Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
414398000 | Power-driven conveyor for loading a wheeled vehicle | 8 |
20080298940 | BED CONVEYOR APPARATUS FOR ASSISTING IN UNLOADING A VEHICLE - A bed conveyor for use in a truck used to transport palletized loads of stacked packages and for delivering the packages (e.g., by means of an overhead conveyor) to a location remote from the truck (e.g., a roof top). The bed conveyor comprises a plurality of rails that extent longitudinally along the bed floor of the truck, which rails define a top weight bearing surface for supporting the weight of the palletized loads of stacked packages. The bed conveyor also includes a pusher member at least partially disposed above the top surface of the rails, and drive means for driving the pusher member and the palletized load rearwardly on the rails of the truck bed. The truck may also include a lift platform rearward relative to the bed conveyor for raising the palletized loads off the truck bed for easier unloading onto the overhead conveyor. | 12-04-2008 |
20090110522 | System and Method for Automated Truck Loading - An automatic case loader for loading product in a trailer is disclosed. A mobile base structure provides a support framework for a drive subassembly, conveyance subassembly, an industrial robot, a distance measurement sensor, and a control subassembly. Under the operation of the control subassembly, product advances through a powered transportation path to an industrial robot which places the product within the trailer. The control subassembly coordinates the selective articulated movement of the industrial robot and the activation of the drive subassembly based upon the distance measurement sensor detecting objects within a detection space, dimensions of the trailer provided to the control subassembly, and dimensions of the product provided to the control subassembly. | 04-30-2009 |
20090226289 | LOADING AID AND TELESCOPIC CONVEYING DEVICE FOR GOODS TO BE CONVEYED, IN PARTICULAR FOR PIECE GOODS, HAVING THE FORMER - There is provided a loading aid for facilitating loading and unloading of a container. An exemplary loading aid comprises a working platform that is adapted to be moved on at least three rollers, at least one of which is steerable. The exemplary loading aid further comprises an autonomous steering device that is adapted to steer the at least one steerable roller, to autonomously steer the working platform straight ahead to avoid touching a wall of the container and to autonomously steer the working platform away from the wall of the container until the working platform is aligned parallel to the wall of the container if the working platform touches the wall of the container. | 09-10-2009 |
20100034627 | Conveyor Clean-Out for Material Transport Vehicles - An improved material transport vehicle having an integrated assembly for cleaning out conveyors, elevators, hoppers and the like, and method for clean-out utilizing the same. The cleanout assembly comprises one or more detachable panels strategically located about the material transport vehicle, and means for releasing the same, so as to permit convenient and safe access to the components for removing unused, old or dried material. The detachable panel or panels are integral with a surface of the housings, typically the lower surface thereof. | 02-11-2010 |
20140093341 | Apparatus for Loading and Evenly Distributing Material into a Container - An overhead material handling system and methods for its use are provided, where the system comprises: (a) a compactor and (b) a leveler in communication with the compactor, where the leveler comprises (i) a cover, (ii) a trough, and (iii) a trigger, where the trough has a first end and a second end and the trough is rotatably-mounted between a first end of the cover and a second end of the cover. | 04-03-2014 |
20140356111 | METHOD OF HANDLING OBJECTS IN AN AIRPORT AND HANDLING SYSTEM - An example of an aim with the disclosed method and system may be seen to provide a method and system which does not require more square meters of footprint than existing solutions or even requires less square meters of footprint, while still being as effective as, or even more effective than reference methods and systems. The handling system comprises a moveable unit 101 adapted to move linearly in a travelling direction 406 of said moveable unit, where the moveable unit comprises a loading device 100 adapted to load one or more objects 102 at a time into or onto the airport trolley by activation of the loading device 100. | 12-04-2014 |
20160009507 | PORTABLE DEVICE FOR TRANSLOADING BULK MATERIAL | 01-14-2016 |
20160090248 | AUTOMATED LOADING SYSTEM - Cable robots may be used to automatically load items onto one or more surfaces in any environment. An item may be received on a carrier that is connected to tensioning actuators of a cable robot by one or more cables in tension. The actuators of the robot may be manipulated in concert to move the carrier from a first position to a second position, which may be fixed or in motion, at which the item may be expelled from the carrier. The carrier may include induction wheels and/or conveyors for receiving the item thereon and for expelling the item therefrom. The cable robot may be provided in series with a conveyor and mounted to a frame, and used to load items onto a delivery vehicle, such that the frame may be withdrawn as items are loaded. | 03-31-2016 |