Bagging system for store merchandise
AssigneeWalmart Apollo, LLC
InventorsCristy Crane Brooks, Benjamin D. Enssle, David Blair Brightwell, Jesse Lee Eaton, Jeffrey A. Kerbs, Greg A. Bryan
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Abstract
A bagging station, comprises a base; a carousel that rotates relative to the base, the carousel including a plurality of bag holding elements; an indicator at each bag holding element that provides a status regarding a bag hanging from the bag holding element; and a bag selection system that controls the indicators to identify bags for allocating items according to a predetermined criteria about at least one of the bag or the items.
Claims19
A bagging station, comprising:
- a base;
- a carousel that rotates relative to the base, the carousel including a plurality of bag holding elements;
- an indicator at each bag holding element that provides a status regarding a bag hanging from the bag holding element;
- a bag selection system that controls the indicators to identify bags for allocating items according to a predetermined criteria about at least one of the bag or the items;
- a robotic arm extending from the carousel and having an end effector for gripping the bags for at least one of automatically placing the allocated items into the identified bags or moving the bags including the allocated items from the carousel to a different location;
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- a controller that directs the robotic arm to at least one of insert the items into the identified bags according to the predetermined criteria or move the bags including the allocated items from the carousel to the different location.
A bagging station, comprising:
- a base;
- a carousel that rotates relative to the base, the carousel including a plurality of bag holding elements;
- a robotic arm extending from the carousel and having an end effector for at least one of automatically placing items into bags on the bag holding elements or removing the items from the bags from the bag holding elements;
- a visual indicator at each bag holding element that provides a status regarding the bag hanging from the bag holding element;
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- a controller that directs the robotic arm to move the items or bags according to predetermined criteria.
A machine-readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program for selecting a bag at a bagging station, the computer program comprising a set of programmable instructions for causing the machine to perform the steps of:
- receiving machine-readable bagging preference data;
- receiving machine-readable item data;
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- controlling a bagging carousel to identify a shopping bag from a plurality of bags for receiving an item of merchandise corresponding to the machine-readable item data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.