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EP0101370A2 - Durchlaufvorrichtung einer Postsortieranlage mit einer Einführungsklappe zur Führung der Briefe - Google Patents

Durchlaufvorrichtung einer Postsortieranlage mit einer Einführungsklappe zur Führung der Briefe Download PDF

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EP0101370A2
EP0101370A2 EP83401603A EP83401603A EP0101370A2 EP 0101370 A2 EP0101370 A2 EP 0101370A2 EP 83401603 A EP83401603 A EP 83401603A EP 83401603 A EP83401603 A EP 83401603A EP 0101370 A2 EP0101370 A2 EP 0101370A2
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Claude Pavie
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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
    • B07C1/025—Devices for the temporary stacking of objects provided with a stacking and destacking device (interstack device)

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  • the invention relates to a mail sorting scrolling bench and an insertion flap intended for guiding letters, more particularly adapted to guiding letters driven by a system of belts and which have to be introduced one by one into each box. a rotating drum before being oriented towards the sorting machine proper.
  • the present invention aims to solve all these problems of guiding the letter during its insertion in the box as well as the problems of frequency control and phase of the arrival and insertion of letters. It more generally relates to a scrolling bench, comprising a conveyor system animated with a proper speed v, receiving letters from a store destacker and injecting them into moving receptacles. It also relates to an insertion component which has the function of widening the time interval available for inserting the letters.
  • the invention relates to a scrolling bench equipped with such a shutter, and comprising a servo system linking the operation of the destacker to the operation of the drum.
  • the present invention therefore essentially relates to an insertion flap intended for guiding the letters, during their insertion in the boxes of a rotating drum, characterized in that this flap has an axis ensuring its pivoting in the direction of rotation of the drum according to a angle o (, during which it accompanies the letter, thus increasing the time interval available for the insertion of this one in the corresponding box of the drum.
  • FIG. 1 schematically represents a scrolling bench B equipped with an insertion flap 1 according to the invention.
  • This bench essentially comprises a destacker 2 of a known type. It may in particular be a perforated wall drum against which the letters are sucked up and rolled up one by one when the drum is placed under vacuum before being driven by a belt conveyor system 100.
  • the destacker 2 is supplied by means of a magazine 3 comprising for example fingers 4 between which the operator deposits the lettes, the fingers 4 advancing as shown by the arrow F I towards the destacker and cooperating in a conventional manner with different systems of jogging rollers (not shown).
  • a control and display console 5 makes it possible to follow the progress of operations.
  • the unstacking rate is set by the drum.
  • the unstacked letters are then taken care of by a belt conveyor system schematically illustrated by a dotted line 100 and the arrow F 2 giving the direction of scrolling of the letters, which drive them along the reading module 6 comprising the stabilization devices of letters, the reject stacker and above all the indexing read head.
  • These elements being known have not been shown. They are grouped inside the reading module 6. At the exit of this module 6, the letters continue their progression towards the drum 7. The latter is divided into a plurality of sectors 8 limited by side walls such as 9 and 10. These are as many sectors as there are boxes. These sectors or boxes have a truncated V-shaped section whose tip would be located on the axis of the drum 7, parallel to the drive axis of the letters 12.
  • An insertion flap 1 is positioned at the interface between the system for conveying the letters 12 and the drum 7. This flap follows the movement of the drum so that each letter is guided by it for a sufficient time. so that it is completely inserted in box 8, itself driven in rotation and this without striking the edge of one or other of the side walls 9 and 10. The insertion is complete, the box continues its trajectory, the flap returns to its initial position to place itself in front of a new box and thus start a new cycle.
  • the direction of rotation of the drum is represented by the arrow R.
  • the letter falls by gravity into a rack 20 driven as symbolized by the arrow F 3 towards a sorting machine not shown.
  • FIG 2 there is shown schematically the mechanical connections connecting the drive means between them.
  • the clutch 21 of the drum 7 is connected by a chain system 22 to a cam 23 which drives the insertion flap 1 in its reciprocating movement defined above and which will be more widely explained below.
  • This chain link system 22 is connected to the drive system 24 of the sorting machine (not shown).
  • the drum is also linked to the drive system 24. This gives synchronism between the different elements constituting the sorting equipment.
  • FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the insertion flap 1 according to the invention as well as its cooperation with the drum 7.
  • This flap 1 consists of two flanges 30 and 31 defining a guide rail 32 in which the letter 12 brought by the conveyor system is introduced.
  • This conveying system is for example made up of two belts 33 and 34 driven in movement by means of two motorized pulleys 35 and 36 whose respective directions of rotation are symbolized by the arrows P 1 and P2.
  • the two flanges 30 and 31 are integral with an upper base 40 and a lower base 41 which stiffens the assembly.
  • An axis 45 passes through these two bases so that when it is rotated (arrow P 3 ), it drives the two flanges 30 and 31 in its movement.
  • This axis 45 is also integral with a plate 46 carrying at one of its ends a roller 47 and a return spring 48.
  • a cam 23 is rotated in the direction of the arrow P 4 by the chain 22 (figure 2). The profile of this cam 23 cooperates with the roller 47 and the spring 48 to impart to the shutter 1 the movement back and forth.
  • each box 8 has a section in the form of a truncated V and is delimited on the one hand, by two side walls 9 and 10 adjoining elsewhere respectively with the previous box 8a and the next box 8b, on the other hand by a base 50 whose width is a function of the inside diameter of the drum 7 and the number of boxes distributed around the circumference of this drum 7.
  • the drum is divided into 18 sectors therefore in 18 boxes whose walls make between them an angle ⁇ equal to 20 °.
  • each box in particular of box 8 used to illustrate the operation of the device according to the invention, passes through the intersection O of the two axes (xy) and (x', y ') of the drum 7
  • the profile of the cam 23 is determined so that for a given time the slide 32 delimited by the two flanges 30 and 31 of the flap 1 follow the rotational movement of the drum 7 at the same speed as the latter .
  • the debate of this component 1 is limited to an angle ⁇ , allowing the component to follow the box during most of its passage.
  • the roller 47 is held on the cam 23 by the return spring 48 which returns the flap 1 to its initial position to allow it to take over a new letter for the guide during its insertion in the following box 8b.
  • the axis of the slide 32 substantially follows the axis (aa ') of the box concerned.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates this accompanying movement of the shutter 1.
  • FIG. 4 are shown two time windows corresponding to the time of insertion of the letters in the drum (T 1 ) on the one hand, (T 3 -T 2 ) on the other hand, between which is the time (T 2 -T 1 ) for the shutter to return to its initial position.
  • the cycle repeats as many times as there are boxes to fill.
  • FIG. 5 is a diagram representing the movement of the shutter as a function of time. ⁇ angle through which the shutter in its accompanying phase follows an increasing ramp during the time (T.) ... (T3-T2) etc ... and a descending ramp steeper during the time ( T 2 -T 1 ) ... (T 4 -T 3 ) etc ... corresponding to the return of the shutter to its initial position, position which precedes a new assumption of responsibility.
  • FIG. 6 schematically represents a servo system synchronizing the unstacking with the movement of the drum 7 taking into account the variations in speed of this drum as well as variations in the speed of the conveyor system.
  • the letters 12 are conveyed from the destacker 2 to the drum 7 at a speed v. This speed can be affected by possible slow variations of the order of 5% and rapid variations of plus or minus 1%.
  • the letter / drum synchronization is obtained by optimizing the instant of unstacking letter by letter.
  • the problem consists in calculating the theoretical starting instant of the letter so that the arrival of its front edge at the end of the bench coincides with the passage of a box in front of the slide of the insertion flap 1 in the initial starting position as as defined above.
  • an encoder 24 (said drum encoder) is used which is synchronous with the latter and which supplies pulses called TTAMB (drum pulse) at the rate of 6 pulses per second in the case of the example described.
  • TTAMB drum pulse
  • the unstacking pulses are provided at the same frequency as the TTAMB pulses, namely one pulse per drum sector, these unstacking and drum pulses not necessarily being in phase as will be said below.
  • an encoder 60 (called bench encoder) synchronous with the bench and conveyor belts provides pulses at 4,000 hertz at a speed of 3.6 meters per second; between two pulses from the bench encoder 60, a letter for a fixed distance whatever the speed of the bench. Therefore, the times given by the encoder 60 represent a unit of distance measurement. It follows that the course of the total length L of the bench corresponds to a number N of pulses from the encoder 60. This course takes place approximately during a number k of pulses from the drum encoder 24.
  • each of the drums ensures filling of one of the two compartments of the bin 20 of the sorting machine.
  • the present invention finds its application in any postal sorting equipment or is posed an interface problem between a letter drive system by belt and a system of letter receiving boxes in the form of a rotating drum. .

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EP83401603A 1982-08-13 1983-08-02 Durchlaufvorrichtung einer Postsortieranlage mit einer Einführungsklappe zur Führung der Briefe Withdrawn EP0101370A3 (de)

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FR8214102A FR2531637A1 (fr) 1982-08-13 1982-08-13 Banc de defilement d'un equipement de tri de courrier et volet d'insertion pour le guidage des lettres equipant un tel banc

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