Materials handling system
First Claim
1. A materials handling system including a rotary shelf rotatable around a vertically extending rotary shelf axis and a plurality of load receiving sections disposed on a rotary circular path having its center located at the rotary shelf axis, characterized in that a rectangular box-like surrounding wall body surrounds the rotary shelf, at least one corner of the surrounding wall body being formed as a cut portion over a vertically extending set range, and a conveyance means is installed which passes outside the cut portion.
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Abstract
A materials handling system comprises a rotary shelf rotatable around a rotary shelf axis, and a plurality of load receiving sections disposed on a rotary circular path having its center located at the rotary shelf axis. A transfer operating section of a transfer disposed laterally outside the rotary shelf is rotatable around a transfer axis and operates on a transfer circular path tangentially superposed on the rotary circular path, and a fixed shelf is installed on the transfer circular path. The transfer unnecessitates an occupied space for travel, and the whole system including the rotary shelf and fixed shelf can be made compact in size. The transfer having no traveling mechanism allows the transfer operating section to be lowered almost to the floor. With the rotary shelf and fixed shelf, the storage level is allowed to be lowered to further increase the amount of storage.
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1. A materials handling system including a rotary shelf rotatable around a vertically extending rotary shelf axis and a plurality of load receiving sections disposed on a rotary circular path having its center located at the rotary shelf axis, characterized in that
a rectangular box-like surrounding wall body surrounds the rotary shelf, at least one corner of the surrounding wall body being formed as a cut portion over a vertically extending set range, and a conveyance means is installed which passes outside the cut portion.
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7. A materials handling system including a rotary shelf rotatable around a vertically extending rotary shelf axis and a plurality of load receiving sections disposed on a rotary circular path having its center located at the rotary shelf axis, characterized in that
a surrounding wall body surrounds the rotary shelf, and disposed within the surrounding wall body, in addition to the rotary shelf, are a fixed shelf and a transfer means adapted to operate on the fixed shelf, part of the surrounding wall body being formed as an opening/closing door, the fixed shelf being disposed in the opening/closing door, the fixed shelf being movable through an opening left after the opening/closing door has been opened.
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