Patent ID: 8590690
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
1. A method for operating a device for taking over, temporarily storing and passing on elongated, hollow-cylindrical product units which come from a production line wherein the device comprises: (i) a supplying conveyor arrangement in the form of a first conveyor belt; (ii) a continuously delivering conveyor arrangement in the form of a second conveyor belt, the first conveyor belt and the second conveyor belt being disposed horizontally lying one above the other in a transfer zone; (iii) an intermediate storage arrangement in the form of a high-rack storage arrangement or a paternoster storage arrangement disposed in the transfer zone; and (iv) a handling robot disposed in a region of the transfer one between the supplying and delivering conveyor arrangements and the high-rack storage arrangement, the method comprising: (a) adapting the position and speed of the handling robot to the first conveyor belt; (b) employing the handling robot to take a number of product units from the first conveyor belt; and (c) employing the handling robot to either: