JPH0241483B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an article storage device, and more particularly to an article storage device for placing and storing articles such as vials on a shelf.

``Prior Art'' Conventionally, as an article storage device for placing and storing articles on shelves in a storage warehouse, articles that have been conveyed in a line by a conveyor are directly sequentially supplied onto the shelves. Another known method is to grasp and suspend articles from a conveyor in a single row in an amount equivalent to the width of the shelf, and then carry the suspended articles one row at a time from the back of the shelf. ing.

"Problem to be Solved by the Invention" However, although the former method allows goods to be quickly supplied into the storage, especially when the storage is a freeze-drying storage or a freezer, the shelves may freeze. Since the items cannot be slid smoothly on the shelves, it has been difficult to store them smoothly. This also applies to cases where the shelf has a structure that makes it difficult for articles such as nets to slide smoothly.

On the other hand, with the latter method, items can be reliably stored even on shelves where it is difficult to slide items, but the gripping mechanism that grips and suspends items in a single row is It takes time to reciprocate in and out of the storage for each row, and if the storage is a freeze dryer, freezer, or hot storage, storage will continue until the shelves are filled with items. Because it is necessary to leave the door of the warehouse open,
Thermal energy loss was increasing.

"Means for Solving the Problems" In view of such circumstances, the present invention provides a storage for accommodating shelves on which articles are placed, a conveyor for transporting and supplying articles, and a combination of the shelves and the conveyor. a guide member disposed substantially horizontally between them and curved downward from a position close to the conveyor; and a flexible mounting plate that is curved and guided while traveling along the guide member. a drive mechanism that advances this placement plate and carries a predetermined amount of articles supplied onto the placement plate from the transport conveyor onto the shelf; and a regulating member that restricts the article from being retreated toward the conveyor side together with the placing plate, and the drive mechanism is configured to sequentially advance the placing plate in accordance with the supply of articles from the conveyor. A containment device is provided.

"Operation" According to such a configuration, the articles from the transport conveyor are stored on the placing plate until a predetermined amount is reached, and then the placing plate is advanced and the articles on it are carried onto the shelf. Then, if the regulating member is brought into contact with the article carried on the shelf to prevent the article from being retreated to the conveyor side together with the placing plate, and in this state, the placing plate is pulled out, It is now possible to place and store a large number of items on a shelf in a short period of time, even when it is difficult to slide items smoothly on the shelf.
Items can be stored reliably.

In addition, in the present invention, the placement plate is sequentially advanced as the articles are supplied from the conveyor, so even when a large number of articles are stored on the placement plate, each article is The pressing force acting between the two can be reduced to zero or small, and even fragile articles can be prevented from being damaged.

"Example" The present invention will be described below with reference to the illustrated example.
In FIG. 1, a storage warehouse 1 for storing and freeze-drying articles is equipped with a plurality of shelves 2 inside. It is designed to be raised and lowered step by step. The shelves 2 are placed on each shelf 2 through an opening for one shelf (not shown) formed on the front surface of the storage 1.
Articles can be supplied to or discharged from the top.

The above-mentioned opening can be opened and closed by a shutter, and the front surface of the storage shed 1 provided with this opening is a door, and by opening the door as necessary, the entire front surface of the storage shed 1 can be opened and closed. We are making it possible to open up.

As shown in FIG. 2, a plurality of storage storages 1 are arranged side by side at predetermined intervals, and articles are placed on the opening side of each storage storage 1 in parallel to the direction in which the storage storages 1 are arranged side by side. One transport conveyor 4 is provided to transport the . One transfer device 5 is provided between each storage 1 and the transport conveyor 4 for supplying the articles transported by the transport conveyor 4 to each storage 1, and this transfer device 5 is connected to the transport conveyor 4. By making the transfer device 5 movable along a rail 6 laid parallel to the conveyor 4, the transfer device 5 can be stopped at a position in front of any one of the storage containers 1, and the articles from the transport conveyor 4 can be transferred into the storage storage 1. can be supplied to or discharged from the

On the upstream side of the conveyor 4, there is provided a grouping device 10 that groups the articles conveyed by the conveyor 4 in a vertical line and in contact with each other into a predetermined number and sends them downstream. . As shown in FIG. 3, the grouping device 10 is normally rotated freely by the articles 11 as they pass, and is braked by a brake (not shown) when necessary.
The stopper wheel 12 prevents the articles 11 from passing through the stopper wheel 12, and the timing screw 13 forms a required gap between the articles 11 that have passed through the stopper wheel 12 while in contact with each other.

Further, the grouping device 10 is equipped with a pair of sprockets 14 arranged at a predetermined interval on one side of the downstream side of the timing screw 13, and an endless chain 15 is stretched between the two sprockets 14. One sprocket 14 is linked to a drive motor (not shown), and the drive motor allows the endless chain 15 to circulate in the same direction as the transport conveyor 4 and at a speed slightly slower than the transport speed of the transport conveyor 4. That's what I do. A stopper 16 is attached at a predetermined position of the endless chain 15 to come into contact with the article 11 conveyed by the conveyor 4 and apply a brake to the article 11.

Therefore, according to the grouping device 10, the articles 11 that have passed through the stopper wheel 12 in a mutually contacting state are formed with required gaps between the articles by the timing screw 13, and It is synchronized with the running operation of the endless chain 15. And endless chain 15
The stoppers 16 attached to each stopper 16 are inserted into the gaps between each predetermined number of articles 11 to apply braking to the articles.
The images are grouped into a predetermined number corresponding to the interval between the images.

By the way, the article conveyance speed of the conveyor 4 is generally set at a speed that allows it to supply slightly more articles 11 than the throughput of the articles 11 by the timing screw 13. Since the articles 11 on the upstream side contact each other and exert a pressing force on each other, it is necessary to provide guide rails 17 on both sides of the conveyor 4 to guide the articles 11 and prevent them from falling off.

On the other hand, the above-mentioned grouping device 10 groups them into a predetermined number of groups and transfers them to the conveyor 4.
Since the articles 11 conveyed by the conveyor 4 do not substantially exert any pressing force on each other, there is essentially no need to provide guide rails 17 for guiding the articles 11 on both sides of the conveyor 4. In the embodiment, for safety, guide rails 1 are provided on both sides of the conveyor 4, except for the front part of each storage 1, which will be described later.
There are 7.

However, as shown in FIG. 1, in this embodiment, the transfer device 5 includes four carry-in mechanisms 5A, 5B, 5C, and 5D that each place an article 11 and reciprocate in a direction orthogonal to the conveyor 4. (See Figure 2)
Each of the carrying mechanisms 5A to 5D is equipped with a flexible thin rectangular mounting plate 20 made of stainless steel, synthetic resin, or the like.

As shown in FIG. 4, a support frame 21 is disposed between the storage 1 and the transport conveyor 4, and guide members 22 are mounted on the support frame 21 at positions on both sides of each mounting plate 20. It is installed. A groove 23 is formed in each guide member 22, and both sides of the flexible mounting plate 20 in the moving direction are slidably engaged with each other in each groove 23. can be slidably guided along the groove 23. The groove 23 is formed substantially horizontally between the shelf 2 and the conveyor 4 at the height of the conveyor 4, and is curved downward into a semicircular shape from a position close to the conveyor 4, Furthermore, it is folded back horizontally from there to form a horizontal U-shape as a whole.

Each of the mounting plates 20 has a first drive mechanism 25
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, each of the first drive mechanisms 25 can be moved forward and backward along the grooves 23 separately. It includes a pair of rotating shafts 26 rotatably supported, a pair of sprockets 27 attached to both sides of each rotating shaft 26, and a pair of endless chains 28 extending parallel to each other between the sprockets 27. , the above rotating shaft 2
6 is linked to a servo motor (not shown).

The groove 23 is formed between the upper straight part of the endless chain 28 and the sprocket 2 on the conveyor 4 side.
7 and further along the lower straight part of the endless chain 28, it is formed into a horizontal U-shape as described above, and the distal end of the mounting plate 20, that is, the horizontal U-shaped groove 23. The end located on the lower side is connected to the endless chain 28 via a connecting member 29.

Therefore, the mounting plate 20 is guided by the groove 23 and moved forward and backward by the running of the endless chain 28, and when the tip, that is, the free end of the mounting plate 20 is advanced toward the shelf 2, The tip thereof is projected from the groove 23 toward the shelf 2.

Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 1, the articles 11 conveyed by the conveyor 4 are carried into each placing plate 20 at a position above each placing plate 20. A conveyance means 35 is provided for conveying the upper article 11 onto the conveyor 4.

Each conveying means 35 has a position above the placement plate 20, close to the storage 1, and a position close to the storage 1.
A rotating shaft 36 is provided at a position beyond the conveyor 4 from the side, and one rotating shaft 36 is interlocked with a servo motor (not shown). A pair of sprockets 37 are attached to each rotating shaft 36.
At the same time, two endless chains 38 are stretched in parallel between the sprockets 37 of each rotating shaft 36, and an extrusion bar 39 for pressing the article 11 is installed between the endless chains 38.

By reciprocating the extrusion bar 39, the article 11 transported by the transport conveyor 4 is placed on a spanning plate 40 (FIG. 4) provided on the curved portion of the transport conveyor 4 and the placing plate 20. The articles 11 on the placing plate 20 can be fed onto the placing plate 20 through the pusher bar 39, or the articles 11 on the placing plate 20 can be discharged onto the conveyor 4.

In this way, the articles 11 conveyed on the conveyor 4 are moved across the conveyor 4 by the pusher bar 39, so that the articles 11 are moved across the conveyor 4 by the extrusion bar 39, so that each of the articles 11 is Naturally, the guide rail 17 cannot be provided at the front position of the warehouse 1.

If the grouping device 10 is not provided on the upstream side of the conveyor 4, the articles 11 conveyed by the conveyor 4 exert a pressing force on each other as described above.
Therefore, when storing articles in the storage warehouse 1 on the downstream side, the articles 11 will fall off from the front part of the storage warehouse 1 on the upstream side. The guide rail 17 must be attached or detached depending on whether or not the transfer device 5 is provided.

On the other hand, in this embodiment, the conveyor 4
Since the grouping device 10 is provided on the upstream side of the container so that no pressing force is exerted between the grouped articles 11, the guide rail 17 is not provided at the front of the storage container 1 as described above. The article 11 will not fall off even when the guide rail 17 is attached and removed, and the article 11 will not fall off the conveyor 4 due to forgetting to attach the guide rail 17. Nor.

Next, as shown in FIG. 4, it is necessary to form a gap l that is at least the thickness of the door (not shown) of the storage 1 between the tip of the placement plate 20 and the shelf 2 of the storage 1. Because of this, the mounting plate 20 has flexibility.
is projected from the groove 23 toward the shelf 2,
There is a possibility that the tip may be curved downward and it may not be possible to reliably move the tip onto the shelf 2.

Therefore, in this embodiment, when the placing plate 20 is advanced toward the shelf 2 side by the first drive mechanism 25, the placing plate 20 may bend downward due to the weight of the article 11, or may move up and down while moving forward. In order to prevent vibrations, a substantially prismatic delivery member 43 is provided.
That is, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the delivery member 43 is provided at the tip of each guide member 22 provided on the support frame 21 so as to be retractable toward the shelf 2. The member 43 is formed with grooves 44 that continue to guide both sides of the mounting plate 20 that have been guided by the grooves 23 of the guide member 22.

Each delivery member 43 is formed with a vertical hole 45 that communicates with the groove 44 and has a bottom thereof. It is forced downward by. On the other hand, engagement holes 48 into which the balls 46 engage are formed on both sides of the distal end of the placement plate 20, which is slidably guided within the grooves 44.

Therefore, the placement plate 20 is the guide member 22.
When the ball 46 enters the groove 44 of the delivery member 43 from the groove 23 of the mounting plate 20 and engages with the tip of the mounting plate 20 or the engagement hole 48 provided therein, the delivery member 43 becomes integral with the mounting plate 20. The mounting plate 20 is bent and protruded toward the shelf 2 side while supporting the mounting plate 20.
When the tip of the delivery member 43 comes into contact with the shelf 2, its forward movement is stopped, so that the tip of the placement plate 20 is moved forward past the ball 46 against the spring 47. As a result, the placing plate 20 can be reliably delivered onto the shelf 2 through the groove 44 of the delivery member 43.

On the other hand, when the mounting plate 20 retreats, the delivery member 4
When the ball 46 engages with the engagement hole 48 due to the retreat of the placement plate 20 with respect to 3, the delivery member 4
3 is integrated with the mounting plate 20 and is retreated toward the transport conveyor 4 side while supporting the mounting plate 20. When the delivery member 43 comes into contact with the guide member 22 and stops, the mounting plate 20 moves toward the ball 46. The engagement with the engagement hole 48 is forcibly released to continue the retreat.

The sliding resistance between the delivery member 43 and the support frame 21 is set to be greater than the sliding resistance between the mounting plate 20 and the groove 44, and the elastic force of the spring 47 causes the ball 46 to engage. The force required to separate from the mating hole 48 is set to be greater than the sliding resistance between the delivery member 43 and the support frame 21. Instead of making such a setting, the movement of the tip of the mounting plate 20 may be detected and the transfer member 43 may be operated in synchronization with the mounting plate 20 by a motor or the like.

Further, as shown in FIG. 1, the transfer device 5 includes a movable regulating member 50 for moving and placing the articles 11 on each placing plate 20 on the shelf 2. The mounting plate 20 is moved forward and backward in the movement direction of the mounting plate 20 by a two-drive mechanism 51, and is also raised and lowered.

The movable regulating member 50 is disposed in a direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the mounting plate 20, and has arms at both ends thereof extending in the moving direction of the mounting plate 20 at positions on both sides of the four mounting plates 20. 52 are connected, and the base on the conveyor 4 side is screwed to a screw shaft 53 which is disposed on the side surface of the support frame 21 in parallel to the moving direction of the placement plate 20 and is rotatably supported. ing. The screw shaft 53 is linked to a servo motor (not shown) constituting the second drive mechanism 51, and the servo motor causes the screw shaft 53 to
3 is rotated, the movable regulating member 50 can be moved back and forth in the direction of movement of the mounting plate 20.

In addition, each arm 52 has, as shown in FIG.
A linear engagement protrusion 54 is formed along the longitudinal direction on the outside of the pair of arms 52, and each engagement protrusion 5
4 are slidably engaged with the engagement grooves 56 of the rotating member 55. Each of the rotating members 55 is constituted by a cylindrical body, and is supported by an elevating member 57 so as to be rotatable about its axis, and each elevating member 57 is supported by a supporting frame as shown in FIG. 21 are respectively attached to pillars 58 erected on both sides of the storage 1 so as to be able to rise and fall freely. Each of the elevating members 57 is synchronously moved up and down by the same amount by an unillustrated elevating mechanism constituting the second drive mechanism 51.

Therefore, when the movable regulating member 50 is moved forward or backward, the engagement convex portions 54 of the arms 52 at both ends are guided by the engagement grooves 56,
By adjusting the height position of 6, the height position of the movable regulating member 50 can be adjusted via the arm 52.

Furthermore, each of the shelves 2 has a first
As shown in the figure, a fixing regulating member 60 that is lower in height than the articles 11 is installed on the back side, and this fixing regulating member 60 prevents the articles 11 from coming into contact with the inner wall of the storage 1. The wall surface and article 1
1 to form a gap in which the movable regulating member 50 is inserted.

In the above configuration, first, the operation of storing the articles 11 in each storage 1 will be explained.The transfer device 5 is initially located at the front position of the storage 1 on the most upstream side. The four carry-in mechanisms 5A to 5D sequentially move from the most downstream carry-in mechanism 5A to the upstream carry-in mechanism 5 of the conveyor 4.
It operates in the order of B, 5C, and 5D.

In the state before the transfer device 5 starts operating, the mounting plate 20 of each carrying-in mechanism 5A to 5D is located at the backward end, and the tip of the mounting plate 20 is connected to the spanning plate 4.
The position is slightly forward from 0 (see Fig. 7f), and prevents the article 11 from being placed on the tip of the placing plate 20 and applying a load to that part. Further, the movable regulating member 50 is also located at the backward movement end and at the rising end where it does not come into contact with the article 11.

In this state, when a row of articles 11 grouped into a predetermined number by the grouping device 10 described above is conveyed by the conveyor 4, the extrusion bar 39 in the most downstream carry-in mechanism 5A reciprocates. The articles 11 are sequentially moved and placed on the placing plate 20 one row at a time, and at the same time, the articles 11 are moved and placed on the placing plate 20 one by one.
0 is intermittently advanced one row of articles in response to the supply of articles 11 (FIG. 7a). Therefore,
The articles 11 supplied onto the placing plate 20 described above are carried onto the placing plate 20 without receiving almost any reaction force from the articles even if the number of articles stored on the placing plate 20 increases. Even if the article 11 is fragile, it can be prevented from being damaged.

When a predetermined amount of articles 11, for example, 1/3 of the amount to be placed on the shelf 2, is stored on the placing plate 20 of the carry-in mechanism 5A by the repeated operation of the extrusion lever 39, the extrusion lever 39 retreats upward, and the push-out bar 39 in the carry-in mechanism 5B, which is one position upstream from the carry-in mechanism 5A, starts operating and stores the above-mentioned predetermined amount of articles 11 on the mounting plate 20 of the carry-in mechanism 5B. . Therefore, even if a predetermined amount of articles 11 are filled on the placing plate 20 of the most downstream carry-in mechanism 5A, the conveyor 4 will not be stopped and the conveyance of the articles 11 will not be stopped.

On the other hand, when the above-mentioned predetermined amount of articles 11 are stored on the placement plate 20 of the carry-in mechanism 5A, the placement plate 2
0 is continuously advanced, and when its tip engages with the aforementioned delivery member 43 and moves them forward together, the tip of the mounting plate 20 is supported by the delivery member 43. After being reliably guided onto the shelf 2, the mounting plate 20 begins to slide on the surface of the shelf 2 (FIG. 7b).

When the rear end side of the group of articles on the placing plate 20 passes the movable regulating member 50, the movable regulating member 50 is lowered to a position where it can come into contact with the article 11, and at the same time the moving speed of the placing plate 20 (Figure 7c) When the tip of the placing plate 20 approaches the fixed regulating member 60 provided on the shelf 2, the placing plate 20 is stopped, but the movable regulating member 50 continues to move forward and the article 11 hits the fixed regulating member 60. up to the point where it touches, that is, shelf 2
It is carried in to the depths of the container and stopped there (Fig. 7d).

In this state, the placing plate 20 starts to retreat while the movable regulating member 50 is stopped, so that the placing plate 20 is pulled out from the bottom of the article 11 whose retreat is regulated by the movable regulating member 50. , the articles 11 are moved from the placing plate 20 to the shelf 2, so that 1/3 of the articles 11 to be placed on the shelf 2 are placed on the shelf 2.
will be placed and accommodated (Fig. 7e). When the placement plate 20 is completely pulled out from between the article 11 and the shelf 2, the movable regulating member 50 also moves to the placement plate 2.
0, and eventually the movable regulating member 50
and the mounting plate 20 is returned to its original position (7th
f figure).

The above operations are sequentially transferred from the most downstream loading mechanism 5A to the upstream loading mechanisms 5B, 5C, and 5D, and a predetermined amount of articles 11 are placed on the mounting plate 20 of the most upstream loading mechanism 5D. When the above-mentioned operations are started after the items are stored, the grouped articles 11 from the transport conveyor 4 are once again supplied onto the placement plate 20 of the most downstream carry-in mechanism 5A. Therefore, each carry-in mechanism 5A to 5D carries in the articles to be stored on the shelf 2 in three 1/3 portions, and as a result, the four carry-in mechanisms 5A to 5
D is operated a total of 12 times to fill all the shelves on one level with the articles 11.

Then, the most upstream loading mechanism 5D is the last 12
When the article 11 is carried into the shelf 2 by the second operation, the shelf 2 is raised by one level by an unillustrated elevating mechanism provided in the storage 1, and a new empty shelf is set. During this time, conveyor 4
continues to supply the articles 11 to the most downstream carry-in mechanism 5A, and the conveyor 4 never stops conveying the articles 11.

As described above, the articles 11 are sequentially placed and stored on the shelves 2 of each stage, and when all the shelves 2 are filled with articles, the operation of the conveyor 4 is stopped, and the transfer device 5
is moved to the front position of storage 1 on the downstream side,
After that, the above-mentioned operation is repeated until all storage warehouses 1
Articles 11 are carried into the interior.

Next, when carrying out the articles 11 from the storage warehouse 1, the articles 11 are carried out in order from the lowermost shelf 2 to the upper shelf 2 of the storage warehouse 1, and the four carrying mechanisms 5A to 5D performs the same operation all at once,
In addition, all the articles 11 on the shelf can be carried out in one operation.

In the state before the transfer device 1 starts carrying out the articles 11, the mounting plates 2 of all the carry-in mechanisms 5A to 5D are
0 and the movable regulating member 50 are each located at the backward end, and the push bar 39 is located at the upper end at the forward end position closer to the storage compartment.

From this state, the placing plate 20 and the movable regulating member 50 start moving forward, and the movable regulating member 50 advances between the top surface of the article 11 and the bottom surface of the upper shelf 2 and is moved to the back side of the shelf 2. , and the other mounting plate 20
As the tip moves forward, it is inserted between the bottom of the article 11 whose movement is regulated by the fixed regulating member 60 fixed at the back of the shelf 2 and the surface of the shelf 2 (FIG. 8a).

When the movable regulating member 50 approaches the wall of the storage 1, that is, when it advances to above the fixed regulation member 60, its advancement is stopped, and it further descends from that position to meet the wall of the storage 1 and the innermost article. 11. On the other hand, the above-mentioned placement plate 20
advances to a position where its tip abuts the fixed regulating member 60, and moves all the articles on the shelf 2 onto each placing plate 20.
When it is moved and placed on top, its advancement is stopped (Figure 8b).

When this state is reached, the movable regulating member 50 first starts to retreat and moves the article 11 by a predetermined amount in the backward direction on the mounting plate 20 (FIG. 8c). Since the member 50 starts retreating at the same speed, the article 1 on the mounting plate 20
1 is carried out from inside the storage 1 to the outside. In this way, the article 11 is moved by a predetermined amount in the backward direction on the placement plate 20, that is, toward the center of the placement plate 20, and the tip of the placement plate 20 is supported by the transfer member 43, and the article 11 is moved to the shelf 2 by a predetermined amount. From the groove 23 of the guide member 22
(FIG. 8d), it is possible to reliably prevent the article 11 from falling off the mounting plate 20.

When the article 11 on the right side on the placement plate 20 approaches the conveyor 4, the article 11 on the left side on the placement plate 20 crosses the push-out bar 39 located above to the conveyor 4 side. The extrusion bar 3
9 is moved downward to a state where it can come into contact with the article 11, and then retreated toward the conveyor 4, and is integrated with the placing plate 20 while supporting the article 11 at the rear end in the conveying direction on the placing plate 20. The article 11 is then moved onto the conveyor 4. On this occasion,
The extrusion bar 39 and the placing plate 20 intermittently transfer the articles 11 on the placing plate 20 one row at a time to the conveyor 4.
It is adapted to be extruded upwards, so that article 1
1 are carried out in a single line by the conveyor 4 (FIGS. 8e and 8f).

When all the articles 11 are carried out from the lowermost shelf 2 of the storage warehouse 1 in the above manner, the shelf 2 is lowered by one level by a lifting mechanism (not shown), and the above-mentioned operation is repeated again to accommodate the items. All the articles 11 are carried out from the warehouse 1.

"Effects of the Invention" As described above, according to the present invention, even if it is difficult to slide the articles smoothly on the shelf, the articles can be stored reliably and in a short time, and Even if the article is fragile, it can be accommodated without damaging it.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing one embodiment of the present invention;
The figure is a schematic plan view of the entire device, Figure 3 is a plan view of the main parts of Figure 2 showing the grouping device, Figure 4 is a side view of the main parts of Figure 1, and Figure 5 is a side view of the main parts of Figure 4. FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing the main part of FIG. 1, FIGS. 7a to 7f are explanatory views showing the operation process when carrying the article 11 onto the shelf 2, and FIGS. 8a to 8f. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an operation process when carrying out an article 11 from a shelf 2. FIG. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Storage warehouse, 2... Shelf, 4... Conveyor, 11... Article, 20... Placing plate, 21... Support frame, 22... Guide member, 23... Groove,
25... Drive mechanism, 50... Movement regulating member.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A storage warehouse that accommodates shelves on which articles are placed, a conveyor that transports and supplies the articles, and a container that is arranged substantially horizontally between the shelves and the conveyor, and that is located close to the conveyor. A downwardly curved guide member, a flexible mounting plate that is curved and travel-guided along the guide member, and the mounting plate is advanced and supplied from the conveyor onto the mounting plate. a drive mechanism for carrying a predetermined amount of articles carried onto the shelf; and a regulating member that comes into contact with the articles carried onto the shelf to prevent the articles from being retreated to the conveyor side together with the placing plate. An article storage device, further comprising: the drive mechanism that sequentially advances the placement plate in accordance with the supply of articles from the transport conveyor.