Patent ID: 8186932

Claim:
A method of storing storage products in a storage rack, the storage rack comprising (a) a plurality of rack units providing a plurality of storage spaces for the storage products, and (b) a transport shaft, a transport device being traversable on the transport shaft to transport the storage products between a service opening and a storage space, wherein a first rack unit includes the service opening and a second rack unit is spaced from the first rack unit by the transport shaft, the method comprising the following steps: (i) transporting a first storage product to be retrieved by the transport device into a buffer area spaced from the service opening of the first rack unit for intermediate storage; (ii) supplying a second storage product to be stored to the transport device via the service opening; (iii) transporting the second storage product to be stored to the buffer area using the transport device; (iv) supplying the first storage product to be retrieved from the buffer area to the service opening using the transport device; and (v) supplying the second storage product to be stored from the buffer area to a predetermined storage space using the transport device.