Automatic storage and retrieval system

Details Automatic storage and retrieval system Automatic storage and retrieval system

1990-05-07

1993-07-13

Werner, Frank E.

Material or article handling

Plural, static structures for supporting discrete loads and...

Load-underlying members

414331, 414273, 414281, 414286, 414285, 414280, 414661, 1983473, 364478, 414285, 414280, 414661, B65G 104

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ABSTRACT:
A system for storing and retrieving items to and from a storage receptacle which includes a track riding dolly carrying a robotic item handler for inserting and extracting items to and from storage The dolly also carries a multishelved caddy for receiving a plurality of items thereon. The item handler has the capacity to access each of the shelves of the caddy and may execute, under computer control, a selected sequence of item transfers between the caddy and storage during a single passage of the dolly from an on/off load point past the storage receptacle. A multishelved caddy loader queues a plurality of items received from an on-load device independently of the caddy, via vertical repositioning, and performs a bulk transfer of the queued items to the caddy when the caddy is available. A mass offloader device permits the bulk transfer of a plurality of items from the caddy to an offload receiver. A unit offloader sequentially offloads the offload receiver, via vertical repositioning of the offload receiver, onto an offload surface independently of the caddy.

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