Hand Crank Patents (Class 105/89)
  • Patent number: 5024164
    Abstract: A mobile storage system including a plurality of one-piece track members each defining a guideway and a series of longitudinally spaced holes. The system also includes a carriage rotatably supported on the track members on rollers riding in the guideways. A drive mechanism on the carriage includes a sprocket which directly engages the unitary holes in each track member. In a preferred embodiment for heavy units, the drive mechanism includes a pair of such sprockets mounted on a common shaft driven at a midpoint to reduce carriage canting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1991
    Assignee: Pipp Mobile Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan R. Leist
  • 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: 4417524
    Abstract: For use in a modular cabinet or the like system wherein one or more cabinet modules of unit width have rolling mobility along parallel rails which extend normal to the module-width dimension and at module-width spacing, the invention contemplates a floor-mountable track system of rigid interconnected modular rail and spacer members adapted to provide permanent guided support of one or more modules without anchorage to the supporting floor, whereby the system can be readily moved, rearranged, expanded or otherwise modified, without damage to or modification of the supporting floor. The invention also contemplates novel modular rollable base structure particularly applicable to the tiered support of cabinet modules on such a track system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1983
    Assignee: Supreme Equipment & Systems Corp.
    Inventors: David A. Quinn, Mladen Peros