Stacking apparatus and stacking method

US12246933B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AUTEFA SOLUTIONS GERMANY GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Rudolf Kuhn · Neuss, DE
• Peter Knobloch · Großaitingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 19, 2022
• Grant date: Mar 11, 2025
• Expiry date: May 19, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G1/0407
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A stacking apparatus and method for product layers, it loads each of the product layers in a box-like and stackable slip-on container, open at the bottom, and stores the product layer with this container in a container stack, and/or removes product layers in slip-on containers from a container stack and unloads the individual product layer from the slip-on container. A handling apparatus having a multi-axially movable handling device for the slip-on containers, wherein the handling device is designed to handle the slip-on containers and wherein the product layers in the container stack are located on a container base of a lower slip-on container and are surrounded laterally and at the top by an upper slip-on container positioned above said lower slip-on container. A row arrangement of a plurality of stacking places, having a movable support which moves the handling device along a first, facing side of the row arrangement.