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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2020
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Jon Stuart Battles, North Bend, WA (US);
William Scott Kalm, Seattle, WA (US);
Kent Belden Meiswinkel, Seattle, WA (US);
Kevin Senh Ly, Seattle, WA (US);
Dinesh Mahadevan, Everett, WA (US);
Peter A. Grant, Seattle, WA (US);
Bob Samac, Cle Elum, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A loading system (e.g., in a warehouse or other item-fulfillment environment) can include a rotary hub that supports one or more chambers. In a first orientation of the rotary hub, one of the chambers may be in a first position aligned for item receipt (e.g., through an open top of the chamber by feeding from a conveyor belt or other feeding system). The rotary hub can rotate to a second orientation in which the chamber is in a second position aligned for item discharge (e.g., through an open end of the chamber and into a receiving zone of a packaging machine or other system).