Rotating Table
Budget: $250 – $750 CAD
I am a pub owner from Regina Saskatchewan. I am building a new pub and came up with an idea for a special table in the pub. The table would hold max 6 people and the table & chairs would all be mounted on a 90" base that I am hoping to get to rotate 1 full orbit each hour. Attached is a couple of drawings I made up. I am not good at sketches at all, so I hope I can get the idea across to you through these. One picture that is labeled “Bottom Base” is a concept of what the bae of the table set would look like underneath. The idea is that I could build a 90” diameter base that had an outer ring of wheels/casters on it. These casters would be slightly elevated from the ground attached to a metal ring base, and then a metal ring would sit in top of them, and this metal ring would spin, or move in a round direction on the rollers. Not unlike a pallet spinner concept, this would just be a bigger version. ( see attached example)
The second drawing is what the table concept would look from a side view. You can see the base, and the rollers on the bottom. A large pice of wood or metal sits on the rollers, which has the chairs and table mounted to it. The shaft of the table base is hollow, allowing for us to house the motor inside of it if we can. This table base sits on a concrete floor which has a basement below it, where the motor could also be mounted, and a rod come up from below attached to the motor. I would prefer the motor be located in the base/shaft if possible, as I would like to put this concept into other pubs that do not have a basement.
I have no ideas about chains, or additional gears for this. I was hoping you might have some ideas. I was wanting the table base to do one orbit per hour roughly if possible.
I need someone to help me design how to rotate the table, and let me know what kind of motor I need, with gear reduction. If I need any additional gears or chain drive.
The motor supplier I have right now needs to know the required torque at the output shaft of the gear unit along with what rpm we want it to rotate. Unfortunately I do not know this as of yet.
Let me know if you can help me.
The second drawing is what the table concept would look from a side view. You can see the base, and the rollers on the bottom. A large pice of wood or metal sits on the rollers, which has the chairs and table mounted to it. The shaft of the table base is hollow, allowing for us to house the motor inside of it if we can. This table base sits on a concrete floor which has a basement below it, where the motor could also be mounted, and a rod come up from below attached to the motor. I would prefer the motor be located in the base/shaft if possible, as I would like to put this concept into other pubs that do not have a basement.
I have no ideas about chains, or additional gears for this. I was hoping you might have some ideas. I was wanting the table base to do one orbit per hour roughly if possible.
I need someone to help me design how to rotate the table, and let me know what kind of motor I need, with gear reduction. If I need any additional gears or chain drive.
The motor supplier I have right now needs to know the required torque at the output shaft of the gear unit along with what rpm we want it to rotate. Unfortunately I do not know this as of yet.
Let me know if you can help me.