Spiral patent office
OwnerNicholas Bromerinventor
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Abstract
A building for housing an ordered collection of items--for example, a library, archive, or patent office--places the items along a spiral arm (1), and makes the items easily movable with wheeled cases, so that the collection can grow. Preferably the spiral is housed in a spiral building arm starting at a central building (2) and winding outward, with interconnecting legs (2) providing access to the far reaches of the arm. The building never becomes too small because the end (E) of the building can be extended gradually. As the collection grows, the cases are merely pushed along to make room as needed. The collection never gets out of order.
Claims17
In combination:
- a spiral building including a spiral arm;
- and
- a collection of items having a linear classification scheme, the items being deployed along the arm according to the linear classification scheme.
For housing a collection of items;
- a spiral building including a spiral arm, the items being deployable in order along the arm;
- the items being movable along the arm;
- and including movable cases wherein the items are movable.
A building housing a collection of items, the items being deployed in order along a spiral,
- including means for moving the items along the spiral.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.