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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2016
Beumer Group A/s, Aarhus, DK;
Uffe Lykkegaard, Aarhus, DK;
Beumer Group A/S, Aarhus N, DK;
Abstract
There is disclosed agiotage and retrieval system e.g. suitable for use in an airport and for aircraft baggage. In order e.g. to provide such system which improves usage and availability in view of the prior-art, a control system controls the system in two modes of operation. In a first mode of operation, a first rack region serving device () is only serving a first rack regionusing a first feeding and extraction conveyor system (), and a second rack region serving device () is only serving a second rack region () using a second feeding and extraction conveyor system (). In a second mode of operation, only the first rack region serving device () is used for serving both the first and second rack regions (), and only the first feeding and extraction conveyor system () is used for feeding articles to the first rack region serving device () and for taking away articles from the first rack region serving device ().