Methods for warehousing, taking out, and re-stocking in storage shelves for material storage cassettes and their storage shelves

摘要

In a shelf store for cassettes with bar- or plate-shaped material, a method as well as a device for removing the cassettes from store or for storing the cassettes by means of a shelf-tending unit (19) and a transport carriage (25) are specified. For this purpose, the cassettes (12) to be stored are put into the shelf compartment left free by the next cassette (12) to be removed from store. In another, but also complementary, solution, the transport carriage (25) is equipped with a transfer device (43 to 48), movable transversely to the longitudinal direction of the material, for lifting and delivering the cassettes (12), and the cassettes (12) to be stored are transferred during the return travel of the transport carriage (25) to the cassette place of the transport carriage (25) which lies to the rear in the travel direction during the travel of the transport carriage (25) to the station (40) for removing from store, which travel of the transport carriage (25) takes place subsequent to receiving the next cassette (12) to be removed from store. …IMAGE…