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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 23, 2019
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Brian Stuart Hoffman, Seattle, WA (US);

David L. Alspaugh, Seattle, WA (US);

Paul Roy Raines, Seattle, WA (US);

Timothy Alan Talda, Renton, WA (US);

Garett Ochs, Seattle, WA (US);

Steven Todd Johnson, Kirkland, WA (US);

Seshachalamgupta Motamarri, Sammamish, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 35/24 (2006.01); B65B 57/02 (2006.01); B65B 35/56 (2006.01); B65B 57/14 (2006.01); B65G 47/64 (2006.01); B65B 57/12 (2006.01); B65G 47/53 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 35/24 (2013.01); B65B 35/56 (2013.01); B65B 57/02 (2013.01); B65B 57/14 (2013.01); B65G 47/646 (2013.01); B65B 57/12 (2013.01); B65G 47/53 (2013.01);
Abstract

A material handling apparatus for reorienting and transferring inventory items to a packaging device includes a support member and a packaging conveyor. The support member receives an inventory item and reorients the item to a rejection orientation or a packaging orientation. The item is moved onto the packaging conveyor in the packaging orientation and is transported to the packaging device.


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