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EP1220721A1 - Dispositif et procede pour classer des envois plats - Google Patents

Dispositif et procede pour classer des envois plats

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EP1220721A1
EP1220721A1 EP00963878A EP00963878A EP1220721A1 EP 1220721 A1 EP1220721 A1 EP 1220721A1 EP 00963878 A EP00963878 A EP 00963878A EP 00963878 A EP00963878 A EP 00963878A EP 1220721 A1 EP1220721 A1 EP 1220721A1
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Prior art keywords
containers
mail items
mailings
delivery
trays
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German (de)
English (en)
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EP1220721B1 (fr
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Rudolf Schuster
Peter Bretschneider
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Siemens AG
Siemens Corp
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Siemens AG
Siemens Corp
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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
    • B07C3/082—In which the objects are carried by transport holders and the transport holders form part of the conveyor belts
    • 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

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  • the invention relates to a device and a method for arranging flat mail items according to the preambles of claims 1 and 11.
  • Certain tasks in particular the delivery of letters, require that the present items be stacked in a certain order, which corresponds, for example, to the sequence of the delivery points (the so-called route sequence of the deliverer).
  • the address corresponding to a delivery point on the mail item represents the ordering criterion, while the sequence of delivery points represents the order to be produced.
  • EP 820 818 AI A solution for sorting in a certain order has become known (EP 820 818 AI), which uses an intermediate storage consisting of pockets or similar elements, each of which can take up a program and, on command, can release it again into the actual storage compartment.
  • An intermediate storage consisting of pockets or similar elements, each of which can take up a program and, on command, can release it again into the actual storage compartment.
  • All the items to be sorted are placed in the pockets of the clipboard in any order.
  • the mail items are then removed from the pockets of the intermediate store and transferred to the storage compartments in such a way that they are in the order to be produced in the latter.
  • a separate storage is provided for each shipment. Sorting is carried out with two rounds of the pockets of the intermediate storage, one round for filling the pockets, another for emptying the pockets.
  • the invention set out in claims 1 and 11 is based on the object, a device and a method for organizing flat mail items according to the preambles with a reduction in the number of trays and the associated control elements compared to the prior art with only once separating and reading the To create consignments in a sorting run, which also enable a reduction in operator effort and the inclusion of pre-sorted consignments with a low sorting effort.
  • the shelves are to be filled evenly, it is advantageous, after knowing the address, to flexibly assign the consignments to the shelves in such a way that there are approximately the same number of consignments in the shelves or the stacks are approximately the same when measuring the consignment thickness of the individual consignments Have heights.
  • the further embodiment of the invention to divide the filing into two groups and, in the case of sequential sorting runs for sorting, to sort the mailings from different address areas alternately into only one of the two filing groups, enables a delayed processing, i.e. while for one address area the mail items are transported from the compartments to the bins, the still full bins of the other address area are emptied. This ensures that only one operator is required, who does not have to empty trays at the same time and enter shipments for separation.
  • the loading location of the container can be moved in a controlled manner so that the consignment to be loaded in each case can be loaded into an already empty container within the defined range of motion without loading delay.
  • pre-sorted mail items in the ordering process in such a way that as few circulations of the containers as possible are necessary and more mail items can be ordered than there are containers.
  • the pre-sorted consignments are loaded into the containers that are still empty after the unsorted consignments have been loaded into the containers or the containers that become empty due to emptying into the bins.
  • Place numbers are assigned to the delivery points in accordance with their sequence in the respective shelves, and the pre-sorting is carried out in such a way that the items assigned to the delivery points with the lower place numbers can be separated before the items with the higher place numbers.
  • 1 shows a schematic representation of the loading of the rotating containers without an overlapping working method
  • 2 shows a schematic representation of the emptying of the containers in trays without an overlapping working method
  • FIG. 5 shows the chronological sequence of the orderly sorting of mail items from a plurality of address areas in two storage groups with an overlapping working method
  • the mail items are sorted in a sorting device with an intermediate store, which consists of containers 1, 4 circulating in a closed loop, and with a series of trays 2, the trays 2 for the orderly reception of more than a shipment 3 are provided so that the number of trays 2 can be kept significantly less than the number of containers 1.4.
  • an intermediate store which consists of containers 1, 4 circulating in a closed loop, and with a series of trays 2, the trays 2 for the orderly reception of more than a shipment 3 are provided so that the number of trays 2 can be kept significantly less than the number of containers 1.4.
  • several rotations of the containers 1, 4 of the buffer store are required in order to transfer all the mail items 3 from the containers 1 into the trays 2.
  • the organization takes place in the following steps:
  • the assignment between the mail items 3 to be classified, which all belong to a defined address area (corresponds to one or more delivery areas), and the filings 2 is determined in a first variant by the assignment of groups of addresses (delivery points) to the filings 2 , so that each address is assigned a shelf 2.
  • the groups of addresses assigned to the individual stores 2 each correspond to a coherent sub-area of the order to be produced.
  • the following order of mail items 3 is to be produced according to addresses for a single address area: A-Str. 1 -> A-Str. 3 - A-Str. 5 -> A-Str. 7 - »B-way 8 -» B-way 7- B-way 6 - B-way 5
  • the assignment of the addresses to the filings 2 is not made dependent on how much and / or what items 3 to be arranged are actually available for the individual addresses. Rather, this assignment is already established before the addresses of the mail items 3 to be classified are known.
  • the advantage of such a fixed assignment is that there are always all the mail items that are intended for a specific delivery section in a storage 2, and these mail items are to be kept separate from the mail items for other delivery sections (no consolidation of the mail items into one) Total stack).
  • the assignment between the mail items 3 to be arranged and the trays 2 can only be established after all the mail items are in the containers 1 of the intermediate store.
  • This determination is made either so that at the end there is an essentially equal number of programs 3 in each of the trays 2, or that in the end it is in each of the Trays 2 located batch 7 consignments are substantially the same thickness.
  • the advantage of such a flexible assignment is that the risk of overflowing of trays 2 is reduced, or that only as many trays 2 of the sorting device are occupied as is necessary for the given quantity of mail items 3 to be arranged without these overflowing. If the trays 2 are combined into two groups of essentially the same size, each of which is assigned a separate address area for which items 3 are to be arranged, items 3 for a given address area can be placed in the trays 2 of one group at the same time be, while there are programs 3 in the shelves 2 of the other group, which were previously stored in it and can now be removed.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates the corresponding chronological sequence of the method steps in the event that mail items for several address areas are to be arranged one after the other.
  • This method can be carried out more time-effectively if steps 1 to 3 (filling the buffer) are already carried out for the mail items in the current address area while mail items in the previous address area are still in the containers 1 and are being transported to the storage areas 2.
  • the sorting device enables filling of the buffer store which is essentially progressive and continuous with the emptying of the buffer store even if there is an essentially variable number between two successively (empty) containers 2 to be filled of (occupied) containers 2, for example, an empty space is followed by 5 occupied compartments, then an empty space, 8 empty spaces on it, an empty space on it, 2 empty spaces on it, etc. This means that significantly more items can be ordered in the same time.
  • the addresses are numbered consecutively within each group of addresses, each of which is assigned to a shelf, according to the order to be created (fictitious location number).
  • the order in which the ordered quantity of items must be present is that the addresses (delivery points) with a higher location number are preceded by all addresses (delivery points) with a lower location number. According to the previous example, the order of the addresses to be produced for a single address area is:
  • a concrete sorting run is as follows:
  • Order of the unordered consignments (21 pieces) in the bins of the intermediate storage C2-A ⁇ -B3-Al-C5-B3-A2-B8-C7-B ⁇ -A5-C4-B7-A8-Cl-B8-B5-C ⁇ - A3-C3-A7 Order of the ordered items (9 pieces, lower case indicate that the consignments belong to the amount of the ordered ones): al-a8-cl-a3-b5-a5-c3-a2-c5
  • the following ordered consignments (3 pieces) are placed in containers of the following the unordered consignments Buffer filled: al-a8-cl

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Abstract

Selon l'invention, pour le classement d'envois plats selon un ordre pouvant être fixé de points de distribution associés aux adresses des destinataires, cela au moyen de plusieurs contenants circulant sur au moins un dispositif de transport et destinés chacun à recevoir, à transporter un envoi et à délivrer de façon commandée dans le bac de réception correspondant, plusieurs envois sont empilés de façon classée dans chaque bac de réception. Le transfert des envois des contenants au bac de réception se fait en plusieurs tours, l'ordre des envois dans chaque bac de réception correspondant à l'ordre des points de distribution affectés aux adresses des envois se trouvant dans le bac de réception correspondant. Lorsque les bacs de réception sont divisés en deux groupes, les envois correspondant à la zone d'adresses du moment peuvent déjà être chargés dans des contenants en circulation, tandis que des envois correspondant à la zone d'adresses précédente se trouvent encore dans les contenants.
EP00963878A 1999-09-10 2000-08-07 Dispositif et procede pour classer des envois plats Expired - Lifetime EP1220721B1 (fr)

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DE19943362 1999-09-10
DE19943362A DE19943362A1 (de) 1999-09-10 1999-09-10 Einrichtung und Verfahren zum Ordnen von flachen Sendungen
PCT/DE2000/002627 WO2001019537A1 (fr) 1999-09-10 2000-08-07 Dispositif et procede pour classer des envois plats

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