ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,889, issued on June 17, was assigned to BW INTEGRATED SYSTEMS LLC (St. Louis).
"Depalletizing machine" was invented by Michael L. Girtman (Imperial, Mo.), Moaz Nabeel (Ballwin, Mo.), Dominic G. Clucas (St. Louis) and Randall K. Hemingway (Troy, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A depalletizing machine (10) is operative to separate layers of containers (38) that are positioned in supported connection with a pallet (36). The layers are separated on the pallet by dunnage sheets (42). A top frame (44) is positioned on top of the layers of containers. The machine operates to remove the top frame and dunnage sheets and sequentially sweep...