Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1997-05-02
1999-09-28
Terrell, William E.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
36447803, 1983496, 1984686, 414584, 414900, 209609, B07C 1700
Patent
active
059598689
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention concerns an arrangement for distributing articles for dispatch with a distributing conveyor, which is used to convey the articles for dispatch one after another along a conveying route and transfer them to collecting containers that are provided at delivery locations along the conveying route, and which has a control device that determines the delivery locations for the articles for dispatch.
Arrangements of this type are used, for example, in post offices for sorting articles for dispatch according to delivery districts. For this, the distributing conveyor generally has a number of conveying bins, respectively holding one article for dispatch, which can be conveyed one after another along a conveying loop and from which the articles for dispatch can be dropped into collecting containers. Articles for dispatch that are intended for one delivery district respectively are collected in the collecting containers. The dispatch addresses for the individual articles for dispatch as well as the assignment between the articles for dispatch and the conveying bins are detected by the control device in order to control the dropping of the articles for dispatch from the conveying bins. In this case, the addresses can be detected automatically by means of a scanner or through a manual input. As described above, the known arrangement can be operated automatically with few personnel. But, any further distribution of the articles for dispatch delivered to the collecting containers requires a relatively high number of personnel.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of this problem, it is an object of the invention to provide an arrangement that permits a further automation of the distribution of articles for dispatch by making use of known automatic distributing conveyors.
The solution according to the invention is with an arrangement of the aforementioned type, which is essentially characterized by a device responding to transfer signals transmitted by the control device that respectively designate one of the delivery locations, means for selectively transferring of the collecting containers between the delivery locations when the selective transfer is designated by the transfer signals and a transport route for the collecting containers.
Thus, with the inventive arrangement for distributing articles for dispatch, the control device not only controls the delivery of the articles for dispatch to the collecting containers, but also the continued transport of the articles for dispatch that have already been delivered to the collecting containers. The transfer device responding to respective transfer signals from the control device is used for this. Consequently, the number of service personnel needed to operate the inventive arrangement is reduced as compared to the number of service personnel needed to operate the traditional arrangements for distributing articles for dispatch, because the collecting containers to be removed no longer have to be determined by respective service personnel and removed from the respective delivery locations, but are automatically detected by the control device and are readied for removal by the transfer device that responds to the transfer signals.
Furthermore, the transfer device for the inventive arrangement can also be used for the automatic feeding of the distributing conveyor with collecting containers.
It is advantageous if for the transfer of the collecting containers set up a spatially separate delivery locations, a transfer device is used which can be moved along a movement path that leads to the delivery locations. As a result of this, only one transfer device is needed to remove all collecting containers set up at the delivery locations.
When operating the movable transfer device, it is possible to achieve an exact positioning of the transfer device with respect to the delivery locations where the collecting containers that are to be removed are located, and thus an increase in the operating reliability when transferring the collecting contai
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Boller Manfred
Oppliger Jean-Claude
Grapha-Holding AG
Spencer George H.
Terrell William E.
Tran Khoi H.
Voorhees Catherine M.
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