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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2006
Applicants:
Cary Michael Pierson, Milwaukie, OR (US);
Stephen L. Heston, West Linn, OR (US);
Inventors:
Cary Michael Pierson, Milwaukie, OR (US);
Stephen L. Heston, West Linn, OR (US);
Assignee:
TopTier Inc., Portland, OR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 57/00 (2006.01); B65G 57/22 (2006.01); B65G 1/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A compact palletizer combines a plate apron and an apron conveyor as a layer build area positionable both vertically and horizontally to implement receipt and organization of items as layers and to stack item layers on a pallet. A puller bar serves to pull item rows into layers in a layer building operation and to act as a backstop in delivering an item layer onto a stack of items. An apron serves to also deliver empty pallets to a stack build area.