Automated modular system for sorting items

A sortation system, which may be modular, uses short conveyors or transporter units on a lift unit 20, which may be a carousel, to move products or packages (99, Fig 2) to totes in a storage rack. The system comprises first and second infeed conveyors 70, 70'a plurality of transportation units...

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Hauptverfasser:	Joshua David Landry, William Scott Kalm, Brian Stuart Hoffman, Dinesh Mahadevan, Peter A. Grant
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	CONVEYING HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL PACKING PERFORMING OPERATIONS PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS STORING TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING TRANSPORTING
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Zusammenfassung:	A sortation system, which may be modular, uses short conveyors or transporter units on a lift unit 20, which may be a carousel, to move products or packages (99, Fig 2) to totes in a storage rack. The system comprises first and second infeed conveyors 70, 70'a plurality of transportation units 106, an inventory storage system 200, and inventory conveyance system (100). Each carrier (40) has forks / prongs (42, Fig 4) associated with trollies (44). The system is configured so that items (99) move from infeed conveyors 70, 70' sequentially on to transport units 106, being moved by lift 20 to a desired location where it may be ejected in to a desired tote and then delivered to an outfeed conveyor 74, 74'.