US 8,801,358 B2Granted

Method and loading system for order-picking articles onto destination load carriers

AssigneeKnapp AG

InventorMartin Küssner

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Abstract

A method and loading system for order-picking articles in the form of individual articles and/or pack units, in which requested articles are packed, in accordance with the orders, onto destination load carriers and despatched. The requested articles (2) which are to be order-picked, in at least one order-picking station (4), are arranged and/or stacked in the pattern of the destination load carrier (3) on requested and transportable auxiliary load carriers (6), each provided for an order or part of an order. The auxiliary load carrier (6) together with a quantity of articles, provided as layers and/or stacks, to be conveyed to a loading station (5) is automatically transferred as a unit onto a placed-in-position destination load carrier (3) supplied, wherein preferably rolling containers and pallets are used as the destination load carriers.

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Dependent claims

A process for commissioning articles in the form of single articles and/or packing units, the process comprising the steps of:

conveying articles wherein the conveyed articles are packed and shipped on targeted load carriers according to commissioning orders;
arranging and/or stacking the conveyed articles to be commissioned in at least one commissioning station on conveyed, transportable auxiliary load carriers, which are each provided for a commissioning order or a part of a commissioning order, in the loading pattern of the targeted load carrier;
conveying the auxiliary load carrier together with the quantity of articles from layers and/or stack(s) to a loading station, in which the quantity of articles is automatically reloaded as a unit on a positioned targeted load carrier that is kept ready;
conveying, in the loading station, the auxiliary load carrier on a feeding conveying means;
gripping the auxiliary load carrier, together with a picked-up quantity of articles from below on an underside at a reloading site and transferring and positioning the auxiliary load carrier, together with a picked-up quantity of articles into a suspended position in a defined direction of transfer;
raising a bottom of a provided targeted load carrier;
and
transferring the quantity of articles onto the targeted load carrier by means of lateral shifting of a bottom of the suspended auxiliary load carrier in the direction of transfer and moving the quantity of articles together with the targeted load carrier, while separating the quantity of articles from the auxiliary load carrier, downwards into a releasing position and feeding the quantity of articles to the shipping area on a releasing conveying means.

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A loading system for commissioning articles in the form of single articles and/or packing units, in which conveyed articles are packed on targeted load carriers and shipped according to the commissioning orders, the system comprising:

at least one commissioning station for the commissioning of conveyed articles on transportable auxiliary load carriers, which are kept ready and which are each provided for a commissioning order or a part of a commissioning order;
at least one loading station for an automatic transfer of a commissioned quantity of articles as one unit from the auxiliary load carrier to the targeted load carrier;
a feeding conveying track from the commissioning station to the loading station for the automatic transport of auxiliary load carriers with a quantity of articles arranged in layers and/or stacked;
a returning conveying track from the loading station to the commissioning station for the automatic transporting back of auxiliary load carriers without the quantity of articles for a new commissioning;
and
a loading station comprising:
a gripping and shifting unit with a forked load pickup means for gripping from below, transferring and positioning a conveyed auxiliary load carrier together with a picked-up quantity of articles on the feeding conveying track from a reloading site of the conveying track in a suspended position, as well as for returning the emptied auxiliary load carrier on the same path to the reloading site for releasing to the commissioning station on the returning conveying track;
a holding unit for the holding on the top side of the transferred auxiliary load carrier together with a quantity of articles in the suspended position;
a lift for the lifting and positioning of a kept-ready, empty targeted load carrier at the bottom side of the suspended auxiliary load carrier;
and
a retaining device for a lateral stop and positioning of an auxiliary load carrier together with a quantity of articles with a lateral shifting or removal of the bottom of the auxiliary load carrier for a transfer of the quantity of articles as a unit to the positioned, raised, targeted load carrier.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.