Patent ID: 8965559
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: B65G,G05B,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A material handling system for handling and placing packages onto pallets, the system comprising: a storage array with storage space for holding packages therein; an automated package transport system communicably connected to the storage array for storing packages in and retrieving packages from the storage spaces of the storage array; an automated palletizer for placing packages onto a pallet to form a pallet load, the palletizer is communicably connected to the transport system which provides individual packages from the storage array to the palletizer for forming the pallet load; and a controller operably connected to the palletizer and programmed with a pallet load generator configured so that the pallet load formed by the palletizer has more than one layer of stacked packages, wherein at least one layer of which includes packages of different heights, the at least one layer having a substantially flat upper surface between a top surface of the pallet load and a base surface upon which the at least one layer is seated, and comprises more than one stacks extending from the base surface to the upper surface substantially independent of each other, at least one of the independent stacks being formed of packages having different heights.