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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 1991
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1986
Nobuhiro Tanaka, Miyashiro, JP;
Eiji Hirata, Koshigaya, JP;
Hideyuki Moriguchi, Miyashiro, JP;
Ko Azekura, Funabashi, JP;
Akira Tsubone, Kyushu, JP;
Yasunori Ryu, Koga, JP;
Kao Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Seibu Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd., Fukuoka, JP;
Abstract
There is disclosed a goods handling method for carrying in or carrying out goods with respect to storage facilities having multirow and multistage storing spaces including the steps of carrying the goods into a goods inlet apparatus or carrying out the goods from a goods outlet apparatus by causing the goods inlet apparatus or the goods outlet apparatus to travel in the vertical direction and in the horizontal direction along the the storing spaces of the goods storage facilities, conveying the goods within a plane parallel to a travelling plane of the goods inlet or the goods outlet apparatus, and transferring the goods, in a consecutive manner, from the goods conveying step to the goods inlet step, or from the goods outlet step to the goods conveying step by absorbing a difference between a goods inlet height or a goods outlet height in the goods inlet step or the goods outlet step and a goods conveyance height in the goods conveying step. An apparatus for carrying out the method is also disclosed.