STEP ADAPTIVE CASTER DEVICE

• Main Authors: OJIMA, Kota, HADA, Tomoki
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 10.11.2021
• Subjects: AXLES FOR WHEELS OR CASTORS; CASTORS; HAND-PROPELLED VEHICLES, e.g. HAND CARTS, PERAMBULATORS; INCREASING WHEEL ADHESION; LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; SLEDGES; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLE WHEELS; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

To provide a stage-corresponding caster device being entirely compact, able to smoothly and stably work, and able to easily get over a stage end face, a holder main body 1 attached to an attached member B and having a pair of left and right side wall portions 10, a main wheel supporting member 2 in which the main wheel 7 is pivoted to a lower portion 2b and an upper portion 2a is pivoted to the holder main body 1, a sub wheel supporting member 3 in which the sub wheel 8 is pivoted to a front portion 3c and a rear portion 3d is pivoted to the main wheel supporting member 2 coaxially with the main wheel 7, and a slide roller 30 attached to the sub wheel supporting member 3 on a forward position to the main wheel 7, are provided; and the holder main body 1 has a guiding groove 13 inclined backward and downward in side view on the side wall portion 10 to guide the slide roller 30, the front portion 3c of the sub wheel supporting member 3 is oscillated downward by contact of the main wheel 7 with the stage end face Ja, the sub wheel 8 is pressed to the stage upper face Jb, and the main wheel 7 climbs over the stage end face Ja.