Patent ID: 9221482
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: B21C,B61B,B61J,B61L

Abstract:
1. A transporting system for transporting metal coils comprising: a multi-track rail system; several driverless transporting carriages configured for movement on the rail system by means of a drive device, each of the several driverless transporting carriages being equipped with at least one on-board communication device; a locating device on each of the several driverless transporting carriages configured for continuously determining current location information for a respective one of the several driverless transporting carriages located on the multi-track rail system; and a central control device configured to receive continuously determined location information of each of the several driverless transporting carriages via the at least one on-board communication device on each of the several driverless transporting carriages, wherein a communication connection, including at least one wireless section, is established between the control device and each on-board communication device.