Abstract: An installation for storing self-supporting pallets and removing the pallets from storage, in which a rack shelf arrangement is provided with rows of columns spaced apart and arranged in opposite pairs with respect to columns of an adjacent row. Each pair of columns carries cantilever-mounted brackets arranged also in opposite pairs. Each pair of brackets defines a shelf for supporting a pallet on two opposite edges of the pallet. A lifting and displacement device lifts a pallet in a passageway between shelves, to a location that is higher than a storage level defined by a pair of the brackets, for the purpose of storing and displacing the pallet. The lifting and displacment device has bridges that extend between columns of two successive shelves. Each bridge has a carriage that is synchronously displaceable transversely to the shelves. The carriage has a platform projecting into the storage area.

Abstract: An arrangement for the storage of pallets which are used to hold material of lengthy shape. A plurality of shelves are located and fixed next to one another, and they are accessible from at least one broad side via a loading and removal device which travels transversely to the shelves. A plurality of stacked compartments accommodate the pallets, and have a guided loading and removal device which travels underneath the shelves which are located above floor level. An additional guided gantry-like loading and removal device travels above the shelves. The loading and removal device, furthermore, travels underneath the shelves, and may be constructed in the form of a traveling lifting table with a device for the loading and removal of the pallets. Guides may be fixed to the vertical members of the shelves for the lateral support of a platform of the lifting table. A lifting mechanism of a gantry crane may be formed by consoles guided on supports of the gantry.