System for transferring articles from a container
AssigneeUnited States Postal Service
InventorWayne R. Perry-Eaton
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AssigneeUnited States Postal Service
InventorWayne R. Perry-Eaton
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An automated system for transferring articles from a container. An item transfer system includes a rotatable tray rotary assembly, a translatable and rotatable intermediate rotary assembly, and a translatable and rotatable output rotary assembly. The system is configured to transfer articles from the tray to processing equipment by an automated process including rotationally transferring the articles from the tray to the intermediate rotary assembly and rotationally transferring the articles from the intermediate rotary assembly to the output rotary assembly. The output rotary assembly can move to align with a shelf or other input of the processing equipment and a paddle assembly can slide the items from the output rotary assembly onto the shelf or other input of the processing equipment.
A tray content transfer system comprising:
A method for transferring items from a tray, the method comprising, by an automated process:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.