EP1415732A1 - Dispositif pour combiner au moins deux flux d'articles à trier en un flux d'ensemble d'articles à trier - Google Patents

Dispositif pour combiner au moins deux flux d'articles à trier en un flux d'ensemble d'articles à trier Download PDF

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EP1415732A1
EP1415732A1 EP02024113A EP02024113A EP1415732A1 EP 1415732 A1 EP1415732 A1 EP 1415732A1 EP 02024113 A EP02024113 A EP 02024113A EP 02024113 A EP02024113 A EP 02024113A EP 1415732 A1 EP1415732 A1 EP 1415732A1
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Beat Fritsche
Thomas Zimmermann
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Siemens Schweiz AG
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Priority to EP02024113A priority Critical patent/EP1415732A1/fr
Priority to JP2004547476A priority patent/JP2006502066A/ja
Priority to EP03809711A priority patent/EP1556177A1/fr
Priority to PCT/EP2003/007081 priority patent/WO2004039508A1/fr
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Priority to US11/113,145 priority patent/US7387196B2/en
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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
    • B07C1/04—Forming a stream from a bulk; Controlling the stream, e.g. spacing the articles
    • 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
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/445—Moving, forwarding, guiding material stream of articles separated from each other
    • B65H2301/4452—Regulating space between separated articles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
    • B65H2301/44—Moving, forwarding, guiding material
    • B65H2301/445—Moving, forwarding, guiding material stream of articles separated from each other
    • B65H2301/4454—Merging two or more streams
    • 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 invention relates to a device for Combine at least two partial streams of sorting items to a total stream of sorts.
  • Such a device is usually in one Sorting conveyor used for post automation, like a such as in the European patent application EP 827 786 A1.
  • this has Sorting conveyor via so-called bullet devices, the the flat sorting pieces in pockets of a revolving Shoot in the conveyor. These bags become the flat ones Sort pieces on the assigned to them physical destinations and can are subsequently brought to their destination.
  • Invention requires normal flat mail pieces (Letters, magazines, generally flat envelopes) and the described above from handling rather problematic sorting pieces with a common Sorting conveyor and in a joint sorting run to the physical target points can be sorted for what no solutions currently exist in the prior art.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object Device for feeding flat sorting pieces to one Specify input device for a sorting conveyor that it also enables, in particular, the above mentioned particularly problematic sorting pieces and the to feed normal mail pieces for further processing.
  • the above-mentioned disposition of the two Partial streams of sorted items are particularly good supported if the second accelerable section can be operated by means of a control device such that a Buffer duration for one of those in the second partial stream periodically delivered sorting pieces is given, at least so is as big as a funding period that a sorting piece in the first partial stream to cover the first accelerable Section plus the required largely equidistant Distance between two neighboring sorts in the total flow needed.
  • the uninterruptible Maintain operation of the second trigger device if mail items from the other sub-flow into the Unification section are fed.
  • a particularly advantageous solution results from the design itself when the gap between two sorts in the second Partial flow is greater than the sum of the greatest length of one approved sorting piece for the first partial flow and the desired equidistant distance in the total current.
  • the Transport time for the sort items on the first or second accelerable section is approximately the same.
  • Figure 1 shows a schematic representation of a top view a sorting device 2 with a first partial flow 4 of normal flat mail items 6 and a second partial stream 8 with comparatively difficult to handle advertising brochures 10 in the form of nested loose sheets.
  • the first Partial stream 4 is from a first extraction device 12, the operated discontinuously as a slave and in technical language is called the Universal Feeder, and the second Partial stream 8 is from a second extraction device 14, the continuously operated as a master and in the technical language is referred to as an ECR feeder.
  • the two partial streams 4, 8 are in one Merging section 16 into a total stream 18 merged, in which the mail items 6 and Advertising brochures 10 with a distance of 400 mm to each other first an address reading unit 20, one Format control unit 22, a deflection unit 24 for slides 26 and these slides 26 subordinate target subjects 28 or a loading unit 30 downstream of this loading unit 30 Destinations 32 supplied and so in their destination corresponding target subjects 28 and target locations 32 sorted become.
  • the distance of 400 mm is therefore required so that the in the total stream 18 mail items 6 and Advertising brochures 10 according to the plant-related Processing time of the sorting process trouble-free Target subjects 28 and target points 32 can be fed, which is all the more demanding because of the conveyor speed which are easily a few meters per second in the main stream 18 can and must be, so that a satisfactory Sorting capacity can be achieved.
  • first and second acceleration sections 34 respectively or 36, which have a defined acceleration point 38 or have 40.
  • the mail pieces 6 and the advertising brochures 10 by means of a control device CU first stopped and as marked ready for import, what by the dashed Control lines 41, 42 should be characterized.
  • the control device observes for the unification process CU in detail the state at the acceleration points 38, 40, i.e. it checks at which of the acceleration points 38, 40 a mail item 6a to 6g marked as ready for insertion or an advertising brochure 10a to marked as ready for introduction 10d is present.
  • decision time which is always present when a piece of mail 6a to 6g or an advertising brochure 10a to 10d with the desired distance from 400 mm to the previous one in the total stream 18
  • Mail item / advertising brochure transported in the total stream 18 then the decision condition of the Control unit CU processed.
  • This decision condition provides that a Advertising brochure 10a to 10d take priority over a mail item 6a to 6g enjoys, provided that this advertising brochure 10a to 10d on marked the second acceleration point 40 as ready for insertion is. Otherwise, one marked as ready for introduction Mail piece 6a to 6g introduced into the total stream.
  • the time course shown in FIG. 2 clearly shows that actually every piece of mail 6a to 6g and everyone Advertising brochure 10a to 10d from the control device CU slightly delayed at different intervals, so that the total current 18 with the required constant Distance between the mail items 6a to 6g and the advertising brochures 10a up to 10d can be achieved.
  • the larger gap in the partial flow 4 make it clear that the first trigger device 12 is controlled by the control device 12 so that within the shortest cycle time as ready for insertion on first acceleration point 38 marked mail piece 6a to 6g is provided.

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EP02024113A 2002-10-29 2002-10-29 Dispositif pour combiner au moins deux flux d'articles à trier en un flux d'ensemble d'articles à trier Withdrawn EP1415732A1 (fr)

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EP02024113A EP1415732A1 (fr) 2002-10-29 2002-10-29 Dispositif pour combiner au moins deux flux d'articles à trier en un flux d'ensemble d'articles à trier
JP2004547476A JP2006502066A (ja) 2002-10-29 2003-07-03 選別品の少なくとも二つの部分流を、選別品の全体流へ合流するための装置
EP03809711A EP1556177A1 (fr) 2002-10-29 2003-07-03 Dispositif permettant de reunir au moins deux flux partiels d'articles a trier en un flux total d'articles a trier
PCT/EP2003/007081 WO2004039508A1 (fr) 2002-10-29 2003-07-03 Dispositif permettant de reunir au moins deux flux partiels d'articles a trier en un flux total d'articles a trier
US11/113,145 US7387196B2 (en) 2002-10-29 2005-04-25 Device for combing at least two partial flows of items to be sorted to form a total flow of articles to be sorted

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