| 摘要 |
PURPOSE:To enhance the efficiency of accommodation for articles, by arranging a plurality of introduction mechanisms each adapted to reserve therein a predetermined amount of articles fed by a conveyer and to deliver the thus reserved articles to racks in an article accommodating storage, between the racks and the conveyer. CONSTITUTION:A plurality of racks 2 in several stages, each of which accommodates thereon several articles in a lined-up condition, are incorporated in an accommodating storage 1 which may be elevated one stage by one stage by means of an elevating mechanism which is not shown. A conveyer 4 is laid in parallel with the storage 1 on the opening 3 side of the latter, and conveys thereon articles which are divided into groups each having plural articles during the previous process step. Further, a shifting device 5 having a plurality of introduction mechanisms 5' (5A-5D) on which articles are set to be conveyed and which are adapted to be moved in the direction orthogonal to the conveyer 4, is laid between the storage 1 and the conveyer 4. The introduction mechanisms 5' are alternately operated so that one of the introduction mechanism 5' introduces articles from the conveyer 4 and reserves them while the other introduction mechanism 5' delivers articles which has been already reserved therein onto racks 2.
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