Rotatable stock container closet
AssigneeOkamura Corporation
InventorsTakusuke Iemura, Takeshi Goto, Hiroshi Komaki
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Abstract
A rotatable stock container closet for the storage of articles such as electronic parts, or the like, includes a plurality of container conveying units arranged vertically one on another, each container conveying unit comprising outer and inner rail means, guide channel means arranged therebetween, an endless traction chain, a driving means therefor, and a series of stock containers, releasably disposed to the traction chain means, moving on and along the rail means, so that any container may be reached most expeditiously by selectively operating each container conveying unit.
Claims8
A rotatable stock container closet including a plurality of container conveying units arranged vertically one on another, each container conveying unit comprising:
- (a) an endless loop outer rail means extending in the horizontal plane;
- the outer rail means generally having an elliptic shape comprising a pair of discrete straight sections extending in parallel with each other and a pair of discrete curvilinear sections, with the sections having free ends and the free ends of the curvilinear sections being connected to the free ends of the straight sections;
- (b) discrete inner rail means extending in the horizontal plane, arranged inside the outer rail means at a certain distance away therefrom;
- (c) discrete guide channel means extending in the horizontal plane, arranged between the inner and the outer rail means at a certain distance away therefrom;
- (d) an endless loop traction chain means which is guided by the guide channel means and is adapted to be moved along the same;
- (e) a means for driving the traction chain means;
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- (f) a plurality of container means releasably disposed to the traction chain means and connected to ride along the rail means so as to be moved on and along the inner and the outer rail means and together with the traction chain means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.