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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2021
Dematic Corp., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
William R. Boer, Wayland, MI (US);
Ed Vance, Lowell, MI (US);
Dematic Corp., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Abstract
A method, a palletizing sleeve, and a hand truck are provided for preparing a plurality of shipments of goods and transporting each shipment to one of a plurality of delivery destinations. The method includes determining the goods for the shipment, virtually building an optimized stacking configuration of those goods, physically building the stack based on the optimized configuration, transporting the shipment to a pre-determined delivery destination, and unloading the shipment at the delivery destination. The palletizing sleeve includes a base and a vertical wall that cooperate to support and stabilize a stack of goods that make up a portion of the shipment. Standoffs on the sleeve base provide openings to accept forks from the hand truck so that the hand truck can engage the sleeve from underneath the base. A fork height adjustment system selectively adjusts the fork height relative to the bottom of the hand truck.