Patent ID: 8739958

Claim:
A shipping bay arrangement, with a small overall height, and can be reached by a human operator by hand at an outlet, for receiving and releasing a plurality of containers, the shipping bay arrangement comprising: a plurality of ramps arranged next to each other and one on top of another, wherein said ramps being arranged next to each other form one of a plurality of bay levels of a shipping bay, said ramps being sloped and said ramps including lateral roller strips, wherein separating webs are arranged between adjacent said ramps of one bay level, one of said ramps being reserved for rejected containers, each of said ramps having an inlet and an outlet, said outlets being arranged to be reached by a human operator by hand from the ground without any means; a separate, rail-guided level conveyor unit arranged at each of said plurality of bay levels, each said conveyor unit being displaceable at right angles to said inlets of respective said ramps, said each conveyor unit transporting the fed container to a selected said ramp and filling said selected ramp with the fed container; an elevator selectively conveying a container into one of said conveyor units of said plurality of bay levels; and a container feed section feeding the plurality of containers to said elevator.