Apparatus for article storage, retrieval and inventory

Abstract

A plurality of flexible expandable containers for storing articles of any shape is provided, each having an attachment portion for suspending the containers from two parallelly spaced horizontal members of a supporting frame. Suspended adjacent containers may be varied in length to save space so that more containers may be accommodated on each frame, and frames may be mounted in storage or file cabinet drawers. Mechanisms are provided for opening and closing storage drawers selectively; for lifting one or more containers at a time either selectively or progressively; for weighing each group of lifted containers at once but individually and separately; for calculating the number of alike articles stored in each container from the gross weight measured and the container tare weight previously obtained; and for processing, storing and delivering or displaying the inventory information thus acquired.

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