Conveyor gallery lateral restraint system
AssigneeTemcor
InventorDavid A. Brahm
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Abstract
A conveyor gallery lateral restraint system for a reticulated dome structure includes a pair of load transfer pads integrated into the conveyor gallery and dome structure. Only loads normal to the outer surfaces of the load transfer pads, and thus loads along the reticulated surface of the dome structure, are transferred to the dome structure by the load transfer pads. Because of characteristics of the load transfer pads and their orientation relative to the dome surface, substantially no loads that are normal to the surface of the dome structure are transferred to the dome structure by the conveyor gallery.
Claims7
In the combination of a space-enclosing structure and a conveyor gallery which extends through an opening in an enclosure surface defined by the structure, a gallery lateral restraint system which includes:
- a plurality of pairs of load-transferring bearing pads having cooperating essentially planar bearing surfaces which, relative to each other, have a low coefficient of friction,
- one pad of each pair being mounted to the structure with its bearing surface disposed substantially normal to the structure at the location of the opening in the structure and facing toward the opening, the other pad of the pair being mounted to the conveyor gallery proximately adjacent the one pad with its bearing surface parallel to and facing the bearing surface of the one pad,
- the several pad pairs being distributed between the structure and the gallery at spaced locations on the lateral sides of the opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.