EP0258087B1 - Procédé de fabrication de corps de fût muni de joncs de roulement, et corps de fût ainsi réalisés - Google Patents

Procédé de fabrication de corps de fût muni de joncs de roulement, et corps de fût ainsi réalisés Download PDF

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EP0258087B1
EP0258087B1 EP87401698A EP87401698A EP0258087B1 EP 0258087 B1 EP0258087 B1 EP 0258087B1 EP 87401698 A EP87401698 A EP 87401698A EP 87401698 A EP87401698 A EP 87401698A EP 0258087 B1 EP0258087 B1 EP 0258087B1
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Lucien François Le Bret
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D7/00—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, components made wholly or mainly of metal
    • B65D7/42—Details of metal walls
    • B65D7/44—Reinforcing or strengthening parts or members
    • B65D7/46—Corrugations
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D51/00—Making hollow objects
    • B21D51/02—Making hollow objects characterised by the structure of the objects
    • B21D51/12—Making hollow objects characterised by the structure of the objects objects with corrugated walls
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D7/00—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, components made wholly or mainly of metal
    • B65D7/42—Details of metal walls
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S220/00—Receptacles
    • Y10S220/01—Beer barrels

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  • the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a barrel body provided with rolling rods.
  • the present invention also relates to barrel bodies thus produced. More particularly, at least two rolling rods are formed on the body of a barrel, so as to allow mautention of this barrel by rolling on the ground in abutment on these rolling rods.
  • barrels having various configurations of moldings are also known from document WO-A 8 501 714, which corresponds to the preamble of claim 1, barrels having various configurations of moldings; these moldings can be formed inside or outside the initial diameter of the barrel body.
  • the possibility is also provided of forming moldings with ridges, located outside and hollows formed inside the initial diameter.
  • the formation by conventional expansion of rolling rods is also described to compensate for the reduction in the depth of these rods.
  • the present invention aims in particular to overcome all of the drawbacks and inadequacies of this state of the art by creating a barrel body provided with rolling rods offering the possibility of achieving a certain reduction in the radial size and / or mechanical strength. uniformly increased from the barrel.
  • the purpose of the present invention is therefore to create a barrel body provided with rolling rods allowing on the one hand the rolling on the ground of the barrel and on the other hand having a uniform mechanical resistance, while reducing the external diameter of such rods from the current usual value of 595 mm to the critical value of a quarter of 2334 mm, or approximately 583 millimeters, so as to make it possible to arrange four drums side by side in the direction of the width of an ISO standardized container while the usable volume of the barrel remains practically unchanged.
  • the object of the invention is also, in a second step, to develop a method for manufacturing a barrel body provided with rolling rods of usual radial size, but the mechanical strength of which is increased, and is uniformly distributed.
  • the object of the present invention is also to create barrel bodies provided with rolling rods having the characteristics set out above.
  • the present invention relates to a barrel body provided with at least two rolling rods, said rods being defined by an area expanded radially outward from the barrel, said body further comprising at least one series of moldings made up of a succession of ridges and hollows, said moldings being generally offset radially towards the inside of the barrel, characterized in that each of said rolling rods is located between two immediately adjacent hollows and is constituted by at least one of the ridges of the series of moldings projecting radially outward from the adjacent ridges.
  • said zone radially extended towards the outside of the barrel may consist only of one of the ridges, or else extend to the adjacent hollows or even extend to the adjacent ridges.
  • rods according to the present invention can be constituted by an area ex banded radially outwards from the barrel and comprising only one crest of the series of moldings, or extending to the adjacent hollows or even extending to the adjacent crests.
  • the radial size of the drums is reduced and it is therefore now possible to place such drums in rows of four in a container. It should be noted that this reduction in radial size was achieved without altering the mechanical properties and the rolling of said drums.
  • a barrel 10 of known type (FIGS. 1 and 2) consists of a body 11, or side wall, provided with moldings 12 and bearing rods 13. Conventionally, such a barrel has two bearing rods 13 surrounding a central part 20 of generally cylindrical shape and having no moldings.
  • FIG. 1 two drums of known type are placed side by side and, as can be seen, the rolling rods 13 of these two drums create, when they touch, a vacuum 14 between the drums.
  • This vacuum 14 constitutes an unusable volume, which prevents placing side by side four drums of this type in the same container with standardized dimensions.
  • the wall 11 'of the barrel is provided with negative moldings 15', formed by deformation of the wall 11 '. These moldings are entirely made towards the inside of the barrel, the ridges 16 ′ are therefore in the extension of the non-deformed parts of the cylindrical wall 11 ′; the recesses 17 'are, for their part, offset radially towards the inside of the barrel.
  • one of the ridges 16 ′ between two recesses of negative moldings is mechanically expanded in the direction of the arrow F radially outward so as to create a rolling ring 18 ′ according to the invention. It should be noted that only the selected crest 16 ′ has been deformed by expansion and that this deformation is limited to the immediate surroundings of said crest.
  • the height H of a rolling ring of known type (FIG. 2) is practically, or totally, identical to the height h (FIG. 4) of a rolling ring according to the invention.
  • the top of this rolling ring 18 projects much less towards the outside of the barrel than the top of the conventional rolling ring 13 (FIG. 2).
  • the height H of the rod 13 is taken relative to the non-deformed cylindrical wall 20 of this barrel, while in the case of the rod according to the invention, the height h of the latter is taken relative to the hollow 17 'of each of the moldings surrounding the said rod.
  • the rolling rod 18 ' has a rod height similar to that of conventional rods, the external diameter of the rod according to the invention, and therefore its radial size, has been reduced.
  • the height h is identical on each side of the rolling rod 18 '.
  • the radial size of the rod according to the invention is reduced, its mechanical resistance is equivalent to the mechanical resistance of rods of known type and is uniform.
  • the rolling rod according to the invention is both of reduced radial size and of increased mechanical resistance.
  • FIG. 4B Another embodiment of conformation of the radial wall of the barrel is illustrated in FIG. 4B.
  • the vertices 16A of the corrugations are situated slightly projecting from the non-deformed parts 20 ′ of the wall of the body.
  • the radial offset of the recesses 17A is equal to the radial offset of the vertices 16A relative to the non-deformed part 20 'of the cylindrical wall.
  • the radial distance between the vertices 16A and the hollows 17A is substantially equal to that between the vertices 16 'and the hollows 17' of the embodiment of the fi gure 4A.
  • the mechanical properties of the moldings 16A, 17A are practically equivalent to those of the moldings of FIG. 4A.
  • the advantage of the arrangement according to FIG. 4B consists in that the values of crest diameter and of hollow diameter being greater than the corresponding values of the embodiment of FIG. 4A, the volumetric capacity of the barrel is slightly larger than in the case of the embodiment of Figure 4A.
  • the apex 16' and the adjacent recesses 17 ' are identical in configuration and in diameter to those of the shape of embodiment of FIG. 4A,
  • the vertex 16 ′ chosen for this purpose and as indicated in dotted lines is aligned with the smooth part 20 ′ of the cylindrical wall of the barrel.
  • the height h of the rolling rod 18 ′ is in the two embodiments the same and constitutes the extreme radial dimension of the wall of the barrel body in both cases.
  • 4A and 4B is the position of the moldings relative to the smooth, non-deformed surface of the cylindrical wall of the barrel: the radial offset towards the inside corresponds to the entire height of the moldings in the case of FIG. 4A and substantially half of this height in the case of FIG. 4B, except for the selected vertices 16 ′ which remain at the initial diameter of the barrel like all the vertices of the molding in FIG. 4A.
  • the rolling rod 18 ' protrudes sufficiently from the wall 20' of the barrel to allow it to be rolled on the ground.
  • drums 10 of conventional dimensions cannot be placed side by side in rows of four across the width of a container C of standardized dimensions, because their external diameter is too large.
  • barrels 10 'according to the present invention can be, without however the capacity of these barrels has not undergone significant reduction.
  • the manufacturing process described above can be continued (FIG. 6) so that the expansion of the crest 16 ′ is carried out until the expanded zone 18 "has an external diameter identical to that of conventional rolling rods
  • the recesses 17 "located on either side of the crest 18" are also slightly displaced radially outward relative to the location 17 'which they originally occupied.
  • the purpose of this manufacturing process is no longer to reduce the radial size of the conventional rolling rods, but to uniformly strengthen their mechanical strength. Indeed, the expansion of the crest 18 "has in particular the consequence of giving it increased mechanical strength, to stresses radial acting on the body of the barrel.
  • the rolling rod thus produced has a rod height h ′ clearly greater than the height H of rolling rods of conventional type, although the external diameter of such a rolling rod is identical to that of a conventional rod .
  • the radially outward expanded zone can extend not only to the adjacent hollows, but also to the adjacent ridges.
  • the height of the rolling rods thus produced and the mechanical strength of these rods can be increased.
  • the manufacturing method according to the invention offers the possibilities of deforming only the crest of a molding, or of deforming the crest to the adjacent hollows or even of pushing the deformation to the adjacent crests, the bearing ring produced, which can therefore present markedly different characteristics.
  • the advantage of such a method is therefore to allow three different types of bearing rods to be produced on the same machine.
  • the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and covers all variants within the reach of ordinary skill in the art.
  • a conventional barrel with more than two rods according to the invention as well as to vary the size of the molded zone until possibly extending it to the entire height of the barrel.

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EP87401698A 1986-08-05 1987-07-21 Procédé de fabrication de corps de fût muni de joncs de roulement, et corps de fût ainsi réalisés Expired - Lifetime EP0258087B1 (fr)

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