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US 2016/0244263 A1Published application
Cart for moving items
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsMangesh S. Kolharkar, David L. Mangold
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Abstract
A cart for moving items includes a base, wheels coupled to the base, and one or more rollers coupled on an upper surface of the base. The base includes one or more loading areas for loading items to be moved onto the base, and one or more unloading areas for unloading items from the base. The rollers coupled on one or more upper surfaces of the base in the loading areas may support items as the items are loaded onto the base.
Claims21
-29. (canceled)
A method of managing inventory, comprising:
- loading one or more items onto a loading area of a cart, wherein receiving the one or more items onto the cart comprises moving the one or more items across one or more rollers on an upper surface of the cart;
- moving the one or more items from a loading area of the cart to an unloading area of the cart;
- moving the cart from a loading site to an unloading site;
- and
- unloading one or items from the unloading area of the cart.
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A method of transferring an item between a cart and a platform adjacent to the cart, comprising:
- rolling a first portion of the item on one or more cart rollers on the cart;
- rolling, while the first portion of the item is rolled on the cart rollers, a second portion of the item on one or more platform rollers on the platform;
- and
- moving the item between the cart and the platform, wherein the item is at least partially supported by the cart rollers and at least partially supported by the platform rollers during a least a portion of the move.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.