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.
Claims21
An automated pallet cart configured to be transported on a pair of tines extending in a first direction from a base of a forklift fork, the pallet cart comprising:
- a chassis supporting a battery, a motor, and a controller adapted to receive and transmit electronic signals, the chassis adapted to transport pallets of goods through a warehouse, the chassis having a longitudinal axis defining a forward and a backward longitudinal direction along the longitudinal axis, the chassis adapted to travel through a warehouse past a collection of pallets of cartons on storage racks;
- an automatically activated retention device on the chassis that in the activated condition, resists movement of the cart along the longitudinal axis in the first direction away from the base of said fork, the retention device comprising an electromagnet adapted and positioned to electromagnetically adhere to and secure the pallet cart to said tines with electromagnetic attraction, the retention device adapted to automatically activate the electromagnet when the tines are positioned under the pallet cart.
An automated pallet cart, comprising:
- a chassis supporting a battery, an internal motor and a controller adapted to receive instructions and transmit electronic control signals, the chassis adapted to transport pallets of goods through a warehouse, the chassis having a longitudinal axis defining a forward and a backward longitudinal direction along the longitudinal axis and left-side and right-side wheels on the left and right sides of the chassis, the wheels adapted to transport the pallet cart, the chassis configured to permit the pallet cart to be transported on a pair of tines extending in a first direction from a base of a forklift fork
- a selectively activatable retention device, in addition to and mounted to the chassis, that in an activated state, extends downward from the bottom of the chassis and is adapted to engage with the tines and resist movement of the pallet cart with respect to the fork along the longitudinal axis in the first direction and retain the pallet cart to said tines, and in a non-activated state does not act to retain the pallet cart to said tines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.