Streamline track system for self-driving carriers
OwnerNobuyuki Tsuboiinventor
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Abstract
A track system for at least one self-driving carrier to run along a streamline guide rail combined with a gear way which comprises a plurality of straight and curving gear way segments molded with reinforced thermosetting resin and connected with each other by the intermediary of straight joint members, each having a pair of opposed parallel set to sides and a pair of opposed parallel gear sides with gear teeth of a given pitch, wherein each curving gear way segment has a curving middle part and straight extensions formed at both ends thereof, the gear teeth of a given pitch being arranged symmetrically on both gear sides along the straight gear way segments, the straight extensions of curving gear way segments and the straight joint members.
Claims11
A track system comprising:
- a guide rail having a plurality of straight and curving guide rail segments to be connected with each other, each of said guide rail segments having a pair of opposed parallel guide sides and a pair of opposed parallel set sides, each of said guide sides being provided with a pair of parallel plain lanes and a V edge protruded between said parallel plain lanes, said set sides being provided with rivet holes therethrough;
- a gear way combined with said guide rail and having a plurality of straight and curving gear way segments to be connected with each other by the intermedilary of straight joint members, each of said gear way segments and said straight joint members having a pair of opposed parallel gear sides and a pair of opposed parallel set sides, both of said gear sides being provided with gear teeth of a given pitch, said set sides being provided with rivet holes therethrough;
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- at least one carrier adapted to run along said guide rail automatically and including a geared motor and two pairs of roller assemblies, one of said roller assemblies being provided with a roller and a pinion, the others of said roller assemblies being provided with a pair of rollers respectively, said rollers being adapted to engage with said guide sides to support said carrier, said pinion being adapted to engage with one of said gear sides to drive said carrier in a driving relation to said geared motor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.