Niagara Bottling, LLC

Andrew Dimitri Peykoff

Jay Clarke Hanan

Alexander Schau

Gerald Hüttner

Jochen Forsthovel

William John Hall

Jochen Forsthövel

Rali Sanderson

Andrew D Peykoff

A facility including a loading dock having a plurality of dock doors to accommodate vehicles or trailers for loading pallets, a staging area located proximate to the loading dock, and a plurality of loading zones. The staging area includes a plurality of staging lanes of finished products. Each staging lane is stocked with the finished products from the facility. Each of the plurality of loading zones includes a subset of the plurality of dock doors and a corresponding subset of staging lanes located proximate to the subset of the plurality of dock doors for supplying pallets for loading into vehicles docked at the subset of the plurality of dock doors.

Facility layout

A facility including a first AGV including a first drive system and a first rechargeable battery for powering the first drive system to autonomously move the first AGV, a second AGV including a second drive system and a second rechargeable battery for powering the second drive system to autonomously move the second AGV, and a control server in communication with the first AGV to provide instructions to the first AGV to perform first tasks requiring movement within a first designated area within the facility and in communication with the second AGV to provide instructions to the second AGV to perform second tasks requiring movement within a second designated area within the facility. The first AGV has a first home position in the first designated area, and the second AGV has a second home position in the second designated area, which is different from the first designated area.

A bottle may have varying depth ribs to achieve a balance of strength and rigidity while maintaining hoop strength. The varying depth ribs may smoothly transition around the circumference of the bottle from a flattened and/or shallow depth rib portion to a deep rib portion. A collection of flattened and/or shallow depth ribs act as recessed columns in the body of the bottle to resist bending, leaning, crumbling, and/or stretching. The deep rib portions provide hoop strength and make the bottle body more rigid and/or stiffer when gripped by a user. A balance may be achieved between of flattened and/or shallow depth ribs and deep ribs to attain a desired resistance to bending, leaning, and/or stretching while maintaining stiffness in a lightweight bottle.

Plastic container with varying depth ribs

Plastic container () being composed of a neck (), a shoulder (), a body () and a base section (), where the base section () comprises at least two tie members () extending from a central area () to the side wall of the base (). According to the invention, the tie members () and/or the function of the tie members () of the base () at least in certain areas extend into the body section () or into the body () and the shoulder section () of the plastic container ().

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Newport Coast, CA, United States of America

Andrew Dimitri Peykoff