Supporting structure for sliding rail that uses one or more identical modules, stacked longitudinally and supported on the beams of the conventional compact palletisation facility, on which the tracks for the chains of the sliding rail are subsequently mounted, each of these modules including, in turn, a quadrangular mesh supported on several ribs that may be fixed or telescopic, and which has, on its upper part, supporting rods for the rails for the chain. The supporting structure for sliding rail that is presented affords the main advantage of enabling any existing compact drive-in palletisation structure to be used and adapted to operate with flow-rail sliding rails or similar, dispensing with the need for custom adaptations, as well as achieving greater rigidity, better inner fitting, greater resistance to deformation and smoother operation of the sliding rail.

A modular loading and unloading system wherein modular units can be simply added to a base unit, or main unit, in a desired configuration that fulfill capacity and footprint needs of a manufacturer at any moment, for example when the manufacturer's business expands, thus considerably reducing the time and cost of modifying existing manufacturing systems, such as a laser-based parts cutting system.

An expandable and contractable storage device comprised of a frame, X-bars, a leveler, a movable bar, rolling wheels and attachment guides. The frame includes at least one elongated support element having a support ledge. The leveler is connected to the moveable bar and a grooved shaft. The rolling wheels are attached to carriages and the movable bar are located inside elongated U-shaped channels and channels of the attachment guides. The X-bars are attached to the carriages and the attachment guides. Stoppers are movably located inside the elongated U-shaped channels and the channels of the attachment guides. The rotation of the leveler will rotate the grooved shaft and move the movable bar in a forward direction forcing the rolling wheels to rotate and translate forward along the channels and the X-bars will move in an upward or downward direction and the frame moves in a downward or upward direction.

In one embodiment, an inventory storage module has a first conveyor segment, a second conveyor segments offset from the first segment along a vertical direction, a first vertical lift at a first end of the module, and a second vertical lift at a second end of the module, which together define a movement path that is elongate along a longitudinal direction between the first and second ends. The storage module can translate inventory storage containers around the movement path until a desired one of the inventory storage containers is presented at one of the first end and the second end. In another embodiment, a plurality of instances of the storage module are arranged in a vertical stack of independently controllable storage modules.

In one embodiment, a conveyor system has first and second conveyors. The first conveyor has inner and outer sides and a first conveyor surface between the inner and outer sides that is configured to carry payloads between first and second conveyor ends along a first direction. The second conveyor has inner and outer sides and a second conveyor surface between the inner and outer sides of the second conveyor that is configured to carry payloads between the first and second conveyor ends along the first direction. The first and second conveyors are coupled to one another such that the inner sides are spaced closer to one another than the outer sides and the first and second conveyors are angularly offset from one another. The conveyor system is configured to rotate between a first orientation and a second orientation about an axis that extends along the first direction.

An automated carrier system is disclosed for moving objects to be processed. The automated carrier system includes a discontinuous plurality of track sections on which an automated carrier may be directed to move, and the automated carrier includes a base structure on which an object may be supported, and at least two wheels assemblies being pivotally supported on the base structure for pivoting movement from a first position to a second position to effect a change in direction of movement of the carrier.

A picking rack is provided, including a frame having at least one inclined pallet. The inclined pallet includes a pair of fork plates for picking up goods and a blocking mechanism for fixing loaded goods to the inclined pallet. Therefore, the labor cost of picking up goods is reduced, and the goods picking up efficiency is increased.

Systems and methods directed to shelving systems include a frame and one or more translatable shelves. The shelves are supported on rails and are horizontally translatable from a rearward position to a forward position. When adjacent shelves are respectively most rearward and most forward, certain shelf and frame structural cooperation enhance shelf access and shelf removability. Provided a single shelving kit, certain shelf configuration may be customized for particular end uses.

Disclosed are a dual power driving-based parallel movable shelf and an unloading apparatus thereof. The parallel movable shelf comprises: an upper transverse rod, an upper sliding block and an upper power driving apparatus being fixed on the upper transverse rod, and the upper power driving apparatus being able to control the upper sliding block to move back and forth only along the upper transverse rod; a lower transverse rod, arranged parallel to the upper transverse rod, a lower sliding block and a lower power driving apparatus being fixed on the lower transverse rod, and the lower power driving apparatus being able to control the lower sliding block to move back and forth only along the lower transverse rod; and a vertical rod, the top of the vertical rod being coupled to the upper sliding block, and the bottom of the vertical rod being coupled to the lower sliding block.

Systems and methods directed to shelving systems include a frame and one or more translatable shelves. The shelves are supported on rails and are horizontally translatable from a rearward position to a forward position. When adjacent shelves are respectively most rearward and most forward, certain shelf and frame structural cooperation enhance shelf access and shelf removability. Provided a single shelving kit, certain shelf configuration may be customized for particular end uses.