Storing articles, individually or in orderly arrangement, in warehouses or magazines

BPERFORMING OPERATIONS TRANSPORTING B65Thin material handling B65GTRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES

B65G1/00Storing articles, individually or in orderly arrangement, in warehouses or magazines

B65G1/02Storage devices B65G1/023Arrangements of article supporting rollers on racks B65G1/026Racks equipped with a displaceable load carrying surface to facilitate loading or unloading B65G1/04mechanical B65G1/0407using stacker cranes B65G1/0414provided with satellite cars adapted to travel in storage racks B65G1/0421with control for stacker crane operations B65G1/0428Transfer means for the stacker crane between the alleys B65G1/0435with pulling or pushing means on either stacking crane or stacking area B65G1/0442for elongated articles B65G1/045in a circular arrangement B65G1/0457with suspended load carriers B65G1/0464with access from above B65G1/0471with access from beneath B65G1/0478for matrix-arrangements B65G1/0485Check-in, check-out devices B65G1/0492with cars adapted to travel in storage aisles B65G1/06with means for presenting articles for removal at predetermined position or level B65G1/065with self propelled cars B65G1/07the upper article of a pile being always presented at the same predetermined level B65G1/08the articles being fed by gravity B65G1/10with relatively movable racks to facilitate insertion or removal of articles B65G1/12with separate article supports or holders movable in a closed circuit to facilitate insertion or removal of articles the articles being books, documents, forms or the like B65G1/127the circuit being confined in a vertical plane B65G1/133the circuit being confined in a horizontal plane B65G1/137with arrangements or automatic control means for selecting which articles are to be removed B65G1/1371with data records B65G1/1373for fulfilling orders in warehouses B65G1/1375the orders being assembled on a commissioning stacker-crane or truck B65G1/1376the orders being assembled on a commissioning conveyor B65G1/1378the orders being assembled on fixed commissioning areas remote from the storage areas B65G1/14Stack holders or separators B65G1/16Special arrangements of articles in storage spaces B65G1/18Articles inclined so as to be mutually self-supporting B65G1/20Articles arranged in layers with spaces between articles