Patent ID: 9206992
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: F24F,H01L

Abstract:
1. A storage configuration with a storage and retrieval system and a predeterminable storage atmosphere, comprising; a plurality of flat air permeable product carriers each extending between opposite ends, being open at the top, and having a bottom with openings through which air can flow and on which product can be deposited; a storage chamber forming an enclosure isolatable from its surrounding environment including a pair of side walls, an opening through which the product can be fed and removed from the storage chamber, and a plurality of vertically displaced storage locations at which the product carriers are stored; a transport apparatus for supporting and vertically transporting the product carriers between the vertically displaced storage locations at which the product carriers extend across the storage chamber such that the opposite ends of the product carriers are located proximate to the side walls of the storage chamber; the storage chamber including an air extraction opening adjacent to a bottom section of the storage chamber and an air injection opening adjacent to a top section of the storage chamber; an exhaust air duct connected to the air extraction opening; a conditioning apparatus interconnecting the exhaust air duct and the air injection opening for exhausting the air from the bottom section of the storage chamber via the air extraction opening, treating it and injecting it back into the top section of the storage chamber via the air injection opening, so that the air flows through the storage chamber in a vertical direction from the top section to the bottom section along a pathway that proceeds from the conditioning apparatus through the air injection opening into the top section of the storage chamber through the bottom openings of the product carriers in the vertically displaced storage locations in the same vertical direction and out the bottom section of the storage chamber through the air extraction opening and along the exhaust air duct for returning to the conditioning apparatus.