Glass pane handling assembly
AssigneeUnruh Fab, Inc.
InventorMonte R. Berger
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Abstract
A glass pane handling assembly consisting of a base frame having left and right roller tracks; a lock bar having a helical bolt receiving slot, the lock bar extending parallel to the left and right sides of the base frame; ball bearings interconnecting ends of the lock bar with the base frame; a glass carrying frame having upwardly extending glass pane supporting arms; rollers extending leftwardly and rightwardly from the glass carrying frame, the rollers interconnecting the base and glass carrying frames; a helical bolt extending into the lock bar's bolt receiving slot, the helical bolt being rigidly attached to the glass carrying frame; and an electric motor and pulley assembly operatively connected to the lock bar and adapted for alternately rotating and counter-rotating the lock bar.
Claims15
A glass pane handling assembly comprising:
- (a) a first frame having front, rear, left, and right sides, the left and right sides respectively comprising left and right roller or slide tracks;
- (b) a lock bar having a longitudinal axis and a bolt receiving slot extending helically about the longitudinal axis, the lock bar being positioned between the left and right sides of the first frame and extending substantially parallel to said sides;
- (c) first mounting means interconnecting the lock bar and the first frame;
- (d) a second frame comprising means for supporting glass panes;
- (e) rollable or slidable mounting means supporting the second frame upon the first frame;
- (f) a bolt having a distal end;
- (g) second mounting means interconnecting the bolt and the second frame, the second mounting means extending the distal end of the bolt into the lock bar's bolt receiving slot;
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- (h) rotating means operatively connected to the lock bar or to the bolt, said means being capable of alternately rotating and counter-rotating the lock bar or the bolt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.