EP1813497A1 - Système de transport combiné pour les marchandises par train et sur route - Google Patents

Système de transport combiné pour les marchandises par train et sur route Download PDF

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EP1813497A1
EP1813497A1 EP07100986A EP07100986A EP1813497A1 EP 1813497 A1 EP1813497 A1 EP 1813497A1 EP 07100986 A EP07100986 A EP 07100986A EP 07100986 A EP07100986 A EP 07100986A EP 1813497 A1 EP1813497 A1 EP 1813497A1
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Alberto Chiaraviglio
Alessandro Chiaraviglio
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    • 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
    • B61D—BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES
    • B61D47/00—Loading or unloading devices combined with vehicles, e.g. loading platforms, doors convertible into loading and unloading ramps
    • B61D47/005—Loading or unloading devices combined with road vehicles carrying wagons, e.g. ramps, turntables, lifting means

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  • the present invention relates to a system for the combined transportation of goods by rail and road.
  • the present invention relates to a system for combined transportation according to the preamble of the independent claim.
  • the intermodal semi-trailer must be oriented in a predetermined manner exclusively towards the front or the rear of the railway wagon, in order for it to be coupled with the structure of the latter. This operation often does not prove to be easy, owing to the dimensions of the intermodal semi-trailers and the small amount of space available for loading and unloading these semi-trailers onto/from the railway wagon.
  • the structure of the railway wagons for combined transportation according to the prior art is such that the operations for loading/unloading the intermodal semi-trailers must be performed on one side only of these railway wagons.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a combined transportation system which solves these and other problems of the prior art, provides an easier way of loading/unloading the intermodal semi-trailers onto/from the railway wagons, ensures a high speed of transportation (140 km/h) and a reduction in the railway transportation noise in compliance with future European standards and is easy and inexpensive to implement.
  • a preferred embodiment of intermodal semi-trailers used in a system for the combined transportation of goods by rail and road according to the invention is denoted overall by 10.
  • the intermodal semi-trailer 10 is intended for loading, unloading and transferring goods and has a box 12 provided with a roof 14, side walls 16 and a base portion 18.
  • the box 12 comprises a front portion 12a, able to be connected to a traction unit for road transportation (not shown) by means of coupling devices of the known type (not shown), and a rear portion 12b having an axle provided with wheels 20.
  • the box 12 may have a structure of a different type, for example of the platform, double-tier, roofless or other type.
  • the intermodal semi-trailer 10 has a pair of receiving seats 22 which are preferably formed laterally in the base portion 18 and are intended to engage with special transfer apparatus.
  • the receiving seats 22 are formed as openings passing through the base portion 18 or are formed on both sides of the semi-trailer 10.
  • the transfer apparatus consist of lift trucks (not shown) provided with forks able to engage with the receiving seats 22 so as to allow easy raising and movement of the semi-trailer 10.
  • intermodal semi-trailer 10 is shown in a respective first and a second configuration combined with a preferred embodiment of railway wagons, denoted by 24, according to the system of the present invention.
  • the railway wagon 24 has a chassis which is advantageously symmetrical and comprises a first and second end bogies 28a, 28b which have, arranged between them, a middle support structure 30 able to accommodate advantageously the wheels 20 of the intermodal semi-trailer 10.
  • the support structure 30 of the railway wagon 24 is set lower than the first and the second end bogies 28a, 28b and is interconnected to the latter by means of a first and a second connecting portion 26a, 26b, respectively.
  • This support structure 30 has at the top a pair of longitudinal recesses 32 (only one of which is schematically shown in broken lines) able to prevent the longitudinal and transverse movements of the intermodal semi-trailer 10, being located on opposite sides of this support structure 30 and having a width sufficient for retaining the wheels 20 inside them. Therefore, the recesses 32 define respective supporting seats for the wheels 20 of the intermodal semi-trailer 10.
  • wedge-shaped formations 33 preferably extend inside the recesses 32 and project from the bottom of the support structure 30 of the railway wagon 24.
  • the wedge-shaped formations 33 help define shaped compartments 35 with a substantially semi-circular shape for receiving the profile of the wheels 20 of the intermodal semi-trailer 10.
  • the connecting portions 26a, 26b have a substantially gooseneck configuration.
  • the front portion 12a of the box 12 of the intermodal semi-trailer 10 is coupled with the first bogie 28a of the railway wagon 24, and in the second assembled condition shown in Figure 3, this front portion 12a is coupled with the second bogie 28b.
  • the railway wagon 24 is designed so as to allow coupling thereof with the intermodal semi-trailer 10 arranged with the front portion 12a of the box 12 resting equally well on the bogie 28a or 28b.
  • Said coupling operation may be performed for example by means of insertion of the mushroom-shaped part of a coupling attachment (details not shown), provided in the front portion 12a of the intermodal semi-trailer 10, inside matching seats (likewise not shown) suitably formed in the bogies 28a and 28b.
  • the intermodal semi-trailer 10 comprises in the rear portion 12b of the box 12 a pair of lugs 40 which project underneath and which have, connected to their ends, a cross member 42 located transversely with respect to this intermodal semi-trailer 10.
  • the railway wagons 24 have a seat 44 with a substantially matching shape able to receive the cross member 42 by means of a form-fitting connection.
  • This form-fitting connection may obviously be released whenever it is required to unload the intermodal semi-trailer 10 from the railway wagon 24.
  • a mechanical locking device 46 including a plurality of retractable bolts 48 and advantageously of the electrically or electronically operated type is associated with the seat 44.
  • the retractable bolts 48 are able to engage, in one of the manners known to a person skilled in the art, with mating portions (not shown) of the cross member 42. In this way, release of the form-fitting connection between the cross member 42 and the seat 44 is prevented.
  • Activation and deactivation of the mechanical locking device 46 may be performed manually or, as will be described below, automatically or semi-automatically.
  • the railway wagon 24 advantageously comprises presence sensors 50 of the type known per se, which are designed to verify actual engagement of the cross member 42 inside the seat 44, and a central control unit 52.
  • the presence sensor 50 is designed to transmit to the central control unit 52 an enable signal S1 for movement of the railway wagon 24, when the presence sensors 50 detect engagement between the cross member 42 and the respective seat 44.
  • the central control unit 52 may in turn forward the enable signal S1 to an external communication line (not shown), for example linked to a locomotive unit of a train (not shown) which uses the combined transportation system of the present invention.
  • the embodiment shown in Figures 4 and 5 envisages moreover the installation of at least one detector 54 designed to detect the presence of a wheel 20 of the intermodal semi-trailer 10, when this wheel 20 is inserted in the compartments 35 of the middle support structure 30. If the detector 54 detects that the wheel 20 is seated inside the compartment 35, it transmits an enable signal S2 to the central unit 52 in order to authorize activation of the mechanical locking device 46. Obviously, a respective detector 54 may be associated with each compartment 35 so that transmission of the enable signal S2 is subject to the actual presence of all the wheels 20 inside the recesses 32.
  • the detector 54 may conveniently also have a theft-prevention function. In this case, unauthorized removal of the intermodal semi-trailer 10 from the railway wagon 24 may be immediately detected by the detector 54 which, in response to raising of the respective wheel 20 from the compartment 35 while the mechanical locking device 46 is activated, emits, for example to the central control unit 52, an alarm signal S3, which is interpreted as a warning of an attempted theft.
  • the alarm signal S3 is advantageously forwarded by the central control unit 52 to the external communication line, or the detector 54 may transmit the abovementioned alarm signal S3 directly to the external communications line.
  • the mechanical locking device 46 may instead also be associated with the cross member 42 and envisage the use of different mechanisms known to a person skilled in the art, for example hooks or the like.
  • activation of the mechanical locking device 46 may be performed in a simplified manner, without using the central control unit 52, but solely by means of manual operation by an operator.
  • Figure 6 shows a particular possibility of assembling railway wagons of the combined transportation system according to the invention.
  • the figure shows a first and a second railway wagon 24, 124 which are articulated with each other and each combined with a respective semi-trailer 10, 110 according to the invention.
  • the second railway wagon 124 is similar to the type of railway wagon described above and indicated by the reference number 24. Therefore, details and parts of the second railway wagon 124 which resemble or have a function similar to those of the first railway wagon 24 are referred to using the same reference numbers and letters, but preceded by the number 1.
  • first and the second railway wagon 24, 124 have a single common second end bogie, denoted by the reference number 60.
  • the chassis of the first and the second railway wagon 24, 124, in particular with the respective connecting portions 26b, 126b, are therefore coupled together by means of a central articulation (not shown) which is positioned on the common end bogie 60.
  • the combined transportation system according to the invention offers the advantage of being able to load/unload the intermodal semi-trailers onto/from the railway wagons equally well on either side of the abovementioned wagons and orienting the abovementioned intermodal semi-trailers in either direction.

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RU185241U1 (ru) * 2018-09-06 2018-11-28 Общество с ограниченной ответственностью "ГЕРМЕС МультиМодал ГРУПП" Вагон-платформа для перевозки автомобильных полуприцепов и крупнотоннажных контейнеров
KR102230791B1 (ko) * 2019-12-05 2021-03-24 한국철도기술연구원 대형 트럭 탑재용 피기백 화차 저상 프레임 구조 및 결박구조 일체형 구조 기술
EP4137360A1 (fr) * 2021-08-18 2023-02-22 Kässbohrer Transport Technik GmbH Remorque porte-voiture

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