EP1843945A1 - Device for transporting, transferring, storing, removing and unloading transport units - Google Patents
Device for transporting, transferring, storing, removing and unloading transport unitsInfo
- Publication number
- EP1843945A1 EP1843945A1 EP05850149A EP05850149A EP1843945A1 EP 1843945 A1 EP1843945 A1 EP 1843945A1 EP 05850149 A EP05850149 A EP 05850149A EP 05850149 A EP05850149 A EP 05850149A EP 1843945 A1 EP1843945 A1 EP 1843945A1
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- Prior art keywords
- platform
- transport units
- height
- lifting devices
- transport
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
- B66F—HOISTING, LIFTING, HAULING OR PUSHING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. DEVICES WHICH APPLY A LIFTING OR PUSHING FORCE DIRECTLY TO THE SURFACE OF A LOAD
- B66F7/00—Lifting frames, e.g. for lifting vehicles; Platform lifts
- B66F7/02—Lifting frames, e.g. for lifting vehicles; Platform lifts with platforms suspended from ropes, cables, or chains or screws and movable along pillars
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
- B64F—GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT; DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLING, CLEANING, MAINTAINING OR REPAIRING AIRCRAFT, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HANDLING, TRANSPORTING, TESTING OR INSPECTING AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B64F1/00—Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations
- B64F1/32—Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations for handling freight
- B64F1/322—Cargo loaders specially adapted for loading air freight containers or palletized cargo into or out of the aircraft
Definitions
- the invention relates to a device for transport, transfer, storage and retrieval, and reloading of transport units, in particular air freight transport units.
- the invention is based on the problem that arises when transport units with a total mass of up to approximately seven tons have to be reloaded into aircraft and the transport units are taken either directly from the truck or from dollies or slave pallets located in the cargo bay ready to stand.
- the air cargo transport units for aircraft of all sizes are transported, implemented, weighed and reloaded with multiple devices. In doing so, e.g. for loading a plane standing on the airfield, first the goods to be transported are driven from a truck to a so-called truck dock. This is a fixed lift whose platform is provided with a roller conveyor. This lift is either located in a ground pit or stands on the ground.
- the loading area of the truck is either provided with a conventional or non-driven roller conveyor used in conveyor technology or with one or more treadmills.
- the roller conveyor of the lift is brought to the same height as the roller conveyor of the truck and the transport units are pushed by hand or motor driven on the roller conveyor of the lift. Subsequently, the Lifting platform brought to such a height that its roller conveyor with the mounted on a pallet, non-driven roller conveyor is aligned.
- This pallet is called a "slave pallet.”
- the roller conveyor of the mentioned lift pushes the transport units onto the slave-pallet roller conveyor, from where the transport units are picked up by a long-forked, mobile, forklift-like device, which can be called donkey or slave
- the donkey underlines the slave pallet and brings it, together with the transport goods thereon, to a scale for weighing.
- the donkey then transports the goods to a transport trolley equipped with non-driven roller conveyors and called "dolly.”
- the donkey transfers the transport units to these dollys, which can be coupled together and pulled by a powered towing vehicle.
- a driving and steerable device which is called “converter” and which is equipped with powered roller conveyors
- the cargo from the dollies and drives it to the aircraft there is a driving and steerable, with driven Roller conveyors provided, called “high-loader”, height-adjustable loading platform ready, which takes over the transport units and pushes into the hatch of the aircraft.
- the floor of the hold of the aircraft is provided with roller and / or ball tracks.
- the platform with the roller conveyors of the known converter is displaced by means of a lifting device by a small amount upwards to allow the transition from the converter to said loading platform.
- a lifting device by a small amount upwards to allow the transition from the converter to said loading platform.
- the described movement processes of the transported goods are also carried out within the cargo bay.
- pallets and containers are available for temporary storage in certain areas so-called slave pallets on the floor, on ramps or in one-storey shelves.
- Single or several dollies are ready and can be moved together with tractors inside and outside the cargo bay.
- Rectangular, flat-bottomed containers, containers adapted to the cross-sectional shape of the cargo hold, which are referred to as "belly containers", and transport panels to which goods are loaded and secured, are provided with the device according to the invention having transport units with a total mass of up to approximately seven tons
- the device according to the invention is also provided with respect to the loading and unloading of aircraft, the lateral, lower loading hatches have a lower threshold height (distance from the ground), which is a maximum of 2 m.
- the object underlying the invention is to propose a device for transport, transfer, storage and retrieval, and reloading of transport units, which should meet the following conditions:
- the device should be able to travel and steer the transport units directly from the truck, regardless of its loading floor height, and bring them directly to the hatch of the aircraft in question,
- the device should be able to manipulate transport units of all types mentioned above in airfreight traffic, namely as a single item or in several units with a total mass of up to approximately 7 tonnes,
- the device should be able to remove or deposit transport units both from slave pallets which are on the ground or on a ramp,
- the device should be able to reload transport units from one truck to another truck whose loading areas have the same and / or different height distances from the ground,
- the device should be able to remove transport units directly from dollies or transfer them to them,
- the device should be able to take over transport units directly from slave-pallets, i. can be lowered to the level of a slave pallet,
- the device should be able to be operated in-house (in halls) as well as off-site (outdoors).
- This object is achieved in that the device is provided with a vertically and continuously movable platform, which is equipped with one or more driven roller conveyors and which can be fixed in any height, so that the loading and unloading of trucks is possible whose vertical loading space distance from the ground may be arbitrary, wherein said platform can be lowered so far that its bottom floats directly above the ground, so that also determined by means of known force-measuring elements, the weight of the transport units located on the platform can be.
- the platform can be brought to any height, which is limited only by the freely selectable construction in connection with the upper side members, transhipments of transport units of any kind can be made within the said height range.
- the apparatus is provided with one or more driven roller conveyors, wherein the horizontal plane in which the roller tops lie, starting from about 0.19 m above the ground in any height, according to the construction, continuously vertically movable and at any height within the Height range is frictionally fixable.
- the device is provided with a weighing device for automatically detecting the weight of the transport unit.
- the loading area has a width of 2.50 m, so that a conventional transport plate with a width of about 2.45 m and a length of about 3.25 m or a container with a width of 8 feet can be taken while the Length of the loading area corresponds to the length of a 10-foot-long container.
- the device has mechanically operated devices which allow longitudinal alignment of the transport units thereon.
- 1 is a view of a device from one side
- FIG. 3 is a plan view of the device shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, from above
- FIG. 4 is a plan view of the device shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 with the recess 1.2 on the front side of the platform 1
- FIG. 5 the view of the device from the front.
- the device shown in the figures for transport, transfer, storage and retrieval, and reloading of transport units, in particular of air freight transport units, has two lower longitudinal beams 2 aligned parallel to each other. These two lower side members 2 are connected by means of a mounted at the rear end of the device lower cross member 5 rigidly together. Above the two lower longitudinal members 2, two upper longitudinal members 3 are mounted at any height above the relevant lower longitudinal members, which are connected by means of a plurality of vertical supports 4 with the respective lower longitudinal members 2. Both upper side members 3 are also parallel aligned with each other and each with the respective lower side member in a common vertical plane.
- lifting devices 9 are arranged on both sides in each case. These lifting devices 9 are functionally connected to the platform 1. They are designed as hydraulic single or telescopic cylinders, as vertical spindle drives, as chains or ropes, the chains are connected by means of known deflection wheels and the cables by means of known cable drums each functionally connected to the platform 1. These are each embodiments that are known to those of ordinary skill in the art.
- the platform 1 between its lowest functional position, in which the platform floor 1.4 rests on the ground, and its uppermost end position, which is limited by the arbitrary height of the upper side rail 3, steplessly moved vertically and within this Height range in each height are fixed so that a loading and unloading is guaranteed in this functional position.
- This platform 1 is provided with one or more known driven roller conveyors. As can be seen in Fig. 3, the front of the platform 1 is provided with a straight continuous Uemahmekante. In Fig. 4, an embodiment of the platform 1 is shown, in which recesses are formed on the front side 1.2, the dimensions of which match the dollies, the converter, the transport units or the like of the transfer side depending on the conditions of use.
- Fig. 5 corresponds to the height difference, represented by the first height dimension 12 between the horizontal plane in which the surfaces of the rollers 1.1 are arranged, and the underside of the platform floor 1.4 the height of a conventional slave pallet in the functional position in which the bottom of the platform floor 1.4 does not stand up on the ground.
- two vertical guides 7 are provided on both sides of the device between the respective lower side rails 2 and the upper side rails 3, on which guide elements 8 are mounted by means of Axialkombirollen, being attached to guide the platform 1 roll holders on this.
- an alignment device 16 which is provided with hydraulic alignment cylinders 16.1 and is aligned with an alignment strip 16.2 parallel to the longitudinal axis of the device, is provided on one side of the device on the side of a path web attached to the platform 1.
- the relevant alignment strip 16.2 can thus be moved back and forth by retraction or extension of the piston rod of the respective hydraulic alignment cylinder 16.1.
- an aggregate attachment 32 is provided, in which a hybrid unit is mounted, consisting of an internal combustion engine and a generator which generates electricity and which is functionally connected to an electrical device in relation to the charging of the batteries.
- a driver's cab is provided laterally of the platform 1, in which all, for driving the device, for loading and unloading, for height adjustment of the platform, for aligning the platform 1 located transport units and to determine the weights of the transport units and the like necessary control and measuring devices are arranged.
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DE202004020224U DE202004020224U1 (en) | 2004-12-31 | 2004-12-31 | Device for transport, transfer, weighing and reloading of air freight transport units |
PCT/DE2005/002252 WO2006069557A1 (en) | 2004-12-31 | 2005-12-14 | Device for transporting, transferring, storing, removing and unloading transport units |
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- 2005-12-14 EP EP05850149A patent/EP1843945A1/en not_active Withdrawn
- 2005-12-14 DE DE112005003488T patent/DE112005003488A5/en not_active Withdrawn
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