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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2020
Pevco Systems International Inc., Baltimore, MD (US);
Steven M. Dahl, Baltimore, MD (US);
Andrey Jasiukaitis, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Chad Schneider, Owings Mills, MD (US);
Joseph Gaultney, Baltimore, MD (US);
Charles Cateora, Baltimore, MD (US);
PEVCO SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL INC., Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
A workstation includes a housing and a pneumatic tube port sized and shaped to connect to tubing of a pneumatic tube delivery system. The workstation includes a carrier dispatch and arrival mechanism coupling to the pneumatic tube port and having an outlet and a slide plate movable from a position opening the outlet to a position closing the outlet. The carrier dispatch and arrival mechanism further including a dispatch arm for loading an outbound carrier for transportation from the workstation through the pneumatic tube delivery system to a further workstation. The workstation further comprises an equipment storage compartment adjacent to the carrier dispatch and arrival mechanism and a bin at the bottom of the housing sized and shaped to receive and store the inbound carriers in combination with a user interface cabinet housing a user interface apparatus and a space for supporting stored carriers.