Intunes Products, LLC

Greggory Bartoo

Scott Baube

Michael Marseglia

Christopher Angevine

Michael Fisher

Dennis O'Neill

Austin Smith

A computer programmable end of robot arm tool for picking and placing a plurality of objects arranged in a first array from a first pick location to a second place location where the objects are placed in a second array different from said first array where the spacing between the picking arms is programmable between different spacing arrangements including during the pick and place arm movement.

End of arm tool with programmable pitch

A package sort cell includes a robot with an end of arm tool for transporting packages from an in-feed conveyor to a selected one of a plurality of out-feed conveyors or bins, the robot receiving instruction from the package reader as to which of the plurality of conveyors or bins to hand-off the package. An end of arm tool may be in the configuration of a conveyor which may be aligned with the out-feed conveyor on a bottom up movement. The end of arm tool may also be in the configuration of a hanging carriage frame suspending a conveyor in a top down movement. A worker platform may be provided which may be movable between in-use and out-of-use positions whereby upon robot downtime, the platform may move into the in-use position for a worker to temporarily takeover the transfer functions of the robot. A plurality of sort cells may be arranged in side by side relation adjacent a like plurality of package delivery points (e.g., truck bays) and include diverter conveyors to allow diversion of a selected quantity of packages from one cell to an adjacent cell when the adjacent cell has no associated package delivery occurring at that time.

Package handling and sorting system

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Greggory Bartoo