Patent ID: 6409449
Filing Date: 2002-06-25
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
A commissioning unit, comprising:a high-speed automatic turning unit having an article bay with sloping article shafts, said article shafts being arranged next to one another, said article shafts being accessible from a front side and said article shafts defining a space in which articles to be commissioned can be stored; a traveling bay-storage and retrieval unit associated with said article bay for loading articles into said article shaft, said bay-storage and retrieval unit having motive means and being movable at least longitudinally and having an article-handling unit, said article-handling unit loading articles of a same brand and dimension stack by stack without a magazine, wherein a stack of the articles to be loaded is handled by said bay-storage and retrieval unit simultaneously without said magazine and said article-handling unit has a powered pick up means for bottom-side stack-of-articles pick-up, an adjustable longitudinal stack-of-articles pusher, an adjustable transverse stack-of-articles pusher with motive means therefor to move the stack into the space where the articles are stored and an adjustable longitudinal stack-of-articles powered clamping plate provided with a row of spring-tensioned fingers, said clamping plate being located in parallel and opposite said stack-of-articles pick-up and pushes, in a clamped state, the stack of articles picked up directly by said longitudinal stack-of-articles clamping plate with said spring-tensioned fingers of said clamping plate, in a transverse direction of the stack of articles against the stack-of-articles pick-up.