Mobile cross-dock with drop frame trailer
AssigneeFedEx Ground Package System, Inc.
InventorTravis Henderson
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Abstract
A mobile cross-dock includes a drop-frame trailer including: a first deck having a first height above the ground; a second deck having a second height above the ground that is greater than the first height, the second deck being located in a front portion of the trailer above a coupler assembly; side doors arranged on at least one longitudinal side wall of the drop-frame trailer; a back door on a back-end of the drop-frame trailer; a nose door on a front-wall of the drop-frame trailer; and a conveyor mounted longitudinally within the drop-frame trailer and extending from the back door towards the nose door.
Claims19
-20. (canceled)
A method of operating a mobile cross-dock, the method comprising:
- positioning a first trailer at a location, the first drop-frame trailer comprising:
- a nose door, a rear door, and a first conveyor mounted longitudinally within the first trailer and extending from the rear door towards the nose door,
- positioning a second trailer in front of the first trailer such that the nose door of the first trailer is adjacent a rear door of the second trailer, the second trailer comprising a second conveyor mounted longitudinally within the second trailer and extending from the rear door of the second trailer towards a nose door of the second trailer;
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- extending the first conveyor through the nose door of the first trailer to meet the second conveyor of the second trailer through the rear door of the second trailer.
A mobile cross-dock comprising:
- a trailer comprising:
- a first deck having a first height above the ground;
- a second deck having a second height above the ground that is greater than the first height, the second deck being located in a front portion of the trailer above a coupler assembly;
- a nose door on a front-wall of the drop-frame trailer;
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- conveying means mounted longitudinally within the drop-frame trailer and extending from the back door towards the nose door, wherein an interior, bottom portion of the nose door is recessed by at least a thickness of the conveying means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.