Storage and display apparatus employing cantilevered roller track
AssigneeSwiss Aluminium Ltd.
InventorsRichard E. Liebetrau, Larry J. Miller
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Abstract
A longitudinally reciprocable roller carrier useful in both a horizontal and a vertical track to support various live and dead loads which comprises a pair of juxtaposed track members of generally H-shaped cross section, a connecting track of generally I-shaped cross section located therebetween, and roller motive means connected to said connecting track and one of said track members facilitating the rollable reciprocation of said track members with respect to each other. The roller motive means comprises a plurality of strategically placed paired rollers located within the substantially enclosed track sections of the first and second track members which permit the carrier to support a continuously moving load in a cantilevered configuration.
Claims13
A roller carrier useful in either the horizontal or vertical plane which comprises a generally rectangular, longitudinally extended first track member, said first track member possessing a generally H-shaped cross section defining a support section and a track section;
- a generally rectangular, longitudinally extended second track member of substantially identical length and cross sectional configuration to said first track member, said second track member disposed adjacent and above said first track member whereby said respective track sections are in face-to-face juxtaposition;
- a longitudinally extending connecting track located within and between said first and said second track members, said connecting track possessing a generally I-shaped cross section defined by a vertically extending central web member including a laterally extending base member, and roller motive means located within the track sections of said first and said second track members adapted to support said second track member and connecting track, respectively, in spaced relationship above said first track member, said roller motive means comprising a plurality of paired rollers rotatably attached in fixed position on the web member of said connecting track, said paired rollers situated in spaced-apart relationship to each other in both the longitudinal and the transverse plane whereby said rollers are in operative position to contact the respective inner surfaces of the track sections of said first and said second track members, and a plurality of single rollers located and anchored in the lowermost area of the track section of said first track member and in contact with the base member of said connecting track, said roller motive means further adapted to enable said second track member and said connecting track to reciprocate a finite distance in relation to said first track member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.