FI59373C - ANORDNING FOER MEKANISK PLOCKNING OCH PACKNING - Google Patents

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For example, in warehousing facilities, outbound deliveries are mostly put in order by manual picking, which in principle takes place by the shipper or the like moving in the warehouse and collecting the products that will be included in the delivery according to the picking list. This hand picking is physically very strenuous in many areas, partly due to the weight of the goods and partly due to the frequent awkward and incorrect working positions.

Various attempts have been made to facilitate handicrafts, e.g. more or less automated storage facilities have been built where goods are transported to a transhipment station (collection station). However, these plants have tended to become very complex with large control problems and high investment costs. In addition, a large part of the handicraft remains when the deliveries are loaded. Furthermore, stored goods are generally inaccessible during downtime, which is unacceptable in the case of groceries and, in particular, fresh produce.

Another storage solution attempt can be seen, for example, in German application publication 22 hl 968, where a stacking crane operating on conventional scaffolds lifts a pallet to a crane and the suction cup device lifts an entire load of 2 59373 layers at a time to the accompanying pallet used for distribution.

Another variation in which a pallet is lifted from racks to perform collection is described in U.S. Patent 3,661,280.

It is also known to use stationary pallet loading machines, e.g. in production using conveyor belts.

The present invention relates to a suitable device system which makes it possible to mechanize collection and loading or, alternatively, to computer-controlled automation, for example in a warehouse with a very different assortment. The great importance of the invention is e.g. in that collection and loading are carried out from a pallet stored at the same time in storage to a pallet for distribution, which may often be different in structure and size from the former.

A system according to the invention for mechanically collecting and packaging a variety of goods, in particular in a deformable wrapper, from pallets, which generally each contain units of the same type, is characterized in that the transverse device is attached to the vertical parts of the truck chassis. on both sides of the base, and along which a lifting trolley supporting the downwardly directed lifting lever and a vacuum lifting device with suction cups attached to the lower part thereof,

The invention is most simply illustrated and described in connection with an embodiment according to the accompanying drawing.

Figure 1 schematically shows a system of devices according to the invention in perspective.

Figure 2 shows a schematic plan view of the basic device.

The basic structure of the system is shown in Figure 1. It comprises a combination of devices, namely a wheeled pallet 1 with a space (1 ') of a pallet 2 for dispensing packaging> a transverse device 3 attached to the pallet 1 and extending on the mol 1 side of the pallet. The transverse device makes it possible to move the lifting lever U belonging to the device in both directions, to the lower end of which a special vacuum lifting device 5 is attached according to Swedish patent application 7 * + 09 ^ 6l-6. The goods stored on their pallets are arranged in rows 8.9 on both sides of the platform 1 by the relevant trucks (collect the load by machine).

The object and operation of the invention will become apparent from the following, where it will be described in connection with the device according to Fig. 2 for repairing deliveries.

The main object of the invention is to facilitate human labor when collecting and loading the goods in question by hand. This is achieved by moving the pallet 1 with its transverse devices 3 and the lifting devices 1+ after the empty pallet 6 has been brought to the pallet 1 'from the loading and unloading device 7 to move two adjacent goods 8a, b, c --- 9a, b , c --- formed between this row 8, 9, preferably in one or more planes and stopped just in front of the goods to be collected. Thus, at each stop of the task, two different items are located in the operating range of the transverse device 3 and the desired amount of corresponding item is lifted into the load compartment 1 'by means of the lifting lever k and its special lifting device 5. When the pallet 2 in the loading space 1 'is full, the pallet 1 with its equipment is driven to the unloading and loading device 7 »where the filled pallet is lifted off and the empty pallet 6 is brought into place. When the goods on one of the arranged pallets 8a, b, c --- 9a, b, c --- run out, such is replaced by a filled pallet with similar goods.

Another object of the system according to the invention is to reduce the number of processes of each package of goods to a minimum. This is achieved in that the goods 8a, b, c --- 9a, b, c --- are arranged on the pallets on which they are delivered, and later, according to the invention, they are collected at one and the same time directly from their arrangement and loaded on the pallet 1. the accompanying pallet 2, which is still used for distribution and whose size and structure are more or less arbitrary.

Another object of the invention is that the collection and loading procedure can be completely automated. To this end, the system control system is adapted to be connected to a computer. The configuration of the desired delivery is entered into the computer, after which it calculates the optimal placement of each packet according to an algorithm specially designed for this purpose. The calculated values are interpreted as control signals.

Yet another object of the invention is that a malfunction should not make the goods inaccessible. The open structure of the plant makes it possible for a truck, such as a collect-load machine, in the event of a malfunction to be easily transported away and replaced with a spare device, which can be, for example, a conventional pick-up truck or the like.