Cylindrical Shape Patents (Class 211/85.18)
  • Patent number: 6405882
    Abstract: Containment racks for safely storing cylinders such as diving tanks, welding tanks, and medical tanks such as oxygen tanks, in vertical upright positions. A first version has a holder container for supporting up to six tanks in two rows of three tanks per row. Each of the tanks are held in cylindrical hollow supports having an open upper end for inserting an individual tank therein. Another version uses cylinders side by side to one another in a straight line, and a still another version has four cylinder holders in a rectangular configuration. The rack devices can be used in different combinations to store three, four, five, six, seven and eight cylinders at one time. The rack devices can be formed from materials such as plastics, resin, glass, composites, fiberglass, combinations thereof, and the like. Each of the rack versions can include rectangular frames about a mid central portion having through-holes therein for allowing the racks to be tied down when being used in pickup truck beds and boats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Inventor: John D. Baxter
  • Publication number: 20020063101
    Abstract: A shelving system for supporting and storing cylindrical objects, such as canned goods, is disclosed. The shelving system is made up of two or more bilaterally symmetrical rails coupled together in a side-by-side orientation by at least two rods. The rails form a track on which the cylinders are placed such that the cylinders roll on a top track section from front to back and then drop to a lower track section where they roll from back to front. The distance between the paired rails can be adjusted by the depth that the rods are inserted into receiving structures. The rails can also be stacked on each other to provide for storage of additional cylinders. This shelving system provides for storage of different sizes of cylinders and for rotation of cylinders, such as would be advantageous for rotation of canned food.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventor: Wayne Thomas
  • Publication number: 20020036178
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rack for supporting cask-type containers. The rack comprises a plurality of modular structures each suitable for receiving a single container, each modular structure presenting a back vertical mean plane and a substantially parallel front vertical mean plane, and having top fixing points, bottom fixing points, and support means close to said bottom fixing points, said support means being substantially contained in a horizontal plane so as to support a container. The modular structures are connected to one another via their fixing points on a horizontal axis and on a vertical axis so that each upper modular structure straddles two lower modular structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Inventor: Nicolas Tombu
  • Patent number: 6354543
    Abstract: In one aspect, a stackable transmission line hanger is provided for securing one or more transmission lines to a supporting structure. Each such hanger includes a transmission line retention section for accommodating a transmission line and a mounting section extending from the transmission line retention section, the mounting section including a mounting hole disposed therein. The transmission line retention section includes a first leg and a second leg extending therefrom, the first and second legs allowing the hanger to accommodate various sizes of transmission lines. The first and second legs each include a locking barb configured to lock against an attachment surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Andrew Corporation
    Inventor: Jamie M. Paske
  • Patent number: 6340105
    Abstract: A portable cylinder carrier arrangement for holding at least one gas cylinder to a storing surface for storing or transporting, includes a supporter device firmly affixed on a storing surface for storing or transporting, at least a carrier shell forming at least a receiving cavity for holding a gas cylinder therein, a restraining device for securing said gas cylinder in position inside said receiving cavity of said carrier shell, and a mounting seat for securing said carrier shell to said supporter device. The portable cylinder carrier is adapted for the secure transport and storage of fire extinguishers or cylindrical gas cylinders, allowing for the carrier to be easily moved from a mounted storage position to a mounted transport position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2002
    Inventor: James C. Black
  • Publication number: 20010052505
    Abstract: A refrigerator storage guide channel for storing and aiding in the convenient retrieval of cooled containers includes a left and right channel member. The left and right channel members include a base, sidewalls and a feature for adjustably interlocking the channel members. The channel members are slidably joined via the interlocking feature. The base of the channel members preferably include features for reducing friction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2001
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Inventor: Anthony J. Lee
  • Patent number: 6318568
    Abstract: The installation comprises, along a vertical frame (1), locations for gas cylinders, these locations being partially defined by a rack that can be used for transporting the cylinders (7), each location comprising, on the frame, a holding device (9, 10) that can be swung between a lockable closed configuration preventing the insertion or extraction of a cylinder, and an open configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventor: Anthony Mc Cord
  • Patent number: 6253930
    Abstract: A carton assembly for dispensing product members such as spools of wire and other rollable products having circular ends of the same diameter. The carton comprises a bottom, forward and rearward end walls, two side walls and a closable top. Within the carton each side wall has associated therewith one upper guide member, at least one intermediate guide member and a lower guide member. The guide members of one wall are mirror images of the corresponding guide members of the other side wall and are correspondingly positioned with respect to their respective side walls. The intermediate and lower guide members provide narrow sloping edges in parallel spaced relationship which maintain the product members in a row made up of zig-zag row segments, one above the other. The carton has a dispensing opening in its forward wall through which the forwardmost and lowermost product member can be extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: General Cable Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Scott D. Freidus, James M. Ciesick
  • Patent number: 6234326
    Abstract: A display rack for a plurality of beverage bottles includes a base member with a plurality of vertically disposed channel members mounted thereon. Each channel member has a longitudinal slot and a keyway along the slot. The keyway or top of the slot receives the beverage bottles and holds the bottles by the neck ring which is larger in lateral dimension than the width of the slot. Bottles are dispensed one at a time through the keyway by moving a bottle up or down to align it in the keyway where it can be pulled laterally through the keyway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Display Industries, LLC.
    Inventors: Mark A. Higgins, James David Robertson, James Douglas Whiten
  • Patent number: 6230906
    Abstract: A display rack for displaying and dispensing cylindrically-shaped products. The display rack includes a first storage region and a second storage region. The first storage region is capable of holding a plurality of cylindrically-shaped products. The first storage region has a first dispensing position. The first storage region is tilted towards the first dispensing position. The second storage region surface is capable of holding a plurality of cylindrically-shaped products. The second storage region has a second dispensing position. The second storage region is adjacent to the first storage region. The first storage region and the second storage region tilt away from each other. The second storage region is tilted towards the second dispensing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Cormark, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Padiak, Paul C. Evans