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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2013
J&l Group International , Llc, Keithville, LA (US);
Robert M. Allen, Spokane Valley, WA (US);
Aaron Cleveland, Clayton, WA (US);
Marius Batrin, Liberty Lake, WA (US);
Richard W. Wilkinson, Friendswood, TX (US);
Michael Harrington, Spokane, WA (US);
ALLIANCE MACHINE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a stacking device including a conveyor belt configured to move one or more items towards a receiving storage hopper configured to receive the one or more items from the conveyor belt. The one or more items may form a stack of items in the receiving storage hopper. The stacking device may further include a sensing device configured to determine a level of the stack of items in the receiving storage hopper. The stacking device may be configured to adjust a height of the conveyor belt relative to the storage hopper based on the level of the stack of items in the receiving storage hopper.