EP0131984B1 - A locking device for coupling containers and the like to railway trucks - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a coupling device-intended for locking, on standard railway-trucks, containers and the like, i.e. standard containers as well as special mobile boxes usually intended to be carried by road-trailer-trucks or conveyors so as to allow the so called "inter- modal" traffic, whereby goods are transported partially by road and partially by rail.
- the present invention relates to a new special coupling device to be mounted on standard railway-trucks and so realised as to ensure not only the transport of containers and the like having a standard flat bottom, but also the transport of that special mobile boxes of the so called "type or group 4" i.e. having 40 feet of length and presently forseen for being transported by road only by suitable road-trailer-trucks.
- Said special mobile boxes of the type 4 show a larger height and a larger volume of the glove box, thus a larger loading capability.
- the so called "tunnel" bottom is defined by the fact that said special mobile boxes have a main frame structure whereby two longitudinal main frame members protrude from the bottom of said mobile boxes providing a suitable loading and resting surface when said boxes have' to be transported by said road-trailer-trucks.
- Said two longitudinal main frame members define the so called "tunnel” i.e. a longitudinal tunnel-shaped volume on the bottom of said special mobile boxes.
- the conventional devices for coupling containers and the like on to railway-trucks also known as locking devices, consist in four stop-pins having a vertical axis, also known as studs or dowels, for each container or the like to be coupled on to said trucks.
- Said stop-pins are suitably located along the longitudinal edges of the loading platform of the railway-trucks and provide for stopping and retaining the containers on said railway-trucks by cooperating with housings, also having a vertical axis, which are provided along the edges of the bottom surface of said containers having a flat bottom.
- Such conventional locking devices usually fixed, necessitate the container or the like to be supported at least along the whole perimetral edge of the loading platform and hence they may and do not have a supporting but only a retaining function.
- level of the loading platform in conventional containers-carrying railway-trucks and in freight-cars in general is largely dependent upon the height of the bumpers and of the couplers which must be the same for all the railroad-cars, the passenger-cars being included, so as to allow an easy mutual coupling.
- level of the loading platform it is meant the vertical distance between the plane where said loading platform lies and the plane of both the rails of the railway-line.
- the displacement of the loading platform to a lower level could in fact be obtained by reducing the diameter of the wheels which would cause for various grounds, and mainly on account of the increased stresses on the rails, a reduction of the van tonnage.
- said displacement of said loading platform level might be obtained by means of a longitudinal tank-structure which would not allow to exploit, for supporting purposes, both the regions corresponding to the van's extremities i.e. the regions corresponding to the wheels-axles viz. to the bogies.
- the present invention has the aim of remediating the hereabove mentioned drawback of the locking devices according to the prior art.
- a new locking device for railway-trucks having thus a two-levels supporting function, i.e. a supporting function at a lower level for the containers and the like having a "tunnel type" bottom providing a lower level supporting platform for them, and respectively a supporting function at an higher level for the containers and the like having a flat bottom providing a supporting platform for these later at a standard level.
- Said new locking device is conceived as specially adapted for mounting on the railway-trucks whereby the main frame members, constituting the longitudinal supporting structure, show a transversal floor-space less than the width of the volume of the "tunnel" according to which the bottom of said "type 4" special mobile boxes is shaped.
- Said new locking device is thus such to allow the "tunnel" to be housed when the special mobile box rests on the lower level supporting platform provided by said locking device.
- the locking device shown in Fig. 1 comprises a cylindrical supporting member (1).
- Said cylindrical supporting member (1) may be either a steel pipe or a massive steel shaft having a suitable mechanical strength.
- Said cylindrical supporting element (1), as well as the supporting shaft (10) described hereafter, are intended to be overhanging connected and fastened parallel to the longitudinal framework of a standard railway-truck by means of means of supporting brackets (12).
- Said fixed supporting plate (2) is provided with fastening means which allow a mobile plate (4), carrying a dowel (5) which is integral part of said mobile plate (4), to be fastened in a position where said mobile plate (4), and consequently said mobile dowel (5), overlap said fixed plate (2) and consequently said fixed dowel (3).
- the surface (2a) of the plate (2) supporting the fixed dowel 3 (Fig. 1c.) is at a lower level than the surface (4a) of the mobile plate (4) supporting the dowel (5).
- Said surfaces (2a) and (4a) provide respectively the surfaces of the two loading platforms whose levels differ, from each other, by nearly 170 mm.
- the loading platform defined by the surfaces (2a) of the fixed plates (2) is intended for carrying the special boxes with a "tunnel" bottom and has a lower level (see Fig. 8) while the loading platform defined by the surfaces (4a) of the mobile plates (4) is intended for carrying the standard flat bottom containers and has an higher level over the plane where both the rails of the railway-line lie.
- Said protruding nose (6a) is intended to cooperate with an opening (2C) (Figs. 1 d-2b) forseen for this purpose in the body of said fixed plate (2).
- the reciprocal interlocking of the mobile plate (4) on the fixed plate (2) is completed, on the other side, by means of a gib (7) (Figs. 1c and 1d) against which abouts a stop-peg (4c) at the opposite end of said same mobile plate (4).
- the fixed plate (2) further shows a horizontal edge (2d), contacting said supporting shaft (1), which is so shaped as:
- said mobile plate (4) When not mounted in said working position where it overlaps said fixed plate (2), said mobile plate (4) is sliding fitted to said supporting cylindrical shaft (1) as described hereafter.
- the mobile plate (4) when unclamped from the fixed supporting plate (2), may slide on the shaft (1) and assume a new working position non-overlapping that of the fixed plate (2) (Figs. 3a and 3c) and may be there fastened by means of a first gib (7) similar to hereabove mentioned one, against which abouts the same stop-peg (4c), and of a second gib (9) so shaped as to have simultaneously a supporting function for the stiffening webs (4e) of said mobile plate (4) and a locking function when cooperating with the protruding nose (6a) of the handle (6).
- the gib (7) has a length d such that it may be inserted between the laterally extending bosses (4f) of the stop-peg (4c) (Fig. 3d).
- said shaft (10) is provided with suitable means to allow the supporting mobile plates (4) of the mobile dowels (5) to be tilted (Figs. 4a and 4c), avoiding thus that said supporting plates (4) may prevent the containers to rest upon, as well the flat bottom containers as the containers both with flat bottom or with "tunnel" bottom, but having a length exceeding one half ofthe length of the truck, i.e. a length exceeding 20 feets and anyway a maximum length of 40 feets.
- Said means for allowing the supporting plates (4) of the mobile dowels (5) to be tilted by pivoting around said supporting shaft (10) consist in the gibs (11) against which abouts the edge (4g) of the mobile plate (4) when this later is pivoted around said supporting shaft (10) into the tilted position.
- a cam-like piece (8), pivotably hinged at the end (4d) of the mobile plate (4) on a hinge-pin or bolt (8a) (Figs. 3c and 3d), has the function of allowing said mobile plate 4 and said cylindrical supporting shaft 1 or 10 to be received and housed within each other and simultaneously of ensuring a stable sliding-fitting of said mobile plate (4) on said shaft (1 or 10), once they are housed within each other.
- Said mobile plate (4) (Figs. 1c and 3c) in fact forms forthis purpose a collar (4b) having the form of a nearly half-cylindrical housing in which, between the closest points, there is a distance C1 exceeding the external diameter 01 of the shaft or pipe (1 or 10) so as to allow it to be received and housed inside said nearly half-cylindrical housing (4b).
- the suppporting mobile plate 4 on account of its nearly half-cylindrical housing (4b), may either be housed around said supporting shaft (1 or 10) and there fastened when said cam-like piece (8) is in active position, or withdrawn from said shaft (1 or 10) when said cam-like piece (8) is in non-active position.
- the mobile plate (4) will be, in any case, fastened and even not fastened in that tilted, retained around said supporting shaft (1 or 10).
- said mobile boxes with a "tunnel" bottom may support themselves on a loading platform formed by the surfaces (2a) of said fixed plates (2) and which is located at a level, over the plane where the rails lie, which is reduced by 170 mm over the standard known level in railway traffic and which is thus nearly at a distance of 1000 mm from the surface of the rails instead of 1170 mm.
- Fig. 8 the difference between the supporting levels H1 of the fixed dowels and H of the mobile dowels is clearly pointed out, i.e. the difference between the level H of the loading surface where the containers with a flat bottom have to lie and the level H1 of the loading surface where the containers with a tunnel bottom have to lie in order to be both inside the maximum allowed standard height in the railway traffic.
- FIG. 7 which is to be read according to the explaining table there joined, there are shown the transport facilities of one of the modules of a multipletruck having (5) modules and (6) bogies, said truck being particularly specialized and optimized for transporting mobile boxes and containers in the inter-modal returns.
- the complete locking devices i.e. having a fixed (2) and a mobile plate (4) with the corresponding dowels, are mounted per pairs only on both the extremities of the truck so as to allow the transport of mobile boxes with a "tunnel" bottom or with a flat bottom both of the type 4: the distance (marked with a D) between the fixed plates (2), i.e. between the corresponding dowels, is of 11.985 ⁇ 5 m.
- the position of the locking device on the supporting cylindrical shaft (1) must be such that the fixed plate (2) and the corresponding dowel will be on that side which is the nearest to the middle of the truck so as to al low, when necessary, the mobile plate (4) and the corresponding dowel to be glided only towards the corresponding extremities of the truck.
- pairs of shafts (1) supporting the complete locking devices showing both the fixed and the mobile plates and dowels have to be mounted at a distance from each other such as required by the length of the mobile boxes with a "tunnel" bottom.
- the new locking device provides for further economical and technical advantages when used with the modular railway-truck expressly developed by the Applicants for the intermodal uses.
- the sliding fitting between the mobile plate (4) and the cylindrical supporting shaft (1 or 10) may be realised also when the nearly half-cylindrical housing 4b surrounds the external surface of said cylindrical shaft (1 or 10) along a sector of circle subtended by an angle at the center exceeding 180°.
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- The present invention relates to a coupling device-intended for locking, on standard railway-trucks, containers and the like, i.e. standard containers as well as special mobile boxes usually intended to be carried by road-trailer-trucks or conveyors so as to allow the so called "inter- modal" traffic, whereby goods are transported partially by road and partially by rail.
- More particularly the present invention relates to a new special coupling device to be mounted on standard railway-trucks and so realised as to ensure not only the transport of containers and the like having a standard flat bottom, but also the transport of that special mobile boxes of the so called "type or
group 4" i.e. having 40 feet of length and presently forseen for being transported by road only by suitable road-trailer-trucks. - Said special mobile boxes of the
type 4 show a larger height and a larger volume of the glove box, thus a larger loading capability. - They show also supporting structures of the so called "tunnel type" which allow said "
type 4" mobile boxes to be transported by road only, by some special trailer-trucks, but do not allow said "type 4" mobile boxes to be transported by rail, by conventional railway-trucks for container carrying. - The so called "tunnel" bottom is defined by the fact that said special mobile boxes have a main frame structure whereby two longitudinal main frame members protrude from the bottom of said mobile boxes providing a suitable loading and resting surface when said boxes have' to be transported by said road-trailer-trucks.
- Said two longitudinal main frame members define the so called "tunnel" i.e. a longitudinal tunnel-shaped volume on the bottom of said special mobile boxes.
- As it is known the conventional devices for coupling containers and the like on to railway-trucks, also known as locking devices, consist in four stop-pins having a vertical axis, also known as studs or dowels, for each container or the like to be coupled on to said trucks. Said stop-pins are suitably located along the longitudinal edges of the loading platform of the railway-trucks and provide for stopping and retaining the containers on said railway-trucks by cooperating with housings, also having a vertical axis, which are provided along the edges of the bottom surface of said containers having a flat bottom. Such conventional locking devices, usually fixed, necessitate the container or the like to be supported at least along the whole perimetral edge of the loading platform and hence they may and do not have a supporting but only a retaining function.
- It is further known that the level of the loading platform in conventional containers-carrying railway-trucks and in freight-cars in general, is largely dependent upon the height of the bumpers and of the couplers which must be the same for all the railroad-cars, the passenger-cars being included, so as to allow an easy mutual coupling. In the present discussion and in the following of the present specification, for "level" of the loading platform it is meant the vertical distance between the plane where said loading platform lies and the plane of both the rails of the railway-line.
- Displacing the level of said loading platform to a lower level would require radical changes in the present standard criteria for building railroad-cars, with a consequent large rise in the manufacturing prices for said cars and more in general with an unacceptable rise of the costs for transporting goods by rail when said goods have also to be transported by road in the intermodal traffic.
- The displacement of the loading platform to a lower level could in fact be obtained by reducing the diameter of the wheels which would cause for various grounds, and mainly on account of the increased stresses on the rails, a reduction of the van tonnage.
- Alternatively said displacement of said loading platform level might be obtained by means of a longitudinal tank-structure which would not allow to exploit, for supporting purposes, both the regions corresponding to the van's extremities i.e. the regions corresponding to the wheels-axles viz. to the bogies.
- In the present situation, i.e. with the presently conventional means, it is practically impossible to transport by rail said special mobile boxes of the so called "
type 4" having the so called "tunnel type" bottom, on account of their height exceeds by 170 mm the height of the traditional containers. - An inter-modal trafic is consequently impossible with said special boxes.
- The present invention, as it is claimed, has the aim of remediating the hereabove mentioned drawback of the locking devices according to the prior art.
- It is therefore a first object of the present invention to provide a solution to the problem of transporting by rail said "
type 4" mobile boxes having said larger height without having to modify the present conventional level of the loading platform in railway-trucks and hence without having to change the presently standard building parameter for said railway-cars, which parameters so largely depend upon the standard height of bumpers, couplers and anyway of the automatic coupling devices present usually in any railroad-car. - Simultaneously it is a further object of the present invention to provide a new locking device for railway-trucks having thus a two-levels supporting function, i.e. a supporting function at a lower level for the containers and the like having a "tunnel type" bottom providing a lower level supporting platform for them, and respectively a supporting function at an higher level for the containers and the like having a flat bottom providing a supporting platform for these later at a standard level. Said new locking device is conceived as specially adapted for mounting on the railway-trucks whereby the main frame members, constituting the longitudinal supporting structure, show a transversal floor-space less than the width of the volume of the "tunnel" according to which the bottom of said "
type 4" special mobile boxes is shaped. - Said new locking device is thus such to allow the "tunnel" to be housed when the special mobile box rests on the lower level supporting platform provided by said locking device.
- A preferred embodiment of the locking device object of the present invention will now be described in the following specification taken together with the accompanying drawings in which:
- Fig. 1 shows an overall sight of the locking device comprising a mobile dowel fastened to a fixed dowel in a position such that said mobile dowel overlaps said fixed dowel;
- Fig. 2 shows the locking device deprived of the mobile dowel so as to ensure the locking function only for the mobile boxes with a "tunnel" bottom;
- Fig. 3 shows the mobile dowel fastened on a position non-overlapping that of the fixed dowel as well as the details of the fastening means;
- Fig. 4 shows the mobile dowel as tilted in a non-working position;
- Fig. 5 shows an overall view of a first embodiment for a cylindrical member supporting the locking device, said member being intended to be mounted overhanging at the van's extremities;
- Fig. 6 shows a second embodiment of said supporting cylindrical shaft provided with the mobile dowels only and intended to be mounted overhanging in the middle section of the railway-truck;
- Fig. 7 shows an example whereby the locking devices are mounted on a railway-truck specially conceived by the Applicants, whereby the use of said locking devices allows said special railway-truck to ensure the so called intermodal traffic, i.e. whereby the carried containers and/or mobile boxes may be also of the type normally carriable only by road;
- Fig. 8 shows a transversal sectional view of a truck whereby the two loading surfaces having different levels are indicated in association with the respective type of carriable containers and/or mobile boxes;
- Fig. 9 shows a second embodiment of the mobile plate and the supporting shaft allowing said shaft to be jointed to said plate.
- The locking device shown in Fig. 1, comprises a cylindrical supporting member (1).
- Said cylindrical supporting member (1) may be either a steel pipe or a massive steel shaft having a suitable mechanical strength.
- Said cylindrical supporting element (1), as well as the supporting shaft (10) described hereafter, are intended to be overhanging connected and fastened parallel to the longitudinal framework of a standard railway-truck by means of means of supporting brackets (12).
- A fixed plate (2) supporting a fixed dowel (3), which is integral part of said fixed plate (2), is made integral part of said cylindrical supporting member (1) e.g. by welding.
- Said fixed supporting plate (2) is provided with fastening means which allow a mobile plate (4), carrying a dowel (5) which is integral part of said mobile plate (4), to be fastened in a position where said mobile plate (4), and consequently said mobile dowel (5), overlap said fixed plate (2) and consequently said fixed dowel (3).
- The surface (2a) of the plate (2) supporting the fixed dowel 3 (Fig. 1c.) is at a lower level than the surface (4a) of the mobile plate (4) supporting the dowel (5).
- Said surfaces (2a) and (4a) provide respectively the surfaces of the two loading platforms whose levels differ, from each other, by nearly 170 mm.
- The loading platform defined by the surfaces (2a) of the fixed plates (2) is intended for carrying the special boxes with a "tunnel" bottom and has a lower level (see Fig. 8) while the loading platform defined by the surfaces (4a) of the mobile plates (4) is intended for carrying the standard flat bottom containers and has an higher level over the plane where both the rails of the railway-line lie.
- The reciprocal interlocking of the mobile plate (4) on the fixed plate (2) is obtained, on one side, by means of a protruding nose (6a) making integral part of a handle (6) which is hinged to the mobile plate (4) by means of a hinge-pin or bolt (6b) (Fig. 1c).
- Said protruding nose (6a) is intended to cooperate with an opening (2C) (Figs. 1 d-2b) forseen for this purpose in the body of said fixed plate (2).
- The reciprocal interlocking of the mobile plate (4) on the fixed plate (2) is completed, on the other side, by means of a gib (7) (Figs. 1c and 1d) against which abouts a stop-peg (4c) at the opposite end of said same mobile plate (4). The fixed plate (2) further shows a horizontal edge (2d), contacting said supporting shaft (1), which is so shaped as:
- a) to cooperate to the reciprocal interlocking of plates (2) and (4);
- b) to provide support and housing for stiffening webs (4e), provided on said mobile plate (4), when said mobile plate (4) is mounted on said shaft (1) in a working position where it overlaps said fixed plate (2).
- When not mounted in said working position where it overlaps said fixed plate (2), said mobile plate (4) is sliding fitted to said supporting cylindrical shaft (1) as described hereafter.
- Hence the mobile plate (4), when unclamped from the fixed supporting plate (2), may slide on the shaft (1) and assume a new working position non-overlapping that of the fixed plate (2) (Figs. 3a and 3c) and may be there fastened by means of a first gib (7) similar to hereabove mentioned one, against which abouts the same stop-peg (4c), and of a second gib (9) so shaped as to have simultaneously a supporting function for the stiffening webs (4e) of said mobile plate (4) and a locking function when cooperating with the protruding nose (6a) of the handle (6).
- The gib (7) has a length d such that it may be inserted between the laterally extending bosses (4f) of the stop-peg (4c) (Fig. 3d).
- In the middle section of the railway-truck the overhanging connected supporting shaft (1) (Fig. 5) is replaced by a differently embodied supporting shaft (10) (Fig. 6) because in said middle section of the railway-truck the locking device is used without the fixed supporting plate (2) for the fixed dowel 3: in fact in said middle section of the locking device is not forseen for the transport of the mobile boxes with a "tunnel" bottom and having the conventional length less of 40 feets (group 4) (see Fig. 7).
- In opposition to the embodiment for the supporting
shaft 1, said shaft (10) is provided with suitable means to allow the supporting mobile plates (4) of the mobile dowels (5) to be tilted (Figs. 4a and 4c), avoiding thus that said supporting plates (4) may prevent the containers to rest upon, as well the flat bottom containers as the containers both with flat bottom or with "tunnel" bottom, but having a length exceeding one half ofthe length of the truck, i.e. a length exceeding 20 feets and anyway a maximum length of 40 feets. Said means for allowing the supporting plates (4) of the mobile dowels (5) to be tilted by pivoting around said supporting shaft (10) consist in the gibs (11) against which abouts the edge (4g) of the mobile plate (4) when this later is pivoted around said supporting shaft (10) into the tilted position. - A cam-like piece (8), pivotably hinged at the end (4d) of the mobile plate (4) on a hinge-pin or bolt (8a) (Figs. 3c and 3d), has the function of allowing said
mobile plate 4 and said cylindrical supportingshaft - Said mobile plate (4) (Figs. 1c and 3c) in fact forms forthis purpose a collar (4b) having the form of a nearly half-cylindrical housing in which, between the closest points, there is a distance C1 exceeding the external diameter 01 of the shaft or pipe (1 or 10) so as to allow it to be received and housed inside said nearly half-cylindrical housing (4b).
- Then, by applying the camlike piece (8), the length of the arc of circle on the external surface of the shaft (1 or 10) embraced by said collar (4b), is increased up to a length exceeding the length of the half circumference of said shaft (1 or 10) and consequently a distance C2' is obtained between the closest points of the collar's mouth, which is less than the diameter 01 of the pipe or shaft (1 or 10).
- By means of this structure the suppporting
mobile plate 4, on account of its nearly half-cylindrical housing (4b), may either be housed around said supporting shaft (1 or 10) and there fastened when said cam-like piece (8) is in active position, or withdrawn from said shaft (1 or 10) when said cam-like piece (8) is in non-active position. By means of said structure the mobile plate (4) will be, in any case, fastened and even not fastened in that tilted, retained around said supporting shaft (1 or 10). - From the preceding disclosure it is to be appreciated that, for the transport of the "
type 4" mobile boxes with a "tunnel" bottom, if between the two main frame members constituting the supporting frame of the railway-truck the transversal distance is less than the "tunnel's" width, i.e. if said distance is such that the mains frame members and the brackets (12) supporting the shaft (1 or 10) (see Figs. 7 and 8) may find place inside the "tunnel" itself, then the mobile boxes with a "tunnel" bottom may support themselves with their two longitudinal side frame members, constituting the frame of the "tunnel", into the fixed plates (2) supporting the fixed dowels (3). - In this situation said mobile boxes with a "tunnel" bottom may support themselves on a loading platform formed by the surfaces (2a) of said fixed plates (2) and which is located at a level, over the plane where the rails lie, which is reduced by 170 mm over the standard known level in railway traffic and which is thus nearly at a distance of 1000 mm from the surface of the rails instead of 1170 mm.
- In Fig. 8 the difference between the supporting levels H1 of the fixed dowels and H of the mobile dowels is clearly pointed out, i.e. the difference between the level H of the loading surface where the containers with a flat bottom have to lie and the level H1 of the loading surface where the containers with a tunnel bottom have to lie in order to be both inside the maximum allowed standard height in the railway traffic.
- By way of example in Fig. 7, which is to be read according to the explaining table there joined, there are shown the transport facilities of one of the modules of a multipletruck having (5) modules and (6) bogies, said truck being particularly specialized and optimized for transporting mobile boxes and containers in the inter-modal trafic.
- On said truck the complete locking devices i.e. having a fixed (2) and a mobile plate (4) with the corresponding dowels, are mounted per pairs only on both the extremities of the truck so as to allow the transport of mobile boxes with a "tunnel" bottom or with a flat bottom both of the type 4: the distance (marked with a D) between the fixed plates (2), i.e. between the corresponding dowels, is of 11.985±5 m.
- The position of the locking device on the supporting cylindrical shaft (1) must be such that the fixed plate (2) and the corresponding dowel will be on that side which is the nearest to the middle of the truck so as to al low, when necessary, the mobile plate (4) and the corresponding dowel to be glided only towards the corresponding extremities of the truck.
- This avoids the necessity of tilting the
mobile plates 4 and the corresponding dowels at the van's extremities when whatever container either with a flat bottom or with a "tunnel" bottom has to be loaded on the truck. - Said tilting of said mobile plate (4) and dowel (5) is, on the contrary, necessary when considering the mobile plates (4) mounted on the cylindrical shaft or pipe (10) which is overhanging connected by brackets (12) on the middle section of the truck and when mobile boxes or container have to be loaded whose length exceeds the half length of the truck.
- In any case the pairs of shafts (1) supporting the complete locking devices showing both the fixed and the mobile plates and dowels have to be mounted at a distance from each other such as required by the length of the mobile boxes with a "tunnel" bottom.
- The new locking device provides for further economical and technical advantages when used with the modular railway-truck expressly developed by the Applicants for the intermodal trafic.
- In fact by means of four complete locking devices, showing both the mobile and the fixed plates and dowels, and by means of only four mobile plates and dowels, it is possible to lock on to the truck alternatively:
- special containers (mobile boxes) of the
group 4 with a "tunnel" bottom, or-with a flat bottom, or - a 40 feet long container (as marked with a 0 on Fig. 7), or
- two 20 feet long containers simultaneously, or
- two mobile boxes either of the
group 1 or 2 (as marked with a A on Fig. 7), or - a single container of the group (3) (as marked with a 0 on Fig. 7).
- The sliding fitting between the mobile plate (4) and the cylindrical supporting shaft (1 or 10) may be realised also when the nearly half-
cylindrical housing 4b surrounds the external surface of said cylindrical shaft (1 or 10) along a sector of circle subtended by an angle at the center exceeding 180°. - In this case, in order to allow said half-cylindrical housing (4b) to receive and house inside itself said supporting shaft (1 or 10), it is necessary that on the external surface of said supporting shaft (1 or 10) a
cylindrical sector 13 is taken-off whose length exceeds themaximum width 1 of the mobile plate (4) (Fig. 3d) and whose transversal section is a segment of a circle of suitable dimensions i.e. of suitable height, so as to suitably reduce the diameter 01 of said shaft (1 or 10) to a length C2' corresponding to the dimension of the mouth of the half-cylindrical housing (4b) of said mobile plate (4) whereby this later may receive and house within itself said supporting shaft (1 or 10) or may be withdrawn when for any reason necessary. Once the supporting shaft is received and housed within the half-cylindrical housing (4b), the previously taken-off cylindrical sector (13) may be reinserted in its seat and there fastened by means of screws or any other suitable fastening means.
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AT84200889T ATE31168T1 (en) | 1983-06-20 | 1984-06-20 | LOCKING DEVICE FOR ATTACHING CONTAINERS OR SIMILAR TO RAILWAY FLATWAGON. |
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