| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5964562 |
Rotating elevator mechanism for article transfer in an automated storage system |
October 12, 1999 |
| An apparatus for exchanging articles with an article holder includes a vertical mast having a vertical mast axis and a shuttle ring assembly. The shuttle ring assembly has a central aperture surrounding the mast and is coupled to the mast to allow the shuttle ring assembly to be translat |
| 5863172 |
Staging, tracking and retrieval system with a rotatable storage structure |
January 26, 1999 |
| A storage system for the storage and retrieval of material goods has a continuous track and a storage carousel movable along the track. The carousel carries a plurality of shelf arrays, each of which includes a plurality of vertically-spaced shelves removably attachable to the carous |
| 5672039 |
Order consolidation indexing system |
September 30, 1997 |
| An apparatus and method for consolidation of warehoused goods into orders, sets or kits is described. The apparatus allows precise positioning of a large number of objects supported by a movable rigid member, without requiring precise drive motion. The method allows concurrent transfer o |
| 5641259 |
Inserter for a rotatable storage structure |
June 24, 1997 |
| An inserter assembly for inserting containers onto a storage carousel. The containers may be inserted by moving them horizontally in a direction tangent to a curved portion of the storage carousel. The container is then latched into the rack by raising a vertically movable horizontal lif |
| 5601395 |
Organizer system and method for a rotatable storage structure |
February 11, 1997 |
| A method of using a multi-access storage system including inserting and extracting containers from a conveyor in continuous motion. |
| 5593269 |
Automated work center |
January 14, 1997 |
| An automated work center for use in materials handling operations is disclosed. The work center includes a randomly accessible vertically moving temporary storage queue 11 for receiving containers 25 that hold material goods. A fixed loading ramp 20 is arranged to receive containers |
| 5556247 |
Organizer system and method for a rotatable storage structure |
September 17, 1996 |
| A storage system for storage and retrieval of material goods, providing inserter and extractor assemblies for inserting and extracting containers onto and from, respectively, a storage carousel while the carousel remains in continuous motion. |
| 5472309 |
System for delivery |
December 5, 1995 |
| An integrated warehousing system for storing and retrieving goods as well as preparing the goods for their ultimate disposition is disclosed. The warehousing system includes numerous modular components that may be added to or subtracted from the system to accommodate a particular warehou |
| 5282712 |
Organizer system and method for a rotatable storage structure |
February 1, 1994 |
| A storage system for the storage and retrieval of material goods, having an inserter assembly for inserting containers onto a storage carousel while the carousel remains in continuous motion. |
| 5273392 |
Automated work center and method |
December 28, 1993 |
| This invention relates to an automated work center for use in materials handling operations. The work center includes a randomly accessible vertically moving temporary storage queue 11 for receiving containers 25 that hold material goods. A fixed loading ramp 20 is arranged to receive |
| 5246332 |
System for delivery |
September 21, 1993 |
| An integrated warehousing system for storing and retrieving goods as well as preparing the goods for their ultimate disposition is disclosed. The warehousing system includes numerous modular components that may be added to or subtracted from the system to accommodate a particular warehou |
| 5238351 |
Organizer system and method for a rotatable storage structure |
August 24, 1993 |
| A storage system for storage and retrieval of material goods, including a lift having a vertically traveling endless lop and inserter assemblies for inserting containers onto a storage carousel while the carousel remains in continuous motion. |
| 5222855 |
Automated work center |
June 29, 1993 |
| An automated work center for use in materials handling operations is disclosed. The work center includes a randomly accessible vertically moving temporary storage queue 11 for receiving containers 25 that hold material goods. A fixed loading ramp 20 is arranged to receive containers |
| 5209626 |
Organizer system for a rotatable storage structure |
May 11, 1993 |
| A control system for a storage system wherein containers may be extracted from and inserted on the carousel while the carousel remains in continuous motion. |
| 5197844 |
Organizer system for a rotatable storage structure |
March 30, 1993 |
| A storage system for storage and retrieval of material goods, including an extractor assembly for extracting containers from the storage carousel while the carousel remains in continuous motion. |
| 5096366 |
Organizer system and method for a rotatable storage structure |
March 17, 1992 |
| The present invention relates generally to automated distribution systems for storing and retrieving goods. More particularly, the invention relates to a rotatable storage carousel and supporting mechanisms for inserting and extracting containers from the carousel while it remains in con |
| 5090863 |
Organizer system and method for a rotatable storage structure |
February 25, 1992 |
| The present invention relates generally to automated distribution systems for storing and retrieving goods. More particularly, the invention relates to a rotatable storage carousel and supporting mechanisms for inserting and extracting containers from the carousel while it remains in con |
| 4983091 |
Organizer system and method for a rotatable storage structure |
January 8, 1991 |
| A storage facility is provided for integration with a material distribution facility that includes as storage carousel for receiving and storing containers adapted to carry material goods. The carousel includes a multiplicity of connecting rack arrays arranged in side-by-side fashion. |
| 4968207 |
Attachment accessory for multi-access storage system |
November 6, 1990 |
| A continuously operating unloading and loading system giving access to an automated multi-level storage conveyor makes use of individual containers adapted to be releasably hooked at established stations of an endlessly traveling rack which may be built in multiple levels. Selected conta |
| 4909697 |
Automated work station |
March 20, 1990 |
| An automated work station which may be used when needed in conjunction with two vertical temporary holding conveyors makes use of a tiltable table and associated transition table for each conveyor. One tiltable table is shifted to a first upper horizontal position to receive empty boxes, |
| 4752175 |
Gravity motivated vertical lift conveyor |
June 21, 1988 |
| A lift conveyor in the form of an endless chain is mounted on a vertically extending frame and provides a down-travel side and an up-travel side. Fastened to the chain is a progression of evenly spaced shelves for reception of articles to be loaded on and discharged from the conveyor. |
