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A container handling system is provided for the conveyance of containers from one location to another. The system is able to handle palletized containers and operate as an order picking pallet return system. The manual operations involved in loading and unloading the containers with respect to one a

A container handling system is provided for the conveyance of containers from one location to another. The system is able to handle palletized containers and operate as an order picking pallet return system. The manual operations involved in loading and unloading the containers with respect to one apparatus of the system are safeguarded from being conducted incorrectly, thereby enabling accident free use of the system under normal operation.

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A container handling apparatus for forwarding containers in a longitudinal forwarding direction and returning containers in a longitudinal returning direction, comprising: rail means for the gravity conveying of containers between different container handling positions; said rail means including a f

A container handling apparatus for forwarding containers in a longitudinal forwarding direction and returning containers in a longitudinal returning direction, comprising: rail means for the gravity conveying of containers between different container handling positions; said rail means including a first rail, a second rail, and a third rail; stationary means for supporting said first rail, said second rail, and said third rail; said first rail having longitudinally opposed container receiving and container forwarding ends; said first rail being mounted upon said stationary means at a stationary intermediate point between said container receiving and container forwarding ends, for pivotal movement about said stationary intermediate point between a container forwarding position having a positive slope orientation corresponding with said longitudinal forwarding direction and a container receiving position having a negative slope orientation relative to said positive slope orientation; said second rail having longitudinally opposed ends, one of said ends being a container handling end and, the other of said ends being a container receiving and returning end; said second rail being mounted upon said stationary means at a point of rotation stationary relative to said stationary means for pivotal movement about said point of rotation whereby said receiving and returning end can move between a container receiving position and a container returning position; means for operating said first rail to move said first rail between said container receiving position and said container forwarding position to produce a change in said slope orientation for moving a container in said longitudinal forwarding direction from said container receiving position to said container forwarding position; said second rail being oriented relative to said first rail such that when a container is received at said container receiving position the container continues to advance in said longitudinal forwarding direction to said container handling end; said third rail having longitudinally opposed container receiving and temporary storing ends; means for operating said second rail to move said second rail between said container receiving position and said container returning position such that when a container is on said first rail and said first rail is in said container forwarding position, the container will firstly be received by said container receiving and container returning end of said second rail, will secondly be advanced in said longitudinal forwarding direction to said container handling end, then thirdly be advanced in said longitudinal returning direction to said container receiving and container returning end of said second rail and fourthly, be advanced to said third rail; said third rail being stationarily mounted upon said supporting means and oriented relative to said second rail such that when a container is received from said second rail at said container receiving end, the container advances in said longitudinal returning direction to said temporary storing end.