WO2000061425A1 - Inverted power and free storage system - Google Patents
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- WO2000061425A1 WO2000061425A1 PCT/US2000/008717 US0008717W WO0061425A1 WO 2000061425 A1 WO2000061425 A1 WO 2000061425A1 US 0008717 W US0008717 W US 0008717W WO 0061425 A1 WO0061425 A1 WO 0061425A1
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
- E04H6/00—Buildings for parking cars, rolling-stock, aircraft, vessels or like vehicles, e.g. garages
- E04H6/08—Garages for many vehicles
- E04H6/12—Garages for many vehicles with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles
- E04H6/18—Garages for many vehicles with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles with means for transport in vertical direction only or independently in vertical and horizontal directions
- E04H6/22—Garages for many vehicles with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles with means for transport in vertical direction only or independently in vertical and horizontal directions characterised by use of movable platforms for horizontal transport, i.e. cars being permanently parked on palettes
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
- B62D—MOTOR VEHICLES; TRAILERS
- B62D65/00—Designing, manufacturing, e.g. assembling, facilitating disassembly, or structurally modifying motor vehicles or trailers, not otherwise provided for
- B62D65/02—Joining sub-units or components to, or positioning sub-units or components with respect to, body shell or other sub-units or components
- B62D65/18—Transportation, conveyor or haulage systems specially adapted for motor vehicle or trailer assembly lines
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
- B65G1/00—Storing articles, individually or in orderly arrangement, in warehouses or magazines
- B65G1/02—Storage devices
- B65G1/04—Storage devices mechanical
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- This invention relates to conveyor systems.
- the invention relates to conveyor systems capable of storing and retrieving articles.
- a prior conveyor system known as an "inverted power- and- free" system is modified to provide storage and retrieval features, but the concepts of the invention could be applied to other types of conveyor systems.
- this invention finds particular relevance in the automotive industry where it is often desirable to store incoming automobile bodies, perhaps of different colors, in such a manner that a particular body can be retrieved and provided on an outgoing conveyor track, it will be useful in other industries also.
- the conveyor system of the invention utilizes a known conveyor system to move a carrier having, for example, an automobile body thereon, along a fixed rail in generally known fashion.
- one or more shuttle stations is provided along the conveyor path for storing or retrieving the articles.
- Each shuttle station includes a separate, movable section of the rail, the movable rail section being aligned initially with the fixed rail.
- the movable rail is mounted on a traveling carriage, and the traveling carriage is, in turn, mounted on one or more floor rails that extend in a direction transverse to the direction of the fixed rail.
- Positioned on one or both sides of the path defined by the floor rail are storage lanes, each lane being defined by a respective one of a series parallel conveyor rail sections.
- known conveyor components can be used to provide a conveyor system having an overall plan that includes an input conveyor line, one or more storage aisles defined by a plurality of storage lanes, and a shuttle station associated with each storage aisle.
- Figure 1 is a plan view of a conveyor system in accordance with the invention.
- Figure 2 is a plan view of a shuttle station.
- Figure 3 is a side view of the shuttle station of figure 2 showing a carrier with an automobile body thereon.
- Figure 4 is an end view of the shuttle station shown in figure 3.
- Figures 5a through 51 schematically illustrate operation of the shuttle.
- a conveyor system in accordance with the invention adapted to transport, store, and retrieve automobile bodies includes an input station 2 and a plurality of storage aisles 4.
- the input station includes one or more fixed conveyor rails 6, which are known in the art.
- the fixed rails are the "free" rail sections of an inverted “power-and-free” conveyor system.
- the power chain for the system is located below the fixed rails and are not illustrated.
- the articles to be conveyed are secured to carriers in known manner.
- the rail lines 6 connect with an input rail line 10 by a series of switches 12, as known in the art, whereby the automobile bodies 8 are directed to travel along the input rail line 10.
- the input rail line 10 connects with one or more shuttle stations 14.
- By-pass rail lines 16 are provided to allow a selected automobile body to be directed around any particular shuttle station by operation of switches, as is known in the art.
- Figure 1 illustrates operation of the by-pass in the first aisle.
- Figure 1 illustrates operation of the storage feature of the invention in the second aisle.
- an automobile 8' is shown moving along the aisle toward a selected one of the storage lanes 17 after having been loaded on a movable conveyor rail, as will be described below with reference to figures 2 through 5.
- Figure 1 also illustrates operation of the retrieval feature of the invention in the first aisle.
- automobile body 8 is shown at a second shuttle station 18, where the automobile is being passed to an output conveyor rail 20 after having been retrieved from a storage lane.
- the output rail includes by-pass lines 22, which are similar in function to by-pass lines 16.
- the conveyor system in accordance with the invention allows the automobile bodies arriving at the input station 2 to be stored in a selected one of the storage lanes 17 and an automobile body to be retrieved from a selected one of the lanes and passed to the output line 22.
- Each shuttle station 14 is provided with a movable conveyor rail 26, which is mounted on a traveling carriage 28.
- the traveling carriage 28 is mounted on floor rails 30, which are shown as parallel rails, but which may be a single rail or other configurations.
- the floor rails extend transverse to the input rail line 10 to define the storage lanes 4.
- Operation of the storage feature is initiated when a carrier 32 on input rail line 10 is moved onto a movable rail 26, the movable rail at that time being aligned with the input line 10.
- the carriage can be moved along the floor rails, thereby moving the carriage and the automobile body attached thereto along an aisle for storage.
- the carriage may be moved in any known fashion, an electric motor drive 34 being illustrated here.
- the carrier is moved onto the lane similarly to that described with respect to figure 2 through 4, and the carriage and movable rail are moved to another position to continue this operation.
- FIG. 5a illustrates the situation when a carrier has been moved onto the movable rail 26.
- the carrier is moved onto and off of the movable rail 26 by operation of two auxiliary pushers 36 and 38. These are arranged on opposite sides of the rail 26 and overhang the ends of the rail to allow the pusher elements to engage the carrier trolleys 40 when the carrier is on the fixed rails 10 or the lane rails 17.
- a carrier is parked on the movable rail 26 and is aligned with a fixed rail 10 or a storage lane 17.
- the pusher elements of the pusher 38 engage the intermediate trolley to move the carrier to the left and onto a rail 10 or 17, as shown in figure 5b.
- Figure 5c shows the slowing of the pusher elements and figure 5d shown the wipe off of the pusher elements from the intermediate trolley.
- Figure 5e shows the pick up of the rear trolley by the pusher elements and figure 5f shows the carrier fully moved onto the line 10 or
- Figure 5g illustrates how the movable rail 26 is rotated in order to obtain the necessary clearance for the overhang of the pushers 36 and 38. This rotation is accomplished in the preferred embodiment by providing a pivotal connection between the rail 26 and the carriage 28.
- the movable rail can be moved along the aisle to the desired position and then rotated to align with a lane rail 17 or a rail 10 as shown in figure 5h.
- Retrieval of a carrier is illustrated in figure 5i, where, pusher elements have engaged the rear trolley to pull the carrier out of a storage lane 17. Then, the pusher elements engage the intermediate trolley to complete movement of the carrier onto the movable rail 26, as shown in figure 5j.
- the carrier is then parked on the movable rail as illustrated in figure 5k.
- Figure 51 illustrates rotation of the movable rail with an automobile body thereon for movement along an aisle to a storage position or to a second shuttle station for discharge.
- the operation of the second shuttle station is essentially the same as that of the shuttle station 14.
- the shuttle stations 22 and output lines 22 can be eliminated, their functions being assigned to the line 10. That is, the shuttle stations 14 would be used as both input and output stations. Further, the structure by which the carriers are moved onto or off of the movable rail
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Priority Applications (8)
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CA002371966A CA2371966A1 (en) | 1999-04-13 | 2000-04-11 | Inverted power and free storage system |
KR1020017012910A KR20020016618A (en) | 1999-04-13 | 2000-04-11 | Inverted power and free storage system |
BR0010202-4A BR0010202A (en) | 1999-04-13 | 2000-04-11 | Free and inverted drive storage system |
MXPA01010328A MXPA01010328A (en) | 1999-04-13 | 2000-04-11 | Inverted power and free storage system. |
EP00923107A EP1169212A1 (en) | 1999-04-13 | 2000-04-11 | Inverted power and free storage system |
PL00356158A PL356158A1 (en) | 1999-04-13 | 2000-04-11 | Inverted power and free storage system |
AU43286/00A AU756326B2 (en) | 1999-04-13 | 2000-04-11 | Inverted power and free storage system |
JP2000610718A JP2002541022A (en) | 1999-04-13 | 2000-04-11 | Reverse power type and free storage system |
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GB9908357.8 | 1999-04-13 | ||
GB9908357A GB2341375B (en) | 1999-04-13 | 1999-04-13 | Inverted power and free conveyor and storage system |
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EP (1) | EP1169212A1 (en) |
JP (1) | JP2002541022A (en) |
KR (1) | KR20020016618A (en) |
CN (1) | CN1352608A (en) |
AU (1) | AU756326B2 (en) |
BR (1) | BR0010202A (en) |
CA (1) | CA2371966A1 (en) |
GB (1) | GB2341375B (en) |
HU (1) | HUP0200905A2 (en) |
MX (1) | MXPA01010328A (en) |
PL (1) | PL356158A1 (en) |
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US5333983A (en) * | 1991-04-26 | 1994-08-02 | Daifuku Co., Ltd. | Rack arrangement |
GB2319518A (en) * | 1996-07-09 | 1998-05-27 | Harper Douglas Deborah | Automatic Storage and Retrieval System |
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- 2000-04-11 MX MXPA01010328A patent/MXPA01010328A/en not_active Application Discontinuation
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- 2000-04-11 BR BR0010202-4A patent/BR0010202A/en not_active Application Discontinuation
- 2000-04-11 EP EP00923107A patent/EP1169212A1/en not_active Withdrawn
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- 2000-04-11 JP JP2000610718A patent/JP2002541022A/en active Pending
- 2000-04-11 CN CN00805469A patent/CN1352608A/en active Pending
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US4312623A (en) * | 1979-03-15 | 1982-01-26 | Eaton-Kenway, Inc. | High through-put materials handling system and method |
EP0314837A1 (en) * | 1987-11-02 | 1989-05-10 | High Technology for Industry Ltd. | Multistorey automatic garage for motor vehicles |
EP0351374A1 (en) * | 1988-07-05 | 1990-01-17 | COMAU S.p.A. | An automated garage |
US5333983A (en) * | 1991-04-26 | 1994-08-02 | Daifuku Co., Ltd. | Rack arrangement |
GB2319518A (en) * | 1996-07-09 | 1998-05-27 | Harper Douglas Deborah | Automatic Storage and Retrieval System |
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AU756326B2 (en) | 2003-01-09 |
JP2002541022A (en) | 2002-12-03 |
CN1352608A (en) | 2002-06-05 |
GB2341375A (en) | 2000-03-15 |
PL356158A1 (en) | 2004-06-14 |
HUP0200905A2 (en) | 2002-07-29 |
KR20020016618A (en) | 2002-03-04 |
EP1169212A1 (en) | 2002-01-09 |
GB2341375B (en) | 2000-08-23 |
GB9908357D0 (en) | 1999-06-09 |
ZA200107860B (en) | 2002-09-25 |
CA2371966A1 (en) | 2000-10-19 |
BR0010202A (en) | 2002-10-22 |
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