Material or article handling – Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into – within,... – Stack forming apparatus
Patent
1994-12-21
1996-10-15
Merritt, Karen B.
Material or article handling
Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into, within,...
Stack forming apparatus
B65G 100
Patent
active
055648908
ABSTRACT:
A process for handling products comprising the steps of providing a product handling system having a storage structure comprising a plurality of product pallet lanes having product pallets therein, simultaneously replenishing pairs of juxtaposed pallet lanes with corresponding pairs of pallets, determining if there is a product pallet lane depleted of product pallets such that the quantity of product pallets therein is below a first predetermined quantity; and automatically suspending the simultaneous replenishment of pairs of juxtaposed lanes if it is determined that there is a depleted lane, and replenishing only the depleted lane until the quantity of product pallets therein increases to a second predetermined quantity.
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Hess Douglas
Merritt Karen B.
Progressive Solutions, Inc.
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