St. Onge Company

Manuverate, LLC

Precision Distribution Consulting, Inc.

Protosight, Inc.

David H Loy

Robert E Bradley

Ned F Bauhof, Iii

Andrew Nicholas Yankanich

Gregory Paul Ellis

Mathew Edwin Ellis

A method and system for providing cargo or product to an individual. The system may be a vehicle and include a plurality of bays, at least one of the plural bays having two rectangular frames, each frame having two horizontal members and two vertical members and each frame opposing and facing the other. The vehicle may also include a holding structure engaged by both of the rectangular frames, the structure comprising a plurality of trays wherein the structure is adaptable to provide vertical movement of the plural trays within the confines of the two rectangular frames. The vehicle may also include one or more mechanisms positioned between the lower horizontal members of the two rectangular frames, the one or more mechanisms adaptable to provide lateral movement within the confines of the two rectangular frames.

Ergonomically improved systems and methods for delivering products from a delivery vehicle

Ergonomically improved delivery vehicle and method

An automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) wherein individual identical articles are disposed in vertical stacks stored in cells of movable totes. The totes are movable into and out of storage racks by an automated storage/retrieval vehicle. The ASRS includes an order picking system having at least two zones disposed along an order-collecting conveyor system. One zone picks low-demand articles, and the other zone employs high-speed dispensers which support plural upright stacks each containing identical high-demand articles for dispensing of such articles onto the conveyor system. A controller assigns order-collecting areas along the conveyor system so that picked or dispensed articles within the zones are deposited into a preassigned area for assembly of an order. The pick zone for low-demand articles preferably includes several subzones arranged serially of the conveyor system, and each subzone includes a picker mechanism which includes a picking head which moves longitudinally and transversely of the conveyor. A plurality of totes are supported adjacent and longitudinally along at least one side of the conveyor system, with the cells in each tote typically defining plural stacks of different articles all having a preassigned position relative to the movement of the picking head. The controller causes the picking head to remove a desired article from a specific cell for transfer to the preassigned area of the conveyor system. This process can be repeated within one subzone, and sequentially within several subzones, for filling a single order with low-demand articles which are deposited into the preassigned area.

Order pick system

Case handling magazines and robot end effector for an automated storage and retrieval system in a warehouse include comb shelves for holding individual cases of goods. The case handling magazines are transported by conventional automated pallet handling stacker cranes and transfer cars. The magazine comb shelves and robot end effector have load carrying teeth spaced apart along the length of the shelves. The magazines include storage magazines for holding cases in conventional storage bays and transfer magazines for transferring cases to and from the storage magazines. The comb shelves of the storage magazines and transfer magazines are complementary with one another and enable the teeth of the comb shelves to intermesh with each other for transferring cases from a loaded comb shelf to an empty comb shelf. The robot end effector and some magazines include movable comb shelf segments that enable the selective transfer of all or less than all the cases on the loaded comb shelf to the unloaded comb shelf.

Automated storage and retrieval system

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David H Loy