摘要 |
Chain stores are provided for buffering and/or short-term storage of articles. They have a plurality of gondolas which are suspended from two chains which in turn run vertically over a plurality of deflection pulleys. Because of the requirement for realizing constantly higher capacities and for increasing the loading and unloading frequency of the store, the gondolas rock to an increasing extent at the deflection pulleys. At a sufficiently high cycle frequency during loading and/or unloading, this can lead to rocking of the gondolas over the total length of the chain, which can result in the articles being thrown out of the gondolas. The chain store according to the invention is now characterized in that a drive device is provided for separating the movement of the chain during loading into a chain movement which has a high frequency in the region of the loading side and an adjacent continuous or low-frequency chain movement.
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