Transport facility
AssigneeDaifuku Co., Ltd.
InventorsMarika Saito, Kouichi Iida, Takafumi Yamazaki
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Abstract
A transport facility includes a guide rail which is disposed along a travel path extending in a travel direction through an opening of a wall and which is configured to guide traveling of a transport vehicle, and a fire door configured to open and close the opening. The fire door is configured to, in closing the opening, move toward a first side in an arrangement direction from an open position to a closed position. The fire door includes a notch penetrating the fire door in the travel direction and open on the first side to prevent the fire door from coming into contact with the first rail body and the second rail body while the fire door is moving from the open position to the closed position.
Claims7
A transport facility, comprising:
- a guide rail which is disposed along a travel path extending in a travel direction through an opening of a wall and which is configured to guide traveling of a transport vehicle;
- and
- a fire door configured to open and close the opening, and
- wherein:
- the guide rail comprises a first rail body and a second rail body away from each other horizontally in an arrangement direction,
- the fire door is configured to, in closing the opening, move toward a first side in the arrangement direction along a wall surface of the wall from an open position, at which the opening is opened, to a closed position, at which the fire door closes the opening,
- the fire door comprises:
- an upper closing section configured to close a region of the opening above the first rail body and the second rail body while the fire door is at the closed position;
- a lower closing section configured to close a region of the opening below the first rail body and the second rail body while the fire door is at the closed position;
- a connecting section disposed on a second side in the arrangement direction relative to the first rail body and the second rail body and configured to connect the upper closing section with the lower closing section in an up-down direction;
- and
- a notch defined by the upper closing section, the lower closing section, and the connecting section,
- the notch penetrating the fire door in the travel direction and open on the first side prevents the fire door from coming into contact with the first rail body and the second rail body while the fire door is moving from the open position to the closed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.