US805405A

US805405A - Store-goods lifter.

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Publication number: US805405A
Application number: US24709005A
Authority: US
Inventors: John H Beltz
Original assignee: ADOLPH W MOHR
Current assignee: ADOLPH W MOHR
Priority date: 1905-02-24
Filing date: 1905-02-24
Publication date: 1905-11-21
Anticipated expiration: 1922-11-21

Description

No. 805,405. PATENTED NOV. 21, 1905. J. H. BELTZ.

STORE GOODS LIFTER.

APPLICATION rum) FEB. 24. 1905.

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ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. BELTZ, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ADOLPH W. MOHR, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

STORE-GOODS LIFTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1905..

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. BELTZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Store-Goods Lifters; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to devices for taking down and putting up goods on shelves and other supports in stores; and the object is to provide a handy, efiicient, and universally applicable store-goods lifter by which a great Variety of goods may be handled. This objectIattain by the novel construction and combination of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichv Figure 1 is a side elevation of my storegoods lifter in its general form. Fig. 2 is a top view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a modification of the right-hand portion of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a rear view-of the upper part of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a modification of the top piece of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a central section on the line a a in Fig. 2 omitting the element 6 7. Fig. 7 is a top view of the jaws of the device in a modified form.

Referring to the drawings by reference-numerals, 1 designates a rod or handle of any desired length. Adjacent to the handhold 2 of the same is pivoted at 3 a bell-crank lever 4 in such a position that its lower arm may be grasped into the same hand grasping the handhold 2. From the other arm of the lever extends a wire or cord 5, which has its upper end secured to the arm 6 of a cam 7, pivoted at 8 in the metallic frame 9, secured at the upper end of the handle 1 and normally held by the spring 10 in Fig. l or 10 in Fig. 4 with its arm 6 elevated and the jaws 11 open or spread. Said jaws 11 are pivoted on a stud 12, (see Fig. 6,) one above the other, and are retained on the hub by a washer 13, the eye 14 of the hook 15, and the screw 16, threaded into the stud 12.

The hook 15 is handy for hanging up and taking down pails, lanterns, clothing, and other goods supported from a hook in the It is held firmly by the head at the side of the of the screw 16 and is arranged out of the way for the jaws 11. The jaws are spread and closed by the converging edges 17 of the cam 7 as the latter moves up or down in the notches 18, formed in the rear projections or tails 19 of the jaws. Said tails may, however, instead of a notch have a point 20, as in Figs. 3 and 7, operated by grooves 21 in the cam, as in Fig. 3. In the preferable form, Fig. 2, the jaws form curved arms well adapted to grasp bottles and all kinds of canned goods supported on the grocers shelves in cylindrical cans, and if such cans are piled so close together that the jaws 11 cannot enter between the cans then the down and inward pointing teeth or fingers 22 of the jaws are let downward into the spaces always open between cylindrical bodies, and the desired can is thus lifted out or else moved into position to be grasped by the jaws proper. At the free ends of the jaw 11 are formed smaller jaws or hooks 23, which serve to grasp bottles by the neck in placing them upon a high shelf or taking them down from same. The fingers 22 also serve to engage more firmly the sides of a box or other goods to be handled. If the device is especially intended for handling boxes in shoe-stores and the like places, the jaws may be more like 11 in Fig. 7, and the fingers 22 may be thin horizontal lugs 22, as indicated in the cross-section within Fig. 7, adapted to support the edges of the bottom of the box, while the jaws fit more or less against the sides of the box, according to its size. If the box is smaller than to bring the jaws to about the parallel position, then the box is apt to tilt and perhaps slip from the jaws. To prevent this, I provide a flat supporting-arm 24, which passes in under the box to support it. It may also be used in raising the box from the shelf when standing between other boxes, so that the jaws can reach it. The arm is therefore projecting forward beyond the jaws. Said arm 24 is pivotally secured by a friction-joint 25 in Figs. 1 and 2 frame 9; but such joint may also be formed, as in Fig. 6, by giving the arm an eye or ring 26 to encircle the tube of the frame between the shoulder 27 and the set-screwed collar 28. In either case the arm will stay wherever it is set and may thus be held forward for lifting boxes or turned to one side or rearwardly when only the

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11 or 23 are to be used.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A store-goods lifter comprising a rod or handle, a head piece or frame secured on the upper end thereof, a pair of horizontallyswinging jaws pivotally secured upon the frame and having rearward projections, a cam pivoted in the rear of the frame and being formed with converging guides engaging the rearward projections so as to spread and close the jaws as the cam oscillates, a spring ar ranged to hold the cam normally in a position opening the jaws, an arm on the cam, a cord, wire or similar means extending from said arm to the lower end of the rod, and a bellcrank lever pivoted to the rod and having one arm secured to said cord and the other arm in position to be operated by the fingers of the hand holding the lower end of the rod.

2. A store-goods lifter comprising a rod or handle, a head piece or frame secured on the upper end thereof, a pair of horizontallyswinging jaws pivotally secured upon the frame and having rearward projections, a cam pivoted in the rear of the frame and being formed with converging guides engaging the rearward projections so as to spread and close the jaws as the cam oscillates, a spring arranged to hold the cam normally in a position opening the jaws, an arm on the cam, a cord or similar means extending from said arm, to the lower end of the rod, and a bell-crank lever pivoted to the rod and having one arm secured to said cord or wire and the other arm in position to be operated by the fingers of the hand holding the lower end of the rod, and the supporting-arm 2 L pivoted in a position to be swung below the jaws or away therefrom as may be required.

3. A store-goods lifter comprising a rod or handle, a pair of horizontally-swinging jaws pivotally mounted at or near the top of the rod, and means for closing and opening the jaws from the lower end of the rod, said jaws having at their lower edges lugs or fingers projecting inward from.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN H. BELTZ. [1 s.]

Witnesses:

ROBERT VARIEN, A. F. MASGHGER.

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