High-rise shelving

• US 5,599,154 A
• Filed: 03/27/1995
• Issued: 02/04/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bellheimer Metallwerk GmbH
• Original Assignee: Bellheimer Metallwerk GmbH
• Inventors: Holscher, Jurgen, Siegler, Adrian J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Merritt, Karen B.
• Assistant Examiner(s): GORDON, STEPHEN T
• Application Number:
  US08/411,340
• Time in Patent Office: 680 Days
• Field of Search: 414/267, 414/268, 414/277, 414/278, 414/331, 198/365, 198/782
• US Class Current: 414/278
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 1/0485 Check-in, check-out devices
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 1/127 the circuit being confined in a vertical plane

Abstract

In a high-rise shelving having two shelving columns (2, 3) and a vertical conveyor (6) disposed therebetween, the bases (9) of shelf-racks (7), which shelf-racks can be transferred by the vertical conveyor (6) into the compartments of the shelving columns (2, 3), are provided with respectively at least one recess (11, 12), through which, in the region of the feed or removal opening (13) of the shelving, parts (20) of an auxiliary conveyor (21) can be brought into engagement with objects (22) deposited on the shelf-racks (7) so as to load or unload these objects.

Claims

1. A high-rise shelving having two shelving columns exhibiting compartments disposed one above the other, of which at least one shelving column is provided with a feed and removal opening and between which shelving columns there is disposed a vertical conveyor which forms a unit with them, said vertical conveyor comprising a horizontal conveying mechanism forming a platform for shelf-racks, which are to be transferred individually from the region of the feed and removal opening into a compartment of one of the columns or from said compartment to the region of the feed and removal opening instead by said vertical conveyor and said horizontal conveying mechanism, and an auxiliary conveyor, wherein the shelf-racks are provided with bases having at least one recess forming a passage arranged in the region of the feed and removal opening for independently movable parts of said auxiliary conveyor, said independently movable parts of the auxiliary conveyor serving to singularly or plurally load or unload objects deposited on the bases of the shelf-racks.

2. The high-rise shelving as claimed in claim 1, wherein the auxiliary conveyor (21) and/or the shelf-rack (7) which is respectively transferred into the region of the feed and removal opening (13) can be moved up and down by limited amounts.

3. The high-rise shelving as claimed in claim 2, wherein the shelf-racks (7) are provided with a wall (18) which limits their loading surface (9) and the height (h) of which is less than the amount (H) of the possible relative motion between the auxiliary conveyor (21) and at least one of the shelf-racks (7).

4. The high-rise shelving as claimed in claim 2, wherein the auxiliary conveyor (21) is configured as a roller conveyor.

5. The high-rise shelving as claimed in claim 2, wherein the auxiliary conveyor (21) forms a bridge between the shelf-racks (7) and a conveyor system (23).

6. The high-rise shelving as claimed in claim 2, wherein the auxiliary conveyor (21) comprises a plurality of part-conveyors which can be driven independently from one another.

7. The high-rise shelving as claimed in claim 2, further including a table having a slab (16) for supporting the shelf-racks (7), said slab (16) of said table is disposed in the region of the feed and removal opening (13), which slab is provided with at least one recess (17).

8. The high-rise shelving as claimed in claim 7, wherein the auxiliary conveyor (21) can be moved up and down.

9. The high-rise shelving as claimed in claim 1, wherein the auxiliary conveyor (21) is configured as a roller conveyor.

10. The high-rise shelving as claimed in claim 1, wherein the auxiliary conveyor (21) forms a bridge between the shelf-racks (7) and a conveyor system (23).

11. The high-rise shelving as claimed in claim 1, wherein the auxiliary conveyor (21) comprises a plurality of part-conveyors which can be driven independently from one another.

12. The high-rise shelving as claimed in claim 1, further including a table having a slab (16) for supporting the shelf-racks (7), said slab (16) of said table is disposed in the region of the feed and removal opening (13), which slab is provided with at least one recess (17).

13. The high-rise shelving as claimed in claim 12, wherein the table is configured as a lifting table (14).

14. The high-rise shelving as claimed in claim 12, wherein the auxiliary conveyor (21) can be moved up and down.

15. The high-rise shelving as claimed in claim 1, further including a table having a slab for supporting the shelf-racks (7), said slab (16) of said table is disposed in the region of the feed and removal opening (13).

16. The high-rise shelving as claimed in claim 15 wherein the table is configured as a lifting table (14).