WO2019025674A1 - Installation pour le tri d'articles de courrier - Google Patents
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- WO2019025674A1 WO2019025674A1 PCT/FR2018/051423 FR2018051423W WO2019025674A1 WO 2019025674 A1 WO2019025674 A1 WO 2019025674A1 FR 2018051423 W FR2018051423 W FR 2018051423W WO 2019025674 A1 WO2019025674 A1 WO 2019025674A1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H31/00—Pile receivers
- B65H31/04—Pile receivers with movable end support arranged to recede as pile accumulates
- B65H31/06—Pile receivers with movable end support arranged to recede as pile accumulates the articles being piled on edge
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
- B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
- B07C1/00—Measures preceding sorting according to destination
- B07C1/02—Forming articles into a stream; Arranging articles in a stream, e.g. spacing, orientating
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
- B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
- B07C3/00—Sorting according to destination
- B07C3/02—Apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution
- B07C3/08—Apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution using arrangements of conveyors
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
- B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
- B65H2701/19—Specific article or web
- B65H2701/1916—Envelopes and articles of mail
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- the present invention relates to an installation for sorting mail items comprising a destacker having an unstacking plate capable of separating an article at the head of a stack of mail items to feed a sorting conveyor in which the mail items serialized are moved in series on edge and a feed inlet store upstream of the unstacking plate which includes a motorized sole on which is intended to be placed a pile of mail items on edge and a movable pallet along the store which is adapted to be placed at the rear of the pile to keep it on edge while moving on the motorized sole towards the unstacking plate.
- the mail items are generally stored also in stack on edge, the stack extending in the direction of the length of the tray.
- the unloading of the bins can be done manually and is for a machine Operator to take a large handful of mail items and put it on a fixed (immobile) section of the sole of the feed store that is upstream of another section of the shop floor which is motorized (and therefore mobile) and which operates in synchronization with the retaining pallet as is well known for example from patent document FR2903393.
- the Machine Operator In general, the stack of mail items tends to collapse when placed on the floor of the feed magazine and therefore the Machine Operator, with one hand, holds the front of the stack relative to the plate. unstacking and the other hand tightens the feet of mail items at the back of the pile towards his first hand to straighten the pile on edge. As a result, the Machine Operator slides the stack right up to the unstacking plate, and positions the retaining pallet on the back of that stack to engage it in the serialization process.
- 103 50 623 disclose semi-automated devices to facilitate the conveying of objects on edge to the unstacker.
- the object of the invention is to overcome these disadvantages.
- the invention relates to an installation for sorting mail items comprising a unstacker having an unstacking plate capable of separating an article at the head of a stack of mail items to feed a sorting conveyor in which the serialized mail items are moved in series on edge, the installation comprising a feed inlet store upstream of the unstacking plate which comprises a motorized sole on which is intended to be placed a pile of mail items on edge and a movable pallet along the store which is adapted to be placed at the rear of the stack to keep it on edge while moving on the motorized floor towards the unstacking plate, characterized in that the motorized floor of the store includes several sections of motorized sole with respectively several independent motors which are selectively controlled by a control / command unit, in that a position sensor is provided for producing a signal indicative of the relative position of the pallet with respect to these motorized deck sections and in that the control / command unit is arranged to advance at a different speed the section or sections of motorized soles that i are upstream of the pallet
- the Machine Operator can effortlessly straighten a stack of mail items that are collapsed at the back of the pallet simply by supporting the front of the stack with one hand.
- the optimization of the destacker mail item feeding process makes it possible to improve the rate of sequencing articles in the conveyor and more generally makes it possible to increase the processing speed of the mail items in the sorting installation. .
- This installation can have the following features:
- control / command unit is arranged to reduce the forward speed of the motorized deck sections which are upstream of the pallet after a predetermined set delay
- the pallet has a back that has a retractable ramp.
- the ramp here makes it possible to assist the operator in the straightening of the stack by making the straightening more ergonomic.
- Figure 1 is a very schematic representation of a sorting installation according to the invention
- Figures 2a, 2b, 2c and 2d are very schematic representations of a part of the sorting installation according to the invention during straightening of a stack of mail items.
- FIG. 1 there is shown a sorting facility 1 of mail items 2 according to the invention comprising a unstacker having an unstacking plate 3 designed to serialize an article at the head of a stack of mail items and a conveyor sorting machine 4 powered by the unstacker in which the serialized mail items 2 are moved on edge to sorting outlets 5.
- the sorting installation 1 also comprises a feed inlet magazine 6 in mail articles 2 upstream of the unstacking plate 3 which comprises a non-motorized sole 7 on which is intended to be arranged by a machine operator a tray loaded with mail items 2 stored on vocals.
- the magazine 6 also comprises, in the downstream extension of the non-motorized sole 7 in the feeding direction, a motorized sole 8 on which is destined to be discharged the stack of mail items 2 on the edge of the bin by the machine operator. and which automatically moves the stack of mail items 2 to the unstacking plate 3 according to the conveying direction Fl.
- a movable retaining pallet 9 is also provided along the motorized sole 8 and the sole motorized 7, this pallet being designed to be placed at the rear of the stack of mail items 2 by the machine operator to keep it on edge during its movement on the motorized sole 8 towards the unstacking plate 3.
- the retaining pallet 9 also has a back 10 which comprises a retractable ramp 11, here freely mounted sliding in the thickness of the pallet, so as to accompany the rectification movement of another stack of mail items 2 which is pressed against the retaining pallet 9.
- this ramp 11 comprises a horizontal upper side which is slidably mounted in two vertical grooves of the pallet 9.
- An elastic member may be provided to force this ramp to occupy at rest a retracted position in the pallet and a locking member may be provided to hold the ramp in an inclined position out of the pallet so as to perform a stack recovery.
- the motorized sole 8 of the magazine 6 also comprises several motorized sections 12 each with an independent motor driven selectively by a control / command unit 13.
- Each motorized section is here designed to move all the mail items of a stack filling a tray.
- the control / command unit 13 is here designed to increase the speed of the section or sections 12 of soles motorized 8 which are upstream of the retaining pallet 9 with respect to that or those which are downstream of the pallet with respect to the conveying direction Fl.
- the control / command unit 13 is here configured in two modes of operation suitable for processing mail items stored on edge or flat in bins.
- the Operator can thus choose the appropriate operating mode according to the mail items loaded in the feed magazine.
- a control panel 15 is here provided near the motorized sole 8 to select one of the two modes of operation.
- the sorting installation 1 also comprises a position sensor 14, designed to send a signal to the control / command unit 13 indicative of the relative position of the pallet with respect to the motorized deck sections.
- the sorting installation furthermore comprises other sensors capable of producing data on the position of the stack on the feed magazine, the control / command unit 13 being to be recovered and processing these data in order to check in return the speed of each section independently of each other.
- control / command unit 13 can also, for example, activate each section 12 at an equivalent speed, increase or gradually reduce the speed of the sections to the retaining pallet 9 and even controlling the speed of the sections 12 during a predetermined set time.
- the machine operator begins by selecting in the control panel 15 the operating mode (on edge or flat).
- control / command unit 13 will continue to operate according to the previously selected operating mode.
- the machine operator For the sorting of mail items 2 stored on edge in bins, the machine operator begins by depositing a tray loaded mail item 2 on the non-motorized sole 7 and then retrieves the mail items 2 handle by handle to deposit them in stack on the motorized sole 8 which works permanently.
- the "tilter” automatically switches the tray to deposit on edge the items directly on the motorized sole 8.
- the control unit / control will drive the sections according to the positioning of the stack detected by the sensors.
- the Machine Operator here represented by a hand M in FIG. 2a places his right hand at the front under the stack and his left hand. at the foot of the back of the pile and takes advantage of the movement of movement of the pile on the sections 12 to start straightening effortlessly the pile on sing against the retaining pallet 9.
- the Operator removes his right hand while holding his left hand at the foot of the back of the stack to avoid a tilting back of the stack and takes advantage of the automatic movement of the sections 12 so that the pile ends to recover itself against the retaining pallet 9, as shown in Figure 2c.
- the machine operator no longer needs to use his right hand to straighten the pile of mail items 2 against the pallet 9 because then the article At the head of the pile, it straighten itself along the back of the pallet.
- the machine operator then moves the retainer pallet 9 to the back of the stack of mail items 2 that has just been straightened, as shown in FIG. 2d.
- the position sensor 14 then detects a new position of the retaining pallet 9 and sends a signal to the control / command unit 13 which reduces the speed of the section 11 on which is located the pile of mailpieces 2 newly adjusted between the retaining pallet 9 and the unstacking plate 3 so that the speed is substantially the same as the advancement of the retaining pallet.
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JP2020600004U JP3227609U (ja) | 2017-08-04 | 2018-06-15 | 郵便物仕分け装置 |
US16/070,812 US20210206593A1 (en) | 2017-08-04 | 2018-06-15 | An installation for sorting mailpieces |
EP18737003.6A EP3661663A1 (fr) | 2017-08-04 | 2018-06-15 | Installation pour le tri d'articles de courrier |
CA3071026A CA3071026A1 (fr) | 2017-08-04 | 2018-06-15 | Installation pour le tri d'articles de courrier |
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FR1757544 | 2017-08-04 | ||
FR1757544A FR3069791B1 (fr) | 2017-08-04 | 2017-08-04 | Installation pour le tri d'articles de courrier |
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Citations (6)
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EP0562954A1 (fr) | 1992-03-27 | 1993-09-29 | Compagnie Generale D'automatisme Cga-Hbs | Dispositif d'amenage d'une pile d'objets plats sur chant vers une tête de dépilage de système de tri automatique et procédé de mise en oeuvre de ce dispositif |
DE10350623B3 (de) | 2003-10-30 | 2005-04-14 | Siemens Ag | Vorrichtung zum Vereinzeln von flachen Sendungen in stehender Position aus einem Sendungsstapel |
EP1873096A2 (fr) * | 2006-06-28 | 2008-01-02 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | Dispositif destiné au rechargement d'une pile d'objets plats sur chant dans un dispositif de dépilage |
FR2903393A1 (fr) | 2006-07-06 | 2008-01-11 | Solystic Sas | Methode pour alimenter un dispositif de depilage d'envois postaux |
EP2292539A2 (fr) | 2009-09-03 | 2011-03-09 | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | Appareil pour définir l'état de feuilles empilées, appareil de manipulation de feuilles et procédé pour définir l'état de feuilles empilées |
WO2013007904A1 (fr) * | 2011-07-13 | 2013-01-17 | Solystic | Dispositif de dépilage pour machine de tri d'objets plats et procédé de dépilage d'objets plats |
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- 2017-08-04 FR FR1757544A patent/FR3069791B1/fr not_active Expired - Fee Related
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- 2018-06-15 EP EP18737003.6A patent/EP3661663A1/fr not_active Withdrawn
- 2018-06-15 CA CA3071026A patent/CA3071026A1/fr not_active Abandoned
- 2018-06-15 WO PCT/FR2018/051423 patent/WO2019025674A1/fr unknown
- 2018-06-15 JP JP2020600004U patent/JP3227609U/ja not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 2018-06-15 US US16/070,812 patent/US20210206593A1/en not_active Abandoned
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EP0562954A1 (fr) | 1992-03-27 | 1993-09-29 | Compagnie Generale D'automatisme Cga-Hbs | Dispositif d'amenage d'une pile d'objets plats sur chant vers une tête de dépilage de système de tri automatique et procédé de mise en oeuvre de ce dispositif |
DE10350623B3 (de) | 2003-10-30 | 2005-04-14 | Siemens Ag | Vorrichtung zum Vereinzeln von flachen Sendungen in stehender Position aus einem Sendungsstapel |
EP1873096A2 (fr) * | 2006-06-28 | 2008-01-02 | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft | Dispositif destiné au rechargement d'une pile d'objets plats sur chant dans un dispositif de dépilage |
FR2903393A1 (fr) | 2006-07-06 | 2008-01-11 | Solystic Sas | Methode pour alimenter un dispositif de depilage d'envois postaux |
EP2292539A2 (fr) | 2009-09-03 | 2011-03-09 | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | Appareil pour définir l'état de feuilles empilées, appareil de manipulation de feuilles et procédé pour définir l'état de feuilles empilées |
WO2013007904A1 (fr) * | 2011-07-13 | 2013-01-17 | Solystic | Dispositif de dépilage pour machine de tri d'objets plats et procédé de dépilage d'objets plats |
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FR3069791A1 (fr) | 2019-02-08 |
CA3071026A1 (fr) | 2019-02-07 |
US20210206593A1 (en) | 2021-07-08 |
FR3069791B1 (fr) | 2019-08-16 |
JP3227609U (ja) | 2020-09-10 |
EP3661663A1 (fr) | 2020-06-10 |
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