Patent ID: 8682476
Filing Date: 2014-03-25
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
1. A process for commissioning individually packaged products, the process comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of containers with a plurality of the individually packaged products packed into the plurality of containers; providing a driven conveying section and an elevator; transporting the plurality of containers along the driven conveying section to the elevator; providing a plurality of channels receiving and guiding the containers, said plurality of channels being arranged in a plurality of levels, each of said levels including a plurality of said channels arranged in a horizontal direction, said each of said levels being arranged in a vertical direction, each of said plurality of channels having an inlet and an outlet; selectively moving the elevator with one of the plurality of containers to one of said plurality of levels; providing a plurality of level conveyor units, each of said level conveyor units being arranged at a different one of said plurality of levels of said channels; selectively moving the containers from the elevator to one of the level conveyor units; selectively conveying the containers from the elevator to said inlets of said channels in a respective said level on a respective level conveyor unit; moving the containers from the inlets of the channels to the outlets of the channels; removing the containers from the outlets of the channels by a human operator; providing an automatic commissioning unit with a plurality of commissioning shafts; unpacking the containers by a human operator at at least said outlet of one of said throughput channels, and moving the unpacked individually packaged products selectively into the commissioning shafts of the automatic commissioning unit, to have each of the commissioning shafts filled with all of the same kind of individually packaged products after removal of the containers manually at said outlet of one of said throughput channels and unpacking of the containers by the human operator, wherein containers of different widths are aligned in the level control unit by adjusting means on one side of the container and introduced into selected throughput channels, wherein a width of said selected throughput channels corresponds to a width of the containers.