the cards 14 takes place in boxes, although part of the cached cards 14 can also be brought back into the box storage 2a via the box transport 18 in connection with the box transfer 24, to be able to provide space in the cache 20 for additional cards 14 or boxes 16.

[89] The cards 14 are stored in the form of stored boxes 16 for temporary storage on the clipboard 26. Further, a gripper 32 (see Fig. 4) is disposed on a carriage 30 which is displaceable along the clipboard 26, the gripper 32 sorting the cards 14 into a box 16 held on the carriage 30. This box 16 is, after all cards 14 are sorted, transported to a card output 42, which is not explicitly illustrated in Figures 2 and 4. Depending on the sorting order or sorting order, the temporary storage on the clipboard 26 can take place in groups 34 of different types (see FIG. 4), so that corresponding sorting orders, which can include a plurality of cards 14, which consist of at least two cards 14, can be different Variety and multiple cards of the same sort composed, can be performed in a simple and practical way that the gripper 32 can access the respective cached sorted groups 46, which are accommodated in the corresponding boxes 16.

[91] Also, the sixth exemplary embodiment shown in FIGS. 15 to 19 essentially corresponds to the exemplary embodiments explained above, so that a detailed explanation of similar components is dispensed with. Unlike the carriage 30 of the first to third embodiments, in the sixth embodiment, the carriage 30 is guided on two rails 58, one rail 58 above the clipboard 26 and the other rail 58 below the clipboard 26. This requires a relatively compact design and secure guidance of the carriage 30. In addition, the carriage 30 is still displaceable on a crosshead 66, which also carries a rail 68, stored, so that the carriage 30 of the sixth embodiment along each of a box 16, the on the clipboard 26 is mounted, is displaced. This is especially true for the gripper 32 which is provided on this carriage 30. Such displaceability of the carriage 30 is similar to a corresponding two-dimensional displaceability of the pit transfer 24 also independent of the other specific embodiments of the card issuing apparatus 10 advantageous.

Moreover, as shown particularly in FIG. 18, a separating device 70 in the form of two slides is provided on the carriage 30, by means of which a group 46 of cards which corresponds to a certain number of cards 14 is counted from the remaining cards 14 in FIG a box 16 can be separated, so that the gripper 32, which in this embodiment has two parallel movable gripping jaws 72, the selected number of cards 14 as group 46 can grip reliable.

By means of the two separating slides 74 of the separating device 70, on the one hand a reliable gripping of the selected group 46 and, on the other hand, a gentle handling of the cards 14 can be ensured.

[94] For counting, a counting camera 76 is also provided on the carriage 30, which can count the cards 14 in a box 16 when the carriage 30 is displaced along the crosshead 66. In this way, the carriage 30 can then be positioned accordingly in order to be able to grasp a counted group 46 of cards 14 with the gripper 32.

As can be seen immediately, then a corresponding group 46 or - which is self-evident - if necessary, a single card 14 removed from a box 16 and elsewhere, in particular in another box 16, be turned off. This allows a simple and advantageous packaging of cards 14 in a box 16.

[96] In order to ensure that during a corresponding movement of the carriage 30 no cards 14 gripped by the gripper 32 are lost, a surveillance camera 78 is arranged on the carriage 30. In a particularly simple implementation, this monitoring camera 78 can take a snapshot immediately before or immediately after grasping a group 46 of cards 14 and issue a corresponding warning when the camera image changes, so that it is particularly easy to ensure that the gripper 32 is transported during transport a group 46 loses no cards 14. It is understood that such a surveillance camera 78, which is used during the monitoring accordingly monitoring, and independent of the other specific embodiment of the card issuing device 10 is advantageous as long as a card transfer 22 is present, which carries the risk that the cards are lost. In addition, it is understood that the monitoring camera 78 can also be used simultaneously as a counting camera 76, and vice versa, if this is correspondingly structurally feasible.

[97] The seventh exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIGS. 20 to 22 substantially corresponds to the sixth exemplary embodiment, so that detailed explanations of identical or identically acting assemblies have been omitted at this point for reasons of clarity. Also in this embodiment, the carriage 30 is mounted on parallel rails 58, to which a crosshead 66, which in turn displaceably supports the carriage 30 parallel to the boxes 16, can be displaced along the various intermediate storage locations 28. In this way, a corresponding counting camera 76 can be moved via the boxes 16 in order to count the total number of cards 14 or to count a desired group 46 and then to be able to grasp it by means of the gripper 32.

In contrast to the sixth embodiment, in this seventh embodiment of the carriage 30 is still a holder 80 for separation cards 82 arranged, which can be discharged from the holder 80 in the boxes 16 as needed. Such separation cards 82 can be used for subsequent method steps, for example in a system with which such cards 14 are applied to letters and enveloped, use and - optionally - contain information about the subsequent cards in the corresponding box 16. Optionally, such separation cards 82 may be provided with appropriate information via a read-write device 84, such read-write device 84 being capable of reading and labeling a magnetic stripe on the card 82, for example. It is also conceivable that implemented here print commands and printed the card 82 or RFIDs are read or labeled accordingly. On the other hand, such separation cards 82 can only serve for optical or mechanical separation. It is understood that in a modified embodiment, individual cards 14, which the remaining cards 14 in the boxes 16 can be stored in the holder 80 and inserted in a given position in boxes 16.

[99] Depending on the specific procedure, the separation cards 82 are drained from a box 16 before or after the gripping of a corresponding group 46 of cards 14, which in this embodiment occurs through the two separating slides of the separating device 70. In this case, for example, these separation cards can optionally serve an optical marking by, for example, red separation cards mark the end of a stack present in a box and yellow separation cards within a stack between cards 14, which are different types, for example, to delineate different Gutscheinkartenwertigkei- th arranged , Then, for example, red separation cards are each lowered before the cards 14 located behind or above the red separation card are grasped and removed so that the end of a stack can be marked, while yellow separation cards are lowered before or while a group of cards 14 is grasping is placed in a box 16 so that these yellow separation cards remain in front of or below the inserted group of cards within the stack. It is understood that the insertion of such cards 82 but also can be done elsewhere or via another device.

[100] Should the separation card 82 be designed in such a way that a gripper can grasp it particularly reliably, it may be advantageous to insert the separation cards 82 into the boxes 16 even before they are gripped - namely immediately after the separator 70 holds the cards 14 has separated in a box 16 in the desired manner. Then, via the separation card 82, a secure grip of the cards, in particular in contrast to the cards 14, which are to remain in the box 16, are ensured. If this is not absolutely necessary, it may also be advantageous to store the cards only when the gripped group 46 has been lowered into the new box 16. [101] In the seventh embodiment, a surveillance camera 78 as explained with reference to the sixth embodiment has been omitted. It goes without saying that such a surveillance camera can also be correspondingly advantageous at this point or in other embodiments. The same applies to the holder 80 for the cards 82, which can also be used advantageously in other embodiments in order to have small amounts of cards 14 and 82 available to the carriage 30 quickly and without further transport paths.

[102] Depending on the concrete implementation of the gripper 32, the gripper 32 may be configured to grip entire boxes 16, or be specialized in transporting only cards 14 or groups 46 of cards 14. In the latter case, for example, the box transport 18, which transports boxes 16 from the stationary box storage 12A, 12B to the intermediate storage 20, can also take over the box transport 18 of the boxes 16 from the intermediate storage 20 to the card issuing unit 42. For this, no major structural measures are necessary per se, since the box transport 18 should be able to anyway, reach the buffer 20 and at least the card input 40 with a pit transfer 24.

Moreover, it is conceivable to lock the boxes 16 into the stationary box storage 12A, 12B, so that an unobserved removal of cards, for example by maintenance personnel, is considerably more difficult. Then the box transport 18 or the corresponding pit transfer 24 may be designed to open a corresponding locking mechanism upon transfer of the boxes 16. Likewise, it is conceivable to introduce the boxes relatively deep into the stationary box stores 12A, 12B, so that manual removal of individual cards 14 is rendered impossible.

[104] In order to minimize any routes, in particular of the box transport 18, the box transport 18 may have a storage movable with the box transport 18, in which a plurality of boxes can be transported together by it. Thus, for example, a plurality of boxes 16, which are to be retrieved from a common area of the stationary box storage 12A, 12B or stored there, are transported together by the box transport 18, so that multiple paths can be at least partially minimized.

Moreover, it is understood that instead of the horizontal transport 52 or vertical transport 54, for example, industrial manipulators with joints can also be used. In particular, it is conceivable to provide a corresponding industrial joint manipulator also to a horizontal transport 52 so that it can cover very large stationary box storage 12A, 12B.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

10 card issuing device 46 group

12A stationary box storage 48 safe wall

12B stationary box storage 25 50 conveyor belt

5 14 Map 52 Horizontal Transport

16 Box 54 Vertical transport

18 box transport 56 cross transport

20 temporary storage 58 rail

21 Transfer device 30 60 Docking station

10 22 Card transfer 62 Slider

24 pit handover 64 stacks

26 Clipboard 66 Crosshead

28 buffer space 68 rail

30 slides 35 70 separating device

15 32 Grippers 72 Gripping jaws

34 Card extractor 74 Separator

36 horizontal 76 counting camera

37 vertical 78 security camera

38 box storage system 40 80 bracket

20 39 Card vault 82 Card

40 card input 84 Read / write device

42 card issue

Claims

claims:

A card issuing apparatus (10) for issuing cards (14) held in a stationary box storage (12A, 12B), the stationary box storage (12A, 12B) for storing boxes (16) receiving the cards (14) and a box transport (14). 18) for transporting boxes (16) to the box storage (12A, 12B) and / or the box storage (12A, 12B), a pit transfer (24) for transferring boxes (16) between the stationary box storage (12A, 12B) and the box transport (18) and a card issuing unit (42), characterized in that the card issuing apparatus (10) has a buffer (20) with a transfer device (21) for the selective transfer of individual cards (14), groups of cards (14) or boxes (16 ) to the card dispenser (42), and in that the box conveyor (18) has a bin handover (24) to the temporary storage (20).

2. card issuing apparatus (10) according to claim 1, characterized in that the intermediate store (20) as a clipboard (26) is formed.

3. card issuing apparatus (10) according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the transfer device (21) and / or the box transport (24) boxes (16) or cards (14) with respect to the latch (20) movably support.

A card issuing apparatus (10) according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the buffer (20) stably stores the respective boxes (16) relative to the stationary box storage (12A, 12B) and the transfer means (21) and / or or the box transport (24) transport boxes (16) to or from the cache (20).

5. card issuing apparatus (10) according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the buffer (20) has intermediate memory slots (28) for a plurality of boxes (16).

6. card issuing apparatus (10) according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the transfer device (21) a card transfer (22) for selective box-independent transfer of individual cards (14) or groups of cards (14) between the buffer (20) and another box (16) or card output (42).

7. Card issuing apparatus (10) according to claim 6, characterized in that the transfer device (21) comprises a pit transfer (24) to the card output (42), wherein preferably the further box (16) on a carriage (30) is arranged the card transfer (22) to the other box (16) bears. Card issuing apparatus (10) according to claim 6 or 7, characterized in that the card transfer (22) comprises a gripper (32), which is preferably arranged on the carriage (30) according to claim 7.

A card issuing apparatus (10) according to claim 6, characterized in that the card transfer (22) comprises a card feeder (34) provided on the buffer (20).

Card issuing apparatus (10) according to any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that the boxes (16) and the cards (14) are stored in the buffer (20) relative to the horizontal (36) at an angle.

Card issuing apparatus (10) according to one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that at least two separate box stores (12A, 12B) are provided.

Box storage system (38) with a stationary box storage (12A, 12B) for storing card (14) receiving boxes (16), with a card output (42) and with a box transport (18) for transporting boxes (16) and / or a Card transport for transporting cards (14) from the box store (12A, 12B) to the card issuing unit (42), characterized in that at least two separate box stores (12A, 12B) and / or a box store (12A, 12B) and a cache (20) are provided.

Box storage system (38) according to claim 1 1 or 12, characterized in that on both sides of the box transport (18) and / or the card transport each one of the two box storage (12A, 12B) is provided.

Box storage system (38) according to claim 1 1 to 13, characterized in that the box transport (18) and / or the card transport to and from both box stores (12A, 12B) and to and from the box storage (12A, 12B) and the buffer ( 20) boxes (16) and / or cards (14) transported.

Box storage system (38) according to one of claims 11 to 14, characterized by at least two box transports (18) and / or at least two card transports and preferably a box transfer (24) and / or card transfer (22) between at least two of the box transports (18) and / or card transports.

Card dispensing device (10) according to one of claims 1 to 11 or box storage device (38) according to one of claims 12 to 15, characterized in that the boxes (16) or the cards (14) in the stationary box storage (12A, 12B) are stored at an angle to the horizontal. A card vault (39) comprising a box storage system (38) according to any one of claims 12 to 16, including a card entry (40) and / or a card issuing apparatus (10) according to any one of claims 1 to 11 including a card entry (40) and a card dispenser ( 42), wherein the box transport (18) is arranged for transporting boxes (16) from the card input (40) to the box store (12A, 12B) and / or from the box store (12A, 12B) to the card issue (42).

Method for issuing cards (14) from a box (16), characterized in that the boxes (16) are first fetched from a stationary box storage (12A, 12B), temporarily stored and then at least one card (14) is output by machine.

Output method according to claim 18, characterized in that the intermediate storage and / or the outputting of the card (14) takes place in boxes.

Output method according to claim 18 or 19, characterized in that the intermediate storage of the boxes (16) takes place stationary.

Output method according to one of claims 18 to 20, characterized in that the boxes (16) for sorting or presorting of the cards (14) are temporarily stored.

Output method according to one of Claims 18 to 21, characterized in that a part of the cached cards (14) is brought back into the stationary box storage (2A, 2B) in boxes.

Output method according to one of claims 18 to 20, characterized in that the cards (14) for temporary storage on a clipboard (26), possibly in the form of stored boxes (16) are stored.

A dispensing method according to claim 23, characterized in that a gripper (32) is arranged on a carriage (30) which is displaceable along the clipboard (26) and the gripper (32) sorts the cards (14), possibly sorted or presorted, on the carriage (30) or in a box (16) placed on the clipboard (26).

Dispensing method according to claim 24, characterized in that the gripper (32) the cards (14), optionally sorted or presorted, in a box (16) which is held on the carriage (30) stores.

A dispensing method according to claim 25, characterized in that the cards (14) sorted into the box (16) which is held on the carriage (30) are stored and this box (16), after all the cards (14) are sorted, is transported to a ticket dispenser (42).

Output method according to one of claims 18 to 26, characterized in that the intermediate storage of the cards (14) on the clipboard (26) takes place at least prior to a sorting or presorting in unmixed groups (46).

Output method according to one of claims 18 to 27, characterized in that during the sorting or presorting and / or during the output of the cards (14) cards (14) are inventoried via the buffer (20) and / or checked.

Method for operating a box storage system (38) with a stationary box storage (12A, 12B) for storing card (14) receiving boxes (16) and with a buffer (20) and with a box transport (18) for transporting boxes (16) between the stationary box storage (12A, 12B) and the intermediate storage (20), wherein in the boxes (16) existing cards (14) which are inventoried in the box storage facility (38) via the buffer (14) and / or checked by Boxes (16) cached in the cache (14), the cards (14) of these boxes (16) inventoried and / or checked and then the boxes (16) with these cards (14) in the stationary box storage (12A, 12B) spent become.

Operating method according to claim 29, characterized in that boxes for inventory and / or verification from the stationary box storage (12A, 12B) are brought to the buffer (20).

Operating method according to claim 29 or 30, characterized in that during the inventory and / or checking cards (14) from the for inventory and / or review in the buffer (20) boxes (16) and / or other in the buffer (20) located boxes (16) sorted, presorted, resorted and / or output.