Abstract: The invention provides a warehousing system wherein garments on hangers are suspended from conveyors in equally spaced arrangement and are conveyed continuously from a delivery station to which they are supplied in a first order until they reach a dispatch station at which they arrive in another and desired order as dictated by the programming of a control computer. The pitching of the hangers is maintained by scroll conveyors and hangers are discharged from said conveyors by picking or gate devices which are operated by the computer based upon the counting revolutions the scroll conveyors. The system has storage carousel conveyors on which garments waiting to be picked are live stored in that they are continuously moved around the carousel conveyors. A particular sortation device comprises a drive scroll conveyor working in conjunction with a slide bar, a delivery scroll conveyor geared to the drive scroll conveyor and a transfer device to transfer hangers from the delivery scroll conveyor to the slide bar.

Abstract: A live storage carousel for garment hangers, or the like comprises two scroll conveyors arranged in spaced, vertical and parallel planes. The scroll conveyors are oppositely and equally angled and gravity guides connect adjacent upper and lower ends of the respective scroll conveyors to form an endless path. The scroll conveyors are driven by a flexible drive cable so that the hangers are elevated by the conveyors and then slide down the guides to the lower ends of the conveyors. One of the guides can be broken at will to divert one or more hangers from the carousel onto, for example, an output conveyor.

Abstract: The present invention provides that an overhead suspension system is provided with at least two suspension rails which are parallel, and at least one trolley which runs on the rails, the trolley having respective rollers which respectively engage the rails for the firm mounting of the trolley on the rails.In a particular example, there is provided a novel form of roller head which comprises three rollers with their axes parallel, and the roller head is carried by a suspension bracket.