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US 2004/0111407 A1Published application
System for facilitating compliance with materials handling rules
OwnerRobert Gregory Petrancostainventor
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System and apparatus for determining a relationship between transportable or storable materials and plural transportation or storage modes for the materials. In a transportation system, placard rules that correlate placards, materials, and transportation or storage modes are pre-stored in a computer memory. Materials data is entered corresponding to a first predetermined material, as well as data corresponding to a predetermined transportation mode or a predetermined storage mode. One of the plurality of predetermined placards is selected in response to the materials data, the transportation or storage data, and the placard rules data. The transportable or storable material may be a hazardous material, and the placard rules therefore correspond to safety rules. In an apparatus aspect, an arrangement selects one of a plurality of placards. The arrangement has an input for facilitating entry of data corresponding to a first material, a classifications memory for storing classification data corresponding to a plurality of hazzard classifications, an exceptions memory for storing exceptions data corresponding to a plurality of exceptions to the hazzard classifications, at least one of the exceptions being selected in response to the input arrangement, a general rules memory for storing general rules data corresponding to the plurality of placards; and a processor for selecting the determinable one of the plurality of placards in response to the input arrangement, the classifications memory, the exceptions memory, and the general rules memory.
An arrangement for selecting a determinable one of a plurality of placards, the arrangement comprising:
The arrangement of claim 68, wherein said classification data contains data corresponding to classifications that are selected from the group of classifications comprising:
The arrangement of claim 68, wherein said classification data contains data corresponding to classifications that are selected from the group of classifications comprising:
The arrangement of claim 68, wherein said input arrangement facilitates entry of temperature data corresponding to a temperature characteristic of the first material.
The arrangement of claim 68, wherein said classification data contains temperature data corresponding to a temperature characteristic of the first material.
The arrangement of claim 68, wherein said input arrangement facilitates entry of weight data corresponding to a weight characteristic of the first material.
The arrangement of claim 71, wherein said processor is arranged to convert the weight data between first and second weight systems.
The arrangement of claim 68, wherein said input arrangement facilitates entry of second material data corresponding to a second material.
The arrangement of claim 73, wherein there is further provided a segregation memory for storing segregation data corresponding to a predetermined minimum spatial relationship between the first and second materials.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.