Abstract: A louverable roller shutter comprises a series of adjacent slats extending parallel to an axis of a winding drum, a vertical guide at each end of the slats, guide bodies received in the vertical guides and tiltably connected to the ends of the slats, a tension element displaceably guided in the guide bodies for being wound up on the winding drum, slat tilting bodies received in the vertical guides on a side of the guide bodies averted from the slat ends, and a slat tilting element displaceably guided in the slat tilting bodies for being wound up on the winding drum.

Abstract: Device which is part of a picking system, including a conveyor for carrying containers, a device for automatically labelling the containers, and a device for removing the labels from the containers. In order to allow a straightforward inspection of the contents of a container, the containers feature on their outside a holder, which is open on its top side, designed to hold waybills. The device for labelling the containers comprises a printer arranged above the conveyor, and the device for removing the labels comprises a suction nozzle.

Abstract: Loading device, particularly for loading containers carried on a conveyor, including a vertically fixed funnel with a shutter arranged in the area of its delivery aperture. In order to ensure reliable loading of the containers in such a device, it is provided that lateral of the funnel, adjustable covering elements, such as slides, are arranged, which can be positioned close to the upper rims of the containers, which may vary in their vertical dimensions.

Abstract: A gravity-convyor roller with two longitudinal spars (1) extending mutually parallel, in which a plurality of rollers (2) are held rotatably and which are connected to one another via connecting parts.

Abstract: Device for laterally showing off transported goods transversally to the conveying direction of a roller conveyor having rollers supporting the goods. The rollers are pivotally arranged between two longitudinal spars and one of the rollers is connected to a drive unit. Transversal rollers, which can be driven by an elastic driving belt embracing a stationary drive unit, are provided between two adjacent rollers. The transversal rollers being supported in a vertically adjustable carrier, which allows the transversal rollers to be lifted beyond the supporting surface created by the rollers of the roller conveyor. In order to allow operation of such a device resulting in low wear and careful handling of the goods, it is provided that the carrier holds several pairs of transversal rollers and that each pair of adjacent transversal rollers is embraced by an endless discharge belt, the driving belt running over at least one transversal roller of each pair of transversal rollers.

Abstract: A discharge unit for sequentially discharging a lowermost piece of a stack of said pieces superposed in a shaft. The pieces in the stack have the same dimension as the inner cross section of the shaft and the shaft has a lower end wherefrom the lowermost pieces are sequentially discharged. The lower shaft end defines a plane and an axle extends in this plane. A bell crank lever having a first arm and a second arm is supported on the axle for pivoting between a first position wherein the first arm projects into the inner cross section of the shaft to hold the lowermost piece in the shaft and a second position wherein the first arm is retracted out of the inner shaft cross section to release the lowermost piece for discharge from the shaft. The second bell crank lever arm is arranged to clamp the piece of the stack superposed over the lowermost piece in position when the first bell crank lever arm is pivoted into the second position to hold the stack in the shaft.