CN210914434U

CN210914434U - Receiving and transferring device for containers and related system

Info

Publication number: CN210914434U
Application number: CN201920426189.9U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 马汀·陆柏克; 福克·布鲁克; 卡斯顿·海德
Original assignee: Amova GmbH
Current assignee: Amova GmbH
Priority date: 2018-04-06
Filing date: 2019-04-01
Publication date: 2020-07-03
Anticipated expiration: 2029-04-01
Also published as: DE102018108212A1; TW201943630A; CN112074475B; CN112074475A; TWI736853B; WO2019192980A1; EP3774611A1

Abstract

The present invention relates to a receiving and transferring device related system for containers, preferably for sea containers, for receiving a container on a container pallet from an unloading crane, preferably from a port side ship unloading crane, and for transferring a container placed on said pallet to a feeding device of a container warehouse, preferably to a container elevated warehouse. The receiving and transferring device has at least two upper receiving areas adjacent to each other for containers and at least two lower receiving areas arranged below the receiving areas for empty pallets, wherein at least one lifting device is provided for conveying the empty pallets from the lower receiving areas to the upper receiving areas, and pallet support rollers are arranged at the receiving and transferring device above the lower receiving areas to define the upper receiving areas in a downward direction and to be movable and/or pivotable in a lateral direction.

Description

Receiving and transferring device for containers and related system

Technical Field

The present invention relates to a receiving and transfer device for containers, so-called ship to shore trailers, which are frequently used, for example, between container warehouses, such as container elevated warehouses, in conjunction with other feed devices (so-called fast movers) of containers to the container warehouses, in container transfer terminals, such as seaports or inland ports. The present invention further relates to a method of storing and transferring containers by means of a storage and transfer device of the kind described, and to a system consisting of: at least one unloading crane, at least one receiving and transferring device, and at least one feeding device of the containers to a container warehouse.

Background

Various transfer facilities are utilized to load containers between different transport elements, for example in a seaport or inland port. A transfer facility typically comprises a container warehouse constructed as, for example, an overhead warehouse in which containers are stored in multi-level rack compartments. The loading, unloading and moving of containers in an elevated warehouse is performed by means of storage and discharge units which are now partially or fully automated and which are constructed, for example, as loading cranes.

Before containers are temporarily stored in the container elevated warehouse, the containers have to be removed from the transport means, e.g. a ship, by means of an unloading crane and stored on the port side transport system. The transport to the elevated warehouses takes place again by means of these conveying systems, in which case the unloading cranes can be dedicated to unloading the transport elements and the conveying systems to the forward transport of the containers to the port-side facility.

Container relocation is of particularly high importance in terms of time, as container relocation can affect the efficiency and performance of the entire port logistics system. In modern container transfer facilities, it has proved to be possible to achieve particularly high rates when at least one receiving and transferring device, a so-called ship-to-shore trailer, and at least one independent feed device of containers to a container warehouse, a so-called fast mover, are provided between the ship unloading crane and the container warehouse, wherein the performance of the individual components of the port unloading system and of the port loading system can be particularly advantageously matched to the container relocation of one another. The utility model provides a this problem and be directed to a accomodate and transfer device, arrange in the kind of logistics facility between the feeder to the container warehouse of ship uninstallation hoist and container for example.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The object of the present invention is to provide a storage and transfer device which is particularly simple to operate on the one hand and to load and unload on the other hand. Furthermore, the object of the present invention consists of providing a storage and transfer device that, in cooperation with upstream and downstream logistics assemblies such as those described above, allows a particularly high container throughput not only during loading but also during unloading of transport means such as container ships.

The object is achieved by a receiving and transferring device, a method for receiving containers on container pallets from an unloading crane, preferably a port-side marine unloading crane, by means of the aforementioned receiving and transferring device, and for transferring the containers deposited on the pallets to a feeding device of a container store, preferably to a container elevated store, and a system. Advantageous developments follow from the dependent claims, the following illustration of the invention and the description of preferred embodiments.

According to a first aspect of the invention, the receiving and transferring device is used for receiving containers on pallets and transferring containers stored on the pallets to a feeding device of the container store, i.e. in particular for storing containers, removing containers from the store and moving containers between a port unloading crane and a container store, such as an elevated store, in particular in a transfer facility of a sea port or inland port.

According to the utility model discloses an accomodate and transfer device of first aspect has one and arranges the district of accomodating above another, and two accomodating districts are used for empty layer board and container to stop on arranging empty layer board in. In both receiving zones, the pallets are mounted on rollers so that not only horizontal output and input of empty pallets into the lower receiving zone but also horizontal output and input of pallets full of containers from the upper receiving zone can take place. The empty pallet previously introduced into the lower receiving zone can then be moved vertically into the upper receiving zone by means of a lifting device provided in or at the receiving and transfer device, in which case for this purpose it is provided that during the lifting movement the pallet support rollers provided for the upper receiving zone are moved out of or pivoted out of the upper receiving zone at least during the lifting stroke of the empty pallet, and after the lifting movement is ended the pallet support rollers are moved back or pivoted back into the receiving zone, so that the pallet support rollers then define the upper receiving zone in the downward direction and the empty pallet lifted by the lifting device is available for container reception by means of an unloading crane.

Thus, a flexible receiving and transferring device is created, which on the one hand considerably simplifies the loading of containers by means of an unloading crane, since the loading stroke is limited, and the destructive introduction of containers into a similar guiding structure by means of a crane can be eliminated. At the same time, the receiving and transferring device according to the invention allows a constant availability of empty pallets and a quick feeding of empty containers into the upper receiving area, preferably without delay, after the transfer of the pallets full of containers into the upper receiving area has been performed. The receiving and transferring device according to the invention is thus in a position to form a link between the unloading crane and the fixed port logistics system and a cooperation with the feeding device of the container to the container warehouse and the container warehouse itself in the logistics system for unloading and loading the transport means, such as the container ship. This results in a system which makes possible a particularly high container throughput and limits the operation of the unloading crane to the necessary minimum. After the containers are received from the unloading crane by means of the receiving and transfer device, the containers stored on the pallets can be transported onwards into a container warehouse, which is performed substantially fully automatically.

It goes without saying that the entire port logistics system, consisting of the unloading crane, the receiving and transferring device according to the invention, the feeding device of the containers to the container store and the container store itself, can be used not only for unloading the transport elements, but also for loading the transport elements, such as the container ships, in reverse order. Two uses of the storage and transfer device are the subject of the utility model.

By means of the arrangement of the upper and lower receiving areas above each other and the arrangement of the pallets filled with containers above the lower receiving area provided for empty pallets, the vertical height of the lower receiving area and the lifting of the empty pallets that has to be performed by the hoisting device can be limited to the necessary minimum, preferably below 2.2 meters, more particularly below 2.1 meters. The pallets full of containers can be transferred horizontally from the collecting and transfer device according to the invention to the container warehouse, for example, directly or indirectly by inserting preferably moving loading carriages, so-called "fast movers". Preferably, the transfer of the empty pallets to the receiving and transfer device can then take place synchronously with the transfer into the lower receiving zone, with the result that the loading and unloading cycle is kept to a minimum by particularly simple means. Furthermore, the feeding of empty pallets can also take place when containers are loaded into the receiving and transferring device, and these operations do not affect each other.

The receiving and transferring device according to the invention is preferably used for receiving two standard containers having a length of 45 feet, or indeed for receiving up to four standard containers having a length of 20 feet, preferably also for receiving containers having a length of 45 feet and two containers having a length of 20 feet.

The lifting movement of the empty pallet from the lower receiving zone into the upper receiving zone and back within the receiving and transferring device according to the invention can preferably be performed in less than 13 seconds, preferably in 11 seconds. The lifting device according to the invention preferably has at most four drives for this purpose, each having a power of more than 35 kW.

For horizontal transport with a pallet full of containers out of the upper receiving area, a roller path driver is integrated in the upper drive roller, the driver having twice the power of 30kW for each roller path. Similarly, lower support rollers for empty pallets are provided in the lower receiving zone, with the roller path driver having preferably twice the power of 4kW for each roller path.

The storage and transfer device according to the invention is preferably constructed such that the transport of empty pallets into the storage and transfer device and between the lower storage area and the upper storage area can be carried out independently of the respective state of the laterally adjoining storage areas. The receiving and transferring device according to the present invention is thus designed not only for handling containers and/or pallets in pairs, but also for handling individual containers and/or pallets.

The storage and transfer device according to the invention preferably has a mobile construction, wherein particularly preferably by means of a rail-mounted displacement apparatus. The storage and transfer device can thereby be incorporated into the entire storage logistics system by particularly simple means, thereby particularly contributing to limiting the use of the unloading crane to its main task. Thereby a system is created, especially for situations where the feeding means of the containers are similarly constructed to be mobile, especially with orbital mobility, wherein the receiving and transferring means according to the invention are provided essentially for receiving and transferring the containers to the storage logistics system; a faster and preferably more automated forward transport of the necessary moving components, in particular containers, to a container store, preferably an elevated container store, can be carried out by means of other units, such as fast movers or roller paths, which are arranged in the container store and are fixedly mounted.

The rail-mounted storage and transfer device can be used particularly advantageously in the case where it can be moved over a distance of more than 25 meters and in that case has a maximum speed of at least 21m/min in the loading state and a maximum speed of at least 30m/min in the unloading state. Furthermore, the storing and transferring device according to the present invention is preferably also equipped with a crawl mode (cruise mode) at a speed of 10% of the rated speed, preferably 4.2 m/min. Hereby a receiving and transferring device is created which can be particularly satisfactorily incorporated into a storage logistics system, in particular a port logistics system, and which can be particularly flexibly travelled to different quay locations of a container ship or of a port-side unloading crane, and which serves as a link between the unloading crane and a feeding device for a container warehouse, such as a so-called fast mover.

The following are particularly preferred: the receiving and transferring device is designed such that the receiving region is formed so as to be rotatable, preferably by 90 °, from a receiving position to a transferring position. In a particularly preferred form of embodiment of the invention, this is performed by means of a carousel which is integrated in the storage and transfer device and arranged above the chassis of the storage and transfer device and below the lower storage area and the upper storage area. The orientation of the containers within the storage logistics system can thus be adapted to the prevailing conditions in a particularly simple manner. In harbours in particular, the storage logistics system is not arranged parallel to the quay wall but perpendicular in depth to the quay wall due to the limited quay length. The ship containers are in turn usually transported in the longitudinal direction to the container ship to be unloaded or loaded, and in this orientation are also removed by the unloading crane and stored on the storage and transfer device according to the invention. Depending on the frequent situation in which the container store is arranged perpendicular to the quay wall, it is also recommended that containers are stored in the container store in this longitudinal direction, whereby a rotation of the containers of up to 90 ° from the unloading direction to the loading direction has to be performed. Preferably, the port side directly after depositing the container on the collecting and transferring device according to the invention by means of an unloading crane, in which situation the container can then be transferred in the desired orientation to the feed device of the container, in particular to the fast mover, by means of which feed device the transfer of the transport container to the container warehouse is then performed, preferably after the rotation of the container has been performed by means of the collecting and transferring device according to the invention.

The receiving and transferring device, which is preferably constructed in the described manner, reduces the complexity of the storage logistics system as a whole, since the container can be rotated at the earliest possible point in time and directly after unloading of the transport means, such as a ship, for example, to the preferred orientation of the port logistics system. All downstream units, such as the fast movers and the container warehouse itself, can thus handle containers that all have the desired orientation. Thus, the need to optionally provide rotation possibilities at other points of the logistics chain within the port logistics system is eliminated. The containers, once removed horizontally from the receiving and transfer device according to the invention and arranged on the pallet, can be handled without any further delay, for example by means of a fast mover or a container warehouse. Thus, the flexibility of installation is generally increased and the loading cycle thereof is reduced. Furthermore, the use of a higher number of fast movers per quay section in a harbor or inland harbor is thereby increased.

The rotation of the carousel through 90 ° in the loaded state preferably takes place in less than 20 seconds, preferably in 15 seconds, and in the empty state in less than 15 seconds, preferably in 13 seconds.

The pallet support rollers are preferably constructed such that they are movable between a rest position and a support position, in which case the rest position is provided to be laterally offset relative to the receiving zone. Preferably, a respective support roller is set per receiving zone, wherein particularly preferably the parking position of the support rollers of the first receiving zone and the parking position of the support rollers of the second receiving zone at the receiving and transferring device are arranged in the form of mirror images. In this connection, it is particularly preferred that the pallet support rollers are arranged in pairs on a common shaft, which in the supporting position rest on two support plates projecting laterally into the upper receiving region, respectively. Thus, on the one hand, a safe arrangement of the support rollers in the support position is ensured and on the other hand also by setting the strength and the spring properties of the material for the support plates. It is thereby ensured, in particular by simple means which can be easily set by means of the choice of the geometry and/or thickness of the support plates, that any vibrations will be substantially absorbed by the elastic mounting of the support rollers and will not play a role in the overall receiving and transferring device when the container is stored on a pallet resting on the support rollers. This is of particular importance in the case of container and pallet weights of up to 145 tonnes which must be managed by the storage and transfer device, an individual container having a maximum weight of 34 tonnes not only for the unloading process but also in order to ensure permanent safe operation.

The receiving and transferring device is preferably constructed such that the container is stored from above on an empty pallet arranged in the upper receiving area, under which situation when the storing movement has a vertical component, so that, for example, even when an unloading crane for transferring the container to a receiving and transferring device according to the invention follows a movement curve with a horizontal movement component and a vertical movement component, the receiving of the container from above is always realized according to the invention. The possibility of containers being received from above and transferred in horizontal direction to a container store or an intermediate feeding device (e.g. a fast mover) by rolling pallets full with containers over supporting rollers is important in the sense of the present invention.

The support rollers are preferably moved from their rest position into the support position by means of a motor and/or a spindle. The transfer from the rest position to the support position is particularly preferably carried out along a fixedly mounted guide rail provided for this purpose.

Preferably, a storage guide is provided laterally at the upper receiving area to extend upwardly above the plane of the pallet support rollers, said guide having in a particularly preferred manner an upwardly tapering cross-sectional shape, for example in the form of a triangle. Storage guides extending over at least 50%, preferably at least 75%, of the length of the upper receiving area are preferred. The storage guide can have not only a single-part but also a multi-part construction and essentially serves as a guide element and a storage aid for receiving containers from the unloading crane by means of a receiving and transferring device according to the invention. Thus, compensation for lateral and/or angular offsets of the containers can be provided, so that the storage of the containers on the pallet then likewise takes place by means of the constrained guides formed by simple means, which containers are still connected with the unloading crane by particularly simple means.

Similar to the transfer of pallets of full containers to the feeding device, the reception of empty containers in the lower receiving zone may preferably take place at the level of the receiving and transferring device and in the longitudinal direction. The receiving and transferring device and the fast mover and the two receiving areas similarly arranged one above the other preferably form a system for not only empty pallets but also for pallets of full containers, which system enables the transport, preferably rotation and transport, of containers from the unloading crane to the container warehouse and from the container warehouse to the crane, just as empty pallets for the receiving and transferring device according to the invention are provided. In this case, the quick mover preferably comprises a set of support rollers in its upper and lower receiving areas, the vertical spacing of which corresponds to the support rollers in the receiving and transferring device according to the invention.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for feeding devices from an unloading crane, preferably a port-side ship unloading crane, for receiving containers on a container pallet and for transferring the containers stored on the pallet to a container warehouse, preferably an elevated container warehouse, of the containers, wherein according to the present invention, a receiving and transferring device according to the first aspect of the present invention is used. The method according to the invention is characterized in that the transfer of the containers to the upper receiving area by means of the substantially vertical movement, thus having a vertical movement component, and the transfer of the containers deposited on the pallets together with the pallets to the feeding device takes place by means of the horizontal movement.

Preferably, the transfer of containers deposited on pallets and the storage of empty pallets in the lower storage region of the storage and transfer device according to the invention is preferably carried out simultaneously by a feed device for containers, for example a so-called fast mover. A method is thus created in which the unloading and loading cycles are particularly advantageously matched to one another and the receiving and transfer device according to the invention is available as quickly as possible for receiving further containers from the unloading crane. The following are particularly preferred: the cycle of providing empty pallets in the upper receiving zone may be performed in less than 70 seconds, preferably less than 65 seconds.

Preferably, the receiving of the container may take place in a first setting of the receiving and transferring device and the transfer of the container together with the pallet may take place in a second setting. The first setting can in this case be constructed not only translationally but also rotationally, preferably translationally and rotationally, so as to differ from the second setting.

The translational movement is preferably carried out along two rails which are provided for the receiving and transfer device according to the invention and which are provided in a particularly preferred manner parallel to two rails which are provided between the unloading crane and the container store for the feeding device, for example a quick-action mover.

Preferably, the feeding of the empty pallets from the feeding device into the lower receiving zone of the receiving and transferring device according to the invention takes place after lifting the empty pallets from the lower receiving zone into the upper receiving zone by means of the hoisting device, and subsequently the movement and/or pivoting of the pallet support rollers for the upper receiving zone from their rest position into their support position and the storing of the empty pallets on these support rollers by means of the hoisting device. Finally, the empty pallet, once fed into the receiving and transferring device according to the invention, is ready for depositing the container in the upper receiving zone.

Thus, a method is provided which provides the shortest possible cycle time with particularly simple means for use with a storage and transfer device according to the invention. According to the present invention, the achievable cycle time between the first loading of the storage and transfer device and the subsequent loading of the second group of containers, optionally in the intermediate rotation of the containers deposited on the pallet and the transfer of the containers from the storage and transfer device according to the present invention, can therefore be limited to less than 65 seconds, preferably about 60 seconds.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system comprising: at least one unloading crane, preferably at least one marine unloading crane arranged at the port side; according to the first aspect of the present invention, at least one storage and transfer device; and at least one feeding device for containers to a container store, preferably an elevated container store. The technical effect that can be achieved thereby corresponds to the technical effect that has already been explained in relation to the first and second aspects of the invention.

Other advantages and features of the present invention will be apparent from the following description of preferred embodiments. The features described therein may be implemented by themselves or in combination with one or more of the above features, as long as the features are not in conflict. The following description of preferred embodiments refers to the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

Fig. 1 shows a perspective view of the main parts of a receiving and transfer device for containers in a basic setting;

fig. 2 shows a partial view, cut transversely to the longitudinal direction, in a first basic setting through a receiving and transferring device according to the invention for containers;

fig. 3 shows a sectional view similar to fig. 2 through a receiving and transferring device according to the invention for containers in the case of lifted empty pallets; and is

Fig. 4 shows a sectional view similar to fig. 2 and 3 through a receiving and transferring device according to the invention for containers in a working setting in which empty containers are deposited on rollers.

Description of the main component symbols:

1 receiving and transferring device 2 pallet

2a empty pallet 2b empty pallet

3 pallet support roller 4a upper receiving area

4b lower receiving area 5a upper receiving area

5b lower storage area 6 hoisting device

6a hoisting device 6b hoisting device

7 guide roller 8 displacement device

9 axle 10 supporting plate

11 storage guide 11a guide surface

12 turntable 13 transfer bracket

14 support roll shaft 15a guide roller guide

15b guide roller guide

Detailed Description

The following description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention will be made in conjunction with the drawings and the accompanying drawings to further illustrate the technical means adopted to achieve the objects of the present invention.

Preferred embodiments are described below with reference to the drawings. In the described case, identical, similar or equivalent elements in the figures are provided with the same reference symbols, and repeated descriptions of these elements are partially omitted to avoid redundancy.

To the extent feasible, all individual features described in the specific examples may be combined and/or exchanged with each other without departing from the scope of the present invention.

Fig. 1 shows a plan view of the essential parts of a receiving and transferring device 1 according to the invention for a container (not shown), wherein the receiving and transferring device 1 has two upper receiving areas 4a, 5a adjoining one another and lower receiving areas 4b, 5b for empty pallets (not shown), each arranged below the upper receiving area. The upper receiving areas 4a, 5a are defined along their longitudinal sides by storage guides 11 providing upwardly inclined guide surfaces 11a for introducing containers (not shown) from above into the upper receiving areas 4a, 5a by means of an unloading crane (not shown). The upper housing zones 4a, 5a are defined downwards by pallet support rollers 3, which are arranged to be movable between a rest position, described here, and an operating position within the housing and transfer device 1. The pallet support rollers 3 are arranged in pairs on shafts 14 which are supported by respective transfer carriages 13. In the specific example according to fig. 1, in which six transfer carriages 13 per receiving area 4a, 5a are provided, arranged at the transfer carriages 13 are guide rollers 7, by means of which a lateral displacement of the transfer carriages 13 and the pallet support rollers 3 arranged thereon occurs. The displacement of the transfer carriage 13 is preferably carried out simultaneously, for example mechanically coupled by means of a rack-pinion and a common pinion shaft. Empty pallets (not shown) can be lifted from the lower receiving areas 4b, 5b into the upper receiving areas 4a, 5a by means of the

hoisting devices

6a, 6b, stored on the pallet supporting rollers 3 to the extent that these empty pallets are placed in their supporting positions, and then made available for receiving containers (not shown).

Fig. 2 is a partial view, cut transversely to the longitudinal direction, of the receiving and transfer device 1 according to fig. 1, which is illustrated for this purpose in the basic arrangement of the lowering of the empty pallets 2a, 2b into the lower receiving areas 4b, 5 b. The upper receiving areas 4a, 5a, which are laterally defined by the respective storage guides 11, are free and unrestricted in the downward direction due to the fact that: the pallet support rollers 3 in the rest position are arranged laterally outside the receiving and transfer device 1 so that empty pallets 2a, 2b can be transported upwards by the

respective lifting devices

6a, 6 b. Two rollers 14a, 14b, which are components of the carousel 12 by means of which the rotational movement of the entire storage and transfer device 1 can be performed, are illustrated at the lower side of the storage and transfer device 1. The described storage and transfer device 1 can thus be rotated, as required and by particularly simple means, for example by 90 ° from a storage position (described here) into a transfer position.

Fig. 3 shows the same storage and transfer device 1 as fig. 2, with the only difference that the empty pallets 2a, 2b have been lifted from the lower storage areas 4b, 5b into the upper storage areas 4a, 5a by means of

respective lifting devices

6a, 6 b. The pallet support rollers 3 are still in their resting position, laterally offset from the vertical travel path of the empty pallets 2a, 2b into the upper receiving zones 4a, 5a from the lower receiving zones 4b, 5 b.

Fig. 4 shows the receiving and transfer device 1 in the same section as fig. 2 and 3 with hollow pallets 2a, 2b arranged in upper receiving zones 4a, 5a on the pallet support rollers 3. In this condition, the pallet support rollers 3 are in their working position in which the transfer carriages 13 and the shafts 14 supporting the pallet support rollers 3 rest on the support plates 10 projecting laterally into the receiving areas 4a, 5 a. The support plate 10 is in this condition selected with respect to both its thickness and material such that it provides a springback function for the pallets 2a, 2b occupied by the container (not shown). To ensure that the support rollers 3 can be displaced from the rest position illustrated in fig. 2 and 3 to the support position illustrated in fig. 4, guide roller guides 15a, 15b are provided to enable a tilt-free movement of the pallet support rollers 3 from the rest position to the support position. The movement of the support rollers 3 from the rest position into the support position is preferably effected electrically, for example by means of a spindle drive (not shown).

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention in any way, and although the present invention has been disclosed with reference to the above preferred embodiment, but not to limit the present invention, any person skilled in the art can make modifications or changes to equivalent embodiments without departing from the scope of the present invention, and any simple modification, equivalent change and modification made to the above embodiments by the technical spirit of the present invention still fall within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A receiving and transferring device for containers for receiving a container on a container pallet from an unloading crane and for transferring the container placed on the pallet to a feeding device of a container to a container warehouse, the receiving and transferring device is characterized in that it has at least two upper receiving areas adjacent to each other for containers and at least two lower receiving areas arranged below the receiving areas for empty pallets, wherein at least one lifting device is provided for transporting the empty pallets from the lower receiving area to the upper receiving area, and pallet support rollers are arranged at the receiving and transfer device above the lower receiving zone to define the upper receiving zone in a downward direction and are movable and/or pivotable in a lateral direction.

2. The receiving and transferring device according to claim 1, characterized in that the receiving and transferring device is constructed to be movable.

3. The storage and transfer device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the storage and transfer device is constructed to be rotatable from a storage position to a transfer position.

4. The storing and transfer device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the pallet support rollers are constructed to be laterally movable out of a rest position and into the upper storing zone into a support position.

5. The storage and transfer device according to claim 4, characterized in that the pallet support rollers are arranged in pairs on a common shaft, which in the supporting position rest on two support plates, respectively, which project laterally into the upper storage area.

6. The receiving and transferring device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that it is constructed for receiving the container from above and depositing the container on a container pallet supported by the pallet support rollers.

7. The storage and transfer device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the upper storage area is laterally defined by a storage guide extending upwardly above the plane of the pallet support rollers.

8. The storage and transfer device of claim 7, wherein the storage guide has an upwardly tapering cross-sectional shape and extends over at least 50% of the length of the upper storage area.

9. The receiving and transferring device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the containers deposited on pallets can be moved horizontally with the pallets into and out of the upper receiving area in longitudinal direction from the receiving and transferring device for transferring the containers to a feeding device.

10. The storage and transfer device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that empty pallets can be moved horizontally in longitudinal direction into and out of the lower storage area in the storage and transfer device.

11. The receiving and transfer device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the containers and/or the empty pallets deposited on the pallets can be picked up and transferred in/out of the lower receiving zone or the upper receiving zone in pairs and/or independently of each other.

12. A system, characterized by consisting of: at least one unloading crane; at least one receiving and transferring device according to any one of claims 1 to 11; and at least one feeding device for containers to the container store.