Patent ID: 7249924

Claim:
A rack serving unit having: a) a carriage which may be moved along a rack aisle by means of a drive on at least one substantially horizontal carrying rail; b) a lifting platform which is carried along by the carriage for the purpose of receiving goods from the rack; c) a lifting device by means of which the lifting platform may be moved in the vertical direction with respect to the carriage; d) a stabilising device which prevents the lifting platform from swinging out laterally, characterised in that e) the lifting device for the lifting platform comprises at least two traction mechanisms on which the lifting platform is suspended from the carriage f) the stabilising device comprises: fa) at least one guide element which extends substantially horizontally parallel to a translatory movement path of the lifting platform and with which the lifting platform is in constant engagement in such a way that its position in the direction of the translatory movement is constantly defined; and fb) provided at both ends of the translatory movement path of the lifting platform there is a lifting device for each guide element which is connected to the guide element and is constructed in such a way that the guide element moves synchronously with the lifting platform in the vertical direction in substantially horizontal alignment.