JPS6040304A - Housing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To decrease the size and the weight of a system and to enable the use of the system additionally as a carrying means between a warehouse and a cargo handling place, by a method wherein a rack and a carrying device, which is moved on rails installed in front of the rack and above a delivery and despatch work passage, are combined together so that a cargo can be delivered therebetween. CONSTITUTION:An elevating body 10, on which a cargo 39 is placed, is lifted to an upper limit position by means of a hoist 9, a running carriage body 8 is caused to run along a main guide rail, not shown, the elevating body is caused to enter an auxiliary guide rail 5b on a delivery and despatch work passage with the aid of a corresponding switching means 6b, and is brought to stop in a given position corresponding to specified cargo receiving parts 35, in which the cargoes are delivered, of racks 1 on both sides of a delivery and despatch work passage. Thereafter, the elevating body 10 is lifted down with the aid of a hoist 9, and the cargo 39 is moved onto the rack 1 in combination with the forward and backward movement of a running fork. This constitution decreases the size and the weight of a system, and enables the system to be also used as a cargo carrying device between a distance warehouse and a cargo handling place.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a storage facility consisting of a combination of a rank and a transport device capable of transferring goods between the goods receiving section and the goods receiving section of this rank.

The conveyance device used in conventional storage facilities of this type is a star transport device that runs in the loading/unloading work passage in front of the rack.
The Tsuka-crane type was common. That is,
Conventional stacker crane-type transport devices are large and heavy, equipped with a support that guides the lifting and lowering of a lifting carrier equipped with load transfer means such as a running fork, and therefore a support that is higher than the height of the rack. This one
The narrowing device itself is very expensive and has the disadvantage of high operating costs. In addition, such a car crane type transport device occupies a large space along the entire route from the floor to near the ceiling, and as mentioned above, the operating cost is high. Although it is large and heavy, it is not suitable for high-speed operation, so it is used as a dedicated loading/unloading device that is used only in the loading/unloading work passage in front of the rank.
Nor could it be used as a cargo transport means between a warehouse area including the rack and the loading/unloading work passage in front of this rank, and another cargo handling work place separated from this warehouse area.

The present invention aims to provide a storage facility capable of solving the conventional problems as described above, and one embodiment thereof will be described below based on the attached illustrative drawings.

In Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, 1 is the u-tsuku installed on both left and right sides of the loading/unloading work passage 2.6, 4 is the main guide rail,
5a and 5b are sub-guide rails branched from the main guide rail 4 via route switching devices 6a and 6b, and are connected to the loading/unloading work passage 2. It is constructed along the passages 2 and 5 on three sides. Reference numeral 7 denotes a squeezing device (self-propelled guided by the main guide rail 4 and side force guide rails 5a, 5b). This conveyance device 7 includes a traveling movable body 8 movably suspended from the guide rails 4, 5a, and 5b, and an elevating movable body suspended from the traveling movable body 7 via a hoist 9 so as to be movable up and down. 10.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the traveling moving body 8 is
A drive cart 12 is attached to the top of one end of the frame 11 in the longitudinal direction so as to be relatively rotatable around a vertical axis 16, and a floating cart 14 is attached to the top of the other end of the frame 11 so as to be relatively rotatable around the vertical axis 15. The drive truck 12 includes a grooved drive wheel 16 that fits into the upper edge of the guide rails 4.5a, 5b, and a brake-equipped motor that drives the drive wheel 16 via a deceleration transmission means 17. 18. A pair of front and rear steady rest guide rollers 19 sandwiching the lower edges of the guide rails 4, 5a, and 5b from both left and right sides.
, a pair of front and rear backup rollers 20 that abut the lower edges of the guide rails 4.5a, 5b from below, and a collection roller that slides in contact with a power supply rail means 21 installed on one side of the guide rails 4.5a, 5b. The floating cart 14 is composed of an electric means 22, and grooved free rolling wheels 25 that fit on the upper edges of the guide rails 4.5a, 5b, and the lower edges of the guide rails 4, 5a, 5b on both the left and right sides. It is comprised of a pair of front and rear steady rest guide rollers 24 sandwiched between the front and back, and a pair of front and rear back γ/knob rollers 25 that abut the lower edges of the guide rails 4, 5a, and 5b from below.

The elevating and lowering moving body 1'0 is provided with a running fork 27 that is movable in both left and right directions on the upper side of the lower side of a frame 26 having a rectangular side shape, and on the upper side of the upper side of the frame 26, A wire for hanging the hoist 9 mounted on the frame 11 of the traveling moving body 8? The pulley 28 engaged by a is pivotally supported by C. Further, at each of the four corners of the left and right sides of the frame 26, there are provided a guide roller 29 for a longitudinal steady rest, which is pivotally supported by a horizontal horizontal axis, and a guide roller for a horizontal steady rest, which is pivotally supported by a horizontal longitudinal axis. Guided portions 61 having 50 and tL are respectively provided.
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The frame 11 of the traveling movable body 8 has a guide portion 61 provided on the vertical movable body 10 when the vertical movable body 10 is lifted up to the upper limit position by the hoist 9. The guide rollers 29 and 50 in the four left and right guided parts 61 are connected to the guide rails 62 for steadying the elevating moving body, each of which has several people, and the rising I11! A regulating strike collar 66 is provided. The lower end opening of the guide rail 52 for steadying the elevating moving body is widened into a trumpet shape in order to facilitate the movement of several guide rollers 29 and 50 in the guided portion 51.

The motor 754 with a brake that drives the hoist 9 that suspends the elevating moving body 10, the motor 18 with a brake of the driving cart 12, and the 0:1 elevating moving body 1
A driving motor (not shown) for the running fork 27 provided at 0 is driven by electric power supplied from the power feeding rail means 21 via the current collecting means 22.

As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, on the 011 rank 1 side, each cargo receiver on the warehousing/unloading work passage 2.5 side is attached to the front support column 36 which is erected on both left and right sides of the section 65. An elevating guide rail 57 into which the guide rollers 29 and 50 of each guided portion 51 of the elevating moving body 10 that moves up and down in the loading and unloading work passages 2 and 5 is fitted is attached over the entire length. The upper end opening of this guide rail 57 is also the guided portion! In order to facilitate the insertion of each guide roller 29, 30 in the guide roller 11, it is preferable to spread it out in a trumpet shape. Reference numeral 68 denotes a pair of left and right cargo receivers provided in the cargo receiver portion 65, and the running fork 27 of the ten examples of the elevating and lowering moving bodies is such that the pair of left and right cargo receivers move vertically between the members 38. I can do it.

To explain an example of the warehousing work method, as shown in Fig. 3, the elevating moving body 10 with a load 59 supported on the running fork 27 is hoisted by the hoist 9 to the upper limit position where it abuts the stopper 5'5. In this state, the first forwarding device 7 is run. That is, the driving truck 1 of the traveling moving body 8
The driving wheels 16 in step 2 are rotated by the motor 18, and the traveling moving body 8 is caused to travel along the main guide rail 4.

At this time, the guided portions 51 at four locations on the upper side of the elevating movable body 10
The guide rollers 29 and 50 are fitted into the guide rails i52 on the side of the traveling movable body δ, and the elevating movable body 1
0 is in contact with the stopper 55 on the traveling movable body δ side, so there is no fear that the elevating movable body 1o will move relative to the traveling movable body 8 by t.

As described above, the conveying device 7 for transporting the load 69 one step is connected to the sub-guide rail 5b belonging to the loading/unloading work passage '6 (or 2) by switching the route switching means 6b (or 6a).
(or 5a), and the cargo receivers of the racks 1 on both the left and right sides of the loading/unloading work passage 5 (or 2) are placed in the section 55, and the specific cargo receiver to be warehoused is placed at a predetermined position corresponding to the section 35. Stop the feeding device 7. Next, move hoist 9 to motor 4.
The elevating movable body 1o is lowered into the loading/unloading work passage 6 (or 2) by the wire 9a. At this time, the guide rollers 29.50 of the left and right guided portions 61 of the elevating movable body 1o are driven by the rank 1 example. The lifting movable body 1o relative to the rack 1 is lowered by fitting into the lifting guide rail 57 of the rack 1.
The ascending and descending path is constant, and there is no risk of it swinging from side to side after DJI.

When the elevating movable body 1o descends to the height corresponding to the specific cargo receiving section 65, the elevating movable body 10 stops lifting and lowering, and the running fork 27 moves in and out of the elevating movable body 1o and the corresponding By the forking operation consisting of a combination with the descending movement of the elevating and lowering movable body 10, the load 39 on the thinning fork 27 can be transferred to the specific load receiving section 5 of the rack 1. Empty elevating moving body 10
is hoisted to the upper limit position again by the hoist 9, and the loading/unloading work passage '6 (or 2) between ranks 1 is opened.
It can be separated upward from the vehicle and integrated with the traveling vehicle 8. In this state, the conveying device 7 is run again and moved to a predetermined location via a predetermined route connected to the sub-guide rail 5b (or 5a), but the conveying device 7 is not moved backwards. This can also be done by returning from the sub-guide rail 5b (or 5B) to the path of the main guide rail 4.

The warehousing operation can also be performed in the same manner as the warehousing operation described above.

The storage equipment of the present invention can be implemented and used as in the above embodiment, and is composed of a combination of a rack and a transport device, and the I narrowing device is used for loading and unloading the 0:1 rack 61. A traveling mobile body moves while being guided by guide rails (in the embodiment, sub-guide rails 5a and 5b) constructed along the passage above the passage, and a hoist moves the traveling mobile body from the traveling body (towards the working passage). The elevator is equipped with an elevating moving body that is suspended so as to be able to be lifted and lowered, and a load transfer means (running fork 27 in the embodiment) that is provided on the elevating moving body and that transfers the load to and from the cargo receiving section of the rank. ,
On the rank side, there is an elevating guide means for regulating the elevating path of the elevating movable body in cooperation with a guided part provided on the elevating movable body when the elevating movable body moves up and down in the work passage. (Example 2) is equipped with an elevating guide rail 37, so by hoisting the elevating movable body to the upper limit using a hoist, the entire conveying device consisting of the elevating movable body and the traveling movable body can be moved. 1 height height: 1.It is compact and can be run along the power rail, but when loading and unloading work to the department, each rank of goods receiver is By moving the elevating movable body up and down with a hoist, the elevating movable body is made to correspond to the cargo receiving section at an arbitrary height of the rank, and the cargo receiving means on the rank side is moved by the cargo receiving means of the elevating movable body. Loads can be delivered between the rack section and the elevating movable body.Furthermore, when the elevating movable body moves up and down in this loading/unloading work passage, the lifting guide means on the rack side and the cover on the elevating movable body side are connected to each other. In cooperation with the guide section, the elevating moving body can move up and down along a predetermined elevating route relative to the rank, and the warehouse entry and exit operations can be carried out safely without being affected by the inclination of the rank.

For the above-mentioned reasons, the conveyance device in the storage facility of the present invention is similar to the conventional stanker crane type conveyance device in the loading and unloading work passage for U-Tsuku Oil, and the cargo receiving device is arranged in multiple stages in the vertical direction. Although it is possible to carry out loading and unloading operations safely for ranks equipped with It can be used as a type of conveyance device. Therefore, unlike conventional storage equipment, there is no need to install peripheral conveyance equipment such as a floor conveyor or an overhead conveyor in addition to a stacker crane-type transport device dedicated to loading and unloading. The conveyance device for carrying out loading and unloading operations can be used also as conventional peripheral conveyance equipment,
It is possible to significantly reduce the cost of the entire equipment, and it is also possible to eliminate the work of transferring cargo between the peripheral conveyance equipment and the I-conveyance device for loading and unloading, thereby improving work efficiency.

Note that the elevating guide means on the rack side and the guided portion on the elevating moving body side are not limited to the configurations shown in the embodiments. For example, it is also possible to pivotally support the guide rollers for the front, rear, left and right steady rests that directly contact the rank 10 aisle side support column i56 on the elevating movable body 10 side, or to attach guide rails in the vertical direction to the elevating movable body side, It is also possible to pivotally support guide rollers for steadying, which fit into the guide rails, on the rank side at appropriate intervals in the vertical direction. Further, as shown in FIG. 7, a pair of left and right lifting guide rails 40 are attached only to the rack 1 located on one side of the loading/unloading work passage, and the lifting moving body 1
As the guided portion 61 on the 0 side, it is also possible to pivotally support a guide roller 41 for a left-right rest that fits into the guide rail 40 on one side of the passage and regulates the ascending and descending path of the elevating moving body 10. Of course, it is also possible to use a guide roller for a back-and-forth steady rest that comes into contact with the bottom surface of the guide rail 40.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a schematic plan view of the whole, Figure 2 is an elevation view of the whole, Figure 3 is a side view of the conveyance device, Figure 4 is a front view of the same, Figure 5 is elevation movement during loading and unloading operations. FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional plan view of the same, and FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional plan view showing another embodiment. 1... Rank, 2.3... Input/output work passage, 4...
・Main guide rail, 5a, 5b...sub guide rail,
6a, 6b...route switching means, 7...conveying device, 8...traveling moving body, ? ...Hoist, 10...
Lifting moving body, 12... Driving trolley, 14... Driving trolley, 16... Driving wheel, 18... Traveling drive motor, 21... Power supply rail means, 22... Current collecting means, 2
7... Running fork, 28... Pulley, 29.
・Guide roller for back and forth steady rest, 50.41...
Guide roller for left and right steady rest, 61... guided part,
32... Guide rail for positioning the elevating moving body 10 at the upper limit position, 66... Stopper, 34... Hoist drive motor, 35... Load receiving section, 56...
Post, 51.40... Guide rail. Figure 2 shows people Figure 3 Figure 6 Figure 7

Claims (1)

[Claims] The conveyance device is composed of a combination of a rank and an I narrowing device, and the conveyance device includes a traveling moving body that moves while being guided by a guide rail constructed above the loading/unloading work passage in front of the rank and along the passage; an elevating movable body suspended from the traveling movable body by a hoist so as to be able to be lowered to the work passage; and a cargo delivery means provided on the elevating movable body and delivering cargo to and from the cargo receiving section of the rank. and on the rank side, when the elevating movable body moves up and down in the work passage, the elevating and descending movable body cooperates with a guided part provided on the elevating movable body side to regulate the ascending and descending path of the elevating movable body. A storage facility that is equipped with lifting guide means.