Movable or removable closures – Up-and-over type; e.g. – moves from vertical to withdrawn... – With operator
Patent
1999-05-17
2000-10-03
Stodola, Daniel P.
Movable or removable closures
Up-and-over type; e.g., moves from vertical to withdrawn...
With operator
49199, 160200, E05F 1100
Patent
active
061255823
ABSTRACT:
A counterbalance system for an upward acting door includes spaced apart wall brackets supporting a tubular shaft for spaced apart cable drums operable to wind counterbalance cables thereon to counterbalance the weight of the door. Torsion springs interconnect the cable drums and spring winder tubes sleeved over the springs and connected to the wall brackets by a winder mechanism including a support plate having spaced apart tabs adapted to register in corresponding slots formed in a wall bracket. The winder mechanism includes a worm gear drive including a ring gear which is connected to one end of the winder tube by an arrangement of radially inwardly projecting key portions in a bore of the ring gear which register with axial grooves formed in the winder tube and are adapted to slide into transverse slots intersecting the grooves. A removable lock pin is engageable with the ring gear or the worm of the worm gear drive. The overall arrangement of the winder mechanism, including the wall bracket, support plate, and connection between the ring gear and winder tube facilitate ease of fabrication, assembly and disassembly.
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Beaudoin Michel
Bittner Erin J.
Hoofard Richard K.
Krupke LeRoy G.
Mondragon Joseph J.
Cohen Curtis A.
Overhead Door Corporation
Stodola Daniel P.
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