Turntables Patents (Class 105/28)
  • Patent number: 7532946
    Abstract: A chemical substance total management system aids for reduction of release and transferring amount of managing substances in business entities. The system retrieves releasing and transferring amount record relating to predetermined managing substance on the basis of total tabulation link information with correlation between the tabulation result record managing releasing and transferring amount of managing substance per releasing and transferring destination and releasing and transferring amount record to be a source generating tabulation result record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ichikawa, Takako Oono, Akira Sekine, Tetsuya Matsui, Kiyomi Funabashi
  • Patent number: 6745699
    Abstract: A material handling turntable includes a turntable including a top for receiving a load thereon and also a bottom. The turntable further includes a motor and gear set for driving said turntable in circular motion and also includes a low friction disc slidably receiving said bottom of said turntable thereon. Preferably the turntable is assembled from multiple pie sections fastened to each other wherein each pie section including a lattice work type frame with the bottom of each frame member defining a bottom load bearing surfaces making sliding contact with said low friction disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Inventor: Reinier Hill
  • Patent number: 6672221
    Abstract: A conveyance storage apparatus includes an annular turntable having an outer circumference and a central opening defining a support surface therebetween for supporting a plurality of conveyances, particularly aircraft, on parking spaces thereon. The turntable is supported on a foundation, and a rotation assembly is positioned between the turntable and the foundation for permitting rotation of the turntable on the foundation between storage and enter/exit positions. A stationary core is positioned within the central opening of the turntable and the turntable is mounted for rotation around the stationary core. The turntable can be positioned within an enclosure having an opening sized to permit only a single conveyance to enter or exit the enclosure at a time. The rotation assembly is electronically programmable to respond to a predetermined access code by moving a predetermined parking space to a conveyance entrance/exit position in relation to the enclosure opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Carousel Hangars, Inc.
    Inventor: Carleton J. Hadley
  • Publication number: 20030145760
    Abstract: A conveyance storage apparatus includes an annular turntable having an outer circumference and a central opening defining a support surface therebetween for supporting a plurality of conveyances, particularly aircraft, on parking spaces thereon. The turntable is supported on a foundation, and a rotation assembly is positioned between the turntable and the foundation for permitting rotation of the turntable on the foundation between storage and enter/exit positions. A stationary core is positioned within the central opening of the turntable and the turntable is mounted for rotation around the stationary core. The turntable can be positioned within an enclosure having an opening sized to permit only a single conveyance to enter or exit the enclosure at a time. The rotation assembly is electronically programmable to respond to a predetermined access code by moving a predetermined parking space to a conveyance entrance/exit position in relation to the enclosure opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventor: Carleton J. Hadley
  • Patent number: 3948185
    Abstract: Method for undercutting a railroad tie resting in a ballast bed and supporting track rails consisting of moving a probe through the ballast beneath the tie while continuously vibrating the probe so that forces are transmitted from the probe to the ballast to agitate the ballast adjacent to the bottom and side faces of the tie to remove ballast from beneath the tie to form a trench substantially coincident with the bottom of the tie and to loosen ballast immediately adjacent the side faces of the tie and apparatus for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1976
    Assignee: Railway Maintenance Corporation
    Inventors: Paul S. Settle, Rudolph G. Wilmer