US273526A

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Publication number: US273526A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-03-06
Anticipated expiration: 1900-03-06

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UNITED STATES HARRIS H. HAYDEN,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

STORESERVICEAPPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,525, dated March 6, 1883.

Application nieu November 4, iesi. (No model.) v

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRrs H. HAYDEN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Store-Service Apparatus,'ot` which the fol` to improve the means of transportation and the construction of the ways, propellers, and carriers, and of the connecting and releasing appliances.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating my improved mode of supporting and propelling the carriers. Fig. 2 is a perspective viewillustrating my improvements embodied in apparatus ot' a somewhat different construction. Fig. 3 is a plan view illustrating a system of graduated stops. Fig. 4 is a cross-section through a supporting-way, driving-cablekand carrier. Fig. 5 is a side view of part of the retaining and detaching appliance. Fig. 6 is a perspective viewof a retaining-dog and a locking and releasing device. Fig. 7 is a cross-section on the line l 2, Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is aperspective view, showing parts of a way and driver-rope with a carrier and retaining and releasing appliances. Fig. 8ab is a detached perspective view of the device for securing the carrier-cover.l Fig. 9 is a side view of-part of the device shown in Fig. 8. Fig. 10 is a side view of the receiver at the terminal station. Figs. 11 and l2 are views illustrating the construction of the ways for conducting the carriers toward the desk. Fig. 18 is a perspective view, showing a modilication of the terminal receiver.

Letters Patent of the United States bearing date July 6, 1880, were granted to J. O. White for a store-service system in which a series of carriers were propelled between the desk and counters of a store by apparatusdriven from a suitable motor. In practically carrying out this system I have made certain improvements in the modes of supporting, propelling, retaining, and releasing, which greatly facilitate the operations, and which I will now proceed to describe.

Theway consists of ahollowrailor equivalent structure serving to support the carriers directly or indirectly, as hereinafter described.

As shown in Fig. l, the way is a split tube, A, with its slot uppermost, supported beneath or over the counters in any desired position, and an endless rope, chain, band, or cable, B, moves in the tube, and is provided at intervals with fingers or catches c, that extend through the slot and bear upon some portion of the carrier C, which slides upon the way, rollers a reducing the friction.

The carrier may be detached by means of a stationary pointed,stop, D, suitably supported, so arranged as to catch a hook, b, projecting from the carrier, and thereby raising it'froni the catch a to release the saine. Both the hook b and stop D may be graduated so that each carrier will be arrested at its own counter, as are the carriers described in Whites Patent No. 229,783. While both means are effective in transporting and arresting the carrier, I find it preferable to reverse the tube, and ernwploy appliances whereby to detach and drop the carrier into a suitable receptacle below the point where succeeding carriers would strike the same.

Fig. 2 represents the way with its slot at the bottom, (a form I prefer for the return-way carrying the articles from the desk to the counters,) and appliances for use with said way, the catches a projecting downward and hooking under dogs on the carriers, which dogs, on being released, permit the carrier to drop.

The tube A may be cylindrical, as shown in Fig. 2, the catches a being connected to sleeves o, that receive the cable B, and tit nicely in the tube, and constitute bearings or slides supporting the weight of the carriers; but in Figs. 4 and 8 I have shown a tube formed with a hollow rib, t, to receive the driving-cable, and with two parallel flanges, woo, which constitute ways, and friction-wheels d, which turn on journals projecting from an attachment on the cable, so as to reduce the friction of the supporting devices in passing along the ways.

This form of tube also secures increased stift'- ness and rigidity. The catch a has a horizontal terminal finger, which catches beneath the two tilting dogs e e, which are pivoted or otherwise movably secured to lugs ff upon the carrier, so that the dogs may be brought to a horizontal position, as shown in Fig. 4, to form a bearing ybeneath which the iin ger catches. The lugs ff are on opposite sides or parts ot' a substantially U-shaped guide, G, secured to the carrier, the sides or anges gg of the guide overlapping those ofthe tube A, and serving to prevent the turning or detlecting ofthe carrier as it moves beneath the tube, especially when it comes in contact with its stop.

With each dog is connected a locking device, which device I have made in different ways, that shown in the drawings being most eii'ective, and consisting ot' a lever, H, provided with a notched hub, h, through which extends the pivot j, said hub occupying a position beneath the heel ofthe dog and holding it horizontal until one oi the notches is brought beneath the dog and permits the latter to tilt.

The arrangement of the notches it' is shown in Fig. 7, where it will be seen that so long as the lever His vertical the periphery of the hub h is in contact with and prevents the tilting ot' the dog; but if the lever is turned to either side one of the notches i is brought below the lever and the dogs are tilted, as shown in Fig. S, aud escape from the hook as the carrier drops. A spring, k, tends to maintain thelever vertical by bearing on a Hat side or face, u, of the hub, Fig. G, and a plate, I, ou the tube A serves as a stop, against which both levers H are brought when the carrier is at the station i where it should be dropped, the dropping being etfected whatever end ot' J:he carrier may be foremost, one or more receptacles, L, being arranged to receive the carrier at a point sut'- iiciently lowr to prevent the succeeding carriers from striking any which may be in the receptacle. These receptacles may be directly under the track;` or they may be inclined at au angle, so as to move the carriers away in an oblique direction. To guard against any accidental detaching and dropping ot' the carriers i between the receptacles, I provide continuous safety-guards to catch and retain the carriers in such event, these guards being provided with openings opposite the stops where the receptacles L are placed. In case of such accidental dropping ot' a carrier it may remain in the rack until pushed into a receptacle by a following carrier, or by one of the tingers on the belt. One form of guard is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 as consisting ot' rods S3v S3, extending parallel with the way.

The stops I are graduated,and the levers H are arranged as shown Fig. 3, each stop being wider or longer, orv both, than that which precedes it, there sometimes being a double sys- 'tem ofgraduation, both as to width and length,

so. as to increase the number of practicable stops in the line, and the levers H of each carrier are so separated or adjusted'as to length as to pass every stop except that at the station where the carrier is to be detached.

A convenient mode of connecting the stops is to secure a block, K, to the folded portion ofthe tube A, Fig. 8, and to bolt the stopplates I to the sides Ot' this block. This permits the stops to be easily adjusted to any required position. The same form ofbloek may also be used in supporting the way-tube by fastening the block to the arms shown in Fig. 2. Y

1t will be obvious that the dogs c may slide instead of tilt, and that the position ofthe dogs and support may be reversed, and that the dogs may bite directly on the cable. On the track leading from the salesmen to thepackers desk it may be preferable, instead ot' supporting the carriers on the hooks a, to use a supplemental way, A', of any suitable construetion, two bars, c c, being shown in Figs. 1l and l2. This way extendslbeneaththe cable, and the carriers may be placed therein and propelled by contact with the hooks a, or preferably by fingers 0.2, alternating with the hooks ou the belt or cable. Friction-rollers may be arranged at any point to reduce friction. This plan permits the carriers to be deposited at any point with but little attention from the salesman, and avoids risk ot' injury by the falling of the carriers. It'dcsired, it may be adopted on the return-way.

As it is not always convenient to remove and empty each carrier as soon as it is brought to the paekers desk, I provide appliances for receiving and retaining the carriers as they are successively brought down to the packers. This may be eti'ected by different appliances.

Where the construction shown in Figs. 1 to 8 is employed, a trough-like receptacle, J, Fig.-

10, may be arranged beneath the way at the receiving-desk, and a stop, I, large enough to open all the locks, may be placed so that each carrier brought in on a hook will be dropped after it has pushed the carriers in the receptacle (if any are already there) sufficiently forward to afford. room for it to be deposited; or where the carriers are sent down the line as shown in Figs. 10 and l1 they are pushed one by one into the packers receptacle J', which is lower than the way A and allows the iingers to pass over carriers lying therein.

Another form ot' receiver is shown in Fig. 13, where a stand supports shafts N N with pulleys, round which pass endless bands q, connected by cross-bars u, provided with curved rests i', adapted to hold the carriers, as shown. As a. carrier is dropped into the uppermost pair ot' rests it strikes the end 'of a catch, s, projecting from a rock-shaft, t', and disconnects the same from the cross-bar u, and the bands then turn by the weight of the carrier, which descends until the catch engages with the next cross-bar. By this means each carrier is received and held in place until it dc- IOO IOS

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when in place, and is secured permanently butv adjustably by a bar, M, extending through lugs n on the body. A spiral spring, p, tends -to ldraw the cap toward the body, and the end of the bar M may be pressed upon by the nger to throw out the Vcap until the flange y is out of the body, when the cap will swing away from the end of the body. When the cap turns down afshoulder, w, on the cap is brought op- Y posite a lip, Z, on the body, and the rod M and cap are retained in a forward position until the cap is brought exactly into position opposite the body, when the shoulder will escape from the lip, and the cap will be drawn back into place by the spring. By thus keeping the cap forward it may be turned to its position without its flange y striking the body and interfering with its movement, thus obviating the necessity of drawing up the cap to close the carrier.

It will be apparent that the way arranged beneath the cable, as shown in Figs. 11and 12, with push-pins a2, does not prevent the use of the hooks or catches a for conveying the carriers when necessary, and that insuch case it prevents .injury from the detaching of the carriers accidentally from their hooks. I do not here claim this construction, however, as it will form the subject of a separate application for Letters Patent.

In a separate application for Letters Patent I have claimed the movement of carriers upon slotted tubes through which travels a continuous belt provided with push-pins. This I do not here claim.

kI do not claim the invention of devices for detaching the carriers automatically at their respective stations; but

I claim- 1. In a store-'service apparatus, the combination of a stationary way consisting of a split tube, carriers and devices for supporting the carriers upon the tube, and a traveling cable and devices for connecting the same detachably to the carriers, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of a slottedor split tubular way, a cable'moving in the way and provided with catches for engaging with carriers supported by the Way, and stop devices, substantially as set forth, to disconnect each carrier from the way at the proper station, as specified.

3, In a store'service apparatus, a way consisting of a split tube, combined with a traveling cable provided with catches, and bearings supported upon the way, substantially as set forth.

4. The within-described way for store-servavasae s ice apparatus, consisting of a tube slotted at the lower side, and provided with flanges to support a bearing connected to the cable, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination of the slotted tube, cable, catch, and bearing provided with friction-rollers d d, substantiallyy as set forth.

6. The combination of the traveling cable, and way consisting of a slottedtube having flanges, and carriers with guides G, embracing the tube, substantially as set forth.

7. The combination ofthe slotted tube, and stops consisting of plates I, secured to the tube, substantially as specified.

8. The combination, with the traveling cable and carriers, of jaws arranged upon one of the same and holding the carrier to the cable, lock-y ing devices, and stopsV arranged to make contact with said locking devices to open Vthe jaws and disconnect the carriers from the cables, substantially as set forth.

9. The combination of the traveling cable provided with catches, and the carriers each provided with kpivoted dogs, and locking devices constructed to release the dogs when moved in either directionLand stops I, substantially as set forth.

10. The combination of the carrier, pivoted t dogs e, and levers H, provided with notched hubs l1., substantially as specilied.

11. The combination ofthe way, cable, carriers, stops, and receptacles L, arranged below the stops, substantially as set forth. f 12. The carrier open at one end and provided with a cap, in combination with a rod,M, turning in bearings a on the carrier, and with a spring, p, and the shoulder 1v, and lip Z, arranged as set forth.

13. The combination, with the way, cable, and terminal stop I, of a receptacle arranged to .receive and hold the carriers as they are successively dropped from the cable bycontact with said stop, substantially as set forth.

14. The combination, with the way, cable, and stop device I, of the receiving-rack J, arranged as specified.

15. The combination, with the cable and its v conveying devices, of a way arranged beneath the same to receive the carriers, substantially as set forth.

16. rlhe combination of the way, cable, devices whereby the carriers are moved by and with the cable, and receptacles J, substantially as set forth.

17. The combination, with a traveling cable andv appliances whereby carriers l. are moved with and automatically detached fromv the cable, of receptacles arranged to receive and retain the carriers when so detached, substantially as specified.

18. The combination, with a carrier, of a guide, G, constructed and arranged to prevent the turning of said carrier, substantially as specified.

19. The combination, in a store-service system, of Ways, traveling carriers, detaching de- Ioo i IIO IIS

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Vices arranged opposite the respective stato this specification in the presence of two subtions, and constructed to disconnect each carscribing Witnesses. riet' at the station to which it belongs, and re- HARRIS H HA'YDEN ceptacles at said stations, supported in fixed 5 positions to receive the carriers when detached, Witnesses:

and constructed as set forth. F. W. BAILEY,

In testimony whereot'lhave signed my name FRANK B. COLEMAN.