Supports – Machinery support – Base or platform
Patent
1993-08-19
1995-11-28
Ramirez, Ramon O.
Supports
Machinery support
Base or platform
2481881, 248677, 248917, 3123511, F16M 100
Patent
active
054700426
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a supporting device for a machine.
Modern machines, due to their slim construction and their function-dependent weight distribution and the need to stand them up on edge, often lack the necessary stability. This is true, for example, of small computer units or the like which are installed in offices where there is a lot of activity.
A supporting device has already been proposed that essentially comprising a supporting foot which can be placed onto a standing foot. For the fitting of this supporting foot, the machine has to be raised or tilted to enable the supporting foot to be placed from below onto the standing foot. Due to the often heavy weight of the machines, this process is difficult and can occasionally only be performed with the use of auxiliary tools. Particularly where the standing feet are configured as castors, there is the risk, moreover, of the machine slipping away when tilted and of no longer being able to be held. A further disadvantage can be seen in the fact that the fastening base of the individual supporting foot on the standing foot is relatively small, so that, if a tilt load should occur, large forces come to bear upon the fastening region of the supporting foot, thereby giving rise to the risk of the supporting foot being loosened or damaged.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
U.S. Pat. No. 4,872,733 discloses a supporting device in which two bow-shaped supporting elements are disposed on a standing pedestal such that they can be swiveled between a non-operating position folded beneath the machine and not protruding beyond the lateral contour of the said machine and an unfolded operating position protruding over the lateral contour in the style of a supporting bracket. This arrangement is constructionally complex. Moreover, the supporting element can only be adjusted between these two positions if the machine is heavily tilted or tipped over, which has the drawbacks described earlier.
The object of the present invention is to provide a supporting device which can be fitted or dismantled without the machine being raised or tilted and which is simple to construct and inexpensive to manufacture.
This object is achieved according to the invention by a supporting device for a machine standing on a standing foot arrangement at a distance to the floor surface, consisting of at least one supporting element. It is adjustable between a non-operating position and an operating position in which it protrudes outwards, in the style of a supporting bracket, from the standing foot arrangement over the lateral contour of the machine. The supporting element has a separate holding section, which reaches, in the operating position, beneath the machine and is detachably connected to an assigned standing foot of the machine. A supporting bracket is disposed thereon, which protrudes over the lateral contour of the machine. The holding section is configured as an essentially U-shaped bow having two arms which bear, in the fitted position, laterally against the standing foot. There are provided on the holding section, in a direction perpendicular to the floor surface, stop faces, interacting with counter-faces of the standing foot, for fixing the holding section to the standing foot. The holding section, in the case of a standing machine, can be pushed beneath this in such a way that the two arms bear on both sides against an assigned standing foot. In the final operating position, the stop faces of the holding section bear against the counter-faces of the standing foot and fix the holding part to the standing foot in a direction perpendicular to the floor surface. The supporting bracket then protrudes, for example, over the lateral limits of the machine, to be precise, far enough to enable the stability requirements or the stability-defining test criteria to be satisfied. The dismantling of the supporting element is carried out in the reverse order by pulling it out from beneath, in the case of a standing machine.
The supporting element can be very simple in
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Fietz Ralf-Peter
Knoop Franz
Chan Korie H.
Ramirez Ramon O.
Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme Aktiengesellschaft
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