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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2020
Material Handling Systems, Inc., Mt. Washington, KY (US);
Nicholas A. Berg, Louisville, KY (US);
Jon Todd Fuchs, Louisville, KY (US);
Jeremiah Jason Futter, Lanesville, IN (US);
Paul Receveur, New Albany, IN (US);
Material Handling Systems, Inc., Mt. Washington, KY (US);
Abstract
A system for managing parcel flow includes: an upstream conveyor for receiving and conveying a bulk flow of parcels; and a damming conveyor positioned to receive parcels offloaded from the upstream conveyor. The system may also include: a destacking conveyor positioned to receive parcels offloaded from the damming conveyor and configured to separate vertically stacked parcels; and a downstream conveyor positioned to receive parcels offloaded from the destacking conveyor. The damming conveyor can be selectively activated and deactivated to offload parcels in discrete batches, instead of a continuous flow. Selective activation and deactivation of the damming conveyor and/or destacking conveyor can be based on instructions communicated from a control subsystem in accordance in a prearranged sequence or based on data from one or more sensors configured to acquire data corresponding to the positioning of parcels within the system.