Patent ID: 6808355
Filing Date: 2004-10-26
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
A chain store, comprising:a plurality of intermittently movable gondolas for receiving products to be stored, suspended and fastened on at least one articulated chain running vertically over a plurality of deflection rollers, and having at least one shelf for receiving the products; and at least one unloading station which is arranged on an upward- or downward-moving outer side of the chain store and has transfer means for ejecting the products onto a horizontal discharge belt leading away from the outer side, wherein, the transfer means has two ejectors for simultaneously ejecting products from in each case two shelves one on top of another, wherein a storage plate, which has an end thereof facing away from a gondola tram fastened to a retaining apparatus, is pivotable from a horizontal position into a skew position inclined toward the discharge belt, is displaceable away from the gondola train, and is provided above the discharge belt, wherein the storage plate has a rake-like or comb-like teeth extending toward the gondola train, wherein a vertical product stop having rake-like or comb-like teeth extended upward is provided, wherein the transfer means, the discharge belt, the storage plate and the product stop are arranged and dimensioned in such a way that, during ejection of the products, a lower product or an lower product row is pushed onto the discharge belt and an upper product or an upper product row is simultaneously pushed onto the horizontally extending storage plate, and wherein each tooth of the product stop can be passed over its total length through a space between two adjacent teeth of the storage plate.