Patent ID: 8839945
Filing Date: 2014-09-23
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
1. Order picking plant for the order picking of articles and placing these in order containers, the order picking plant comprising: a picking station; a sorter with a sorter tray conveying path forming a closed circle and comprising a plurality of sorter trays; a line of a number of collection points that are lined up underneath the sorter tray conveying path so that the line of the number of collection points extends over at least a part of the sorter tray conveying path in parallel and vertically offset underneath the sorter tray conveying path; an order container conveying path extending in parallel and vertically offset underneath the line of the number of collection points so that the line of the number of collection points is sandwiched between the sorter tray conveying path and the order container conveying path; wherein the sorter is configured such that each sorter tray passes over each of the collection points located underneath the sorter trays, said collection points being configured to serve as short term buffers synchronizing the sorter, which sorter is configured to drop articles from the sorter trays into the collection points; the sorter is configured such that each of the order containers passes by underneath each of the collection points that are configured to drop articles into the order containers; and the sorter forms a closed circle that is configured to pass each one of the sorter trays continuously by the picking station and continuously over each one of the collection points.