Self-service, computer-operated, mechanical-electronic equipment

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1986-07-21

1989-10-17

Brittain, James R.

Material or article handling

Apparatus particularly adapted for charging or discharging a...

Including one or more movable sites

1041722, 1041723, 414237, 414242, E04H 634

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048742805

ABSTRACT:
The equipment comprises: a track, fixed to a base, extending endlessly so as to define two longitudinal runways; a plurality of movable elements of support, equidistant one with respect to the other, sliding on the track; a plurality of platforms on which to receive an identical plurality of vehicles, each platform resting fixedly on one of the movable elements of support; a power unit for driving synchronously, in opposite directions, the movable elements, with it being possible for each platform to transit at a station for loading and unloading vehicles onto and from the platform; a movable bar for barring access to the station; and a programmed unit, set in action through a card, for operating the power unit and the bar, as well as destined to operated a corresponding signal unit in consequence of the existence of at least one free platform.

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