公开(公告)号：US10301067B2

公开(公告)日：2019-05-28

申请号：US15845401

申请日：2017-12-18

申请人： Tippmann Companies LLP

发明人： Daniel J. Tippmann

IPC分类号： B65D19/38 ,  B65D81/26 ,  B65D71/00 ,  F24F7/007

摘要： Systems and methods for airflow management around palletized cases of goods in a warehouse storage facility are provided, in which airflow around each individual layer of cases is facilitated while airflow “spillage” around the sides, top or bottom of pallet assemblies is minimized or eliminated. One exemplary device for such airflow management includes palletized product spacers disposed between respective layers of vertically stacked cases, in which the product spacers facilitate a substantially unidirectional longitudinal airflow. Another exemplary airflow management device is a series of automatically adjustable air dams disposed at the tops of respective pallet assemblies which prevent air spillage and establish intermediate air manifold spaces. Yet another device is a lateral pallet spacer prevents direct abutment of the side surfaces of neighboring pallet assemblies and thereby ensures that the air manifold spaces are in fluid communication with the spacers of multiple pallet assemblies.

公开(公告)号：US20180105322A1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-19

申请号：US15845401

申请日：2017-12-18

申请人： Tippmann Companies LLP

发明人： Daniel J. Tippmann

IPC分类号： B65D19/38 ,  B65D71/00

CPC分类号： B65D19/38 ,  B65D71/0096 ,  B65D81/263 ,  B65D2571/00043 ,  F24F7/007

摘要： Systems and methods for airflow management around palletized cases of goods in a warehouse storage facility are provided, in which airflow around each individual layer of cases is facilitated while airflow “spillage” around the sides, top or bottom of pallet assemblies is minimized or eliminated. One exemplary device for such airflow management includes palletized product spacers disposed between respective layers of vertically stacked cases, in which the product spacers facilitate a substantially unidirectional longitudinal airflow. Another exemplary airflow management device is a series of automatically adjustable air dams disposed at the tops of respective pallet assemblies which prevent air spillage and establish intermediate air manifold spaces. Yet another device is a lateral pallet spacer prevents direct abutment of the side surfaces of neighboring pallet assemblies and thereby ensures that the air manifold spaces are in fluid communication with the spacers of multiple pallet assemblies.

公开(公告)号：US20190234677A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-01

申请号：US16260832

申请日：2019-01-29

申请人： Tippmann Companies LLP

发明人： Daniel J. Tippmann

IPC分类号： F25D21/04 ,  F25D21/00 ,  F25D21/12 ,  F25B49/02

CPC分类号： F25D21/04 ,  F25B49/022 ,  F25B49/027 ,  F25B2600/111 ,  F25B2600/112 ,  F25B2700/02 ,  F25D21/006 ,  F25D21/12

摘要： An augmented heat transfer system can be used to control the humidity of adjacent conditioned spaces by selectively absorbing latent heat energy from a relatively warm space, such as a loading dock, and discharging this energy in the form of sensible heat to an adjacent relatively cold space, such as a freezer served by the loading dock. This transfer of sensible heat energy into the cold space induces a vapor compression system to remove sufficient moisture from the cold space to avoid uncontrolled precipitation. At the same time, the process of removing moisture/latent heat from the warm space can also be used to reduce humidity in the warm space via condensation on a cold evaporator. Therefore, in operations where the warm space and the cold space are both nominally sealed from ambient air, such as an indoor loading dock serving a freezer, the augmented heat transfer system can eliminate uncontrolled precipitation in the freezer while also mitigating moisture ingress to the freezer from the dock space.