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US 2003/0222001 A1Published application
Process for handling articles in the mail order business
OwnerFerdinand Christinventor
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Abstract
A process for handling articles in the mail order business, particularly soft-good articles and hard-good articles, whereby each article is chaotically entered into a receptacle that holds only one article and this receptacle is incorporated into a commissioning device that has a plurality of receptacles, during which process the identifier of the receptacles and the identifier of the article are married to one another by a computer unit.
Claims30
A method for handling articles in a mail order business, comprising:
- providing a commissioning device comprising a plurality of receptacles, each of the receptacles being adapted to hold any one of the articles;
- chaotically placing one of the articles into one of the plurality of receptacles;
- and
- marrying a first identifier, associated with the article, with a second identifier, associated with the one of the receptacles which holds the article therein.
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A commissioning device for handling articles (9) in a mail order business, comprising:
- a plurality of receptacles (3, 3a, 3b) arranged vertically or horizontally, each of the receptacles being adapted to hold any one of the articles, whereby any one of the articles is chaotically placable into one of the plurality of receptacles;
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- a computer unit (12) adapted to assignment of a second identifier (8) to each receptacle (3, 3a, 3b) and a first identifier (10) to an article stocked therein, and marriage of the first identifier with the second identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.