Patent ID: 9725953
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: B65G,E04G,E06C

Claim:
1. An article storage facility comprising: article storage racks each having a plurality of article storage sections for storing articles, with article storage sections arranged one above another along a vertical direction and one next to another along a rack lateral direction, with the vertical direction being defined to be an up-and-down direction, the rack lateral direction being defined to be one direction that is perpendicular to the vertical direction, and a rack fore and aft direction being defined to be a direction that is perpendicular to the vertical direction and the rack lateral direction; an article transport device which is capable of transferring an article between the article transport device and any of the plurality of article storage sections, and which is configured to move along a travel path formed along the rack lateral direction to transport an article; a work platform which a worker can get onto, the work platform being capable of being moved along the travel path and having a ladder; wherein, with a first direction being defined to be one direction along the rack fore and aft direction, a second direction being defined to be a direction that is along the rack fore and aft direction and that is opposite from the one direction, the article storage racks include a pair of storage racks formed by a first storage rack installed on a first direction side with respect to the travel path, and a second storage rack installed on a second direction side with respect to the travel path, wherein the article storage racks include a platform storage section for storing the work platform on the first direction side with respect to a trajectory which is an extent of space which is used exclusively by the article transport device when the article transport device moves along the travel path, wherein the platform storage section and the trajectory overlap each other at least in part, as seen along the rack fore and aft direction, and wherein the platform storage section and the second storage rack overlap each other at least in part, as seen along the rack fore and aft direction.