A high-speed AMR pick-up and drop-off conveyor system includes a roller conveyor joined to a cantilevered transfer conveyor such that both conveyors are driven by a motorized drive roller (MDR) allowing the conveyor system to achieve a low-profile. The transfer conveyor includes a plurality of alignment fingers allowing an approaching AMR to align itself with the transfer conveyor to provide a continuous pick-up or drop-off flow of packages without stopping under the transfer conveyer.
An insertion and extraction ramp for use with grow rafts in hydroponic fanning which includes a ramp support extending across a floatation channel for supporting at least one grow raft. One or more pivot arms are configured under the ramp support for lifting and lowering an end of the ramp support. The ramp is raised and lowered for allowing insertion and extraction a grow rafts in rows, in a line, one-at-a-time into, and out of the floatation channel.
A heavy cabling counterbalance device includes a base portion having a plurality of legs where a battery charger having a charging cable is configured on the base portion. A charging stand having a charging arm and counterweight operates where the charging arm can be easily raised or lowered about a center of gravity such that the charging cable can be connected to a forklift positioned adjacent the base portion for charging its battery.
A helical chute system for conveying articles from an upper elevation to a lower elevation within a building includes a chute wound about a vertical axis and being secured at both an inner edge and outer edge by one or more support rods where a portion of the chute is comprised of a plurality of angular chute segments secured together in a stepped relationship to one another where each chute segment has a first surface sloping downwardly to a second surface below the first surface. An inner skirt is attached to the inner surface of the chute for preventing articles from falling from the surface of the chute and an outer skirt is attached to the outer surface of the chute for preventing articles from falling from the surface of the chute. One or more of plastic panels are positioned along the outer surface of the angular chute segments abutting the outer skirt. The number of low friction panels positioned on each angular chute segment is dependent on the height of the angular chute segment in the helical chute system such that the number panels per chute segment decreases in area as the chute segment descends about the vertical axis.
A helical chute system for conveying articles from an upper elevation to a lower elevation within a building includes a chute wound about a vertical axis and being secured at both an inner edge and outer edge by one or more support rods where a portion of the chute is comprised of a plurality of angular chute segments secured together in a stepped relationship to one another where each chute segment has a first surface sloping downwardly to a second surface below the first surface.
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