Flip-Top Container Stacking with Alternating Filled and Empty Stacks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing stacking technologies are inefficient and costly, requiring separate movements for handling and restacking containers with goods, leading to time-consuming processes and high construction costs.
Innovation Solution
A stacking device and method featuring a movable stacking transporter with a handling device that alternately manages filled and empty container stacks, allowing simultaneous movement and exchange of containers between stacking and loading points, optimizing assembly and disassembly processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If separate movements are used for handling and restacking containers with goods, then the handling process can be completed, but the process becomes time-consuming and construction costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the handling device and restacking function into a single integrated system. The movable stacking transporter simultaneously performs both the handling of containers with goods and the restacking operation, eliminating the need for separate movements and thereby reducing process time while maintaining handling effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The stacking transporter is designed as a multi-functional device that can both transport containers with goods and perform restacking operations. This universal device handles multiple tasks (transport and restacking) that were previously performed by separate systems, improving productivity without increasing construction costs.
2Ease of operation
If separate movements are used for handling and restacking containers, then the containers can be processed, but construction costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the handling device and restacking mechanism into a single integrated stacking transporter. This combination maintains the ease of operation for handling containers while reducing device complexity by eliminating redundant separate systems, thereby lowering construction costs.
3Productivity
If sequential processing of filled and empty stacks is used, then the stacking process can be completed, but interruptions increase and efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables continuous operation by allowing the stacking transporter to simultaneously or alternately process filled stacks and empty stacks without interruptions. The device maintains continuous useful action by overlapping the movement and exchange of different stack types, thereby improving stacking speed and efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system prepares empty stacks in advance and positions them for immediate receipt of goods. This preliminary preparation of empty stacks allows the handling device to continuously operate without waiting for stack exchange, maintaining process continuity and improving overall stacking speed.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a stacking device (8) and a stacking method for goods (2) in the form of layers of goods (3), wherein the stacking device (8) comprises: - a loading point (10) for the supply and/or removal of layers of goods (3), - a stacking point (9) for the arrangement of a stack of containers (5, 6), which comprises at least one mobile stacking carrier (7) and stacked box-like, open-bottomed, and stackable lidded containers (4) on top of each other, - a handling device (11) arranged between the stacking point (9) and the loading point (10), - wherein the handling device (11) handles a lidded container (4) open-bottomed and moves it, together with a layer of goods (3) contained therein, from the stacking point (9) to the loading point (10) and/or from the loading point (10) to the stacking point (9).The stacking device (8) has a controlled movable stacking transporter (12) which alternately arranges a filled container stack (5) of flip-top containers (4) with goods layers (3) contained therein and a buffering container stack (6) of empty flip-top containers (4) at the stacking point (9).