Importance

Loading Importance Indicators...

Abstract

To permit loading of elongated goods such as rails, rods, strips, or a combination of the foregoing retained in cassettes, from support shelves located on stacks positioned on both sides of a gang way or corridor in which a roller conveyor (13) is located, a frame element (5) carries thereon guide track supports (11, 12) which are positioned in essentially V configuration. Movable support elements, preferably connected by a longitudinal beam, and operated by cylinder-piston units move the goods from a raised transfer position to or from a hoist to a position out of the roller conveyor. The goods can be moved by the hoist from the storage stacks to either one of the support elements which, then, can move on the inclined tracks from the side of the roller conveyor to beneath the rolls of the roller conveyor. The respective support elements (8, 9) on either side are independently movable so that material which previously was handled on the support element on one of the legs of the V can be removed and the support elements reloaded with new goods while goods which are, in the meanwhile, on the roller conveyor, are being worked on, for example by a cutting saw or the like.

Loading the Abstract Image...

First Claim