Supports: cabinet structure – Show-case type
Patent
1998-12-28
2000-10-10
Cuomo, Peter M.
Supports: cabinet structure
Show-case type
312 948, 312305, A47F 300
Patent
active
061294284
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. The Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to object storage devices, storage stations, and climatic test cabinets configured to support object carriers and operable with transport devices configured to move the object carriers.
2. Present State of the Art
Object storage devices are used wherever objects must be stored for a certain period of time. The objects, individually or in groups, are generally held in object carriers, which can be open dishes or closed containers, for example. The object carriers are arranged in a removable manner on a structure of the object storage device, and are fed into this structure in the object carriers or removed from it. The object storage devices include the object carriers and the structure mentioned. For example, object storage devices are known in the form of multitier carousels with object carriers in the shape of circular sectors. The object carriers generally rest on the structure and are held in place by laterally sliding clamping parts. The disadvantage of this arrangement is that it is relatively difficult to make it with clamping parts and the drive device necessary to activate them.
OBJECTS AND BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide improved object storage devices that receive object carriers but do not require clamping parts and the drive device necessary to activate them.
As has already been mentioned, the objects in the object storage device are in object carriers, which are arranged on the carousel-like structure of the object storage device and which rest on the structure only with their sides, and thus are freely accessible from below, and can be lifted up. The side clamping parts and their drives, such as are present in previously known object storage devices, are not needed in the new object storage device, which is therefore substantially simpler to build than the previously known object storage devices.
The object carriers can be guided on their sides, which simplifies their precise feeding into the structure and secures their side-to-side position on the structure.
To make the loading of the object storage device especially efficient, it is preferable to use cassettes, each of which contain several object carriers arranged above one another. These cassettes are also freely accessible from below, can be lifted up, and possibly also guided transversely.
To hold the object carriers, the object storage device can also have shelves with recesses, which make it possible to access the bottom of the object carriers.
Storage stations of the type mentioned at the beginning include an object storage device and a transporting device. The transportation device is used to feed individual objects or groups of objects, which are generally held in object carriers, into the object storage device and take them out of it. The object carriers are supplied to the storage station by a feeding transporter. After the object carriers are treated, they are taken away again by a removal transporter. For this purpose, a combined feeding and removal transporter can be used, for example, a continuous conveyor or a robot.
The disadvantages of the known storage stations are that loading them is relatively time consuming. This could have to do with the fact that the object carriers, as has already been mentioned, have to be fixed in the object storage device by side clamping parts, and/or it could have to do with the fact that transporting devices which are provided are not advantageous.
Therefore, a second task of the invention is to propose a storage station which can avoid these disadvantages.
The new storage station has a carousel-like object storage device with at least one storage level having several object storage places shaped like circular sectors. These object storage places temporarily hold objects, which are held, individually or in groups, in object carriers. The storage station also has a transporting system which places the object carriers into the object storag
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Helwig Gunter
Malin Cosmas
Cuomo Peter M.
Hansen James O.
Kendro Laboratory Products GmbH
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