Electric Track Vehicle System

The rail conveyor system is an automatic transport system for transporting light goods up to 50 kg in buildings and production facilities. It consists of permanently installed in the building profile rails, cam elements, curved elements and Umsetzweichen to change the direction of travel. The transport of the goods is carried out by self-propelled vessel, equipped with an electric motor. Rail conveyors are in use since the 1960s and were first built by the company Tele lift.

Initially rail conveyors are designed to transport files and mail distribution in office buildings. Later other applications were added, such as hospitals ( laboratory samples, drugs), the United libraries (books, media), in large printing ( Beförderungsgut: printing plates), retail ( shoes, jewelry ) and the material filling in the automotive assembly.

The rail conveyor system became known in the 1970s by the WDR children's series Lemmi and Schmöker a larger television audience.

Rail conveyors are suitable for horizontal and vertical transport within buildings and production facilities. In the first facilities the destination in the transmitting station was determined by setting a combination of numbers on the delivery tank. Since the 1990s, the destination addressing is done by making entries on a keypad or a touch screen. The containers go in the rail conveyor system with up to 1 m / s

Due to their modular design rail conveyors may have a significant extent. The rail conveyor system in the French National Library in Paris consists of eg 6.6 km rails, 151 target stations and 300 containers.

• Conveyor system