Patents by Inventor Genshi Taniwaki

Genshi Taniwaki 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).

  • Patent number: 4421365
    Abstract: A movable storage cabinet includes a plurality of saddles, in the form of inverted channels, and each provided with holes in its opposite lateral sides which receive the shafts of wheels. The saddles extend in the direction of depth of the cabinet, and the front and rear ends of adjacent saddles are connected together by a connection member, thus forming an underframe of the cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: Kongo Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Genshi Taniwaki
  • Patent number: 4266372
    Abstract: A sliding door is provided which is suitable for use as a heavy door for vaults in banks. The door is provided at its bottom with driving wheels adapted to be rotated manually by means of a handle, through a suitable power transmitting means, thereby to move the door along a rail. The power transmitting means may incorporate a suitable reduction means so that the door may be moved with a reduced force and, accordingly, at a lower speed. Means are provided for locking the door in the closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1981
    Assignee: Kongo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Genshi Taniwaki
  • Patent number: 4211039
    Abstract: A door assembly including a door associated with a guide which is disposed in an orientation perpendicular to the plane of a door opening formed in a wall, and a guide follower mounted on the door to run along the guide. In one embodiment the guide follower is rotatably driven by the rotation of a handle mounted on the door through a transmission. In another embodiment, the door may be manually pushed or pulled along the guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1980
    Assignee: Kongo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Genshi Taniwaki
  • Patent number: 4170848
    Abstract: A sliding door is provided which is suitable for use as a heavy door for vaults in banks. The door is provided at its bottom with driving wheels adapted to be rotated manually by means of a handle, through a suitable power transmitting means, thereby to move the door along a rail. The power transmitting means may incorporate a suitable reduction means so that the door may be moved with a reduced force and, accordingly, at a lower speed. Means are provided for locking the door in the closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1979
    Assignee: Kongo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Genshi Taniwaki
  • Patent number: 4162592
    Abstract: A sliding door is provided which is suitable for use as a heavy door for vaults in banks. The door is provided at its bottom with driving wheels adapted to be rotated manually by means of a handle, through a suitable power transmitting means, thereby to move the door along a rail. The power transmitting means may incorporate a suitable reduction means so that the door may be moved with a reduced force and, accordingly, at a lower speed. Means are provided for locking the door in the closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1979
    Assignee: Kongo Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Genshi Taniwaki
  • Patent number: 4153312
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile rack system intended for an efficient use of a limited space of store house and the like for storing books and other goods, having a plurality of mobile racks adapted to run along rails laid on the floor of the store house. The system incorporates at least one human-power driven pedal-actuated driving source. The driving source may be provided for each of the mobile racks or may be provided independently of the mobile racks for running along separate rails. The driving source has a pair of pedals, at least a pair of driving wheels, speed reduction transmitting means between the pedals and the driving wheels, and a saddle for the operator to sit on, the position of which being switchable in accordance with the direction of movement of the rack or the tractor.Braking means are provided for preventing the mobile racks from moving unintentionally, thereby to avoid accidents due to the collision of racks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1979
    Assignee: Kongo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Genshi Taniwaki
  • Patent number: 4138173
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for anchoring a movable box-shaped shelf assembly of the type wherein the assembly is supported by wheels which in turn ride on parallel rails laid on a floor and a handwheel is attached to one side wall of the assembly and is drivingly coupled through a reduction gear to a shaft of the wheels so that upon rotation of the handwheel, the shelf assembly may be moved along the rails in either direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1979
    Assignee: Kongo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Genshi Taniwaki
  • Patent number: 3944309
    Abstract: A manually movable wheeled storage rack or the like is disclosed which may be moved along a pair of rails when an operator rotates a handwheel attached to one side wall of the storage rack or the like. The storage rack or the like is further provided with a locking device so as to hold the storage rack or the like in a desired position and a safety device so that when a buffer plate of the safety device hits an operator or worker in the passage between the adjacent storage racks or the like as one of them starts to move by an accident, the safety device immediately locks the wheel, whereupon the operator or worker may be prevented from being sandwiched between the storage racks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1976
    Assignee: Kongo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Genshi Taniwaki
  • Patent number: D248822
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1978
    Assignee: Kongo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Genshi Taniwaki
  • Patent number: D251947
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1979
    Assignee: Kongo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Genshi Taniwaki