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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2019
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 47/57 (2006.01); B65G 15/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 47/57 (2013.01); B65G 15/22 (2013.01); B65G 2201/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A conveyor system for processing items, such as manufacturers' products or boxes, from a three-dimensional arrangement to a two-dimensional arrangement includes inclined and declined conveyors. The inclined conveyor may include vacuum through perforations in the belt. A collimating conveyor includes parallel belts that operate at different speeds to space the items longitudinally apart and then align the items against sidewalls.