Automated modular system for sorting items

A sortation system uses short conveyors or transporter units on a lift to move products or packages to totes in a storage rack. The lift may be a carousel. Automated components remove the totes from the rack and place them on outfeed conveyors. The system to remove the totes can include a transfer v...

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Hauptverfasser:	Grant, Peter A, Landry, Joshua David, Hoffman, Brian Stuart, Kalm, William Scott, Mahadevan, Dinesh
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	CALCULATING COMPUTING CONVEYING COUNTING DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL PACKING PERFORMING OPERATIONS PHYSICS PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS POSTAL SORTING SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS SORTING SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTEDPIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING STORING SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING TRANSPORTING
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Zusammenfassung:	A sortation system uses short conveyors or transporter units on a lift to move products or packages to totes in a storage rack. The lift may be a carousel. Automated components remove the totes from the rack and place them on outfeed conveyors. The system to remove the totes can include a transfer vehicle. The sortation system may be modular.