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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2000
Peter de Kock, Oberhausen, DE;
Ralf-Hartmut Sohl, Solingen, DE;
Christoph Diekmann, Oberhausen, DE;
Uwe Bachmann, Dinslaken, DE;
SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft, Düsseldorf, DE;
Abstract
A vertical strip storage system has a support structure and a storage car connected to the support structure by cables in the fashion of a pulley block so as to be lifted and lowered relative to the support structure. The storage car is provided with a counterweight and with deflection pulleys which deflect and guide an incoming and/or outgoing strip in cooperation with stationary deflection pulleys on the ground. The support structure is a free-standing column without lateral supports and the storage car is a salient vehicle running on the outer surface of the column, wherein the column has an interior and the counterweight is guided in the interior of the column.