US 11,945,695 B2
Apparatus, system and method for the delivery of items onto surfaces including elevated surfaces
Timothy Allen Niedzwiecki, Atlantic Mine, MI (US); and Scott David Compton, Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to NILEC SOLUTIONS, LLC, Houston, TX (US)
Filed by NILEC SOLUTIONS, LLC, Houston, TX (US)
Filed on Mar. 20, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/826,099.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/964,064, filed on Jan. 21, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/822,946, filed on Mar. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0299109 A1, Sep. 24, 2020
Int. Cl. B66C 13/08 (2006.01); B66C 1/22 (2006.01); B66C 1/26 (2006.01); B66C 13/48 (2006.01); E04D 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC B66C 1/26 (2013.01) [E04D 15/02 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for delivering one or more items onto one or more target surfaces, including:
one or more supports attached to a frame of the apparatus, the one or more supports being operationally configured to carry a unit load including one or more rows of the one or more items;
an adjustable assembly moveable along part of the frame and operationally configured to direct the one or more items of the unit load off from the apparatus onto the one or more target surfaces;
a mover assembly attached to the adjustable assembly and operationally configured to direct the one or more items off from the one or more supports; and
a leveling assembly operationally configured to attach the apparatus with a lifting equipment and maintain the apparatus in a vertical alignment during operation of the apparatus;
the apparatus including a control circuitry operationally configured to program a travel distance of the adjustable assembly according to a configuration of the one or more items comprising the one or more rows of the unit load.