EP0705770B1 - Container with self-locking arms, especially suitable for rolling stock - Google Patents

Container with self-locking arms, especially suitable for rolling stock Download PDF

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EP0705770B1
EP0705770B1 EP95114987A EP95114987A EP0705770B1 EP 0705770 B1 EP0705770 B1 EP 0705770B1 EP 95114987 A EP95114987 A EP 95114987A EP 95114987 A EP95114987 A EP 95114987A EP 0705770 B1 EP0705770 B1 EP 0705770B1
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Zaverio Egidio Tignonsini
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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
    • B65D19/00—Pallets or like platforms, with or without side walls, for supporting loads to be lifted or lowered
    • B65D19/38—Details or accessories
    • B65D19/44—Elements or devices for locating articles on platforms
    • 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
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/02—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for annular articles
    • B65D85/06—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for annular articles for tyres

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  • This invention relates to a container with self-locking arms, especially suitable for rolling stock.
  • this invention relates to a container with self-locking arms, for the packing, transportation and storing of rolling stock especially tyres of railroad cars, tyre-centres and monobloc wheels.
  • a device with self locking arms for receiving long objects according to the preamble of claim 1 is known from EP-A-0 505 295.
  • said wheels, tyres and tyre-centres are superposed in variable number on pallets or beds of a traditional type and then steel strapped, i.e. tied to the supporting frame by means of metal straps.
  • This traditional solution involves some severe drawbacks.
  • the steel straps utilized do not prevent the shifting of the superposed elements in case of abrupts strains which happen often during transportation; as a consequence, the superposed monobloc wheels, tyres and tyre-centres, tend to move away from one another in a disorderly way, and in the worst cases, they break the straps, sliding on the floor and suffering damages. Therefore, on unloading the material, it is necessary to re-compact the group of components, which is obviosuly difficult because of the weight, and time wasting.
  • Object of this invention is to obviate the aforementioned drawbacks.
  • object of this invention is to provide a container for rolling stock such as not to require binding operations of the material, and allowing, during the transportation, the exact keeping of the original position even in case of abrupt strains.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide users with a container as defined above, suitable to automatically lock the rolling stock placed on the same.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide a container for rolling stock suitable to ensure a high level of resistance and reliability in the long run, and also such as to be easily and economically realizable.
  • a container with self-locking arms comprising a metal frame made up by standards connected by cross-pieces and provided with lever arms articulatably connected to the frame and whose fulcrum is on the inner front of each of said standards, each arm being "L"-shaped and comprising a horizontal and a vertical branch, characterized in that the metal frame is provided with a lower and an upper cross-pieces and with two couples of "L"-shaped lever arms, the arms of one couple being articulatably connected to the corresponding ones of the other couple by respective ends of their horizontal branches and in that the lower ends of the vertical branches of the arms of each couple are connected by a connecting cross-piece provided at its ends with a protruding pins which fit in the corresponding inner front of standards.
  • the container with self-locking arms for rolling stock is basically constituted by a metal frame indicated on the whole by 10, having a hexagonal plan by way of example, made up by vertical standards 12 connected by cross-pieces 14, horizontally arranged near the floor supporting point of said standards. Further cross-pieces 16 connect, in the upper part, two couples of opposite standards 12.
  • the aforementioned standards and cross-pieces preferably made from quadrangular iron sections connected to one another by means of welding, circumscribe a container of a substantially parallelepipedal shape.
  • Frame 10 is provided with four metal lever arms 18, 18', connected in pairs, which circumscribe a toggle device developed in the inside of the frame. More particularly, each of the arms 18, 18' is constituted by a substantially "L"-shaped element from steel or other suitable material having a section quadrangular by way of example, connected to the internal wall of one of standards 12; the end of the horizontal branch of each arm 18, 18' is connected, with pins or bolts 20, to the corresponding end of the opposite arm by whose side it rests.
  • the aforementioned arms are placed in correspondence of the inner front of standards 12, which are not connected to one another on the top, and which develop preferably with their vertical branch from about mid-height of said standards until they almost reach standards 14.
  • Each couple of arms 18, 18' has a further connecting cross-piece 22, tied by welding or equivalent means to the lower end of the vertical branch of said arms.
  • Said connecting element is parallel relatively to the underlying cross-piece 14 of frame 10, and is spaced from it by a length comprised, by way of example, between 15 and 30 mm.
  • the opposite fronts of cross-piece 22 are provided with seats for fitting pins 28' or equivalent means for connecting to standard 12.
  • a "U"-shaped metal frame 24 is located between the vertical branches of each couple of arms 18, 18'; the vertical branches 26 of said frame brush the inner front of arms 18, 18' in correspondence of their upper branch to which they are connected by means of bolts 28 or equivalent means.
  • the vertical branches 26 of the same "U"-shaped frames have preferably a double length compared to the vertical branches of arms 18, 18', reaching a sligthly lower level compared with the upper end of standards 12; the horizontal branch 26' of said frames 24 is spaced by a length comprised, by way of example, between 20 and 40 mm from cross-piece 22 connecting arms 18, 18', in order to be able to oscillate freely relatively to the same.
  • Standards 12 and the horizontal branches of arms 18, 18' are preferably connected by elastic means (not shown), such as for instance springs or the like; said means allow, as stressed in particular in Fig. 1, to keep the horizontal branches of said arms angularly oriented upwards, in the absence of loads placed in frame 10.
  • the vertical branches of arms 18, 18' may slighltly protrude towards the outside relatively to standards 12, as shown by the diagram of Fig. 1; however, a preferred solution provides for the arrangement of specific catches on the standards, to prevent arms from protruding from the same.
  • arms 18, 18' constitute an oscillating support for the load to be placed in the container, made up by frame 10 and are stressed the moment the load rests on them, as we shall specify in detail in the following with reference to Figs. 2 and 3.
  • Fig. 2 shows schematically the arrangement assumed by a couple of arms 18, 18' and a "U"-shaped frame when rolling stock, for instance monobloc wheels 30 for railroad cars, are placed in the container subject matter of the invention.
  • Said monobloc wheels oriented with a vertical axis, are aligned to one another and arranged by groups in frame 10, transversally relatively to arms 18, 18', whose horizontal branches, under the action of the weight, are caused to lower in the direction of cross-pieces 14, overcoming the resistance of the springs or like elastic means which connect them to standards 12.
  • the lowering of the aforementioned branches is automatically limited by the whole length of the groups of monobloc wheels 30, whose number is comprised between 4 and 6, depending on their thickness; the external front of the first and last of them is actually directly catched by the vertical branches of arms 18, 18', which oscillate in the direction of the centre of frame 10.
  • Said monobloc wheels are traditionally provided with a central hole 30', within which a temporary supporting shaft is advantageously provided; hence, a plurality of wheels 30 can be fitted on said shaft which, protruding from the opposite ends of the group of artifacts approached to one another, constitutes the suitable grip point for the whole of wheels which are simultaneously handled by hoists or lifting trucks, and placed blockwise in frame 10.
  • the container with self-locking arms subject matter of this invention allows to group and keep in constant barycentric position the monobloc wheels, the tyres or the tyre-centres of railroad cars; the same container is advantageously utilizable during the working of said artifacts, acting as a small storehouse for temporary storing.
  • the material circumscribed by the arms and the "U"-shaped frames of the container is not subject to slidings and ensuing possible dents, and does not require further steel strapping operations.
  • the loaded containers are easily transportable, as the base cross-pieces are spaced from the supporting plane and allow the insertion of the forks of the lifting trucks.
  • the container may be provided, especially along the standards, with openings no matter how shaped for hooking ropes or chains allowing the handling with overhead cranes, or it may have supporting plates on the upper end of said standards or seats suitably shaped for their superimposition.
  • the container subject matter of the invention can be used also for other purposes, and house, for instance, with the suitable sizings, coiled metal strips or other artifacts and materials for which an exact locking is required during handling.

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EP95114987A 1994-09-29 1995-09-25 Container with self-locking arms, especially suitable for rolling stock Expired - Lifetime EP0705770B1 (en)

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ITBG940043A IT1271610B (it) 1994-09-29 1994-09-29 Contenitore a bracci autobloccanti, specie per materiale rotabile
ITBG940043 1994-09-29

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EP0705770A2 (en) 1996-04-10
ITBG940043A0 (it) 1994-09-29
ATE201371T1 (de) 2001-06-15
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