Crate-stacking system and crate-stacking apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10696498
APP PUB NO 20170334667A1
SERIAL NO

15596578

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A crate-stacking system having a multiplicity of crates for stacking in a crate-stacking direction and having a crate-stacking apparatus for automatic stacking, wherein the crate-stacking apparatus has: a crate conveying apparatus designed to convey the crates from a crate feed section to a crate stacking section and to convey the stacked crates from the crate stacking section to a crate discharge section, a crate lifting apparatus arranged at the crate stacking section and which, on opposite sides of the conveying path, has gripping elements such that a respective crate can be gripped at mutually opposite sides by virtue of gripping fingers engaging, at the mutually opposite sides, into associated engagement longitudinal recesses, and a control apparatus connected to the crate conveying apparatus and to the crate lifting apparatus and which is designed to control the crate conveying apparatus and crate lifting apparatus in order to stack the crates.

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  • WINCOR NIXDORF INTERNATIONAL GMBH

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Schroeder, Berthold Ilmenau, DE 4 3

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