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The stat shuttle adapter and transport device includes a conveyor with a movable platform for securement of the stat shuttle adapter. The stat shuttle adapter is a universal holding device that includes a carrier housing having male and female surfaces that engage complementary shaped female or male

The stat shuttle adapter and transport device includes a conveyor with a movable platform for securement of the stat shuttle adapter. The stat shuttle adapter is a universal holding device that includes a carrier housing having male and female surfaces that engage complementary shaped female or male surfaces of a rack that is held by the carrier housing. The conveyor has a forward load position wherein racks are loaded onto the carrier housing. The conveyor also has a rearward unload position wherein the loaded rack is locked onto the carrier housing to facilitate removal of the contents of the rack from the carrier housing without upsetting the rack. A latch device on the carrier housing is normally biased to a lock position but is maintained in an unlock position when the carrier housing is at the forward load position of the conveyor. A latch engagement device on the conveyor maintains the latch in the unlock position while the carrier housing is at the forward load position of the conveyor. Once the conveyor moves the carrier housing away from the forward load position toward the rearward unload position the latch device is free to move to the normal lock position wherein the loaded rack is locked to the carrier housing. As the conveyor moves the carrier housing toward to the rearward unload position the latch device remains in the lock position.

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1. A shuttle device comprisinga) a shuttle conveyor including a conveyor belt for moving objects back and forth to first and second conveyor locations, b) a carrier device secured to said conveyor belt for holding objects to be moved back and forth to said first and second conveyor locations, c) sai

1. A shuttle device comprisinga) a shuttle conveyor including a conveyor belt for moving objects back and forth to first and second conveyor locations, b) a carrier device secured to said conveyor belt for holding objects to be moved back and forth to said first and second conveyor locations, c) said carrier device including a carrier housing and a latch device mounted on said carrier housing for slideable movement back and forth relative to said carrier housing from an unlock position free from engagement with an object being carried by said carrier housing to a lock position in locking engagement with an object being carried by said carrier housing, said latch device being normally biased to said lock position, d) said latch device including an actuator member for effecting movement of said latch device from the lock position to the unlock position, e) said conveyor including a first immovable actuator member engagement surface at said first conveyor location and a second immovable actuator member engagement surface at said second conveyor location, f) said first immovable actuator member engagement surface being positioned for engagement with said actuator member when said carrier device is at said first conveyor location to hold the latch device of said carrier device in the unlock position, said second immovable actuator member engagement surface being positioned for non-engagement with said actuator member when said carrier device is at said second location and said latch device is in the unlock position, the position of said second immovable actuator member engagement surface permitting surface engagement with said actuator member when said carrier housing is at said second conveyor location and said latch device is in said unlock position, whereby conveyor movement of said carrier housing toward said second conveyor location enables said second immovable actuator member engagement surface to urge said actuator member to move said latch device from the unlock position to the lock position.