US 4,692,876 A · Automatic freight stacking system

Abstract

An automatic freight stacking system for loading previously determined freight articles of various configurations (shapes, size, material, etc.) to be shipped, using a loading scheduler for determining a loading schedule on the basis of the existing various configurations of the freight articles, marshalling equipment for receiving the freight articles in a given order and delivering them in a predetermined order which is determined by the scheduler, a feeding conveyor for carrying the delivered freight articles and transporting means to the places of the respective loading means allocated by the loading scheduler, and the loading means for loading the carried freight articles on the transporting means in accordance with the scheduled operation sequence. In the case where the configurations of certain freight articles to be shipped are unknown before the arrival thereof, a reader is provided to read the dimensions of the freight articles upon arrival thereof and then the operator monitors through a display terminal the state of the articles and the state of the articles loaded on the transporting means and indicates the freight article to be loaded as well as the position to be loaded to the loading means.

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Dependent claims

An automatic freight stacking system comprising:

loading scheduler means for determining respective loading positions of articles on a transporting means, the loading order of said articles, the allocation of a plurality of loading means and the preparation of an operation sequence for a plurality of freight articles of various configurations to be transported;
marshalling means for receiving said freight articles in a given sequence and delivering said freight articles in a predetermined loading order;
feeding means for supplying said freight articles from said marshalling means to the places of respective one of said plurality of loading means allocated to said freight articles, in dependence on the configurations thereof, by said loading scheduler means;
conveyor means for moving said transporting means to the places of respective ones of said plurality of loading means allocated by said loading scheduler means;
each of said plurality of loading means loading said freight articles allocated thereto in dependence on the configurations thereof on said transporting means in accordance with said operation sequence;
and general control means receiving data from said loading scheduler means for controlling said marshalling, feeding, conveyor and plurality of loading means in a coordinated manner.

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