PNEUMATIC TUBE SYSTEM SUBSTATION TERMINAL BOX CONSTRUCTION

• US 3,689,009 A
• Filed: 07/28/1970
• Issued: 09/05/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: William H. Terrell
• Original Assignee: William H. Terrell
• Inventors: William, H. Terrell
• Primary Examiner(s): Evon C. Blunk
• Assistant Examiner(s): Merle F. Maffei
• Application Number:
  US05/058,835
• Time in Patent Office: 770 Days
• Field of Search: 243/19,24
• US Class Current: 406/110
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 51/30 for delivery

Abstract

A terminal box construction for pneumatic tube systems having a box-like housing which is formed with at least one open side and is divided into send and receive chambers by an insert partition. Send and receive pneumatic tube openings are formed in the housing and communicate with the respective chambers. A door is pivotally mounted on the open side of the housing to provide access into both chambers. A curved carrier directing member is located within the receive chamber communicating with the receive tube opening for deflecting a carrier upon entering the chamber.

Claims

1. Pneumatic tube system substation terminal box construction including an outer box-like housing having top, bottom, end and side walls, an opening formed in at least one of the housing side walls;

send and receive tube openings formed in the housing for communication with pneumatic system send and receive tubes;

partition means removably mounted in said housing forming send and receive chambers with said housing walls;

the partition means including a plate, a partition wall extending from said plate;

an end wall extending from said plate, parallel to and spaced from said partition wall, and reinforcing means spaced from the plate and connecting said end and partition walls;

said partition wall being a U-shaped channel having a web wall and two leg members extending outward from the ends of the web wall;

the send tube opening communicating with said send chamber and the receive tube opening communicating with said receive chamber;

said side wall opening providing access to the send and receive chambers;

a curved carrier-directing member mounted within the receive chamber and aligned with the receive tube opening whereby a pneumatic tube carrier entering the receive chamber contacts said directing member and is deflected toward a housing end wall; and

door means for saiD side wall opening;

whereby carriers placed in the send chamber and send tube opening may be conveyed away from the send chamber when the pneumatic tube system is operating under vacuum, and whereby carriers may be conveyed under such system vacuum operation to the receive chamber through the receive tube opening when the door means is closed.

2. The construction defined in claim 1 in which the channel leg members are formed with a plurality of spaced holes.