Appeal No. 97-1754
Application 08/462,133
infeed conveyor 50 and is elevated by scissors lift 36 to an
unloading station where the topmost tray is unloaded. The
unloaded tray is then conveyed to an adjacent scissors lift 38
where it is temporarily stored. Thereafter, the next tray on
the scissors lift 36 is elevated to the unloading station for
unloading. As the process is repeated, filled trays are
unloaded and trans-ferred from lift 36 to lift 38.
Eventually, scissors lift 38 is lowered and a pallet of empty
trays leaves the apparatus via outfeed conveyor 60 for
recycling. As is apparent from a review of Figure 2, the
storage areas for filled and empty trays defined in part by
scissors lifts 36 and 38 are not in spaced vertical relation
to each other.
Mojden pertains to an apparatus for regulating the flow
of articles from an upstream work station to a downstream work
station. With reference to Figures 1 and 2, each and every
one of the inbound articles from work station 25 is unloaded
from inbound lanes onto trays 55, which trays when filled are
transferred from empty tray stack table 60 to filled tray
stack table 62. The stacks of filled trays are then conveyed
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