US1773540A - Store service device - Google Patents

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Aug. 19, 1930. J. 1. Moss STORE SERVICE DEVICE E 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Oct. l5, 1928 JT M0619 Clitofmcq.

Patented Aug. 19, 1930 y `unirse sTA'res PATENTI ortica Application led October 15, 1928. Serial No. 312,639.

This invention relates to a store service connection with the transverse supporting apparatus, and more particularly to an apbars 9, and hold the angle bars 9 in true horiparatus designed for use in stores employzontal positions. n ing the self service system. Bracing bars 10 are supported at the ends The primary object of the invention is to of the bar 7 andv extend at oblique angles, as 50 provide carriers supported on endless tracks clearly shown by Figure 1 of the drawings, adjacent to the shelves of the store on which there being provided brace rods 11 extending articles for sale are positioned, tothe end from the bars 1() to the plates 12 securedto that the purchaser will be relieved of the the posts 5 at points adjacent to the ends of weight of the articles selected, while shopthe bar 6.

ping, n The Y reference character 13 designates An important object of the invention is to track sections which lare supported by means provide a hanger of a novel construction, so of thek depending arms 14 that extend downthat the carriers may be swung laterally to lwardly from the bars 9, the arms 14; passing i5 allow a perso-n using a carrier supportedadthrough openings in the bars 15 that are se- G0 jacent thereto to pass. c cured between adjacent tracks 13, there be- Another object of the invention is to prof ingV provided nuts on the ends of the arms vide a plurality of endless tracks supported 14; for securing the arms to the tracks. in parallel spaced relation with respect to The reference character 16 designates the 20 each other so that several carriers may be carriers, each of which vembodies supporting 65 supported. arms 17 in which the basket 18 is supported, With the foregoing and other objects in the arms 17 extending upwardly Where they view which will appear as the description are connected with the plate 19, which is pivproceeds, the invention resides in the comotally connected to vthe bar 2O of the hanger. bination and arrangement of parts and in At each end of the bar 20 is an upwardly the details of construction hereinafter deextended bar 21 onwhich the wheels 22 are scribed and claimed, it being understood that pivotally mounted, the wheels 22 being prochanges in the precise embodiment of the in'- vided with grooves 23 that fit over the upper vention herein disclosed, may be made withedge ofthe track section with which the caryin the scope of what is claimed, without derier is used. Associated with each wheel 75 parting from the spirit of the invention. 22, is a' roller 24 also inountedon the bar 21 Rfe'rmgto the dalvmgs and disposed under the track, the roller 24 Flgule l 1S a Plan VleW 0f an @PPMWS having a flared extremity 25 to hold the hanconstructed in accordance with the invention. gel. to the track against lateral movement. 35. Figure 2 is a Vertical Sectional View In the use of the device, it is contemplated thrqugh th? tracks', dd t .l f to erect a number of these tracks within a Oflhuleagrn en arge e al VIEW o. one store, so that the carriers will move adjacent Figure 4 is a Vertical Sectional View to the shelves on which the articles for sale 40 throuo'h a hanfrer, are placed, the shelves being arrangedad- S5 c n jacent to the walls of the room. It is obvious VReferring to the drawings in detail, the device includes supporting posts 5 that are that a Person may by movlng a Carle' along connected by means of the angle bars 6 and over the track, place the articles selected in 7 respectively, the bars 6 being provided with the carrier, the weight of the articles being openings to receive the rods 8 that also have supported by the track. or

I claim: In a store service apparatus, a plurality of oval track sections, carriers movable along the track sections, each carrier including a horizontal bar, upwardly extended bars at the ends of the horizontal bar, grooved Wheels mounted at the upper ends of the upwardly extended bars and resting on the track seo tions, a plate pivotally secured to the horizontal'bar, carrier arms secured to the plate, and rollers having` flared outer ends7 mount ed on the upwardly extended bars and disposed under the track associated therewith.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature.

JESSE J. MOSS.

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