Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B61—RAILWAYS
  • B61D—BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES
  • B61D3/00—Wagons or vans
  • B61D3/02—Wagons or vans with multiple deck arrangements
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B61—RAILWAYS
  • B61D—BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES
  • B61D3/00—Wagons or vans
  • B61D3/04—Wagons or vans with movable floors, e.g. rotatable or floors which can be raised or lowered
• • 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

Definitions

• Wagon for the transport of road vehicles with movable planes between a transport position and an inter-wagon movement position and train consisting of such wagons.
• the present invention relates to a railway rolling assembly in particular to a wagon for the rail transport of road vehicles.
• the invention also relates to a series of wagons constituting a railway train of road vehicles with two rolling planes of vehicles to their transport location, during loading and unloading, these two planes becoming carrying planes during transport.
• Rail transport of two-storey road vehicles is carried out mainly by railcars with two fixed loading planes, bringing each vehicle by a driver to his transport location.
• the wagon structures are designed not to hinder the opening of the doors including that of the driver.
• This arrangement without upper stage, is intended for particularly bulky vehicles: trucks, trucks, vehicles, elevated vehicles. It allows to transport them while remaining in the rail gauge and facilitate their loading by bringing the carrier floor to a high level for this operation, this level can be that of the dock or the end of an inclined ramp.
• the present invention relates to rail transport including two floors of road vehicles larger than those of average cars such as minivans, vans, vans and generally small commercial vehicles.
• the present invention also aims to facilitate and accelerate maneuvers and movements of loading and unloading by the establishment of two ways of rolling from one car to another for the passage of vehicles to their location. transport and their evacuation.
• the invention also aims to facilitate the supply and recovery of road vehicles by their own means during loading and unloading which are done by rolling from one car to another on traffic plans one lower and the other superior arranged in alignment of one wagon to another. These same planes support the vehicles in the transport position, these being movable vertically between a high position of loading / unloading and a transport position.
• the present invention which relates to a wagon of rail transport of road vehicles and the train formed of the succession of these wagons, each wagon being formed of a railway structure and two planes carrying mobile rolling and transport in vertical translation between a high position of loading or unloading in alignment of a car to another and a low transport position.
• the loading and unloading operations are simple and fast because of the almost coplanar continuation of the rolling plans along the wagon, but also from one wagon to another without significant unevenness. In addition, there is no structure or equipment that can hinder the opening of the driver's door.
• FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic general view showing in longitudinal section the basic components of a rail transport assembly for transporting road vehicles in the transport position to illustrate the basic principle of the invention
• FIG. 2 is a schematic general view showing in longitudinal section the basic components of a rail transport assembly for transporting road vehicles in the loading or unloading position to illustrate the basic principle of the invention
• Figure 3 is a schematic side view and sectional view of two wagons according to a first variant in transport configuration
• FIG. 4 is a schematic view identical to that of FIG. 3 in the loading / unloading configuration
• FIG. 5 is a diagrammatic profile view in section of two wagons according to a second variant in transport configuration
• FIG. 6 is a diagrammatic view identical to that of FIG. 5 in the loading / unloading configuration
• FIG. 7 is a diagrammatic profile view in section of two wagons according to a third variant in transport configuration
• FIG. 8 is a schematic view identical to that of FIG. in the loading / unloading configuration
• FIG. 9 is a diagrammatic profile view in section of two wagons according to a fourth variant in transport configuration, this variant being of removable structure
• FIG. 10 is a schematic view identical to that of FIG.
• FIG. 11 is a diagrammatic profile view in section showing the wagon and the deposited railway structure of the fourth variant
• FIG. 12 is a diagrammatic sectional and sectional view of two wagons according to FIG. a fifth variant in transport configuration, this variant being of removable structure
• FIG. 13 is a schematic view identical to that of FIG. 14 is a diagrammatic sectional side view showing the wagon and the deposited railway structure of the fifth variant
• FIGS. 15 and 16 are schematic views of the profile and FIG. section illustrating a variant of a wagon with three axles bearing structure of the type of that shown in Figures 3 and 4 respectively in transport configuration and loading / unloading
• Figures 17 to 19 are schematic profile views showing an example of a ramp articulated end in three transport positions, inclined forward and horizontal and then inclined rearward to serve as an access ramp from the dock or another wagon.
• the present invention is in the field of rail transport of road vehicles.
• FIGS. 1 and 2 It concerns all road vehicles, but especially those whose dimensions are between those of an average passenger car and a truck, namely more precisely the vehicles called minivans, vans and vans and more generally all commercial vehicles of small and medium size.
• the present invention proceeds from the following inventive principle illustrated by FIGS. 1 and 2.
• a wagon or part of a wagon or, more generally, a rail transporter assembly 1 is provided, mounted on two axles or two axle blocks (x) or bogies 2 and 3 with a coupling link. These blocks are each surmounted at each end of the wagon 5 or 6 of an end platform or of an intermediate platform 7 respectively. or 8.
• the wagon comprises a carrier upper plane 9 of transport support and inter-wagon rolling for road vehicles which is vertically movable between a low transport position and a high position for loading or unloading.
• the wagon also comprises a carrier-carrying composite bottom plane 10 and a loading / unloading configuration comprising at least a portion mobile 11 between a low position and a high position and two end plates 12 and 13 fixed or movable.
• Part 11 is for example central and movable vertically between a high position in which it is in alignment with the upper zones of the end platforms 7 and 8 and therefore with the end plates 12 and 13 and a low position transport.
• This at least movable portion 11 is preferably that located between the two end platforms or between an end platform 7 or 8 and an intermediate platform in the case of a wagon part or a wagon with three axles.
• the planes or portions of carrying planes may be continuous in the manner of a bridge or consist of a succession of several individual fixed or movable carriers, for example tilting.
• the lower carrier plate 10 is formed of the movable central portion 11 and the two independent end plates 12 and 13 made tiltable above the end platforms 7 and 8.
• the movable central portion 11 comes into alignment with the end plates 12 and 13 in the loading / unloading configuration as it lowers to the lowest possible level in the transport position.
• a carrying rail structure 14 ensures the mechanical cohesion of the wagon and serves as a support for the guide means of the carrying planes 9 and 10 or their vertically movable portion 11. By this carrying railway structure 14 pass all traction forces and dynamic efforts related to rolling.
• This carrier rail structure 14 is shown diagrammatically in double broken lines in FIGS. 1 and 2. There will now be described hereinafter with reference to FIGS. 3 to 14 some variant embodiments illustrating the general inventive principle explained above.
• this carrier rail structure 14 can take different forms depending on the variants, but it still has amounts 15 and 16. As a result, it will be numbered differently.
• the variant shown in the right-hand part of FIGS. 3 and 4 is based on the general inventive principle described above according to which the rolling and upper conveying planes 9 and the central part 11 of the lower bearing plane 10 move vertically between a high position loading / unloading and a low transport position and vice versa.
• the carrying and conveying planes 9 and 10 of two consecutive wagons are arranged in a loading / unloading configuration in the up position and in continuation of alignment so as to constitute each with his counterpart a level taxiway and almost horizontal one lower and the other higher in any case in alignment with the plans of the adjacent wagons for the passage of vehicles from one wagon to another, hereinafter referred to as an inter-wagon passage.
• These carriers bearing rolling and transport 9 and 10 are then lowered to the transport position.
• FIG. 3 Two examples of transport use are shown in Figure 3. On the right-hand side of this figure, passenger cars are transported.
• the lower plane 10 is lowered by its movable portion 11, that is to say except above the ends 5 and 6, to reach the low level of the carrier structure while the upper plane 9 is lowered in its entirety.
• the central portion (11) of the lower taxiing plane 10 retracts or fades in its low position and is not used, while the upper plane 9 comes to occupy a low transport position for these vans or vans.
• the central portion of the lower loading plane 10 is in the lower position of that of the right wagon, but carries no vehicle.
• Bearing and transport bearing planes 9 and 10 in its central part 11, are animated in vertical movement movements by means of lifting and lowering provided for example in the uprights 15 and 16 of the particular bearing structure 17 specific to this variant. These lifting means can also be external.
• This carrier structure 17 is fixed in this basic variant and comprises lower and upper longitudinal members 18 and 19.
• This basic variant is a good example of the use of transport with a heterogeneous loading that is to say different in the same car but also different from one car to another while allowing the passage of inter-wagon passage for vehicles to be transported on other wagons.
• the second variant is shown in Figures 5 and 6.
• This variant is simple. It comprises the two planes of transport and upper and lower transport 9 and 10 and a simplified carrying rail structure 20 formed of the lower frame rails 18 and on each side of the two guide posts 21 and 22 which are specific to it but different from those of the previous structure.
• These guide means comprise or not integrated lifting means along slides or other guide means along mechanical cohesion profiles 23 and 24 provided at the end of the platforms 7 and 8.
• This carrier structure simplified 20 also comprises guide posts 25 and 26 of the upper carrier plane 9 of rolling and transport separate from its uprights 15 and 16. These guide posts 25 and 26 may be integrated or external lifting means.
• the end bearing platforms 7 and 8 are also each equipped, as before, with an end plate such as 12 and 13, making it possible, in the raised position of this carrying railway structure, to carry out the continuity of alignment of the plates composing each channel. inter-wagon rolling of the vehicles to their transport position or vice versa and to receive and provide support of a vehicle in transport position without interfering with the upper loading plane.
• tilting end trays 12 and 13 allows to release an additional volume at one or the other or both ends of the wagon.
• This supporting structure 20 is equipped with own guide means in its uprights 21 and 22 so as to ensure vertical movements independent of those of the carrying planes 9 and 10 coming from the guide means along the posts 25 and 26.
• the position of carrying planes 9 and 10 of rolling and transport will depend on the type of vehicles to be transported. It can be passenger cars called passenger cars 27 (right part of Figure 5). In this case, the upper plane of rolling and transport remains in the high position and the carrying railway structure comes with it in the low position. It may also be cars called minivans or small commercial vehicles 28 such as vans or vans as shown on the left side of Figure 5.
• This variant relates to another carrier rail structure 29 but movable as a whole along rails or vertical guides in the posts 23 and 24 mounted at the inner end of each of the ends of the platforms 7 and 8.
• This carrier structure 29 also has amounts 21 and 22 delimiting in length, the upper plane 9 and the central portion 11 of the lower plane 10 moving with the supporting structure 40
• This supporting structure 29 has lower longitudinal members 18 of length close to that of the central portion 11 of the lower plane 9 and the longer longitudinal members 30 of greater length.
• this carrier rail structure 29 constitutes the mechanical connection body of the wagon between the two end platforms 7 and 8. All the traction forces and the dynamic forces related to the rolling pass in this carrying railway structure and by the guiding and / or locking means constituting the mechanical cohesion bond with the ends.
• the end bearing platforms 7 and 8 are also each equipped, as before, with an end plate such as 12 and 13, making it possible, in the raised position of this carrying railway structure 29, to carry out the continuity of alignment of the trays composing each inter-wagon taxiway of the vehicles to their transport position or vice versa and receive and support a vehicle in transport position without interfering with the upper loading plane.
• the trays or end ramps 12 and 13 of the ends 5 and 6 of the wagon can be tilted to release an additional volume at one or the other or both ends of the wagon. Note that nothing hinders the opening of at least the driver's door in the loading / unloading position.
• FIG. 11 This is for the first variant with a removable structure of a removable carrier rail structure 31 shown isolated in Figure 11, that is to say likely to be dissociated from the frame of the wagon.
• the frame of the car 1 has been shown schematically. It consists of the end platforms 7 and 8 and longitudinal members 32 forming a flat surface and continuous along the wagon through which the traction forces and those related to rolling.
• This removable carrier structure 31 is of the same type as that described above. It is a load-bearing frame with a central portion in a frame traversed by the load-bearing carrying rail structure 31 and in which it bears leveling in the inter-wagon rolling position (FIG. 10) by means adapted to a level low in transport position (figure
• the rail structure passes through the frame so that its bottom is at the lowest acceptable level in the transport position.
• the carrier rolling and lower transport plane 10 that is to say the one on which the vehicles of the lower stage rest in the transport position, is in continuation of alignment by the trays the component.
• This arrangement makes it possible to realize on the lower floor a lower lane of inter-wagon rolling. for vehicles during the loading / unloading phases.
• the carrier rail structure 31 of this variant is a unitary mechanical assembly formed for example by the assembly of mechanical elements constituting a lower and upper support structure fixedly bearing the respective bearing planes 9 and 10.
• the various traction forces and of rolling are transmitted by the longitudinal members 32 of the wagon.
• lifting and lowering means of the carrying railway structure are provided. These can be external or embedded, and act at the guide posts or elsewhere.
• Trays or end ramps 12 and 13 of the ends 5 and 6 of the wagon can be tilted to release an additional volume at one or the other or both ends of the wagon.
• the fifth variant shown in Figures 12 to 14 is derived from the neighboring variant that is to say that of Figures 5 and 6 in that the carrier rail structure 33 is fully removable. We find the railcar 32 connecting the ends 5 and 6. The other characteristics are identical. There is therefore no need to describe it again.
• the wagon variant with three carrier sets or three axles such as that shown by way of example in Figures 15 and 16, can be considered from the point of view of inventive as a double car. It is a double car because it comprises in duplicate the inventive grouping of all the basic means, namely the planes of transport and transport superior 9 and inferior 10, the structure rail 14, (here a carrier structure identical to that of the variant of Figures 3 and 4), the end platforms 7 and 8 and their fixed or tilting end plates 12 and 13 and the posts and uprights 15 and 16 with integrated means or not actuating lifting or lowering planes 9 and 10 of rolling and transport.
• each of its two ends comprises a coupling link 4 to the adjacent wagon with a drawbar or buffer, whereas at the level of a common central axle 34, it is only simple articulated links such as 35.
• the double wagon represented is actually constituted of two rolling rail subassemblies 36 and 37 juxtaposed carried at the inner ends of the subassemblies 36 and 37 by the common axle 34 and each having the inventive group by the functional combination of all the means basic .
• At least one of the carrying planes 9 or 10 comprises at least at one of its ends 5 or 6 at least one upper inclinable ramp 38 for each carrying a vehicle in an inclined position to release a greater useful space 39 at at least one end of the wagon and also to serve as ramp inclined access to the upper plane by one end of the wagon (Figure 19).
• end plates 12 and 13 can be tilted, especially forward to further enlarge the available volume.
• the roof of a larger car can thus be admitted into this space rendered R2006 / 000640
• the upper end ramps 38 of the upper support plane 9 can be tilted forwards (FIG. 17) in the transport position to form the larger transport space 39. This may be combined with further enlargement of the useful volume by tilting the lower end plate forward.
• the upper end ramps 38 may also tilt backward in the loading position ( Figure 19) for access to the dock or from the dock or from another car.
• a support pole 40 maintains the inclined ramp of the upper end 38 in an inclined position throughout its downward inclination or raising movement following the movement of the upper plane 9.
• FIG. 17 clearly shows the payload volume gain by inclining the upper end ramp 38 and the corresponding lower plate 13 in the transport configuration.

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