EP0494323A1 - Système d'attelage et de conversion pour des semi-remorques rail-route - Google Patents

Système d'attelage et de conversion pour des semi-remorques rail-route Download PDF

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EP0494323A1
EP0494323A1 EP91100136A EP91100136A EP0494323A1 EP 0494323 A1 EP0494323 A1 EP 0494323A1 EP 91100136 A EP91100136 A EP 91100136A EP 91100136 A EP91100136 A EP 91100136A EP 0494323 A1 EP0494323 A1 EP 0494323A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61D—BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES
    • B61D3/00—Wagons or vans
    • B61D3/10—Articulated vehicles
    • B61D3/12—Articulated vehicles comprising running gear interconnected by loads
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61D—BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES
    • B61D3/00—Wagons or vans
    • B61D3/16—Wagons or vans adapted for carrying special loads
    • B61D3/18—Wagons or vans adapted for carrying special loads for vehicles
    • B61D3/182—Wagons or vans adapted for carrying special loads for vehicles specially adapted for heavy vehicles, e.g. public work vehicles, trucks, trailers
    • B61D3/184—Wagons or vans adapted for carrying special loads for vehicles specially adapted for heavy vehicles, e.g. public work vehicles, trucks, trailers the heavy vehicles being of the trailer or semi-trailer type
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61F—RAIL VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS, e.g. UNDERFRAMES, BOGIES OR ARRANGEMENTS OF WHEEL AXLES; RAIL VEHICLES FOR USE ON TRACKS OF DIFFERENT WIDTH; PREVENTING DERAILING OF RAIL VEHICLES; WHEEL GUARDS, OBSTRUCTION REMOVERS OR THE LIKE FOR RAIL VEHICLES
    • B61F3/00—Types of bogies
    • B61F3/12—Types of bogies specially modified for carrying adjacent vehicle bodies of articulated trains

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  • the invention refers to bimodal semi-trailers able to run both on road and on rail.
  • a horizontally sliding coupling device to make up trains of semi-trailers, together with suitable devices to facilitate the application of the rail bogie and of the adaptor bogies then to be applied to the rear and/or front end of a semi-trailer or of a group of semi-trailers when these are to be inserted into a rail way train;
  • the invention also relates to the means suited to coordinating and ensuring the operation of the above mentioned devices.
  • the coupling together of semi-trailers in order to make up a train of rail wagons can be carried out using either vertical or horizontally connecting devices.
  • the horizontally sliding connecting devices which apply to this invention consist in a male coupling member furnished with a spherical joint which has a cylindrical vertical hole applied to the front end, and in a fixed casing on the rear cross-beam of the semi-trailer, this being furnished with a cavity into which, after having entered the spherical joint of the male member is linked with a vertical locking pin.
  • a drawback common to all horizontally connecting coupling devices is due to the fact that they are not autocentering, or rather, they do not permit the positioning of the cylindrical hole of the spherical joint to be in exact counter-position to the coupling vertical pin.
  • Patents such us US Patent 4311244, US Patent 4202454, and US Patent 4669391.
  • the fixed part 85 of the spherical joint mounted on to the end of the coupling male member is supported by the ring 86 inserted into the spherical seat 87, it being inserted into the hollow casing at the rear end of the semi-trailer; for this reason, since the moveable part 83 of the spherical joint remains locked by the coupling pin 88, the contact surfaces 85 and 86 of the joint and of the supporting ring respectively and 86 and 87 respectively of the supporting ring and of the spherical seat, which sustain the vertical load transmitted by the coupling male member are subject to sliding and wear and tear during the pitching and rolling motions and/or variations in angulation between the horizontal axes of the semi-trailer.
  • the pitching and the rolling motions cause sliding between the supporting ring 237 of the coupling male member and the fixed part 335 of the spherical joint mounted on the end of the same coupling male member; in fact, the pitching and rolling motions cause the shifting of element 335 of the spherical joint, in relation to element 334 rigidly attached to the pin 88, along the spherical contact surface and consequently, the sliding of the fixed part 335 of the spherical joint on the opposite surface of the supporting ring 237 mounted on the rear end of the semi-trailer.
  • the coupling member 206 In other coupling devices, such as those described in the US Patent 4669391 entitled:"Train formed by road semi trailers", the coupling member 206, see figure 9 of the US Patent, contacts directly on an elastomere supporting ring 286, making the component part of the coupling male member rigidly attached to the rear end of the other semi-trailer, without using either a spherical joint which distributes the dynamic tractive stress to a more extensive surface, or means which impede the sliding of the end of the male member on the support 286: the tractive efforts are transmitted to the male member 206 of the pin 288, which in consequence, is subject to shearing stress.
  • the male member 24 is furnished with a spherical joint 64 which enters exactly into the casing body 44 at the rear end of the othersemi-trailer, so as to be contained between its upper and lower horizontal inner surfaces thus avoiding the sliding of the end of the male member against the abovementioned inner surfaces caused by the pitching and rolling motions.
  • One main object of the present invention is to provide a coupling device which enhances the functioning of the horizontally sliding coupling devices described in the above mentioned patents, and which at the same time eliminates any drawbacks.
  • Another main object is to combine a horizontally sliding coupling device of bimodal road-rail semi-trailers with a rail bogie coupling device, of the pin-fifth wheel type.
  • Yet another object is that of rendering the mechanical interconnecting means of the coupling devices interdependent with those of the coupling devices of the rail bogie and of the wheels of the road bogie above the level of the rails, after the coupling of the same rail bogie.
  • Yet another aim is that of supplying rail bogies mounted with buffers and traditional coupling systems to be applied to the front end of one or more semi-trailers to allow for their insertion into a normal rail train, making use of the horizontally sliding coupling devices of semi-trailers in order that the bogie be applied to the front end, and for the one to be applied at the rear end, making use of a pin-fifth wheel device the same as that used by the rail bogie.
  • the device which permits the mounting of the rail bogie CF to the rear end SR1 of the semi-trailer consists in, see figures 1,2,3 in a special plate 1, which in the present description is also named turn plate, furnished with a V-shaped groove V 1b, edged with guide wings 1a, these also being positioned downwards, the turn plate being rigidly attached to a counter fifth wheel R2 which is inserted into the fifth wheel R1 of the bogie; the coupling of the fifth wheel pin-counter fifth wheel is rendered stable by the pin PR furnished with a locking nut.
  • a special plate 1 which in the present description is also named turn plate, furnished with a V-shaped groove V 1b, edged with guide wings 1a, these also being positioned downwards, the turn plate being rigidly attached to a counter fifth wheel R2 which is inserted into the fifth wheel R1 of the bogie; the coupling of the fifth wheel pin-counter fifth wheel is rendered stable by the pin PR furnished with a locking nut.
  • the application of the turn plate 1 of the bogie CF is carried out, see fig. 3, by inserting a king pin 4, below the base of the coupling casing 12, into the triangular aperture 1b and its locking with a hook 38 kept in a closed position by a bolt 38a; the turn plate is further locked by two forks 5 which are inserted into two tubular cavities 5a in the cross-beam SR1T, including the same coupling casing 12.
  • the bolt is actioned by a bar 38b manoeuvred by a handle 38d which remains in the unlocked hooking position, when the notch 38c is inserted into the lateral edge of the same turn plate.
  • the turn plate can rotate 180, around the axis of the pin PR of the fifth-wheel pin of the bogie, to permit the coupling of the bogie,to the semi-trailer, from both ends.
  • the pin 36 which blocks the turn plate to the bogie by means of two small plates 1c is extracted from the axle box 37 of the bogie; as already described in Patent No.
  • the small plates 1c rigidly attached to the turn plate 1 are distanced in order to allow for slight angular shiftings of the same turn plate, for example of 5° ⁇ around the axis of the pin PR, in order to facilitate both the coupling of the bogie of the semi-trailer, and small rotations of the bogie in relation to king pin 4 of the semi-trailer.
  • the horizontally sliding coupling device of the semi-trailers consists in a male member which at one end incorporates a spherical joint formed by a semi-spherical hollow 6 rigidly fixed to it, into which is inserted , with a moveable connection, a semi-spherical part 7, furnished with a cylindrical hole 7c, into which enters the cylindrical coupling pin.
  • the contact surfaces 6b and 7b, fig. 7, are easily lubricated, for example by means of grooves so that the hollow casing 6 and the semi-spherical part 7 which form the joint, may slide on each other causing the minimum of friction, during the shifting of the male member in relation to the coupling pin 3 rigidly attached to the semi-spherical part 7, which is caused by the motions of the vehicles.
  • the end of the male member enters the cavity 12a of the coupling casing 12 and then rests with the flat surface 7a of the semi-spherical part, on a ring-shaped support 8, this also forming a flat ring-shaped support base 8a.
  • the centering is considered completed when corner 2/3 of the metal ring at the end of the male member surpasses corner 13/4 and then counterpositions itself with the face 2/4 to the surface 13/3 of the incline.
  • the air gap t (fig. 3) must be such that, once the couplings have been completed, during the movement of the vehicles, the said surfaces cannot come into reciprocal contact and so cause sliding.
  • the compression force is concentrated solely on the opposing surfaces 7a and 8a respectively, of the spherical part 7 and of the metal ring 8: the shifting of the male member in relation to the coupling pin 3 causes only reciprocal shifting between the surfaces 6b and 7b respectively, of the hollow casing 6 and of the part 7 which form the spherical joint.
  • the pneumatic implant which causes the elevation of the rear part of the semi-trailer to allow for the insertion of the rail bogie, comprises of an end stroke valve 30 which the anti-telescoping back girder A1 actions when it is completely rotated upwards.
  • the said end stroke valve inserts the valves which cause, by re-inflating the cylinders of the pneumatic suspension of the road bogie, the elevation of the semi-trailer: the maximum height of the elevation is pre-determined by another end stroke valve.
  • the axles of the road wheels are locked in a maximum elevated position by hooks 25 which are slipped into the eyelets 27a of the male members 27 connected to the same axles; the hooks are actioned at the same time by a bar 23 by a lever 21 motioned by a spring 22 which via the compound lever 19, causes the simultaneous insertion of two pins 9 mounted inside the cylindrical vertical holes 19a of the rear beam TR of the semi-trailer into the corresponding holes 9a of the turn plate 1 of the rail bogie, ensuring its definitive locking.
  • Non-occurrence of the insertion of the hooks 25 after the application of the rail bogie and the subsequent elevation of the wheels of the road bogie, causes, in the event of the breaking of the coupling male member, the braking of the semi-trailer.
  • Braking may also be caused by the safety device 11, rather than the breaking of the tubes which connect the implants of more semi-trailers coupled together.
  • pin 3 is always in a coupling position because it is presumed that the semi-trailer must always be connected to another semi-trailer or to the rear adaptor bogie.
  • the invention has provided for two adaptor bogies to be applied to the front part and to the rear part respectively, of each semi-trailer, and being mounted with buffers and with traditional coupling devices.
  • the front adaptor bogie is furnished with a cross beam 32 applied to the fifth wheel of a rail bogie to which are rigidily attached the frame members 32a and 32b, the first ones being mounted with buffers and traditional coupling devices, the second ones terminating in angled edges 32c to facilitate the introduction below platform to the front end of the semi-trailer SR2.
  • the cross beam 32 is mounted in the centre part, of the coupling casing 12bis the same as the one mounted on the end of each semi-trailer, into which the spherical joint of the male member 2 is inserted, and into which the coupling pin 3bis penetrates sliding into the cylinder 15bis.
  • the locking of the front adaptor bogie is made definitive by two lateral plates 33 rigidly attached to the front end of the frame members of the semi-trailer, into which the wings of the double T - shaped beam (H-beam) are inserted and which form the two frame members of the adaptor bogie.
  • the rear adptor bogie illustrated in figure 15 differs from the rail bogie solely in the application to the turn plate 34a of two frame members 34/1 on one part, and two frame members 34/2 on the opposite part, these latter ones being mounted with buffers R and with the coupling device for traditional cars.
  • the frame member 34/1 of the rear adaptor bogie have the ends shaped in such a way as to form angled surfaces 34b: king pin 4 of the semi-trailer is guided into the triangular opening 1b of the V-shaped plates 1a as is the case in simple rail bogies.
  • the aim of the plates 35 rigidly attached to the rear ends of the two frame members of the semi-trailer is to make the adaptor bogie definitively rigidly attached to the semi-trailer.
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DK91100136.0T DK0494323T3 (da) 1991-01-04 1991-01-04 Koblings- og konversionssystem for sættevogne til føring på vej og skinner
EP91100136A EP0494323B1 (fr) 1991-01-04 1991-01-04 Système d'attelage et de conversion pour des semi-remorques rail-route
ES91100136T ES2089035T3 (es) 1991-01-04 1991-01-04 Sistema de acoplamiento y transformacion de semirremolques bimodales carretera-ferrocarril.
DE69119215T DE69119215T2 (de) 1991-01-04 1991-01-04 Kupplungs- und Konversionssystem für Strassen/Schienen-Sattelauflieger
AT91100136T ATE137452T1 (de) 1991-01-04 1991-01-04 Kupplungs- und konversionssystem für strassen/schienen-sattelauflieger
GR960402008T GR3020651T3 (en) 1991-01-04 1996-07-31 Coupling and conversion system of bimodal road-rail semi-trailers

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ATE137452T1 (de) 1996-05-15
EP0494323B1 (fr) 1996-05-01
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