Patent ID: 7809467

Claim:
A picking system for picking articles from one or more storage containers into order containers, the picking system comprising: a picking station having at least one picking bucket to be operated by a picking person; a storage-container conveying track to convey the storage containers, wherein the articles to be picked are conveyed in the storage containers directly to the picking station by the storage-container conveying track; an order-container conveying track; a handing-over point, wherein the order containers are conveyed to and from the handing-over point by means of the order-container conveying track, the handing-over point being located at an intersection between the first conveyor and the order-container conveying track; and a first conveyor, wherein the picking station and the first conveyor are arranged such that articles, associated with a picking order, can be released from the picking bucket directly onto the first conveyor, and subsequently drop from the first conveyor into an order container associated with the picking order.