Material or article handling – Load-transporting type vehicle and external means... – Power-driven conveyor for loading a wheeled vehicle
Patent
1997-05-29
2000-03-14
Bucci, David A.
Material or article handling
Load-transporting type vehicle and external means...
Power-driven conveyor for loading a wheeled vehicle
104119, B65G 6702
Patent
active
060364270
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle transport system and accompanying guide device designed to serve in automated warehouses has a guide rail that guides the transport vehicle. The transport vehicle has a carrying platform. The vehicle runs along the rail astride it and linked by connecting guides. The guide rail is located beneath an upper surface of the carrying platform so that material carried thereon can be transferred across the rail to staging areas on the other side of the rail. By locating the vehicle astride the rail, the guide rail, which projects upwardly from the floor, does not interfere with access to the carrying platform. In an embodiment of the invention, the drive wheel of the vehicle is located at a longitudinal midpoint of the transport vehicle to minimize the parasitic effects on the guides connecting the vehicle to the rail generated by application of traction forces, applied by a drive wheel, to the side of the rail.
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Kita Hiroaki
Watanabe Haruhiro
Bucci David A.
Daifuku Co. Ltd.
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