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US 2022/0063914 A1Published application
Warehouse system for fulfilling orders
OwnerH. J. Paul LANGENinventor
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Abstract
A warehouse system and method for fulfilling orders comprising a plurality of products. As pallets containing cases of individual units are received, they are transported to a specific storage location within a warehouse. There, a picker arm is configured to retrieve individual units from the pallets and place in a tote according to a specified order. The totes are transported through the warehouse to the specific storage locations, then sent to a packing station.
Claims26
A warehouse system for fulfilling orders comprising a plurality of products, comprising:
- a plurality of storage cells, each storage cell for receiving palletized products, the palletized products packed in cases each comprising a plurality of units, said cases arranged on a pallet in a shipping configuration;
- a conveyor system operable to sequentially advance a tote to a plurality of said storage cells corresponding to a plurality of products in an order, for collecting said order in said tote;
- a plurality of robotic pickers at said storage cells, each for engaging individual units of a product, to transfer said individual units from said pallets to said tote.
A warehousing method, comprising:
- receiving a plurality of pallets of goods, said pallets containing a plurality of cases, each containing a plurality of individual units of said goods;
- transporting each said pallet to a storage cell corresponding to goods on that pallet;
- removing individual units of said goods from said pallets with robotic pickers at said storage cells;
- assembling an order of products by advancing an order tote sequentially to a plurality of said storage cells to receive products from said robotic pickers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.