EP2619062A1

EP2619062A1 - Container transport system

Info

Publication number: EP2619062A1
Application number: EP11773995.3A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Beat WEGMÜLLER
Original assignee: INNOVA TRAIN AG
Current assignee: ENGELEN FINANZIERUNG UND BERATUNG AG
Priority date: 2010-09-22
Filing date: 2011-09-21
Publication date: 2013-07-31
Also published as: CH703859B1; CH703859A2; WO2012038077A1; KR20130115259A; CA2811255A1; AU2011304662A1; US20130272827A1; JP2013544729A; IL225321A0

Abstract

The invention relates to a transfer device for horizontal transfer in a container transport system in the rail freight and/or road freight sector, having at a least one lateral shifting and lifting plate (7) which is hydraulically, pneumatically or electromechanically operated and is detachably mounted on a commercial vehicle (1), and which interacts with at least one lift adapter (9) that is detachably situated on a container carrying car (5). Preferably, two lateral shifting and lifting plates (7) are provided, which are arranged on the commercial vehicle (1) such that same engage beneath a container (3) and hold said container in a portable manner. The invention also relates to a method for the horizontal transfer of a container (3) from a commercial vehicle (1) to a container carrying car (5) or vice versa, and to the use thereof for shifting containers (3) from the commercial vehicle (1) onto a container carrying car (5) or vice versa, as a yard vehicle for relocating containers (3) and as a delivery vehicle having a lifting platform.

Description

Container transport system

The invention relates to an envelope device for a horizontal handling in a container transport system in the railway and / or road sector, a method for horizontal handling of a container from a truck or other vehicle to a container wagon, or a Railcar, and / or other location or vice versa, preferred uses of the handling device and the container transport system itself.

Due to the fact that the container transport of goods of all kinds on the roads in Switzerland and basically throughout Europe is increasing, the roads are often overloaded in this way and their maintenance is becoming more expensive due to the wear and tear of the truck transports, exist not only in Switzerland, but throughout Europe efforts to restrict the long-distance road traffic. All in all, this development has led to a change in thinking, with the aim of making container transport by rail more economically viable. However, it is logistically impossible to achieve the flexibility of truck transport, so that it is often necessary to change the container from rail to truck in order to be able to reach even remote destinations quickly. Therefore, there is an effort, this change from the rail

CONFIRMATION COPY conversely, to make the truck faster and more effective in order to facilitate or even allow a combination of rail and truck transport. To achieve this, a system has already been developed which has become known as the ACTS system. The acronym ACTS stands for "roll-off container transport system." In this ACTS system, the wagons, ie the railway wagons of the transporting train, have a separate rotating frame, which is then transposed by means of swiveling guide rails on the In addition, the lorries intended for transporting containers, which are equipped with a special hook or chain system known as a roll-off, correspond to a truck, for example, to move a container from a wagon to a lorry 37 to 45 ° open, the truck approaches obliquely to the wagon, so that for the maneuver about a lateral, spatial space requirement of 12m.With the hook or chain system, with which the truck is equipped, then the container of the Wagon pushed onto the truck The lorries, which are suitable for transporting the containers according to the ACTS system, are also called We chasers. You can also be equipped with a hydraulic load arm in addition to the already mentioned hook or chain system according to another embodiment.

When a container is to be pushed from the truck to the wagon, the process explained above is reversed accordingly.

Known uses of this container transport system constructed according to the ACTS system can be found in the area of garbage and building waste collection containers. In the field of garbage collection containers especially glass and waste paper are mentioned. Use for industrial waste is also known. A further development and improvement has experienced this ACTS system by a likewise already known horizontal handling technology, which has become known in the professional world as a mobile. It is a hydraulic system mounted on a truck that allows the container to be reloaded without a turntable. For the reloading of the container or swap body, the container having or receiving the truck approaches the rail car in such a way that it is parallel to it. This is only a road of max. 4m width required. Essential for this handling technology is that the container or swap body is equipped with at least one shifting channel which corresponds to a handling device mounted on the truck, so that the container can be handled by a parallel displacement.

Therefore, a prerequisite for the implementation of this technique is that the rail car, i. the container carrier wagon has welded Verschubbleche, which are also referred to as mobile sheets, and that at the bottom of the container or other swap body usually two displacement channels, so-called mobile channels are welded.

A disadvantage of this known mobile container handling system is that specially manufactured for this purpose swap bodies must be used with an integrated Verschubkanal. Furthermore, with this type of horizontal handling technology, the container wagons used in each case must be retrofitted with additional welded-on transfer plates.

Based on this prior art, the present invention has the object to further improve the horizontal handling of a container transport system from the rail to the truck and in particular to make more flexible and to allow the use of standard swap bodies. This object is achieved by an envelope device for a horizontal handling in a container transport system in the railway and / or road area, with at least one Verschub- and lifting plate, the hydraulically, pneumatically or electromechanically operated and detachable on a truck or vehicle is attached, and which interacts with at least one Hubadapter that is detachably on a container trolley or railway carriage and / or at a location to or from which a change of a container or other exchange container is provided.

Such a change of container or other swap body is called an envelope.

Due to the fact that the container wagon or railway wagon has at least one removably mounted lifting adapter, the inventive handling device can be designed and used much more flexibly than is possible with the known, likewise horizontal mobile envelope system. So no Verschublblech must be welded onto the container wagon here.

Through the use of at least one shifting and lifting plate, a completely new concept is pursued. The lifting and lifting plate (s) and possibly associated supporting mechanisms, which will be discussed in more detail below, can be mounted on any standard truck. The truck equipped in this way can also be used as a yard vehicle for moving swap bodies, e.g. be used in terminal operation. Furthermore, the truck can also be used as a distribution vehicle with lifting platform.

According to a preferred embodiment of the inventive envelope device two Verschub- and lifting plates are provided, which are arranged on the truck or vehicle that a container or swap body is held by them under handles and portable. The Verschub- and lifting plates form in this case webs, the Lift container or other swap body to the required height and then move it across.

Preferably, the at least one shifting and lifting plate is operated by means of at least one hydraulically operating cylinder, preferably a plurality of hydraulically operating cylinders, or by pneumatic actuation by means of pneumatic bellows. In this way an optimal power transmission is achieved. According to the invention, it can be provided that at least one sensor controls the positioning of the truck or other vehicle relative to the container wagon or railway wagon. Preferably, a plurality of such positioning sensors are used, which enable optimal positioning of the truck or other vehicle for handling the containers or swap bodies.

The invention also relates to a method for horizontal handling of a container from a truck or other vehicle to a container wagon or railway wagon and / or to another location or vice versa, in which at least one releasably attached to the truck or other vehicle Verschub- and Lifting plate is operated hydraulically, pneumatically or electromechanically and cooperates with at least one Hubadapter located on the container wagon or railway wagon, wherein the at least one sliding and lifting plate is adjusted to a height that allows them between the at least to push a Hubadapter, wherein the at least one sliding and lifting plate first docks by transverse displacement on the at least one Hubadapter, then moved between the Hubadapter and so a container or other swap body from a truck or other vehicle to the container wagon or rail car and / or to a s on-site or vice versa. In this way, in particular an envelope of the container or swap body is possible without lowering the air suspension of the truck or other vehicle. This suspension takes place in a conventional manner by means of air bellows. The pressure in the springs must only be regulated to such an extent that the car height remains constant, regardless of the load on the truck or other vehicle. The picking up and setting down of the containers or swap bodies takes place without an actuation of this air suspension.

Preferably, two Verschub- and lifting plates are provided which engage under the container or swap body and keep portable. The container or swap body is then moved by the lifting and lifting plates from the vehicle and / or the other location to the container wagon or railway wagon or vice versa.

The invention also relates to the use of the inventive transhipment device together with the truck or vehicle, as described in greater detail above, for changing containers or other swap bodies from the truck or vehicle to a container trolley or railway carriage or the other way around.

Thus, the inventive handling device in cooperation with the truck or other vehicle provides an efficient concept for intermodal rail transport, with the flexible handling of containers or other swap bodies from a container wagon or railway wagon on a truck or other vehicle and vice versa without major Space requirements and without great effort quickly, without the use of more workers than the driver of the truck or other vehicle is possible. The envelope can be made on any free-shipping or siding. A complex infrastructure is not required, as only a road 4m wide for the truck or other vehicle must be present. This flexible transshipment option therefore causes much lower costs than should be taken into account with regard to permanently installed terminal installations. Lower costs are also incurred than in the known mobile container handling system, since no welded, but only releasably attached components of the handling device are used. A conversion or dismantling of container wagons or trucks is therefore possible at any time.

The invention additionally relates to the use of the inventive envelope device together with a truck or vehicle, as described in greater detail above, as a yard vehicle for moving containers or other swap bodies.

This ensures a full use of the envelope device, which further increases the economics of this intermodal envelope system. With the further inventive use of the handling device together with a truck or vehicle, as described in detail above in detail, as a distribution vehicle with lift, is thus not only an envelope concept, but a comprehensive concept for the transport of containers and other swap bodies from the rail to remote locations and there from the truck or vehicle to the place of destination possible. There is no need to provide another means of working either for moving the containers on site or for any lifting and moving of the containers.

In this respect, the invention also relates to an intermodal, many application areas comprehensive container transport system, the one Envelope device for a horizontal envelope comprises, as explained in more detail above. This container transport system can be used to change containers or other swap bodies from the truck or vehicle to a container wagon or a railcar or vice versa, as a yard vehicle for moving containers or other swap bodies or as a distribution vehicle with lift, as already explained above.

In the following, the invention will now be explained in more detail with reference to exemplary embodiments together with the accompanying drawings.

Show it:

1 is a sectional view of a truck with the envelope device and its positioning next to an incomplete illustrated container wagon with illustrated Hubadapter,

2 is a sectional view of the truck with the Umschlag- device next to the incomplete illustrated container wagon with coupled displacement and lifting plate on Hubadapter,

3 is a sectional view of the truck with the Umschlag- device next to the incomplete illustrated container wagon with coupled Verschub- and lifting plate on Hubadapter and placed thereon swap body, Fig. 4 is a sectional plan view of the base of the truck with parallel provided container wagon, according to Fig. 1, Fig. 5 is a sectional plan view of the base of the truck with parallel provided container wagon, according to Fig. 2, a sectioned Top view of the base of the truck with parallel set container wagon, as shown in FIG.

a schematic view of a parallel to a container wagon positioned truck with freely visible sliding and lifting plates in the recording process of a container, a sectional view of a truck with the envelope device in use as Hoffahrzeug and the container in the raised state, a cut 8a with a lowered container, and a sectional view of Fig. 8a and 8b with the container in lifted for transferring state.

FIG. 1 shows a sectional view of a truck 1 as an example of a vehicle according to the invention, which has a container 3. As such a container 3, a standard container is used, as it is standardized and according to the standardization EN 12406 is generally used in logistics. The container regularly has a capacity of 25 or 32 t. The application of the inventive envelope Device, as described in more detail below, however, is not limited to such standardized container containers, but can generally be done for any, for example transported on a truck container. Essential for the handling of the container 3 of the truck 1 on a in Fig. 1 only indicated container wagon 5 are two located on the truck 1 shifting and lifting plates 7. These shifting and lifting plates 7 are each arranged so that they themselves are transversely to the longitudinal axis of the truck 1 in the end of the container 3, engage him and can lift and move in this way. In this case, this displacement of the container 3 is transverse to the longitudinal axis of the truck 1. The Verschub- and lifting plates 7 are moved in the embodiment by means of laterally arranged on the truck hydraulic cylinders. In order for the container 3 to be moved from the truck 1 to the container carrier wagon 5, the truck is placed parallel to the container wagon 5 or the train to which the respective container wagon 5 belongs. The truck 1 comes to stand exactly so that the space on the container carrier wagon 5, on which the container 3 is to be moved, is parallel to and at the level of the container 3 still arranged on the truck 1. The distance of the truck 1 to the container wagon 5 is at least 600mm. The optimized for the handling of the respective container positioning of the truck 1 is achieved by means of positioning sensors. Suitable positioning sensors as such are known and commercially available, so that it will not be discussed again in detail.

In order to enable a displacement of the container 3 of the truck 1 on the container wagon 5, the container 3 does not have to be equipped in a special way. In particular, it does not have to have any displacement channels firmly connected to the container floor. The displacement is achieved solely on the shifting and lifting plates 7. When moving the container 3 of the truck 1 on the railway carriage 5, the two dock by means of the laterally arranged pressure cylinder hydraulically moving lifting and lifting plates 7 first on the container carrier car 5, ie at the hub provided therein adapter 9, as FIG. 2 shows this, in order then to transport the container 3 further by means of the hub adapter 9 onto the container carrier wagon 5. For this purpose, the container 3 is first lifted out of its twistlocks, ie the interlocks which comprise the ISO containers 3 or interchangeable containers, in order to connect the containers 3 with the truck 1 or a carrier vehicle - hitherto generally referred to as a vehicle. The positive connection of the container 3 on the truck 1 via the twistlocks is known per se to those skilled in the art, so that it need not be discussed further here.

Then, the displacement of the container 3 shown in more detail in Fig. 3 on the container wagon 5. For this purpose, the Verschub- and lifting plates 7 between the or on the container wagon 5 located lifting adapter 9 are pushed. The Verschub- and lifting plates 7 thus intervene between the or the Hubadapter 9. It is not necessary to anchor the Hubadapter 9 in the sense firmly on the container wagon 5 that this example is welded to the container wagon 5. The Hubadapter 9 is detachably attached to a standard operated container wagon 5. In this way it is ensured that the or the Hubadapter 9 when needed at any time again detached from the container car 5 and used elsewhere, i. e.g. can be applied to another container wagon 5. Hubadapter 9 thus represent a lasting investment for a logistics company.

The same applies to the lifting and lifting plates 7, which are mounted on the truck 1. Again, it is not necessary for proper operation that the lifting and lifting plates 7 are welded to the truck 1 or other vehicle. The shifts and heights Beplatten 7 are on the platform, which serves as a receiving surface for the container 3, bolted.

So that the lifting and lifting plates 7 can intervene between the lifting adapters 9 or 9, the lifting and lifting plates 7 are brought into the height of the lifting adapter 9 by means of the vertical hydraulic cylinders already mentioned above, and by docking on the lifting adapter 9 Hub adapter 9 adjusted. Thus, a seamless transition surface forms from the truck 1 to the container carrying carriage 5 for moving the Verschub- and lifting plates. 7

The settling of the container 3 on the container wagon 5 is then carried out by settling in the pin 11 of the hub adapter 9, which are freely visible for example in Fig. 2. In this way, the container 3 is well anchored on the Hubadapter 9.

Fig. 4 illustrates again in plan the substructure of the truck 1 with the parallel set container wagon 5, and there in particular the hub adapter 9 on the container wagon. 5

Fig. 5 shows in the same perspective the docking of the lifting and lifting plates 7 to the hub adapter 9 and in Fig. 6, the displacement of the container 3 from the truck 1 to the container wagon 5 is shown from this perspective.

FIG. 7 also shows a schematic view of a truck 1 positioned parallel to the container carrier wagon 5, which shows the lifting and lifting plates 7 freely visible and is in the process of receiving a container 3 which is still on the Container wagon 5 is placed. For this purpose, the docking and lifting plates 7 docked on the container carrier car 5 engage in the lifting adapters 9 (not visible in FIG. 7). The transport of the container 3 is now carried out in relation to that described above in the reverse direction, from the container wagon 5 to the truck 1, but it is readily apparent that this is done on the same principle as the transport of the truck 1 on the container wagon. 5

In FIGS. 8a to 8c, a further possible application of the envelope device according to the invention is shown, which will be explained in more detail below. It is the use of the envelope device for moving containers, or to use the truck equipped with the lifting and lifting plates 7 1 as yard vehicle.

For this purpose, Fig. 8a shows the truck 1 with the container 3. It is apparent from Fig. 8a, that the container 3 is in a raised state. In Fig. 8b, the container is shown in a state that it is ready to settle, or in the process of settling. Since the container 3 according to ISO standard feet 13, it can be parked on them.

In Fig. 8c, the process of converting the once parked container 3 is to be illustrated by being shown on the truck 1 in a raised condition ready for transfer. As a precaution, it should be noted in the context of the present invention that in the context of container handling the term of the handling device is known as a person skilled in the art concept, but in the context of the present invention, for a clearer definition of the invention to this Term selection was waived as far as possible. In principle, however, the use of the displacement and lifting plates 7 with the associated hydraulics and the associated support mechanisms, such as, inter alia, the container feet 13, as handling equipment in terms of handling technology in the field of container handling can be called.

Claims

claims

Envelope device for a horizontal handling in a container transport system in the railway and / or road area, with at least one Verschub- and lifting plate (7), the hydraulically, pneumatically or electromechanically operated and releasably mounted on a truck (1) or vehicle is, and which interacts with at least one Hubadapter (9), which is detachably on a container trolley (5) or rail car and / or at a location to or from which a change of a container (3) or other swap body is provided.

Envelope device according to claim 1, characterized in that two displacement and lifting plates (7) are provided, which are arranged on the truck (1) or vehicle such that a container (3) or swap body is held under them by handles and portable ,

Envelope device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the at least one shifting and lifting plate (7) is operated by means of at least one hydraulically operating cylinder or by pneumatic drive by means of pneumatic bellows.

Envelope device according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized by at least one sensor for the positioning of the truck (1) or other vehicle relative to the container wagon (5) or railway wagons.

5. A method for horizontal handling of a container (3) from a truck (1) or other vehicle to a container wagon (5) or railway wagon and / or to another location or vice versa, in which at least one on the truck (1 ) or other vehicle releasably mounted Verschub- and lifting plate

(7) is operated hydraulically, pneumatically or electromechanically and cooperates with at least one lifting adapter (9) which is located on the container carrier wagon (5) or railway wagon, wherein the at least one shifting and lifting plate (7) is set at a height. which makes it possible for them to be between the at least one

To push Hubadapter (9), wherein the at least one Verschub- and lifting plate (7) first by Querverschieben to at least one Hubadapter (9) docks, then between the Hubadapter (9) is moved and so a container (3) or other swap body from a truck (1) or other vehicle to the container wagon (5) or railway wagon and / or to another location or vice versa.

6. A method according to claim 5, characterized in that there are two slide-and-lift plates (7) which grasp under the container (3) or swap body and keep it portable, and that the container (3) or swap body is replaced by the scraper. and lifting plates (7) from the truck (1) or the other vehicle to the container wagon (5) or railcar and / or the other location or vice versa is moved.

7. Use of an envelope device according to one of claims 1 to 4 together with a truck (1) or vehicle for changing containers (3) or other swap bodies of the truck (1) or vehicle on a container wagon (5) or Railcar or vice versa.

8. Use of an envelope device according to one of claims 1 to 4 together with a truck (1) or vehicle as a yard vehicle for moving containers (3) or other swap bodies.

9. Use of an envelope device according to one of claims 1 to 4 together with a truck (1) or vehicle as a distribution vehicle with a lift.

10. An intermodal container transport system comprising a cover device for a horizontal envelope according to one of claims 1 to 4.