STORAGE LIBRARY SYSTEM

• Main Authors: CHATZIELEFTHERIOU, Andromachi, JOYCE, Russell, SWEENEY, David, WILLIAMS, Hugh, BLACK, Richard John, ROWSTRON, Antony Ian Taylor
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 04.07.2024
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; CONVEYING; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; STORING; TESTING; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING

A storage library system comprises a plurality of slots for storing items, a plurality of rails, and a robot for interacting with said items. The robot has at least two foot arrangements each having a respective gripping mechanism for releasably engaging that foot arrangement with the rails. The robot also has a transfer mechanism for moving the robot, while a first one or more of the foot arrangements remains engaged with a first of the rails, from a first position in which one or more of the foot arrangements is in abutment with a second of the rails to a second position in which one or more of the foot arrangements is in abutment with a third of the rails. The robot also has an end-effector for interacting with the items in the slots.