PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR MANUALLY COMMISSIONING INDIVIDUALLY PACKAGED PRODUCTS WITH A FLOW SHELF
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus for manual order picking of items in an order-picking installation with a dynamic-storage rack (1) as a store for the manual order picking. It is proposed that the items are automatically transported, preferably separately according to type, in containers or boxes (2) to the dynamic-storage rack/flow shelf (1) on a driven conveying line (4). After reading and identifying the containers (2), they are automatically introduced by an activated stationary lift (5) and activated level conveyor unit (6) of the dynamic-storage rack (1) into selected dynamic-storage channels (3) of the dynamic-storage rack. The channels have exits (A) that can be manually reached by an order picker (17). Items are fed by an order picker (17) at the picker'"'"'s order-picking station in an order-related manner from a container/box (2) at a selected exit (A) of a dynamic-storage channel (3) to a provided order container (30).
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60 Claims
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1-30. -30. (canceled)
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31. A process for manually commissioning individually packaged products, the process comprising the steps of:
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providing a plurality of containers with a plurality of the individually packaged products packed into the plurality of containers; providing a driven conveying section and an elevator; transporting the plurality of containers along the driven conveying section to the elevator; providing a plurality of channels receiving and guiding the containers, said plurality of channels being arranged in a plurality of levels to form a flow shelf, each of said levels including a plurality of said channels arranged in a horizontal direction, said each of said levels being arranged in a vertical direction, each of said plurality of channels having an inlet and an outlet; selectively moving the elevator with one of the plurality of containers to one of said plurality of levels; providing a plurality of level conveyor units, each of said level conveyor units being arranged at a different one of said plurality of levels of said channels; selectively moving the containers from the elevator to one of the level conveyor units; selectively conveying the containers from the elevator to said inlets of said channels in a respective said level on a respective level conveyor unit; moving the containers from the inlets of the channels to the outlets of the channels; providing a commissioning workplace at the outlets of the plurality of channels; providing an order container at the commissioning workplace; providing an order document indicating which desired products are to be in the order container; moving the desired products from the containers at the outlets of the channels, to the order container, by a commissioning person. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A commissioning unit with a plurality of containers, the commissioning unit comprising:
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a plurality of channels arranged next to each other and one on top of another, wherein said channels being arranged next to each other form one of a plurality of levels of a flow shelf, each of said channels having an inlet and an outlet, said outlets being arranged to be reached by a human operator by hand; a separate, rail-guided level conveyor unit is arranged at each of said plurality of levels, each said level conveyor unit being displace-able at right angles to said inlets of respective said channels, said each conveyor unit transporting a container to a selected said ramp and filling said selected ramp with the fed container; a separate buffer section arranged upstream of each of said level conveyor units in each of said plurality of levels, each said buffer section having an outlet, said each level conveyor unit being positioned for taking over a container from a respective said buffer section of a respective said level; an elevator selectively conveying a container into one of said buffer units of said plurality of levels; a driven conveying section feeding the plurality of containers to said elevator; a conveyor mechanism arranged under the flow shelf and pulling off commissioned individually packaged products. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60)
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