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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:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2015
Applicant:
United States Postal Service, Washington, DC (US);
Inventor:
Donald R. Close, Fairfax, VA (US);
Assignee:
United States Postal Service, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C 5/00 (2006.01); B65D 21/04 (2006.01); B65B 5/06 (2006.01); B65D 19/38 (2006.01); B07C 5/34 (2006.01); B07C 3/00 (2006.01); B65D 21/02 (2006.01); B65D 21/06 (2006.01); B65D 25/20 (2006.01); B65D 25/28 (2006.01); B65D 1/46 (2006.01); B07C 99/00 (2009.01); B65B 57/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 21/045 (2013.01); B07C 3/005 (2013.01); B07C 5/3412 (2013.01); B07C 9/00 (2013.01); B65B 5/06 (2013.01); B65B 57/02 (2013.01); B65D 1/46 (2013.01); B65D 19/385 (2013.01); B65D 21/0212 (2013.01); B65D 21/064 (2013.01); B65D 25/205 (2013.01); B65D 25/2888 (2013.01); B65D 2203/02 (2013.01); B65D 2203/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of this disclosure include a rigid tray container and methods and equipment for using the rigid tray container in batched process operations. In one embodiment, a mass container is sized and dimensioned to receive one or several rigid tray containers. In other embodiments, equipment is configured to lid/unlid, secure, stack, load/unload, and buffer rigid tray containers. In other embodiments, equipment is configured to stack and stage mass containers. In some embodiments, methods are provided for batch processing items.