Patents by Inventor Charles E. Jacoby

Charles E. Jacoby has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Small lightweight driverless vehicle
    Patent number: 4718350
    Abstract: A driverless vehicle is provided with support wheels on one side and drive wheels on the opposite side. The drive wheels perform the dual function of supporting one side of the body and propelling the vehicle by frictional contact with a drive shaft. The drive wheels are coupled together for oscillation about a vertical axis and are biased to a drive position. The vehicle body is provided with a cam for causing accumulation upon contact with another vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1988
    Assignee: SI Handling Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles E. Jacoby, Per E. Lindqvist
  • Drive wheel for driverless vehicle
    Patent number: 4603720
    Abstract: A drive wheel for driverless vehicle has a tire portion. The tire portion has discrete recesses for enabling the tire portion to be frictionally driven by a drive shaft whose surface is wet or oily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1986
    Assignee: SI Handling Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Charles E. Jacoby
  • Turntable for a system of driverless vehicles
    Patent number: 4597334
    Abstract: A turntable for driverless vehicles rides on a horizontally disposed circular rail and is pivotable about a vertical axis through an arc of 90.degree.. A vertical shaft is connected at its upper end to the table by way of a universal coupling. A motor is connected to the shaft to pivot the shaft. The turntable is particularly adapted for use at a T junction of a system having a closed loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Assignee: SI Handling Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles E. Jacoby
  • Track for driverless vehicles
    Patent number: 4515084
    Abstract: The track for driverless vehicles has a low profile with a rail extending along one side edge portion of the track structure and a drive shaft extending along the opposite side edge portion of the track structure. The drive shaft performs the dual function of supporting wheels on one side of a driverless vehicle and driving the vehicle by frictional contact with said wheels. The rail and the periphery of the drive shaft at the 12 o'clock position thereon are substantially the same elevation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1985
    Assignee: SI Handling Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles E. Jacoby
  • Shelf-type driverless vehicle
    Patent number: 4506607
    Abstract: A driverless vehicle having a plurality of shelves is provided with at least one trough supported by the shelves and separate therefrom. Each trough is open at the top and is open at each end thereof. A discrete puller member extends between side walls of the trough at each end thereof to facilitate pulling a trough and any merchandise therebetween toward one side of the vehicle to facilitate unloading the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Assignee: SI Handling Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles E. Jacoby
  • Driverless vehicle conveyor system
    Patent number: 4389941
    Abstract: In a driverless vehicle conveyor system wherein a driverless vehicle rides on tracks, two straight sections of the tracks have adjacent ends spaced by a gap. A transfer vehicle is provided in the gap for supporting and transferring driverless vehicles across the gap. The transfer vehicles are mounted for oscillation about an upright axis from a receiving position adjacent one end of the gap to a discharge position adjacent the other end of the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1983
    Assignee: SI Handling Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Donald M. Berk, Charles E. Jacoby, Larry Reagan
  • Material handling apparatus
    Patent number: 4199290
    Abstract: The apparatus includes a roller conveyor, a platform at one end of the conveyor, and a wheeled vehicle. The platform facilitates positioning the wheeled vehicle so that the bed thereon is aligned with a load support surface defined by rollers on the conveyor whereby the apparatus may be used for loading or unloading of trailer vans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1980
    Assignee: SI Handling Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles E. Jacoby
  • Cutting board attachment
    Patent number: 4094221
    Abstract: A cutting board attachment is disclosed. The attachment has a plurality of cutting fulcrums which facilitate the ease with which a conventional knife may be used for cutting frozen foods and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1978
    Inventor: Charles E. Jacoby
  • Detachable finger guard for a knife blade
    Patent number: D255974
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1980
    Inventor: Charles E. Jacoby