Abstract: A loading system (e.g., in a warehouse or other item-fulfillment environment) can include a rotary hub that supports one or more chambers. In a first orientation of the rotary hub, one of the chambers may be in a first position aligned for item receipt (e.g., through an open top of the chamber by feeding from a conveyor belt or other feeding system). The rotary hub can rotate to a second orientation in which the chamber is in a second position aligned for item discharge (e.g., through an open end of the chamber and into a receiving zone of a packaging machine or other system).

Abstract: An inventory handling apparatus for transferring inventory items from an inventory bin onto a conveyer includes a rotatable member with a conveyance assembly mounted inside. The conveyance assembly receives an inventory bin into a conveyance channel sized to restrain the inventory bin during inversion of the inventory bin. The inverted inventory bin is moved onto a conveyor and the inventory bin lifted thereby leaving the inventory items on the conveyor.

Abstract: A welded steel rack has angular protrusions on the top that engage matching recesses on the bottom for stacking, and has offset front posts that form a flue gap when arranged side-by-side. A deck is perforated.

Abstract: A sortation system uses short conveyors or transporter units on a lift to move products or packages to totes in a storage rack. The lift may be a carousel. Automated components remove the totes from the rack and place them on outfeed conveyors. The system to remove the totes can include a transfer vehicle. The sortation system may be modular.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an inventory storage module has first and second conveyor segments that are vertically spaced from one another and third and fourth conveyor segments that connect the first and second conveyor segments to define a movement path that is elongate along a longitudinal direction. The module has a plurality of container carriers that are supported by the first to fourth conveyor segments. Each container carrier supports at least one inventory storage container that can support at least one inventory item therein. The module has at least one movement system that can push the container carriers along the first and second conveyor segments along the longitudinal direction between the first and second module ends. The storage module can translate inventory storage containers around the movement path until a desired one of the inventory storage containers is presented at one of the first and second module ends.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an inventory conveyance system has at least one longitudinal track that is elongate along a longitudinal direction. The system has at least one transverse track that extends from the at least one longitudinal track along a transverse direction that is angularly offset from the longitudinal direction. The transverse track can ride along the at least one longitudinal track along the longitudinal direction. The system has at least one inventory transfer vehicle that is coupled to the transverse track such that the transfer vehicle can ride along the at least one transverse track along the transverse direction. The at least one inventory transfer vehicle has a body, and at least one end effector supported by the body. The at least one end effector can removably couple to an inventory storage container.

Abstract: A sortation system uses short conveyors or transporter units on a lift to move products or packages to totes in a storage rack. The lift may be a carousel. Automated components remove the totes from the rack and place them on outfeed conveyors. The system to remove the totes can include a transfer vehicle. The sortation system may be modular.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an inventory conveyance system has at least one longitudinal track that is elongate along a longitudinal direction. The system has at least one transverse track that extends from the at least one longitudinal track along a transverse direction that is angularly offset from the longitudinal direction. The transverse track can ride along the at least one longitudinal track along the longitudinal direction. The system has at least one inventory transfer vehicle that is coupled to the transverse track such that the transfer vehicle can ride along the at least one transverse track along the transverse direction. The at least one inventory transfer vehicle has a body, and at least one end effector supported by the body. The at least one end effector can removably couple to an inventory storage container.