Patent ID: 7682122

Claim:
An apparatus for retrieving articles from various different locations in a preselected area with a quantity of such articles therein and delivering the same to a designated area spaced from said preselected area, said apparatus comprising: a carriage rollingly mountable on a track system having a predetermined path offset a selected distance along said preselected area for the articles, said carriage having a load carrying support surface thereon for holding articles as they are retrieved in succession one after another from said preselected area and first power means on said carriage to propel the same along said track a rigid support superstructure carried by said carriage; reach means mounted on said superstructure and second power means to extend and retract the same, said reach means comprises an extendible and retractable boom, said boom includes a telescopic section; a power operated article gripping assembly carried by said reach means for grasping an article to be retrieved from said preselected area and place it on said carriage load carrying surface; and means mounting said boom on said superstructure comprising a pair of interconnected gear head rotators with respective first and second angularly related pivot axes, means mounting one of said rotators on a section of said boom and the other on said superstructure.