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AssigneeOcado Innovation Limited
InventorsLars Sverker Ture LINDBO, Paul CLARKE, Andrew John INGRAM-TEDD, Pawel KAROLINCZAK
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A storage system is described where goods are stored in containers and the containers are stored in stacks. Above the stacks runs a grid network of tracks on which load handling devices run. The load handling devices take containers from the stacks and deposit then at alternative locations in the stacks or deposit then at stations where goods may be picked out. Each container may be provided with connectors having a push fit male connector located at a top edge of the container and a female connector at a bottom edge of the container. Adjacent containers in a stack can be linked by routing means, which form moldings on each container. The connectors can also have spring-loaded contacts. The provision of these services within individual containers rather than across the system as a whole, allows for flexibility in storage whilst reducing cost and inefficiency.
A storage system comprising:
A method of linking containers in a storage system having a first set of parallel rails or tracks and a second set of parallel rails or tracks extending transverse to the first set in a substantially horizontal plane to form a grid pattern including a plurality of grid spaces forming a framework, a plurality of containers arranged in stacks, located beneath the rails, each container having a co-operating surface with one or more adjacent containers in an associated stack;
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