US3578832A - Stabilized elevator filing device - Google Patents

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US3578832A
US3578832A US820213A US3578832DA US3578832A US 3578832 A US3578832 A US 3578832A US 820213 A US820213 A US 820213A US 3578832D A US3578832D A US 3578832DA US 3578832 A US3578832 A US 3578832A
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Lloyd M Toms
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B63/00—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, specially adapted for storing books, documents, forms, or the like
    • A47B63/06—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, specially adapted for storing books, documents, forms, or the like with parts, e.g. trays, card containers, movable on pivots or on chains or belts
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  • Stabilizer means for a vertically disposed elevator-type filing apparatus comprising a cabinet having a front opening and wherein a plurality of trays disposed therein are adapted to be moved in an elliptical path and presented at said opening for access to said trays on the links of a sprocket chain, comprising closed path elliptical stabilizer means in the form of channel members embracing said sprocket chains and defining spaced vertical components and a pair of double arch components at the top and bottom of said vertical components and merging and communicating with each other and with said vertical components and triangular stabilizers pivoted at one corner to swivel pins carried by support means secured to said trays and carrying rollers at its two remaining corners disposed to slide in and retained by said channel members.
  • STABILIZED ELEVATOR FILING DEVICE This invention relates to improvements in stabilizing means for vertically arranged or elevator-type files wherein a plurality of trays are adapted to be moved in an elliptical path and presented at a cabinet opening for access to the filing tray contents.
  • the files are pivotally carried in gravitational balance on a pair of links pivoted thereto and diverging therefrom wherethey are engaged to sprocket chains defining an elliptical path and whereby by suitable electrical operation and automatic pushbutton selectors any desired tray can be brought to operating position and stopped at the front opening of the cabinet at a desired accessible height.
  • Stabilizing means have generally embodied channel members of elliptical form embracing the sprocket chain at the opposed sides of the supporting cabinet with arms extending from the pivoted trays into the stabilizing channels.
  • the present invention proposes three-point stabilizers of generally triangular form one corner of which is in pivotal engagement with the tray by swivel pins carried by support means secured to the tray, at its pivot point jointly with the supporting arms, and is engaged at the two remaining corners by rollers in a closed path stabilizing channel characterized by a pair of aligned medially spaced symmetrical arcuate components which merge with each other and with vertical components so that the stabilizer is at all times retained in a closed continuous path which thereby brings about effective and improved stabilization of the component trays.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the elevator file cabinet embodying therein the details of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line'2-2 of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 3 is a fragmentary section on the line 3-3 of FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 4 is a fragmentary section on the line 4-4 of FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 5 is a fragmentary section on theline 5-5 of FIG. 2, and
  • FIG. 6 is a detail plan view of one of the triangular stabilizers of the present invention.
  • the reference numeral 10 generally 'indicatesan elevator file having a front opening 11, and electrical pushbuttons 12 for operating the electrical components thereof to bring'the elevator file trays or drawers to the front door 11 as is well understood.
  • sprocket wheels 16 and 17 are secured against the opposed sides 13 of the cabinet 10 .
  • a sprocket chain 18 Trained about the sprocket wheels 16 and I7 is a sprocket chain 18 which carries a plurality of arm pairs such as the arms 19 and 20, these arms being pivoted at one end to spaced links of the sprocket chain 18 as at 21 and 22.
  • At the opposed ends these arms 19 and are jointly engaged to the pivot 23 at a pointmedially of the arm 24 which carries the cradle or tray 25 in a balanced manner so that the tray 25 will tend to remain disposed horizontally by gravity.
  • One of these components is the triangular stabilizer 26 pivoted at one corner to the pivot 23 throughits slot 9 so that it is jointly pivoted thereat with the arm pair 19 and 20.
  • the remaining two corners of the triangular stabilizer 26 carry rollers 27 and 28, the roller 27 being longer than the roller 28. Both of these rollers are received and slidably retained in the'second stabilizer components comprising two endwise spaced elliptical paths defined in part by vertical channel members 29 and 30, the channels 29 and 30 being of a depth to accommodate the longer roller 27.
  • the vertical channels 29 and 30 merge respectively with the medially separated but merging arc components or arches 31 and 32 at the top of the cabinet wherein they may be formed as grooves in the member 33 or separately formed of channel members.
  • the groove or arch channel 31 is of a depth to receive the longer roller 27 whereas the inner arch channel 32 is of a shorter depth adapted to receive only the shorter roller 28.
  • the sprocket chain 18 carries the tray 25 forwardly with the rollers 27 and 2 8 jointly entering into the vertical channel 29 presenting the tray 25 to the front 37 of the cabinet adjacent the opening 11 thereof where movement can be terminated by electrical contact means 12 as previously in-
  • the channels 31 and 32 can be either separately formed channels or channels cut in the member 33 and in a similar manner the arcuate channels 35 and 36 can be separate channel members or cut into the lower component 38 disposed against the sidewall 13 of the cabinet 10.
  • triangular stabilizers 26 can be equilateral triangles, it is preferred that they be substantially or more nearly right angles as'illustrated wherein the distance of the arms length from pivot slot 9 to roller 27 is greater than the distance to roller 28 which I have found to give better stabilization.
  • a vertically disposed filing apparatusv comprising a cabinet having a front opening and wherein a plurality of trays disposed thereinare adapted to be moved in an elliptical path and presented at said opening for access to said trays, and wherein said trays are each carried on pivot pins in joint pivotal engagement at their opposed'sides with the ends of the suspension arms, said arms diverging therefrom and separately pivotally connected at their opposed ends to the links of a sprocket chain, said chain being carried about a vertically spaced pair of sprockets including means for driving said sprockets, elliptical stabilizer means for said trays comprising channel members at the opposed sides of said cabinet of an extent embracing said sprocket chains and defined by spaced vertical components and a pair of aligned medially spaced symmetrical arcuate components at the top and bottom of said vertical components and merging and communicating with each other and vwith said vertical components at the top and bottom thereof to form two closed elliptical paths of equal

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US4178048A (en) * 1977-04-19 1979-12-11 Herbert Zippel Gmbh & Co. Kg Curved guide for paternoster-type document carriers
US4227757A (en) * 1978-02-08 1980-10-14 Hauni-Werke Korber & Co. Kg Safe for storage of paper money and other valuables
US4379602A (en) * 1980-03-11 1983-04-12 Okamura Corporation Rotatable stock container closet
DE3302018A1 (de) * 1983-01-21 1984-08-02 Electrolux Constructor GmbH, 5901 Wilnsdorf Mechanischer schrank mit einem paternosterartigen umlauffoerderer
EP0114671A3 (de) * 1983-01-21 1985-11-27 Electrolux Constructor GmbH Mechanischer Schrank mit einem paternosterartigen Umlaufförderer
FR2687907A1 (fr) * 1992-03-02 1993-09-03 Rotceig Marc Dispositif d'appareil d'etageres rotatives.
US20040076957A1 (en) * 2001-02-01 2004-04-22 Tetsuhiko Yoshida Hybridized array analysis aiding method and analysis aiding service
US11478078B1 (en) * 2021-05-14 2022-10-25 Richard D. Cornell Powered carousel shelf system for cabinets

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US3178247A (en) * 1962-04-23 1965-04-13 Herberto G Wittrup Cabinet, filing cabinet or the like
US3218986A (en) * 1963-06-14 1965-11-23 Netherlands Ind Trading Corp Materials handling systems
US3442564A (en) * 1966-12-23 1969-05-06 Hon Ind Inc Power operated file cabinet
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US2603547A (en) * 1946-11-22 1952-07-15 Richard M Zook Storage cabinet
US3178247A (en) * 1962-04-23 1965-04-13 Herberto G Wittrup Cabinet, filing cabinet or the like
US3218986A (en) * 1963-06-14 1965-11-23 Netherlands Ind Trading Corp Materials handling systems
US3442564A (en) * 1966-12-23 1969-05-06 Hon Ind Inc Power operated file cabinet
US3464750A (en) * 1967-11-13 1969-09-02 Diebold Inc Tray-retainer construction for power files

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US4178048A (en) * 1977-04-19 1979-12-11 Herbert Zippel Gmbh & Co. Kg Curved guide for paternoster-type document carriers
US4227757A (en) * 1978-02-08 1980-10-14 Hauni-Werke Korber & Co. Kg Safe for storage of paper money and other valuables
US4379602A (en) * 1980-03-11 1983-04-12 Okamura Corporation Rotatable stock container closet
DE3302018A1 (de) * 1983-01-21 1984-08-02 Electrolux Constructor GmbH, 5901 Wilnsdorf Mechanischer schrank mit einem paternosterartigen umlauffoerderer
EP0114671A3 (de) * 1983-01-21 1985-11-27 Electrolux Constructor GmbH Mechanischer Schrank mit einem paternosterartigen Umlaufförderer
US4643495A (en) * 1983-01-21 1987-02-17 Electrolux Constructor Gmbh Mechanical storage cabinet with container conveyor
FR2687907A1 (fr) * 1992-03-02 1993-09-03 Rotceig Marc Dispositif d'appareil d'etageres rotatives.
WO1993017599A1 (fr) * 1992-03-02 1993-09-16 Marc Rotceig Appareil de supports rotatifs
US20040076957A1 (en) * 2001-02-01 2004-04-22 Tetsuhiko Yoshida Hybridized array analysis aiding method and analysis aiding service
US11478078B1 (en) * 2021-05-14 2022-10-25 Richard D. Cornell Powered carousel shelf system for cabinets

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