Vertical belt storage system

US6345753B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Peter de Kock · Oberhausen, DE
• Ralf-Hartmut Sohl · Solingen, DE
• Christoph Diekmann · Besigheim, DE
• Uwe Bachmann · Seeheim-Jugenheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 2, 2000
• Grant date: Feb 12, 2002
• Expiry date: Jan 2, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G21/14
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vertical strip storage system has a support structure and a storage car connected to the support structure by cables in the fashion of a pulley block so as to be lifted and lowered relative to the support structure. The storage car is provided with a counterweight and with deflection pulleys which deflect and guide an incoming and/or outgoing strip in cooperation with stationary deflection pulleys on the ground. The support structure is a free-standing column without lateral supports and the storage car is a salient vehicle running on the outer surface of the column, wherein the column has an interior and the counterweight is guided in the interior of the column.