Material or article handling – Marine loading or unloading system – Marine vessel to/from shore
Patent
1993-04-09
1996-04-30
Huppert, Michael S.
Material or article handling
Marine loading or unloading system
Marine vessel to/from shore
4141403, 4141413, 414786, B65G 6300
Patent
active
055119239
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for ASRS handling of loaded and empty oceangoing containers. Containers are stored in a multi-level loaded container facility in upland and pier banks of spaced rows and columns in a grill-like arrangement with each container in a particular space spaced from all other containers, commonly referred to in ASRS systems, as rack storage. Empty containers are stored in a separate building remote from but accessible to, the stored loaded container facility and identical containers of the same ocean carrier are stacked one on top of the other directly in separate cells. Containers which are handled between upland banks of spaces and pier banks of spaces are moved between the pier and upland spaces by a number of computer automated internal bridge cranes. The upland and pier banks are provided with external fast transport balconies which enable a container to be moved rapidly lengthwise along the length of the loaded container facility to bypass the slower movements of internal bridge cranes and thus make a more rapid deployment of that container. Similarly, the empty containers can be moved along a fast transport empty container balcony high up on the facility for bypassing the slower movements of internal bridge cranes to, immediately prior to being loaded aboard ship, move from one location along the facility to another opposite the pier crane that will load it aboard a ship. Or, this process is reversed when empty containers are being discharged (unloaded) from ships.
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Huppert Michael S.
Krizek Janice L.
The Robotic Container Handling Co.
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