Apparatus for transporting and storing heavy commodities

US3993201A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Eisenbau Wyhlen AG
• Vaw Leichtmetall G.m.b.H.

Inventors

• Heinrich Bauer · Eichenau, DE
• Karl-Heinz Dorner
• Helmut Eberlin
• Hans Kaulen · Grevenbroich, DE
• Werner Pazurek
• Heinz Richarz
• Harro J. Taubmann
• Gerhard Wolf

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 20, 1973
• Grant date: Nov 23, 1976
• Expiry date: Sep 20, 1993

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/53378
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A production line wherein extremely heavy and bulky commodities, such as metallic bands which are convoluted on reels and weigh up to and in excess of 20,000 lbs., are treated at several stations is provided with a first magazine at the receiving end, a second magazine at the discharge end and an intermediate magazine between two neighboring departments. The commodities are transported in the magazines by vehicles which are movable lengthwise as well as up and down to store the commodities at different levels or to withdraw commodities from selected compartments of the respective magazines. Additional vehicles in the form of cars, lifters, cranes or the like are provided to transport commodities from a preceding magazine, to stations which are adjacent to various machines of the production line, and from such machines to the next magazine, always at a level above or below the level of the production line. The production line may be set up to anneal the commodities which are withdrawn from the first magazine prior to introduction into the first magazine, to thereupon roll the commodities in one or more passes, to trim the commodities, to subdivide the commodities, and to heat the co…