Installation for separating and singulating non-uniform postal articles

    公开(公告)号:US10232407B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-19

    申请号:US15142370

    申请日:2016-04-29

    Applicant: SOLYSTIC

    Abstract: An installation for separating and singulating non-uniform postal articles of the small parcel or packet type comprises a platform for temporarily storing a pile of loosely placed postal articles, a vision system adapted to form digital images of the pile of loose postal articles, which pile is static on the platform, a data-processing unit adapted to use these digital images to identify a postal article to be singulated, i.e. an article that has a pickup face that is not covered by any other postal article, the unit being suitable for delivering data indicating the three-dimensional position, the facing direction, and the dimensions of the pickup face, and a pneumatic pickup head of a robotized arm that is controlled on the basis of the data to lift up the postal article to be singulated via its pickup face, and to deposit the postal article on a deposition zone that is off the platform.

    INSTALLATION FOR IDENTIFYING HANDLED PARCELS
    72.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190022703A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-24

    申请号:US14897209

    申请日:2015-09-15

    Applicant: SOLYSTIC

    Abstract: An installation for identifying handled parcels, said installation including a linear conveyor for conveying parcels in series. The installation further includes a monitoring and control central unit suitable for instantly determining the three-dimensional position of each parcel on the conveyor, and at least one handheld electronic unit that is suitable for detecting identification information on a parcel when it is placed in the vicinity of said parcel, and for transmitting said information to the central unit. The central unit is arranged to read an instantaneous three-dimensional position for said handheld unit in response to receiving said information coming from said handheld unit, and to detect a match between said instantaneous three-dimensional position of the handheld unit and said instantaneous three-dimensional position of the parcel as determined by the central unit.

    A METHOD OF MANUALLY MERGING POSTAL ARTICLES WITH A STACK OF MAILPIECES THAT ARE ALREADY SORTED

    公开(公告)号:US20180326459A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-15

    申请号:US15116135

    申请日:2016-05-26

    Applicant: Solystic

    Abstract: A method of merging postal articles with a stack of mailpieces that have already been machine-sorted into a delivery round comprises the following steps: inserting the postal articles in sequence into a sorting frame having slots; placing the stack of mailpieces on a merge table; displaying on a display screen of a monitoring and control unit an indication representative of a number of current postal articles to be merged, and of an insertion position at which the postal articles should be inserted into the stack of mailpieces; then manually taking from the frame the number of postal articles indicated on the screen, and inserting them into the stack to perform a current merger; and having the monitoring and control unit measure a distance before and after the current merger to detect any error in taking the postal articles from the frame.

    POSTAL SORTING EQUIPMENT WITH SHUTTLE ROBOT CARTS THAT TRANSPORT TRAYS

    公开(公告)号:US20170266697A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-09-21

    申请号:US15316373

    申请日:2016-09-12

    Applicant: Solystic

    CPC classification number: B07C3/008 G05D1/0011

    Abstract: Equipment for handling postal articles, in particular for preparing a delivery round, includes a sorting machine (4) with a feed inlet (2) and sorting outlets (3). The articles (4) sorted into the sorting outlets are transported in storage trays (5) by shuttle robot carts (6). A monitoring and control unit (7) causes the shuttle robot carts with full trays of articles to move from the sorting outlets to the feed inlet and causes the shuttle robot carts with empty trays to move past the sorting outlets, where the shuttle robot carts move in convoys and in a target-seeking mode.

    METHOD OF SORTING PRE-SORTED MAILPIECES
    78.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170225201A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-10

    申请号:US15423344

    申请日:2017-02-02

    Applicant: Solystic

    Abstract: The method of sorting pre-sorted mailpieces in a postal sorting machine comprises the steps consisting in: detecting loading in the feed inlet of the machine of a batch of mailpieces pre-sorted by a mailer of the mailpieces on the basis of their delivery addresses; and, in response to said detection, loading, in the reference database of the address recognition system, a lexicon comprising the delivery addresses for only the pre-sorted mailpieces of the batch, and, by means of the monitoring and control unit and for each current mailpiece, comparing the result of the OCR reading with said delivery addresses of the lexicon so as to recognize the delivery address of said current mailpiece.

    Storage tray for automatically loading and unloading stacks of flat articles on edge, and a loading and unloading method
    80.
    发明授权
    Storage tray for automatically loading and unloading stacks of flat articles on edge, and a loading and unloading method 有权
    用于自动装卸平板物品边缘的托盘,以及装卸方式

    公开(公告)号:US09561916B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-02-07

    申请号:US13813565

    申请日:2012-10-30

    Applicant: SOLYSTIC

    Abstract: Storage tray for automatically unloading stacks of flat articles stacked on edge, the storage tray having panels and a bottom plate provided with slots through which moving fingers can pass for moving the edges of the flat articles away from or towards the bottom plate and for automatically unloading the flat articles from the storage tray, and for automatically loading the flat articles into the storage tray, the panels defining bearing faces suitable for receiving the flanks of the stacks of flat articles and provided with grooves in register with the ends of the slots so that the moving fingers extend beyond the stack of flat articles into the grooves so as to ensure that all of the flat articles are moved. Also a method of loading and of unloading the storage tray.

    Abstract translation: 用于自动卸载堆放在边缘上的堆叠的平坦物品的存放托盘,具有面板的存储托盘和设置有槽的底板,移动的手指可以通过该槽移动平板物品的边缘远离或朝向底板移动并自动卸载 平坦物品从储存托盘中,并且用于将平坦物品自动加载到储存托盘中,所述面板限定适于容纳平坦物品堆叠的侧面的轴承面,并且设置有与槽的端部对准的槽,使得 移动的手指延伸超过平坦物品的堆叠进入槽中,以便确保所有的平坦物品都被移动。 也是装载和卸载存储托盘的方法。

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