EP1632442A1 - Curtainside container - Google Patents

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EP1632442A1
EP1632442A1 EP05014985A EP05014985A EP1632442A1 EP 1632442 A1 EP1632442 A1 EP 1632442A1 EP 05014985 A EP05014985 A EP 05014985A EP 05014985 A EP05014985 A EP 05014985A EP 1632442 A1 EP1632442 A1 EP 1632442A1
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container
walls
hoisting
mobile structures
side curtain
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Giuseppe Revello
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Cobra Containers SpA
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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
    • B65D90/00—Component parts, details or accessories for large containers
    • B65D90/0026—Corner fittings characterised by shape, configuration or number of openings
    • 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
    • B65D88/00—Large containers
    • B65D88/02—Large containers rigid
    • B65D88/12—Large containers rigid specially adapted for transport
    • B65D88/127—Large containers rigid specially adapted for transport open-sided container, i.e. having substantially the whole side free to provide access, with or without closures
    • 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
    • B65D90/00—Component parts, details or accessories for large containers
    • B65D90/02—Wall construction
    • B65D90/021—Flexible side walls or doors
    • 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
    • B65D88/00—Large containers
    • B65D88/02—Large containers rigid
    • B65D88/022—Large containers rigid in multiple arrangement, e.g. stackable, nestable, connected or joined together side-by-side
    • 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
    • B65D88/00—Large containers
    • B65D88/02—Large containers rigid
    • B65D88/12—Large containers rigid specially adapted for transport
    • B65D88/121—ISO containers

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  • the present invention relates in general to containers for the transportation of goods, and more in particular relates to a curtainside container comprising a bottom, a roof, two end walls and two side curtain walls. Corner uprights are arranged between the end walls and the side walls for support of the roof by the bottom, and top and bottom hoisting/stacking blocks or fittings are set in a position corresponding to the side curtain walls at a distance from the corner uprights. Said hoisting/stacking fittings are interconnected by vertical resistant elements.
  • European standards envisage for containers a maximum length of 13.72 m and a maximum width of 2.55 m, which enables introduction of two rows of standard Euro-pallets within the container.
  • the hoisting/stacking fittings with the corresponding vertical resistant elements of interconnection are set at a distance of 12.19 m (40 feet) from one another, which enables positioning of another container of equal length (13.72 m) or else of smaller length (12.19 m) on top of the first container.
  • Curtainside containers present the advantage of enabling loading and unloading of the goods through the side walls instead of through the end walls, as in the case of containers with rigid side walls.
  • the presence of the vertical resistant elements that interconnect the hoisting/stacking fittings at a distance from the ends of the container constitutes an obstacle to loading and unloading of the container in the areas of the end walls.
  • the document EP-B-1204573 envisages a solution in which the vertical resistant elements form part of mobile structures set between the aforesaid hoisting/stacking fittings and the adjacent corner uprights.
  • said mobile structures are hinged to the corner uprights so as to be able to rotate between a retracted closed position, in which they perform the function of resistance to the hoisting/stacking loads, and an extracted open position for enabling loading and unloading at the ends of the container.
  • This arrangement entails problems of encumbrance, given that the angular movements between the closed position and the open position of the hinged mobile structures calls for space at the sides and also in front of the end walls of the container.
  • the object of the present invention is to overcome the aforesaid drawback, and said purpose is achieved thanks to the fact that, in a curtainside container of the type defined at the beginning of the present description, the aforesaid mobile structures are able to slide in a direction parallel to the side curtain walls between the aforesaid closed and open positions.
  • the aforesaid mobile structures are provided at the top and at the bottom with carriages guided along horizontal rails carried by the bottom and by the roof of the container.
  • the mobile structures are moreover conveniently provided with horizontal pins for centring and clamping, which can be engaged within corresponding detents associated to the top and bottom hoisting/stacking fittings.
  • number 1 designates as a whole a curtainside container according to the invention, including a bottom wall 2, two end walls 3, a top wall or roof 4 and two side curtain walls 5, which can be slid open.
  • the roof 4 is supported by the bottom 2 by means of two pairs of corner uprights 6, set between the end walls 3 and the side curtain walls 5, and by further mobile intermediate uprights.
  • hoisting/stacking blocks respectively top and bottom ones, normally separated from one another at a distance of 12.2 m (40 feet) apart. Since the normalized maximum total length of the container 1 is 13.6 m, the hoisting/stacking corner fittings 7, 8 are in general set at a distance from the corner uprights 6, set adjacent thereto, of about 0.7 m.
  • top corner fittings 7 are vertically aligned with the respective bottom corner fittings 8, and set between them are respective vertical resistant elements 9.
  • the vertical resistant elements 9 have the function of ensuring the necessary structural resistance in the case of hoisting, as well as stacking, of another container on top of the container 1.
  • each vertical resistant element 9 forms part of a respective mobile structure 10, which is set between the corresponding side curtain wall 5 and the corresponding corner upright 6 and can be displaced between an advanced closed position, which is represented in the drawings and in which it completes the side wall 5, and a retracted open position for enabling convenient access in a position adjacent to the corresponding end wall 3 for the manoeuvres of loading and unloading of the container 1.
  • each mobile structure 10 Displacement of each mobile structure 10 between the aforesaid closed and open positions is by sliding, in a direction parallel to the side curtain walls 5. As is illustrated in greater detail in Figures 2 and 3, sliding occurs via top carriages 11 and 12, which are carried by each mobile structure 10 and are mobile within top and bottom guide rails 13, 14 carried, respectively, by the roof 4 and by the bottom 2 of the container 1.
  • each mobile structure 10 is provided at the top and at the bottom with horizontal pins for centring and detent 15, 16 which can be engaged, in the closed position, within corresponding top and bottom detents 17, 18 carried by the corner fittings 7 and 8.
  • the detents 17, 18 will be conveniently equipped with disengageable clamping members (not illustrated in so far as they are within the reach of a person skilled in the branch) for arresting the pins 15, 16 when they are engaged within said detents 17, 18.

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EP05014985A 2004-07-15 2005-07-11 Curtainside container Withdrawn EP1632442A1 (en)

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Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP1659076A1 (en) * 2004-11-17 2006-05-24 Clive-Smith Smith Handling & stacking support for open-sided container
CN106185076A (zh) * 2016-09-14 2016-12-07 扬州润扬物流装备有限公司 限位装置及具有其的侧帘箱
WO2022114979A1 (en) * 2020-11-24 2022-06-02 Laude Smart Intermodal Container

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2075836A1 (it) * 1969-12-12 1971-10-15 Avit Paul
EP1204573A1 (en) * 1999-08-16 2002-05-15 Sea Containers Service Ltd. Freight container
GB2396604A (en) * 2002-12-23 2004-06-30 Sea Containers Services Ltd Freight container

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2075836A1 (it) * 1969-12-12 1971-10-15 Avit Paul
EP1204573A1 (en) * 1999-08-16 2002-05-15 Sea Containers Service Ltd. Freight container
GB2396604A (en) * 2002-12-23 2004-06-30 Sea Containers Services Ltd Freight container

Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP1659076A1 (en) * 2004-11-17 2006-05-24 Clive-Smith Smith Handling & stacking support for open-sided container
CN106185076A (zh) * 2016-09-14 2016-12-07 扬州润扬物流装备有限公司 限位装置及具有其的侧帘箱
CN106185076B (zh) * 2016-09-14 2018-12-18 扬州润扬物流装备有限公司 限位装置及具有其的侧帘箱
WO2022114979A1 (en) * 2020-11-24 2022-06-02 Laude Smart Intermodal Container

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