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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2000
Ronald Schoop, Hainburg, DE;
Siegfried Ralf Neubert, Aschaffenburg, DE;
Eckart I. Tietze, Seligenstadt, DE;
Schneider Automation GmbH, Seligenstadt, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a transportation system ( ) for transporting objects (WSx), in particular workpieces, including a plurality of parallel or substantially parallel transportation paths ( ) and a device ( ) for shifting the objects (WSx) between at least two adjacent transportation paths ( ). In order to reduce both the space required for the transportation path and the time consumption for displacing the workpieces between the transportation paths, it is proposed that the transportation paths ( ) are disposed one above the other in different planes, and that the workpieces (WSx) on being shifted are moved on a path ( ) that defines a plane extending perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the transportation paths ( ).