Mechanical storage cabinet with container conveyor

Details Mechanical storage cabinet with container conveyor Mechanical storage cabinet with container conveyor

1986-01-07

1987-02-17

Pate, III, William F.

Supports: cabinet structure

With continuously level revolvable components

Continuously housed

198800, 312266, A47B 4900

Patent

active

046434950

ABSTRACT:
The subject matter of the invention is a mechanical cabinet with a paternoster-like circulating conveyor comprising two endless chains (1, 2), a multiplicity of pull-out shelves (17) for receiving industrial articles, for example, and affixed with their end walls to the two endless chains (1, 2) at predetermined equal distances by way of pairs of supporting arms (7, 8), and stationary guide rails (18, 19) on the narrow sides of the cabinet composed each of two vertical sections (20) and an upper and lower arcuate section (21, 22), said rails guiding guide members (10) rigidly mounted to the end walls of the shelves (17). With such mechanical cabinets problems arise regarding safe and smooth guidance of the endless chains and the shelves, particularly when the latter are non-uniformly loaded. In order to obtain a construction resistant to warping, and for improved guidance, each guide member (10) supports two vertically spaced guide elements (11, 12), and in the vertical sections (20) of the guide rails (18, 19) both guide elements (11, 12) are guided jointly, while in the arcuate sections (21, 22) only one guide element (12) is guided. The size and arrangement of the structural parts are so adapted to each other that the shelves rest on each other during their vertical travel.

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