A MAIL SORTING INSTALLATION WITH A TRAY CONVEYOR AND AN ELEVATOR ROBOT

    公开(公告)号:US20210170450A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-10

    申请号:US16070822

    申请日:2018-06-15

    申请人: SOLYSTIC

    IPC分类号: B07C3/00 B07C3/02

    摘要: An installation for sorting mailpieces (A) includes a sorting conveyor with sorting outlets (2) and storage trays (3), and further includes a tray conveyor (4) disposed along the sorting conveyor under the sorting outlets, and a shuttle robot (5) suitable for being controlled by a monitoring and control unit (6) for automatically taking hold of a tray in a sorting outlet and for placing it below on the tray conveyor, the shuttle robot also being provided with a safety system arranged to detect the presence of an obstacle being approached in the direction in which the robot is traveling while at a certain safety distance away, and arranged to respond to such detection by reducing the speed of movement of the shuttle robot.

    A METHOD OF RECYCLING MIXED MAIL INTO A SORTING MACHINE BY USING LETTER TRAYS

    公开(公告)号:US20210205852A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-08

    申请号:US16070827

    申请日:2018-06-15

    申请人: SOLYSTIC

    IPC分类号: B07C3/00 B07C3/08 B65H1/02

    摘要: A method of processing mailpieces in a sorting installation including a feed inlet magazine (4) in which the mailpieces (1) for sorting are placed in a stack and on edge so as to be put in series in a sorting conveyor (5), the mailpieces (1) in series and on edge in the sorting conveyor being directed towards sorting outlets having respective stackers (6). The mailpieces (1) for sorting that arrive at the feed inlet magazine while stored in a tray (3) are taken in handfuls from the storage tray to be positioned in a stack and on edge in order to be put into series. The mailpieces (1) sorted into a stacker of a sorting outlet (6) are also transferred in handfuls from the stacker towards a storage tray (3) for the purpose of being recycled to the feed inlet magazine (4) from the sorting outlet (6) having a stacker.

    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

    申请人: SOLYSTIC

    摘要: 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.