| CPC B66B 1/3492 (2013.01) [B66B 1/06 (2013.01); B66B 9/187 (2013.01); B66B 11/006 (2013.01)] | 22 Claims |
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1. A method for transporting construction material or equipment inside a building under construction, the building under construction including a plurality of vertically displaced floors, and the method comprising:
providing an elevator for transporting transport units in the building under construction, said elevator including at least a load receiving unit vertically movable along one or more guide rail lines in an elevator shaft, the elevator shaft being formed in the building under construction;
providing a plurality of transport units, each of the plurality of transport units carrying construction material or equipment, each respective transport unit among the plurality of transport units including a corresponding identification on the respective transport unit, the corresponding identification identifying
the respective transport unit, or
a destination floor of the respective transport unit in the building under construction;
providing one or more detectors in the building under construction for detecting the corresponding identifications on each of the plurality of transport units when the corresponding identification is within a detection ranges of the one or more detectors;
moving a first transport unit among the plurality of transport units to a loading floor;
loading the first transport unit on the load receiving unit;
determining, by a control system, a destination floor of the first transport unit based on the corresponding identification of the first transport unit detected with at least one among the one or more detectors;
automatically moving the load receiving unit vertically in the elevator shaft to the destination floor of the first transport unit; and
unloading the first transport unit from the load receiving unit to the destination floor of said first transport unit.
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