Rapistan Corporation

William K Stubbs

Howard A Zollinger

LeRoy Lubbers

A warehouse storage system comprises an array of storage bins arranged in vertical tiers with the tiers arranged in rows and having aisles between the rows. A mobile vertical lift moves across the ends of the aisles and carries thereon a mobile transfer vehicle which can be elevated by the mobile vertical lift to any desired storage level. The self-powered mobile transfer vehicle is adapted to be automatically dispatched from the mobile vertical lift at a predetermined aisle and level and is programmable to travel via tracks along the aisle to a predetermined bin location, and extend retrieving mechanism from the vehicle for transferring the pallet load between the mobile transfer vehicle and the storage bin.

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Grand Rapids, MI, United States of America

William K Stubbs