Machine element or mechanism – Gearing – Directly cooperating gears
Patent
1977-09-16
1979-05-22
Scott, Samuel
Machine element or mechanism
Gearing
Directly cooperating gears
49199, F16H 118
Patent
active
041552695
ABSTRACT:
Improved traveler and guide rail apparatus for use with a garage door operator includes an elongated guide rail having a longitudinal screw channel and outwardly extending integral flanges disposed along the screw channel. An elongated T-shaped flange extends upwardly from the screw channel. An improved traveler apparatus for use with the guide rail includes a screw-driven traveler and a coupling traveler, each mounted on respective tracks formed by separate outside surfaces of the guide rail. The screw-driven traveler carries a nut engaging a screw in the screw channel through a slot between the flanges and further includes opposed U-shaped channels slidably mounted over the exterior surfaces of the guide rail flanges for slidable movement along the guide rail. The coupling traveler surrounds the screw-driven traveler and a substantial portion of the guide rail and includes a bore in an upper portion thereof, the bore having an interior surface slidably engaging the exterior surface of the screw channel for slidable movement along the guide rail. Upper shoulders of the coupling traveler above the bore are sufficiently close to the T-shaped flange to be guided thereby to prevent undesirable vertical or horizontal movement of the coupling traveler. Also, the coupling traveler is sufficiently relieved in the flange area to accommodate the screw-driven traveler therein. The coupling traveler is further provided with means for connecting it to a garage door, and carries a manually actuable bistable latch for selectively engaging and disengaging the coupling traveler with the screw-driven traveler for respective cooperative and independent slidable movement along the guide rail.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3858452 (1975-01-01), Gatland et al.
Lee Maw H.
Prehodka Barry V.
Clopay Corporation
Ratliff, Jr. Wesley S.
Scott Samuel
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