CPC B65G 1/0492 (2013.01) [B65G 1/0485 (2013.01); B65G 1/10 (2013.01); B65G 1/1378 (2013.01); B66F 9/0755 (2013.01); B66F 9/24 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01)] | 6 Claims |
1. A goods-to-man warehousing system comprising:
a multilevel racking system;
a plurality of mobile storage units;
a storage unit transporter; and
a pick-place vehicle, wherein
the multilevel racking system comprises a vertically and horizontally distributed array of storage bays and a plurality of racking system aisles,
the storage unit transporter and the pick-place vehicle are each configured to travel in a plurality of the racking system aisles,
the storage unit transporter is further configured to travel beneath the vertically and horizontally distributed array of storage bays of the multilevel racking system,
the pick-place vehicle comprises pick-place hardware that enables the pick-place vehicle to place a mobile storage unit into a storage bay,
the storage unit transporter comprises storage unit engagement hardware that enables the storage unit transporter to receive the mobile storage unit from the storage bay such that the mobile storage unit is placed atop the storage unit transporter, and transport the mobile storage unit away from the storage bay with the mobile storage unit placed atop the storage unit transporter, and
the storage unit transporter comprises a lifting surface and is structurally configured to lift at least one of the plurality of mobile storage units off of a warehouse floor upon which the multilevel racking system is supported by elevating the transporter lifting surface from a traveling height to a transporting height.
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