| 摘要 |
The invention concerns a merchandise handling equipment, which is able to handle merchandise without moving the merchandise to a bucket or the like and is also able to enhance the storage efficiency of the merchandise. The merchandise handling equipment (5) is made up of a carriage (9) including a pallet (8) for placing merchandise (7) thereon and runnable along a shelf plate (10), a pair of left and right extendable and contractible fork members (13,14) respectively disposed in either side end portion of the pallet, a fork width adjusting mechanism (11) for adjusting a mutually spaced distance between the pair of left and right fork members, and a fork extending and contracting mechanism (12) for expanding and contracting the pair of left and right fork members substantially horizontally from the carriage to the shelf plate or vice versa, in which the pair of left and right fork members are operated to hold the merchandise between them and then the pair of left and right fork members are extended and contracted to thereby move the merchandise from one of the pallet and shelf plate to the other. <IMAGE> |
