System for receiving, loading, queuing, and delivery of goods

Abstract

A system for loading, queueing, and delivery of orders is provided having a controller, a transport arrangement including a pathway defined by a track, with a plurality of cars guided on said track, and a loading station and an unloading station located along the pathway. Carrier racks are attached to the cars to deliver orders from the loading station to the unloading station. The unloading station includes powered fingers to remove the orders from the carrier racks and deliver them to an offload and delivery sequencing arrangement that includes at least one sequential parking conveyor that can accumulate orders or batches of product prior to delivery from a present station to a customer pick-up location. This provides a flexible design of layouts for moving food products in any direction, horizontally or vertically, from inside a restaurant to a second drive-thru lane adjacent to the first lane, at distance to the restaurant building.