Goods transport facility
AssigneeDaifuku Co., Ltd.
InventorYoshihiko FUJIO
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Abstract
A goods transport facility for transporting goods along a transportation path including a curved part, and in particular a goods transport facility provided with a plurality of transport carriages that move along a pair of left and right rails, which are provided along the transportation path, so as to transport goods. A rail width adjusting mechanism capable of changing a rail width between the left and right rails and is provided in at least one of a curving region and an S-curve region in the curved part of the transportation path.
Claims4
A goods transport facility for transporting goods along a transportation path including a linear part and a curved part,
- the goods transport facility comprising:
- a pair of left and right rails provided along the transportation path;
- and
- a plurality of transport carriages configured to move along the rails so as to transport goods,
- wherein each of the transport carriages includes a carriage body that supports the goods, a pair of left and right wheels that rotate while being supported by top surfaces of the rails, and a pair of left and right side rollers that are located so as to face sides of the rails and limit a lateral movement of the carriage body, and each of the transport carriages is coupled to the preceding and subsequent transport carriages in a swinging manner so as to be a train of the transport carriages consecutively traveling along the transportation path, and
- a rail width adjuster capable of changing a rail width between the left and right rails is provided in at least one of a curving region being transition region from the linear part to the curved part while the transport carriages entering the curved part of the transportation path and a region where a direction of a curve changes in the curved part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.