CONTAINER-HANDLING VEHICLE

The present invention provides a container-handling vehicle (9') for picking up storage containers (6) from a three-dimensional grid (4) of an underlying storage system (1), comprising a vehicle body (13) and at least one lifting device (18') for lifting a storage container (6) from the grid (4), the lifting device (18') comprises a lifting band drive assembly (47,47',31), a horizontal lifting frame (17) and a plurality of lifting bands (16a, 16b); the lifting band drive assembly (47,47',31) is connected to the vehicle body (13) and comprises at least one rotatable lifting shaft (22.22'); the lifting frame (17,17') comprises four corner sections (36), gripper elements (24) for releasable connection to a storage container (6), and a lifting band connector (32,32') arranged at each of the corner sections; the lifting bands (16a,16b) are connected to the lifting band drive assembly (47,47',31) and the lifting band connectors (32,32'), such that the lifting frame (17,17') may move in a vertical direction relative to the lifting band drive assembly by rotation of the lifting shaft (22,22'); wherein at least three of the lifting band connectors (32,32') are adjustable, such that the vertical distance between the respective corner sections and the lifting band drive assembly may be adjusted.