Automatic storage system, especially for vehicles

• US 6,711,459 B1
• Filed: 08/13/2001
• Issued: 03/23/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gines Sanchez Gomez
• Original Assignee: Gines Sanchez Gomez
• Inventors: Sanchez Gomez, Gines
• Primary Examiner(s): Crawford, Gene O.
• Application Number:
  US09/913,300
• Time in Patent Office: 953 Days
• Field of Search: 700/214, 700/213, 700/215, 414/331.03, 414/277, 414/659, 198/347.3, 198/369.1
• US Class Current: 700/214
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/007 for delivery of small articles, e.g. milk, frozen articles
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/025 the object being a shop, cafeteria or display the object being a theatre or stagethe object being a workshop B60P3/14

Abstract

The invention relates to a system for storing and handling merchandise that can be managed by a computer and carried in a vehicle. Said system enables totally automated loading and transfer and highly automated unloading. When used in vehicles, said system consists of a conveyor belt loader that rejects inadequate merchandise, superimposed conveyor belts, which can have a belt with several turns, elevator, merchandise pushing device, photoelectric cells, label scanners, and the necessary connections for a computer controlling said devices, in addition to a fixing system consisting of an inflatable elastic band.

Claims

1. A computer-controlled storage system for storing and recovering merchandise in barcode-tagged parcels, comprising

closed storage belts, each storge belt having an intake and an outlet,

cyclical interconnection elevators, each cyclical interconnection elevator having a load detector, pushers and wipers, said wipers related with flip-flops located at the inputs or outlets for stoping the elevator,

lineal feed belts, each lineal feed belt being provided with clearance gauge devices, and a divertor to reject the merchandise that exceed an acceptable value.

2. The computer-controlled storage system of claim 1 wherein the outlet comprises a blockage detector for detecting if there is any merchandise blocking the outlet.

3. The computer-controlled storage system of claim 1 wherein the outlet comprises a lock system for preventing activating the pusher of the interconnection elevator before that the interconnection elevator presses said lock system.

4. The computer-controlled storage system of claim 1, characterized in that the intake and the outlet share a same location.

5. The computer-controlled storage system of claim 4 wherein the outlet comprises a blockage detector.

6. The computer-controlled storage system of claim 4 wherein the outlet comprises a lock system.