US 12,459,732 B2
Load handling system for storage racking
Ayman Labib, Waltham, MA (US); Nicholas Gordon, Rochester, NY (US); Daniel Mitus, Middleton, MA (US); and Stephen Nilsen, Nashville, TN (US)
Assigned to SIMPL Automation Inc., Waltham, MA (US)
Filed by SIMPL Automation Inc.
Filed on Oct. 16, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/917,863.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/563,970, filed on Mar. 12, 2024.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/590,702, filed on Oct. 16, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0122012 A1, Apr. 17, 2025
Int. Cl. B65G 1/04 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 1/0435 (2013.01) [B65G 2203/0233 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A load handling system for storage racking, the load handling system comprising:
an upper bracket assembly coupled with the storage racking;
an upper horizontal guide rail coupled with a support member of the upper bracket assembly, wherein the support member extends substantially perpendicularly from the storage racking;
a lower horizontal guide rail coupled with the storage racking;
a vertical guide rail assembly slidably coupled with the upper horizontal guide rail and the lower horizontal guide rail, wherein the vertical guide rail assembly hangs substantially in plane with the upper horizontal guide rail;
a first horizontal drive motor coupled with the vertical guide rail assembly, wherein the first horizontal drive motor is configured to move the vertical guide rail assembly horizontally along the upper horizontal guide rail and the lower horizontal guide rail;
a load handling platform slidably coupled with the vertical guide rail assembly; and
a vertical drive motor coupled with the load handling platform, wherein the vertical drive motor is configured to move the load handling platform vertically along the vertical guide rail assembly to position the load handling platform so that a load handling device coupled with the load handling platform is positioned to manipulate a load located in the storage racking.