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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
May. 25, 2022
Ocado Innovation Limited, Hatfield, GB;
Alexandros Matsagkos, Hatfield, GB;
Arvid Hällje, Hatfield, GB;
Ocado Innovation Limited, Hatfield, GB;
Abstract
The disclosure relates to a load-handling device for lifting and moving storage containers stacked in a storage structure. The load-handling device includes a body mounted on a first set of wheels to engage a first set of parallel tracks and a second set of wheels to engage with a second set of parallel tracks. A direction-change assembly is configured to raise or lower the first and second sets of wheels with respect to the body to engage one of the first or second sets of wheels with the parallel tracks and disengage the other of the first or second sets of wheels from the parallel tracks. A glide bearing assembly includes a bearing element including a sliding surface defining a contact line along which the direction-change assembly moves with respect to the body when raising or lowering the first and second sets of wheels.