Cabinet storage conveyor
AssigneeJohn C. Lehman, Inc.
InventorJohn C. Lehman
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Abstract
To greatly increase the storage capacity of cabinets and to efficiently utilize the corner space in such cabinets and to render frequently-used stored articles more readily accessible, a prefabricated modular or unitized storage conveyor apparatus is installed with only minor modification of existing or newly manufactured cabinets. Adjacent building space customarily wasted can receive portions of the storage conveyor unit. Simplicity, economy of manufacturing, and reliability of operation are featured in the conveyor mechanism.
Claims9
In an article storage and transport system for cabinets and the like, a modular preassembled article storage and transport conveyor apparatus including a unitary boxlike housing mounted at least partially within a space encompassed by said cabinets through an opening means formed in said cabinets, said cabinets and said housing having coinciding passage means allowing easy access to the interior of said system, a pair of endless conveyor chains in offset relationship and disposed in laterally spaced parallel planes, each chain having multiple articulated links, plural equidistantly spaced article storage and transport trays suspended at diagonally opposite corners in level relationship from said chains, said trays adapted to pass in succession adjacent to said coinciding passage means of the cabinets and housing, fixed guide track means for said chains on said housing and defining continuous uninterrupted guidance paths for the endless chains along their entire movement paths, and power drive means for said chains on said housing including a pair of sprocket gears in operative engagement with the exteriors of said chains at a fixed point on each chain.
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