CN102822611A

CN102822611A - Refrigerated freight container

Info

Publication number: CN102822611A
Application number: CN2010800410538A
Authority: CN
Inventors: N·M·斯卡博维格
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2009-09-15
Filing date: 2010-09-14
Publication date: 2012-12-12
Also published as: US20120181268A1; ZA201201869B; WO2011033359A1

Abstract

A refrigerated freight container is provided comprising thermally insulated sidewalls [2], roof [3] and floor [4], a thermally insulated access opening at one end of the container and a refrigeration installation [10] at the other end of the container. The refrigeration installation is built into a removable end wall unit [8] that closes off the end of the container opposite the access opening in the installed position. The access opening preferably includes a surrounding frame [7] forming an access opening unit that is also removable from the container. The sidewalls of the container are preferably hinged [15] in a central region up the height thereof so that they can collapse inwardly in concertina fashion with the roof moving towards the floor of the container and the central regions of the sidewalls folding inwardly towards each other. A separate holder [20] may be provided for holding one or more removable end wall units and one or more removable access opening units [5] when the container is in the collapsed condition.

Description

Refrigerated freight container

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of refrigerated freight container that is used for shipping and/or storage perishable goods, said perishable foods can be cooled to be slightly larger than the temperature more than 0 ℃ simply or can be frozen.The present invention can be applied to transport by sea cask, air cargo container and railway and highway transportation container.

Background technology

With regard to import and outlet aspect; Global goods flow is also uneven in any concrete harbour; Therefore particularly all the more so aspect fresh products country from producer's national transportation to the consumer, a large amount of empty cargo receptacle has to absolutely empty turn back to producer country to reuse.Even very generally, rent the container ship absolutely empty cargo receptacle is transported go back to their required places.

And because empty container has occupied identical volume with the container of lade, so their storage is also day by day expensive along with the ever-increasing use of the container that is used for shipping.The a solution that has proposed is to make foldable container, and it can turn back to the position that they need use under foldable state, therefore has the very size of reduction.

U.S. Pat 5190179 and US4214669 and Canadian Patent CA2636126 have described conventional vessel (it is relative with the cold storage container that has generally included built-in refrigerating equipment therein) have been carried out foldable a kind of pattern; It makes the end wall of container with respect to the base plate of container or top board and inwardly hinged; Wherein, Sidewall is hinged in the central area on their height, thereby inwardly foldable with the mode of concertina.The applicant does not know any practical application of this layout.

The most important requirement of any one foldable container be exactly its should be with other foldable or not foldable container stack together.

The applicant does not know a kind of foldable cold storage container of trial manufacturing in any prior art, and it has the refrigerating equipment that is built into wherein.

Goal of the invention

The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of refrigerated freight container, it has at least a portion advantage of conventional foldable non-refrigerated freight container.

Summary of the invention

According to the present invention; A kind of refrigerated freight container is provided; It comprises sidewall, top board and the base plate of a plurality of thermal insulation, at the inlet of the thermal insulation on the end of said container and the cold storage plant on another end at said container; This cold storage container is characterised in that said cold storage plant is built in the middle of dismountable end wall unit, and this end wall unit has sealed that end opposite with said inlet of said container under mounted position.

Further characteristic of the present invention provides: said inlet comprises perimeter frame, and this perimeter frame has formed the gateway unit that can from said container, disassemble; A plurality of sidewalls of said container are hinged in the central area on its height; Thereby they can be inwardly foldable with the mode of concertina, its be accompanied by said top board towards the base plate of container move and the central area of said a plurality of sidewalls inwardly folding toward each other; The side of said top board and base plate or the two all have when said cargo receptacle is under the foldable state and can interconnectedly construct, thereby said top board and base plate are remained on foldable state; And be provided with independent support; When said container is under the foldable state, dismountable end wall unit and dismountable gateway unit are kept being used for, wherein single support preferably is configured to hold said dismountable end wall unit and the gateway unit that from a plurality of foldable cargo receptacle, disassembles.

In order to make the present invention to be understood more all sidedly, an embodiment of the invention are described referring now to accompanying drawing.

Description of drawings

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is that the schematic axle that waits of refrigerated shipping container is surveyed view, and wherein dismountable end wall unit is in exploded relationship with respect to vessel;

Fig. 2 is the schematic side elevation of container, and it has shown dismountable end wall unit and the dismountable gateway unit that is exploded relationship with respect to said container;

Fig. 3 schematically waits axle to survey a view, and it has shown and be used for support that a plurality of detachable end wall unit and gateway unit are kept that their container is under the foldable state at this moment.

Fig. 4 schematically waits axle to survey view, and it has shown a plurality of foldable container that is stacked relation each other; With

Fig. 5 a, 5b and 5c are schematic end-views, and it has shown respectively under upright state, the vessel under local foldable state and the complete foldable state.

The specific embodiment

In an embodiment of the invention, refrigerated freight container has body, and it is represented by Reference numeral 1 that generally this body comprises insulated side wall 2, top board 3 and base plate 4.

Have knockdown adiabatic gateway unit 5 on the end of said cargo receptacle, this gateway unit 5 shows as the form that is installed in a pair of insulated door 6 in the perimeter frame 7.Therefore, this gateway unit 5 can be dismantled with respect to an end of container.

On the opposite end of said cargo receptacle, have knockdown dismountable end wall unit 8, as provided by the present invention, this end wall unit 8 has the cold storage plant that is built into wherein.This dismountable end wall unit 8 has sealed that end opposite with gateway unit of container effectively under the installation site.Said cold storage plant can comprise suitable propeller, and this propeller representes with Reference numeral 9, and depends on refrigerated freight container to wait the ship that is used in combination and can be the form of engine or motor.Aspect this, suitable refrigerator freighter has suitable supply of electric power usually, each container that is carried to be used for.Angle of rake attribute can also depend on whether cold storage container waits to be used in top, deck or below, deck, if propeller is an internal combustion engine, this is relevant especially.

Propeller is suitable for to refrigerating unit energy being provided; This refrigerating unit is schematically represented with Reference numeral 10; And propeller is suitable for air is cooled off, thereby passes passage and the pipeline (not shown) of usual type or other any kind and circulate through container with usual mode.This dismountable end wall unit has service and ventilation orifice 11, to be used for as required and in required, providing the path of refrigerating unit.

Gateway unit 5 can be inserted in the vessel after it is erect with dismountable end wall unit 8, and before foldable to it, from vessel, removes.Gateway unit 5 and dismountable end wall unit 8 all are equipped with the slide lock of suitable led to inside, lock onto their operating position afterwards thereby these unit are locked in insertion.The periphery of gateway unit 5 and dismountable end wall unit 8 has all assembled suitable elastic sealing element.

The structure that forwards vessel now to comes up, that kind shown in Reference numeral 15, and each sidewall 2 all is hinged in the central area on its height, thus they can be inwardly foldable with the mode of concertina, and wherein top board 3 moves towards the base plate 4 of container.Said a plurality of sidewall is therefore inwardly folding toward each other during foldable process.

In the middle of preferred the layout; The side of top board 3 and base plate 4 has structure 16,17 (referring to Fig. 5 b); When cargo receptacle is in foldable state following time, this

structure

16,17 can be used for making that top board is connected mutually with base plate, thereby vessel is remained under this foldable state.

Be provided with slides within interlocking 18 (referring to Fig. 5 a), thus erect or foldable step during, prevent that in the process that removes and introduce of gateway unit and dismountable end wall unit sidewall 2 is inwardly folding.

In order to make the container weather proof, all mating faces of folded sheet or open plate can be equipped with rubber strip seal and/or rubber baffle.The same with the vertical lateral opening on the following mating face with the last mating face of sidewall, therefore the open end of foldable container is covered by this rubber seal.

Will be understood that; For the foldable container of facility is carried with conventional vessel and is piled up; The base plate of vessel and top board all will be followed the size and the characteristic of employed standard in the industry; And adopt the hornblock of canonical form, the hornblock of this canonical form matches with hornblock on other containers, above this other container can be stacked on and perhaps is stacked on by said vessel on the said vessel.

Consult Fig. 3 now, preferably be provided with independent support 20, when a plurality of cargo receptacle are in foldable state in transportation and storage purposes, dismountable wall unit and dismountable gateway unit are kept being used for.This support can be similar to pallet or flat, and this pallet or flat are configured to when detachable unit separates from their foldable vessel, detachable unit stored and transported.Said support preferably is equipped with protectiveness sidewall 21; And said detachable unit can be loaded into by portable lifting equipment on the support or from support, unload, and this movable type lifting equipment can be used for said shipped is installed being used for to the vessel of setting.Under alternative, said support can be the container of sealing, itself in addition can be volumetric standard and alternatively for foldable container.

Fig. 5 a to 5c has shown that vessel erects the progressive folding process of form to its complete foldable form fully from it.

Foldable in order to make that the container of the above-mentioned type carries out under the complete upright state, gateway unit 5 and dismountable end wall unit 8 are at first released and be removed, and it is as shown in Figure 2.Gateway unit 5 and dismountable end wall unit 8 of the isolation that this removes can be introduced in the independent support, and this will become obviously from description before.Suitable mobilecrane can be used in this purpose.

Said mobilecrane then can be connected to top board and under slight lifting effect, be placed, thereby through unclamping the interlocking and when base plate descends, make sidewall inwardly foldable when top board of sliding, and can be so that container side wall then is unlocked.The result who is caused is: under foldable state, sidewall becomes and is folded in the occupied initial footmark of container, has only occupied the 20%-25% of about its initial volume, and this depends on the type of container and the isolated instances of sidewall, top board and base plate.

Then, the container top board can be locked into container floor by

structure

16,17, and it can make foldable unit as any common vessel, be handled upside down.Whole foldable or erect step again and can in some minutes, utilize little mobilecrane to carry out by a people.

In case accomplished after this step, foldable cargo receptacle can be piled up mutually, and can use suitable anchorage clip 19 to make that foldable unit connects mutually, thereby make whole piling up to carry as single unit.Fig. 4 has shown piling up of four foldable vessels.

Will be understood that above-mentioned embodiment of the present invention is a kind of alternate conceptual design of ten minutes complicated assemblies.Therefore, can carry out multiple change and do not depart from the scope of the present invention structure, machinery and material design details.Basic principle of the present invention, dismountable end wall unit are built-in with cold storage plant therein and link with foldable container, and this is a main concept of the present invention.Dismountable gateway unit is also very important, and this is because it can make the foldable of container carry out more compactly.

The foldable mode of container is not essential main points, but preferably, sidewall is inwardly folding with the mode of aforesaid concertina.Principle of the present invention can fully be applied to the refrigerated freight container of broad range with being equal to, transports the shipping container by sea to wheeled refrigeration air freight containers from the refrigeration of standard.Obviously, the design of the broad range that the periphery design details of the container of broad range will cause being equal to, and still be incorporated in the middle of the aforesaid basic invention.

Claims

1. refrigerated freight container; Comprise sidewall (2), top board (3) and the base plate (4) of a plurality of thermal insulation, at the inlet of the thermal insulation on the end of said container and the cold storage plant (10) on another end at said container; This cold storage container is characterised in that; Said cold storage plant is built in the middle of dismountable end wall unit (8), and this dismountable end wall unit (8) has sealed that end opposite with said inlet of said container under mounted position.

2. refrigerated freight container according to claim 1, wherein said inlet comprise perimeter frame (7), and this perimeter frame (7) has formed the gateway unit (5) that can from said container, disassemble.

3. refrigerated freight container according to claim 1 and 2; A plurality of sidewalls of wherein said container hinged in the central area (15) are to its height; Thereby they can be inwardly foldable with the mode of concertina, its be accompanied by said top board towards the base plate of said container move and the central area of said a plurality of sidewalls inwardly folding toward each other.

4. according to aforementioned any described refrigerated freight container of claim; The side of wherein said top board and base plate or the two all have interconnected structure when said cargo receptacle is under the foldable state (16,17), thereby said top board and base plate are remained on foldable state.

5. according to aforementioned any described refrigerated freight container of claim, wherein be provided with independent support (20), when said container is under the foldable state, dismountable end wall unit and dismountable gateway unit kept being used for.

6. refrigerated freight container according to claim 5, wherein said independent support are configured to hold said dismountable end wall unit and the gateway unit that from a plurality of foldable cargo receptacle, disassembles.