DE3129242A1 - Exchangeable container on wheels - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to an exchangeable container on iron wheels for rail and road traffic, which container is transferred on wheels from the rail vehicle to the road vehicle. Containers of this type can only be transferred at great cost using modern cranes at a central location. The transfer of the exchangeable container on wheels can take place in a simple manner without great technical expenditure at any desired siding track with an end-loading ramp. For this purpose, the exchangeable containers must be equipped with four wheels. These roll in U-shaped rails which have to be mounted on the rail car, on the end-loading ramp and on the semi-trailer. For the transfer, rail connections are made from the rail car to the ramp and from the ramp to the semi-trailer. The exchangeable container on wheels can then be pulled from the rail car via the end-loading ramp onto the semi-trailer. The main advantage lies in the technically simple transfer device which can be mounted on site quickly at many siding track locations and can lead to a haulage network covering the entire country. <IMAGE>

Description

Title: Rolling reloadable transport container

(technical designation) Name: "Wheels swap body" Field of application: The invention relates to a transport container, in particular for rail and road traffic, that rolls over.

Purpose: Such swap bodies are used for combined transport, Rail / road, and enable the efficient transport of goods from house to house. In addition, this swap body system enables the expansion of a meaningful, high-performance Transport chain network under the above name, where the containers without much difficulty cheap and fast, i.e.

without great technical effort at each station or at each Track connection point can be reloaded.

State of the art At DB (also in the international transport system) Similar containers are transported under the name of containers and swap bodies and in large container stations with corresponding modern container cranes from Rail cars reloaded onto semitrailers and vice versa, or stacked on top of one another due to lack of space.

Criticism of the state of the art: The reloading of containers from road vehicles on rail cars and vice versa is very complex, cumbersome and time-consuming. aside from that the transshipment is znir in special container stations with container cranes possible, which are only installed in nodes for cost reasons. This allows smaller stations are not served and due to the large reloading capacity and UV load a bottleneck arises at the intersection stations, i. H. a jam in the transport movement, what costs time and money.

Solution: (characterizing part) Fig. I Fig. IIa Fig. IIb These disadvantages are achieved according to the invention in that such containers are equipped with 4 wheels that roll in. U-shaped rails. These rails must be on the railroad car as well as be mounted on the loading ramps and on the semi-trailers. The loading ramps must always be head ramps, at one end the railroad car and at the other At the end of the day, the semi-trailers will be made available for unloading or loading.

Design and functional description: Fig. IIa Fig. IIb First the foldable U-rails that connect the railroad car are lowered to the ramp and from the ramp to the semi-trailer.

Then the container anchors are loosened and secured with a wire rope winch the rolling transport containers (wheel containers) are taken from the rail car over the ramp pulled onto the semi-trailer and anchored there again.

Execution example: If a train consists of 10 wagons with 1o-Bb containers of 12 m each, so are from the standstill of the train at the head ramp to the Time * since all containers are free on the ramp, a maximum of 10 minutes has passed. The more wagons the train has, the more time-efficient it is to unload. Needed you now have another 5 minutes to load a container onto a tractor-trailer, this means that the 10 containers can be reloaded onto 10 semi-trailers in 60 minutes Advantages: The following advantages are achieved with this invention: 1. Transhipment the container is technically easier and economically cheaper and faster of equip.

2. A train, e.g. B. with 10 wagons, is-immediately after unloading (after 10 min.) Ready for use again and can be on a 2nd track in V-erladestrasse 10 pick up swap bodies standing in for removal.

This resulted in a significant increase in the volume of transport lead at DB.

3. Taking into account the advantage that for such containers the possibility of reloading at any station would be a better one Utilization of the rail network within the urban areas and 4. this would be Another advantage in terms of energy scarcity.

5.- With this NWheels swap body system "would be a self-contained one Transport network can be set up without complex technical reloading systems.

6. Personnel costs are kept to a minimum when one consider that a man can unload a train in 10 minutes.

7. If the transhipment capacity in a train station is not so large, then you need it the unloaded 3 containers not to be placed on a collection point, but stay on the loading ramp, from where they are withdrawn one after the other as required will. This would also have a more rational effect.

8. If the receiver also has a head ramp with U-rails, the container can be parked there and the truck driver can use an existing one Pick up empty container for return transport. This eliminates the need for emptying the container resulting downtime of the truck. The transport volume of the semi-trailer increases.

Further - embodiment of the invention: Figure III on the ramp is a rail distribution network was installed, which connects the individual containers via simple Switches directed to preprogrammed head ramp positions.

Another advantage: Such a system could easily be connected to the IT system the integrated transport control of the DB.

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Claims (1)

Claims preamble: 1. A transport container for rails and the road that rolls over. Identifying part: Each container has 4 wheels, which are in 2 Guide rails (on railcars, ramps, semi-trailers) run. General term of the sub-claim: s: 2. Head ramp with switches and distribution rail network in ellipse shape. Identifier part: Main rail line with branching off by switches Rail branches that open into elliptically arranged head ramps.