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An active high volume storage carousel provides an improved drive system. The carousel includes a driven conveyor, which defines a continuous path and includes at least one container handling location along the continuous path. A track rail extends around the continuous path and provides vertical su

An active high volume storage carousel provides an improved drive system. The carousel includes a driven conveyor, which defines a continuous path and includes at least one container handling location along the continuous path. A track rail extends around the continuous path and provides vertical support for a plurality of storage columns, which are drivingly coupled to the conveyor by couplers. When the storage columns are moved through the container handling location, at least one of the storage columns is drivingly decoupled from the driven conveyor so that the decoupled storage column can be easily loaded with or unloaded of containers.

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[ We claim the exclusive property or privilege in the embodiments of the invention defined as:] [1.] An active high volume storage carousel comprising:a driven conveyor defining a continuous path, at least one container handling location provided along said continuous path; anda plurality of storage

[ We claim the exclusive property or privilege in the embodiments of the invention defined as:] [1.] An active high volume storage carousel comprising:a driven conveyor defining a continuous path, at least one container handling location provided along said continuous path; anda plurality of storage columns, each of said storage columns being coupled to said driven conveyor by a coupler, said driven conveyor moving said storage columns in said continuous path, and at least one of said storage columns being drivingly decoupled from said driven conveyor with a gap downstream of said at least one storage column when said at least one storage column is moved to said container handling location along said continuous path where containers are at least one of loaded onto and unloaded from said at least one storage column while said at least one storage column remains substantially in said continuous path.