INSTALLATION FOR SORTING POSTAL PARCELS OR PACKETS

    公开(公告)号:US20210094073A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-01

    申请号:US16944423

    申请日:2020-07-31

    Applicant: SOLYSTIC

    Abstract: An installation for sorting postal parcels or packets, has a carousel sorting conveyor having transport bins that are moved around a closed loop over a plurality of sorting outlets formed by respective storage receptacles, a feed magazine in which bulk stored parcels are put into series and then injected into the transport bins of the conveyor while it is moving, and a monitoring and control unit that acts on the bins of the sorting conveyor so as to open each of them over a receptacle that corresponds to a delivery address of the article following a sorting plan, includes a first sorting pass to sort parcels into first receptacles that are of high bulk storage capacity, and a subsequent sorting pass where the parcels are sorted into second receptacles that are smaller than the first receptacles.

    SHARING OF PARCEL SORTER OUTLETS
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200324321A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-15

    申请号:US16841942

    申请日:2020-04-07

    Applicant: SOLYSTIC

    Abstract: A parcel-sorting facility for sorting parcels (115) comprises a conveyor (110) and receptacles (118) situated at sorting outlets (117) and corresponding to destination addresses of said parcels. Each sorting outlet is shared between a plurality of receptacles, only one of which is in a position (P0) for receiving parcels. A receptacle exchanger device (119) for exchanging receptacles is assigned to each outlet, and is configured for exchanging the receptacle in the receiving position at a given outlet with another of the receptacles sharing said outlet, and the sorting facility anticipates the arrival of a parcel at said outlet by placing the receptacle associated with the destination of said parcel in the receiving position whenever necessary.

    A METHOD OF TAKING ARTICLES BY USING SHUTTLE ROBOT CARTS

    公开(公告)号:US20180178982A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-28

    申请号:US15502093

    申请日:2016-08-09

    Applicant: Solystic

    Abstract: A method of handling articles (3) in a logistics center including an article stowage zone (1) subdivided into adjacent stowage segments along a travel path (2) for shuttle robot carts (4), in which method a monitoring and control unit (5) organizes the movement of said shuttle robot carts along the travel path in such a manner as to take the articles from the segments and to cause them to exit from the travel path in series and in ordered manner in a certain sequence, which method is characterized in that the unit causes the shuttle robot carts to move cyclically, and, at each cycle, checks the distribution of the articles in the segments in such a manner that, every time, an optimum number of shuttle robot carts are caused to move along the travel path.

    MODULAR AND SEPARABLE EQUIPMENT FOR AUTOMATICALLY SORTING PARCELS INTO BAGS

    公开(公告)号:US20180333750A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-22

    申请号:US15303187

    申请日:2016-06-30

    Applicant: Solystic

    CPC classification number: B07C3/08 B07C3/02 B07C5/36

    Abstract: Equipment for sorting parcels into bags comprises a bag support having a modular structure with modules that are provided with braked wheels and that are arranged to be coupled together in separable manner, at least one mobile shuttle robot cart and trolley assembly that is caused to be moved by being remotely controlled by a monitoring and control unit to move parcels to be sorted along the bags, and floor marking that is arranged along the bag support modules and that is detectable by the shuttle cart and trolley assembly while said shuttle cart and trolley assembly is moving along the bag support modules.

    PARCEL-SORTING FACILITY WITH A SYSTEM FOR SWAPPING RECEPTACLES OVER AT SORTING OUTLETS

    公开(公告)号:US20200324320A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-15

    申请号:US16840527

    申请日:2020-04-06

    Applicant: SOLYSTIC

    Abstract: The invention relates to a sorting facility (1) for sorting parcels (2), which sorting facility comprises a sorting conveyor (3), sorting outlets (4) distributed along said conveyor, and a monitoring and control unit (7) suitable for controlling the conveyor so as to sort the parcels into the outlets as a function of their destination addresses. Each outlet is arranged to store a plurality of receptacles (6), each of which is associated with a parcel destination address in a memory of the unit. At each outlet, the facility further comprises a swap-over device (8) for swapping the receptacles over. The unit controls the swap-over device so that a receptacle for which the destination address associated with it in the memory of the monitoring and control unit corresponds to the destination address of a current parcel to be sorted is held stationary in a filling position in which the receptacle is positioned under the sorting outlet so as to receive a parcel.

    INSTALLATION FOR IDENTIFYING HANDLED PARCELS

    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.

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