Patents Assigned to Mecalux, S.A.
  • Publication number: 20250108974
    Abstract: A guided vehicle for transporting pallets moves through a rack structure in a first direction and in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. The guided vehicle includes a frame provided with a first set of wheels provided for moving the frame in the first direction, and a second set of wheels provided to move the frame in the second direction, and a loading platform. In addition, driving means configured to lift the loading platform are provided, controlled by a control unit, the upwards and downwards movement of the loading platform being linkable to the upwards and downwards movement of the first plurality of wheels. The driving means includes a cam system actuated by motor means, the cam system being provided with a set of cams in such a way that the spatial position of the cams defines three operating positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: MECALUX, S.A.
    Inventor: Francesc PENALBA GARCIA
  • Patent number: 12252344
    Abstract: A pallet stacking system on a structure comprises two sets of rotating levers and two axes of rotation, each axis of rotation corresponding to each set of rotating levers. The axes of rotation are inserted in a structure and parallel and at the same, with height between them, and at the same time the axes of rotation are separated by a distance, with sufficient free space for the passage of a horizontal pallet between them. The levers are distributed along the corresponding axis of rotation thereof and concentrically articulated about that same axis of rotation and with the capacity to rotate. The levers have a rest position, resulting in levers enabled at the same time to both receive and hold at least one pallet in the rest position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Mecalux, S.A.
    Inventor: Francisco Valverde Castillo
  • Publication number: 20240375875
    Abstract: An order preparation station is used for transferring articles from a product container to an order container. The station includes a main line for transporting a product container; a presentation line for receiving a product container; extraction means for extracting the product container from the main line and for transporting it to the presentation line; an order management system; an order preparation line having order stations fed with order containers; an incoming transporter connected to a transport system, prepared to receive the order containers coming from the aforementioned system; and a sequencing cart for distributing order containers from the transporter to the order stations; where the management system displays the number of product units extracted from the product container to be deposited in the order containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: MECALUX, S.A.
    Inventor: Pedro Alberto MORENO AMADO
  • Publication number: 20240199336
    Abstract: A pallet stacking system on a structure comprises two sets of rotating levers and two axes of rotation, each axis of rotation corresponding to each set of rotating levers. The axes of rotation are inserted in a structure and parallel and at the same, with height between them, and at the same time the axes of rotation are separated by a distance, with sufficient free space for the passage of a horizontal pallet between them. The levers are distributed along the corresponding axis of rotation thereof and concentrically articulated about that same axis of rotation and with the capacity to rotate. The levers have a rest position, resulting in levers enabled at the same time to both receive and hold at least one pallet in the rest position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: Mecalux, S.A.
    Inventor: Francisco Valverde Castillo
  • Patent number: 10974744
    Abstract: A switch system for rail-guided vehicle-based transport systems includes a turntable provided with a single straight rail and a single curved rail integral with said turntable, said turntable being rotatable about a rotating shaft, said rotating shaft being arranged such that it is shifted with respect to said straight rail and said curved rail. The switch system is simple and economical and prevents vehicles from stopping as they approach the switch system when the switch system changes its position, and allows the free passage of the vehicle, without the rails hindering the passage of the wheels of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Mecalux, S.A.
    Inventor: Albert Forés Ràfols
  • Publication number: 20130216337
    Abstract: Transelevator for transporting loads, comprising two vertical columns that can move in a horizontal plane, with a substantially rectangular cross section, an elevator moving vertically between said columns for moving a load from or to a storage compartment on a shelving unit, transmission means for operating the elevator, and drive means for moving the transelevator horizontally, in which the elevator transmission means and the drive means for lifting and translational movement are supported on one of the vertical columns, such that the main stresses due to the weight of the elevator and the inertia of the translational movement are supported by the main vertical column, the cross section of said main vertical column being greater than the section of the auxiliary vertical column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: MECALUX, S.A.
    Inventor: Albert Fores Rafols
  • Publication number: 20130209203
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transelevator (1) for handling pallets, suitable for use in a system for storing goods or similar, said transelevator comprising a lower mobile frame (2) fixedly supporting a vertical lifting column (3) along which a pallet-removal device can move. The invention also relates to a pallet removal device for a transelevator, comprising: a lifting frame (20) provided with lifting wheels which travel along the length of guide means; a laterally mobile fixed frame (21); and a mobile carriage (22) capable of mobile in relation to the fixed frame (21) and including a fork (23) which can be moved laterally along axis Z by means of a lateral movement shaft (29) actuated by motor means and which can be rotated in plane X-Z by means of a rotation shaft (44) actuated by motor means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: MECALUX, S.A.
    Inventor: Albert Fores Rafols
  • Patent number: 7214024
    Abstract: A push back pallet storage system has a plurality of side members and cross members arranged in several levels, a plurality of carriages for feeding pallets in depth and movable lengthways relative to longitudinal beams fixed to the members, the movable carriages being formed as a substantially reversed U-shaped section member provided with wings with inwardly located rotatable bearings, the section member being configured to surround the longitudinal beams outwardly so that the bearings run inwardly along a lower portion of a web of the beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Mecalux, S.A.
    Inventor: Jose Luis Carrillo Rodriguez