DE19503557C2 - Container system, in particular for luggage transportation - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a container system, in particular for luggage transportation port in public transport passenger vehicles.

DE 31 29 242 A1 describes a handling system with large stackable, rollable wheels. Containers described horizontally over guide rails between road or Rail vehicles and loading ramps can be reloaded. Your tops are with depressions, which the roles of a stacked like container ners can record.

In general, so-called ISO containers are known, which are used to lift the various containers which means of transport can be put on and removed from them and stacked on top of one another are. To secure the position of the containers, they have fittings ("corner castings ") in which suitable bolts can engage. The containers are between 20 and 40 feet long and are not suitable for loading in passenger vehicles.

DE 42 36 513 A1 has container arrangements for one or two-story goods wagons and double-decker coaches known to the respective transport are attuned so that their side walls are drawer-like parts of the vehicle Form the outer wall. These non-stackable containers stand on rolls that are their direct Handling very easy, but can also be handled with forklifts will.

From DE-GM 72 15 684 a device is known with the loading container such as containers via attachable guide sliders with guides on the loading floor seemed to correspond so that they can be moved by hand along a loading area.

Finally, rollable pallets are known on castors (GB 2 280 166 A), which are on their Have topsides in which the rollers of a stacked pallet are picked up and can be saved.

The invention has for its object in a container system of the beginning mentioned type a good use of space with consistently good manipulability of to reach individual containers.  

This object is achieved with the entirety of the features of claim 1 solved. The features of the subclaims give advantageous developments of this Object.

Further advantages of the object of the invention are shown in the drawing of an embodiment Example and their following detailed description below forth.

They show in a simplified representation using a design sketch  

Fig. 1 shows an arrangement for the container system in a rail vehicle,

Fig. 2 shows an embodiment of the container with some details.

Referring to FIG. 1 1 has a rail vehicle, a luggage compartment 2, which can be arranged between a head end and a direction indicated by some seats passenger compartment. The luggage compartment can be locked to the outside by a wide door or is accessible from the outside. On its essentially flat floor 3 there are pairs of parallel guide rails 4 q, 4 l. A pair of guide rails 4 q extends transversely to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, while two further pairs of guide rails 4 l run parallel to this. The longitudinal guide rails 4 l open into the transverse pair of guide rails 4 q. They are used to track rollable containers 5 , which can be stacked next to and on top of each other in the luggage compartment.

As can be seen better in FIG. 2, the cuboidal, possibly cubic containers 5 have fittings 6 on all corners and a lockable or lockable loading flap 7 on at least one side. They are made of the lightest possible material, e.g. B. aluminum, made to minimize their tare weight and to facilitate the handling of individual containers. Possibly. the edges of the cuboids can be made of steel to increase the dimensional stability and only the walls consist of aluminum sheets.

The four corner fittings 6 on the underside of each container 5 form bearings for roller balls 8 . On these, each container can be freely moved freely on flat surfaces in all directions or along the guide rails matched to the diameter of the balls. In contrast, the upper four corner fittings 6 of each container for receiving the underside roller balls 8 of an attached container of the same type are provided with calottes or recesses of suitable diameter. This enables a direct positive locking of the stacked containers with each other.

Preferably, the roller balls 8 as well as the domes or recesses in the upper corner fittings on squares, so that when stacking the container no particular mutual alignment must be observed.

A useful addition to the roller balls is a brake on every container is to be actuated from the outside and to independently roll away the container on downhill Surfaces prevented.  

The guide rails already discussed are preferably formed in plates 9 which can be laid flat and locked with one another in a manner not shown, the size of which is to be matched to the track width of the pairs of rails. This has the advantage that, on the one hand, any flat surface, be it in vehicles or on platforms and the like, can be covered with guide rails in a simple and rapid manner. For transitions between platforms and vehicles, funnel-shaped widenings of the individual guide rails may have to be provided in order to compensate for the position. Because of the movability of the roller balls in all directions, the guide rails can be z. B. omit on transition bridges, because the track balls can track themselves on both sides of the transition by transverse displacement.

Furthermore, the spacing of the guide should be used to achieve a tight packing density pairs of rails correspond approximately to the outer dimensions of the container.

In the vehicle, the guide rails should also be provided with fixing agents that be designed as dome-shaped depressions or as movable bars can.

The system presented has the advantage that the cargo itself is in the containers can be transported well protected, but also that the cargo can be handled quickly is possible by hand. The declining offer of luggage on passenger trains could be improved again.

Of course, you will find means for attaching written to every container Provide information about the cargo content and destination. In a further stage of the Sys If necessary, machine-readable labels will be provided on the containers.

Claims (7)

1. Comprehensive container system, in particular for luggage transport in passenger vehicles ( 1 ) in public transport

• - Stackable and with corner fittings ( 6 ) provided containers ( 5 ), the corner fittings ( 6 ) attached to the underside of each container ( 5 ) forming fixed bearings for ball rollers ( 8 ) and the corner fittings attached to the top of each container having corresponding depressions , in which the rollers ( 8 ) of a similar, stacked container engage to secure the position, and
• - Guide rails ( 4 l, 4 q) arranged in vehicles and / or on solid floors with a spacing of the ball rollers ( 8 ) provided on the containers ( 5 ) correspond to the track gauge which cross in pairs to move the containers in the surface.

2. Container system according to claim 1, in which four ball rollers ( 8 ) on the underside of each container ( 5 ) span a square. 3. Container system according to claim 1 or 2, in which a cross grid of the guide rails ( 4 l, 4 q) on the roller spacings and / or the outer dimensions of the container ( 5 ) is matched so that the container ( 5 ) guided therein is sealed can be set up side by side. 4. Container system according to one of the preceding claims, in which the guide rails ( 4 l, 4 q) are formed in flat plates ( 9 ). 5. Container system according to one of the preceding claims, in which at each Con tainer an externally operated brake is provided for the ball rollers. 6. Container system according to one of the preceding claims, in which each container Means for affixing information about its cargo contents and its transportation determination. 7. Container system according to claim 6, wherein the information is machine-readable are encoded.