Patent ID: 9290323
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: A23B,A23L,B65G

Claim Text:
1. A continuous, recirculating storage apparatus that transports items through a housing ( 10 ) enclosing a controlled environment, the storage apparatus comprising: first substantially horizontal tunnel ( a second substantially horizontal tunnel ( at least one internal transport conveyor system ( each internal transport conveyor system being occupied, in operation, by a plurality of internal recirculating carriers ( and each internal transport conveyor system configured as a closed loop having, in reversible sequence, a first vertical transport means ( wherein the first vertical transport means ( wherein the second vertical transport means operably receives each carrier from the first set of rails ( each carrier having a consistent height and thickness and width, and disposed either each carrier having a plurality of transverse horizontal shelves ( a spacing maintained between one carrier and an adjacent carrier located vertically above or below said one carrier when both carriers are traversing the loading and unloading station being so that, in operation, the apparatus receives a continuous and uninterrupted flow of items from an inflow conveyor.