Patent ID: 6068435
Filing Date: 2000-05-30
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
A goods handling system, incorporating a mobile unit for loading and unloading goods, positioned on load carriers, and which unit incorporates at least one substantially horizontal transport arm, with at least one transport track arranged therealong and at each end thereof a first and a second substantially vertical lifting device with vertically adjustable load platform wherein, the second lifting device comprises a line system provided in the upper part of the transport arm with a free-hanging loading platform, the loading platform is equipped with control means for guiding the loading platform to a receiving station after lifting at level with the transport track, the loading platform is equipped with substantially horizontal, motorized transporters, which are arranged to be activated when the platform is situated in the receiving station, and that on the transport arm and above its transport track is provided a traverse crane having a trolley which is movable on a crane bridge that is arranged transversally to the longitudinal direction of the transport arm, said crane bridge being movable along fixed crane rails provided in the longitudinal direction of the traverse crane.