Jared M Ploss

US Patent:

20210261360, Aug 26, 2021

Filed:

May 13, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/319779

Inventors:

- Wilmington MA, US
Gregory THRONSON - Wilmington MA, US
Christopher KILEY - Wilmington MA, US
Todd E. KEPPLE - Litchfield NH, US
Jared PLOSS - Wilmington MA, US

International Classification:

B65G 57/24
B65G 59/02
B65G 57/03

Abstract:

An automated storage and retrieval system includes a storage array of storage locations for case units. An in-out case conveyor is capable of bi-directionally transporting case units to and from the storage array, and an in-out loaded pallet conveyor is capable of bi-directionally transporting loaded pallets towards and away from the storage array. A palletizer-depalletizer cell includes a bi-directional pallet transport system with more than one independently driven pallet transports, each with a different pallet holder independently movable relative to a cell frame. Placement of case units commissioning a pallet layer loading a pallet, and removal of case units decommissioning a pallet layer unloading another pallet are both effected at the common pallet layer interface at a predetermined level of the cell frame. The pallet transports independently index a first and a second of the different pallet holders, each independently holding the pallet loading at the common pallet layer interface.

US Patent:

20200231391, Jul 23, 2020

Filed:

Apr 9, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/844227

Inventors:

- Wilmington MA, US
Gregory THRONSON - Wilmington MA, US
Christopher KILEY - Wilmington MA, US
Todd E. KEPPLE - Litchfield NH, US
Jared PLOSS - Wilmington MA, US

International Classification:

B65G 57/24
B65G 59/02
B65G 57/03

Abstract:

An automated storage and retrieval system includes a storage array of storage locations for case units. An in-out case conveyor is capable of bi-directionally transporting case units to and from the storage array, and an in-out loaded pallet conveyor is capable of bi-directionally transporting loaded pallets towards and away from the storage array. A palletizer-depalletizer cell includes a bi-directional pallet transport system with more than one independently driven pallet transports, each with a different pallet holder independently movable relative to a cell frame. Placement of case units commissioning a pallet layer loading a pallet, and removal of case units decommissioning a pallet layer unloading another pallet are both effected at the common pallet layer interface at a predetermined level of the cell frame. The pallet transports independently index a first and a second of the different pallet holders, each independently holding the pallet loading at the common pallet layer interface.