Patent ID: 8876454
Filing Date: 2014-11-04
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
1. A storage system with at least one shelving level, comprising at least one transport aisle, shelves situated alongside the transport aisle with storage spaces for products and a level transport device movable in the transport aisle for approaching the storage spaces, with a conveyor system for delivering products to the shelving level and removing products therefrom, with at least one intermediate buffer, in which the products supplied by means of the conveyor system are temporarily stored until their storage in a storage space and in which products that are removed from the storage places are temporarily stored until their transfer to the conveyor system, wherein substantially each storage space comprises a movable compartment floor and the level transport device comprises compartment floor-moving means, by means of which a compartment floor may be transferred from the storage space into the level transport device and vice versa and from the level transport device into the intermediate buffer and vice versa so that the compartment floor does not pass onto the conveyor system; and wherein intermediate buffers are arranged at opposite sides of the transport aisle and/or at opposite end regions of the transport aisle, and wherein at least one intermediate buffer is provided only for removing the products and at least another intermediate buffer is provided only for storing the products.