Shelf-type storage system for elongated material accomodated in self-supporting magazines of a given width, said magazines having projecting end attachments, said store system comprising:
- a plurality of shelving units arranged side-by-side in alignment along a horizontal transverse direction and perpendicular to a horizontal longitudinal direction, and separated from one another by shelving unit gangways, said elongated material being generally parallel to said longitudinal direction when in said magazine, said shelving units including carrier arms secured one above another on vertical shelving unit supports and extending horizontally in said transverse direction into an adjacent shelving unit gangway, for the formation of shelving unit compartments for the magazines and also for engagement in said projecting end attachments of the magazines;
- load transport means displaceable in said transverse direction, and operatively engageable with the magazines for moving said magazines transversely, upwardly and downwardly, with respect to the shelving unit gangways;
- a transport wagon (25, 50) displaceable in said transverse direction and beneath a lowermost shelving unit compartment and being formed with at least two side-by-side reception places at a first height for the magazines;
- at least one temporary storage station (40), arranged outside the shelving units with respect to the direction of travel of the transport wagon, and approachable at a first side by the transport wagon,
- this temporary storage station including
- a first lower reception level (42) substantially corresponding to the first height of the transport wagon for the exchange of the magazines between the transport wagon and the temporary storage station,
- said temporary storage station (40) including
- a second upper reception level (43, 100) projecting beyond the lower reception level (42) by one magazine width at said first side corresponding to the side approached by the transport wagon;
- said transport wagon (25, 50) including a lifting device (33, 34, 95) for lifting a magazine that is present on the wagon to the height of the upper reception level;
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- said upper and lower reception levels (42, 43, 100) and the transport wagon (25, 50) each including magazine exchange means for exchanging the magazines between the upper and lower reception levels and the transport wagon.