Cable driven storage and retrieval machine for warehouses
AssigneeDematic Corp.
InventorJad Abou-Chakra
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Abstract
A warehouse with a cable driven transport vehicle for movement of items within the warehouse, where the cable driven storage and retrieval machine comprises a load handling platform that is suspended by cables, which are variable in length and tensioned by cable tensioning means, such that the load handling platform can access a given workspace of the warehouse, and where the cable tensioning means themselves are made to be moveable within the given workspace.
Claims21
-9. (canceled)
A warehouse with a cable driven storage and retrieval machine for movement of items within the warehouse, wherein the cable driven storage and retrieval machine comprises a load handling platform suspended by cables such that the load handling platform can access a given workspace of the warehouse, wherein the cables are variable in length and tensioned by cable tensioners, wherein the cable tensioners are moveable within the given workspace, and wherein the cable driven storage and retrieval machine comprises at least four cable tensioners that are moveable and individually operable in a synchronized fashion by a control to:
- a) move the load handling platform in the given workspace along a face of a storage racking by controlled movement of the at least four cable tensioners along the face of the storage racking within the given workspace along guide tracks;
- and/or
- b) operate the at least four cable tensioners in a controlled fashion to move the load handling platform in the given workspace along a face of a storage racking by controlled variation in length and tension of the cables.
A warehouse with a cable driven storage and retrieval machine for movement of items within the warehouse, wherein the cable driven storage and retrieval machine comprises a load handling platform suspended by cables such that the load handling platform can access a given workspace of the warehouse, wherein the cables are variable in length and tensioned by cable tensioners, wherein the cable tensioners are moveable within the given workspace, and wherein the cable driven storage and retrieval machine comprises at least four cable tensioners that are moveable and individually operable in a synchronized fashion by a control to:
- a) move the load handling platform in the given workspace along a face of a storage racking by controlled movement of the at least four cable tensioners along the face of the storage racking within the given workspace along guide tracks;
- and/or
- b) operate the at least four cable tensioners in a controlled fashion to move the load handling platform in the given workspace along a face of a storage racking by controlled variation in length and tension of the cables;
- and
- wherein the given workspace is a sub-workspace of a whole workspace, and wherein two cable tensioners are coupled together mechanically by vertically or horizontally orientated beams or brackets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.