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US 10,589,929 B2Granted
Securely transportable pallet transportation cart
AssigneeFrazier Industrial Company
InventorDomenick Iellimo
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Abstract
A pallet cart including a mechanism to help secure the cart to a forklift. The cart can move through a warehouse with racks of goods and receive signals and store information about the inventory on the racks. The unit can be moved to another location with a forklift. The security mechanism can comprise one or more magnets, retractable structures or other structures to secure the cart to the steel fork of a forklift during transport.
Claims20
A pallet cart for transporting pallets in pallet storage racks, the pallet cart, comprising:
- a chassis having a longitudinal axis defining a longitudinal direction, the chassis having a housing and being adapted to travel forward and backward in the longitudinal direction on a track past a collection of pallets of cartons on storage racks;
- a data storage device within the housing;
- a signal receiver, adapted to receive signals containing information about the goods on the storage racks;
- a security device on the chassis comprising an electromagnet adapted to electromagnetically adhere to a forklift fork and secure the pallet cart to the fork with electromagnetic attraction, the security device adapted to engage with a pair of tines extending in a first direction from a base of a forklift fork and electromagnetically secure the pallet cart to the tines by resisting movement of the cart in the longitudinal direction away from the base of the fork in the first direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.