EP4335596A1 - Modularer schrank zur lagerung von behältern - Google Patents

Modularer schrank zur lagerung von behältern Download PDF

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EP4335596A1
EP4335596A1 EP23187777.0A EP23187777A EP4335596A1 EP 4335596 A1 EP4335596 A1 EP 4335596A1 EP 23187777 A EP23187777 A EP 23187777A EP 4335596 A1 EP4335596 A1 EP 4335596A1
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  • the present invention relates to a modular cabinet for storing containers.
  • examples of stored materials may be, petrol, refrigerant liquids and oils, paints, liquid soaps and detergents that are generally commercially supplied in containers such as milk, barrels, drums.
  • the storage materials in addition to those indicated, can be solid materials, such as sawdust, chips or raw materials in the form of granules, or of a gaseous nature such as, for example, flame retardant substance or cooling gases.
  • the cited containers when are not to be used, are stored inside cabinets or receiving tanks.
  • the containers are stored in cabinets or tanks forming supply areas where users go and perform operations of tapping or transfer of liquids into smaller transport units to be handled within the work environments.
  • the cabinet is a structure generally defined by an external panelling that confers a structural stiffness of the cabinet and at the same time fulfils the function of enclosing a volume within which to store certain containers.
  • figure 1 An example of the state of the art is illustrated in figure 1 .
  • the structure is defined by a monolithic box-like body S, defining inside a compartment V, having on one side a pair of leaves A for access to the compartment V (only one leaf A is represented for illustrative purposes).
  • the compartment V is subdivided into two subunits, upper compartment and lower compartment, through a metal grid G.
  • the monolithic shape of the cabinet makes the packaging very bulky and therefore very expensive to ship.
  • the manufacturer finds it uneconomical to market and therefore to send one or more tanks beyond a certain mileage away from his headquarters.
  • these structures although made of metal, suffer from high fragility especially during shipping operations. Since they are substantially defined by metallic cladding panellings, these are subject to possible dents that force the manufacturer to reinforce the packaging with stiffening and shock absorbing materials. This is at the expense of overall packaging costs.
  • the cabinets of the prior art have reduced flexibility of use. In the event that it is wished to convert the cabinet into a tank, perhaps due to the change in the location of the cabinet or due to the change in the material to be stored, the user is forced to replace the cabinet with a new tank.
  • the technical task of the present invention is therefore to provide a modular cabinet for storing containers that is able to overcome the drawbacks which have emerged from the prior art.
  • An object of the present invention is therefore to make available a modular cabinet for storing containers, which is dismountable when it is to be shipped and which has contained overall dimensions to facilitate packaging and shipping operations.
  • Another object of the present invention is to make available a modular cabinet for storing containers that is equipped with a reinforcement structure capable of making it resistant.
  • a further object of the present invention is to make available a modular cabinet for storing containers that has a high flexibility of use and that can be converted from cabinet into tank and vice versa without particular modifications to the structure.
  • Another object of the present invention is to make available a modular cabinet for storing containers whose conversion and flexibility of use from tank into cabinet and vice versa takes place with reversible connecting means isolated from the inside of the cabinet and which therefore cannot be attacked by, or do not come into contact with, the liquids contained in the containers.
  • a modular cabinet for storing containers C has been indicated overall with 1.
  • storage is meant the temporary storage of the container C, and of the material contained therein, until a subsequent movement of the container C to a different location or the temporary storage of the container C for picking the material contained therein, when necessary.
  • the function of the modular cabinet 1 is to create a temporary container location station, while in the second case, the function of the modular cabinet 1 is to create a material supply station.
  • the containers C can contain among the most disparate materials in the liquid, solid or gaseous state such as oils, petrol, lubricants, detergents or sawdust, chips, raw materials in granular form, or flame retardant gases or refrigerants.
  • All these materials can, during the operations of manoeuvring and picking of the containers, be dispersed in the environment and for this reason, to contain the dispersion thereof they are stored inside the modular cabinet 1.
  • Some of the materials mentioned above cannot be placed inside a work environment, for worker safety and protection reasons, and they are put in locations outside the work environment however protected inside the modular cabinet 1.
  • the modular cabinet 1 consists of two main elements: a lower box-like body 2 and an upper box-like body 7 ideally subdivided between them, as better illustrated below, by a grid 13.
  • the lower box-like body 2 has the function of receiving and containing liquids and/or additional debris that may accidentally leak from the containers C.
  • the function of the lower box-like body 2 is therefore that of a receiving tank.
  • the upper box-like body 7 has the function of enclosing and protecting the containers C, resting on the grid 13, delimiting the volume within which the containers themselves are stored.
  • the upper box-like body 7 together with the grid 13 delimit the receiving space of the containers C.
  • the upper box-like body 7 When the modular cabinet 1 is assembled, i.e. assumes a use configuration, the upper box-like body 7 overhangs the lower box-like body 2 and is solidly connected to the latter as illustrated in figure 2 .
  • the lower box-like body 2 defines inside a first compartment V intended to receive and contain liquids and/or other debris coming from the containers C.
  • the lower box-like body 2 provides a bottom 4 below from which a first pair of walls 5 extend that are spaced apart from one another and opposite, which are connected to a second pair of walls 6, which are spaced apart and opposite.
  • the lower box-like body 2 is open above, communicating with the upper box-like body 7, through an opening 3.
  • the lower box-like body 2 has, connected to the bottom 4 on the opposite side to the first compartment V, four support feet 30 adapted to maintain the bottom 4 and therefore the lower box-like body 2 above a support plane (only three are illustrated in figures 2 and 3 for representative needs).
  • the four support feet 30 allow both to avoid any contact of the ground with the bottom 4, to avoid potential deterioration of the latter, and to allow the entire modular cabinet 1 to be forked by the forks of a forklift to be handled.
  • the first pair of walls 5 has an extension with walls that are parallel to one another. In other words, each wall belonging to the first pair of walls 5 extends, moving away from the bottom 4, with a vertical course. Each first wall 5 forms with the bottom 4 an angle ⁇ substantially equal to 90° (in figure 4 for representative needs only one has been represented).
  • the second pair of walls 6 has an extent with walls converging on one another. In other words, each wall belonging to the second pair of walls, extends, moving away from the bottom 4, with an oblique course towards the inside of the first compartment V.
  • Each second wall 6 forms with the bottom 4 an angle ⁇ smaller than 90°, preferably comprised between 75°and 85° (in figure 4 for representative needs only one has been represented).
  • the coupling thereof with the first pair of walls 5 does not take place along a vertical line.
  • the coupling between the ends of a second wall 6 does not take place by matching the ends of the first pair of walls 5.
  • the coupling with the first pair of walls 5 takes place by delimiting a central portion 50, which is predominant, of each first wall 5 inside the first compartment V and excluding a pair of peripheral portions 52 of each first wall 5 from inside the first compartment V leaving it outside the same.
  • each wall ends above with a step profile 60 defining a horizontal section 61 and a vertical section 62.
  • the upper box-like body 7 defining inside a second compartment V' intended to contain the containers C (in figure 2 they have been represented by barrels).
  • the containment space of the modular cabinet 1 is given by the sum of the first compartment V and of the second compartment V'. More precisely, the sum of the compartments V, V' defines the total space of the modular cabinet 1 subdivided into loading space, delimited by the second compartment V', and receiving space, delimited by the first compartment V.
  • the containers C can be stored in the second compartment V' while the liquids or debris leaking from the containers can be received in the first compartment V.
  • This subdivision occurs as a result of the grid 13, of a substantially known type, which has a plurality of openings 130.
  • Said plurality of openings 130 is obtained through the intersection of a plurality of crosspieces, crossed one another perpendicularly, defining a stiff net acting as a support plane for the containers C.
  • the grid 13 is defined by a plurality of crosspieces parallel to each other and defining, due to the effect of the local approach, the plurality of openings 130.
  • Said upper box-like body 7 comprises a pair of leaves 9, which are openable or closable to permit or inhibit access to a gap 8 from which an operator can access the containers C.
  • Said pair of leaves 9 is positioned in vertical continuation of one of the first pair of walls 5.
  • the box-like body 7 In contrast to the pair of leaves 9, the box-like body 7, provides a back 10 placed in vertical continuation of the other wall belonging to the first pair of walls 5 not engaged by the pair of leaves 9.
  • the back 10 is placed at a wall belonging to the first pair of walls 5 and the pair of leaves 9 is present in the other wall belonging to the pair of walls 5.
  • the box-like body 7 comprises a pair of flanks 11 each in vertical continuation of a respective wall belonging to the second pair of walls 6.
  • the upper box-like body 7 is closed by a cover 12 connected to the pair of leaves 9, to the back 10 and to the pair of flanks 11.
  • the cover 12 can be subdivided into two portions each located at a respective leaf belonging to the pair of leaves 9.
  • the lower box-like body 2 and the upper box-like body 7 are removably connected to each other through a load-bearing frame 14 and reversible connecting means 15 (better illustrated in figure 3 ).
  • the modular cabinet 1 can assume two configurations: a use configuration, illustrated in figure 2 , and a packaging configuration, illustrated in figure 10 .
  • the reversible connecting means 15 is mounted and the lower box-like body 2 is surmounted by the lower box-like body 7.
  • the two box bodies 2,7 are solidly constrained to each other and form a single body defining the modular cabinet 1.
  • the reversible connecting means is dismounted and the box-like body 7 is fractioned, i.e. subdivided, into the individual components that make it up.
  • pair of leaves 9, back 10, pair of flanks 11, cover 12 are disjointed and disconnected from one another.
  • the pair of leaves 9, the back 10, the pair of flanks 11, the cover 12 and the load-bearing frame 14 can be nested inside the first compartment V defined by the lower box-like body 2 (to facilitate this operation the back is preferably subdivided into two portions each having an area substantially equal to that of a leaf belonging to the pair of leaves 9).
  • the overall dimensions subtended by the modular cabinet 1 are smaller than the overall dimensions of the same in the use configuration.
  • the modular cabinet 1 in a dismounted configuration using the first compartment V of the lower box-like body 2 as a container for the other elements that make up the cabinet itself.
  • the other dismounted parts of the upper box-like body 7 by taking advantage of the protection provided by the first and second pair of walls 5,6.
  • the load-bearing frame 14 comprises a first front uptight 16, a second front uptight 17, a first rear uptight 18 and a second rear uptight 19.
  • the first front upright 16 is connected below to the lower box-like body 2 through the reversible connecting means 15 and acts as a connecting upright for a first leaf, belonging to the pair of leaves 9, and a flank belonging to the pair of flanks 11.
  • the second front upright 17 is connected below to the lower box-like body 2 through reversible connecting means 15 and acts as a connecting upright for the other leaf, belonging to the pair of leaves 9 and not affected by the first upright 16, and a flank belonging to the pair of flanks 11 not affected by the first upright 16.
  • first and second front uprights 16, 17 are specularly arranged at opposite edges of a first wall belonging to the first pair of walls 5 and maintain a pair of leaves 9 and a pair of flanks 11 stably connected to each other.
  • the first rear upright 18 is connected below to the lower box-like body 2, through the reversible connecting means 15 and acts as a connecting upright between a flank, belonging to the pair of flanks 11, and a side of the back 10.
  • the second rear upright 19 is likewise connected below to the lower box-like body 2, through the reversible connecting means 15 and acts as a connecting upright between a flank, belonging to the pair of flanks 11 not affected by the first rear upright 18, and a side of the back 10, opposite to that affected by the first rear upright 18.
  • the uprights are arranged at the vertices of the upper box-like body 7 and give structural stiffness to the elements that make it up.
  • the load-bearing frame 14 may comprise an auxiliary upright 26, connected below to the lower box-like body 2 and interposed between the first and second rear upright 17, 18 to confer structural stiffness between the lower box-like body 2 and the back 10.
  • the auxiliary upright 26 is preferred in the case where the back is subdivided into two portions so as to guarantee a coplanar alignment of said two portions and to guarantee a structural stiffness of the back 10.
  • auxiliary upright 26, first and second rear upright 17, 18 can be connected below to a connecting crosspiece 27 extending along a wall belonging to the first pair of walls 5, specifically the one affected by the back 10.
  • the first side 20, when mounting the load-bearing frame 14, is placed close to a part belonging to the first pair of walls 5, while the second side 21 is placed close to a wall belonging to the second pair of walls 6.
  • Figure 7 illustrates the first front upright 16 from the outside of the upper box-like body 7 while figure 8 illustrates the same upright 16 from the inside of the upper box-like body 7.
  • the conformation of the first and second front upright 16, 17 is substantially similar to the conformation of the first and second rear upright 18, 19 being shaped specularly with respect to a vertical plane of symmetry of the upper box-like body 7.
  • the first side 20 has a less extensive surface extension than the surface extension of the second side 21.
  • First and second side 20, 21 are angled transversely at a right angle, i.e. they have an L-shape in cross-section.
  • the first side 20 of each upright is preferably connected at a respective side edge 55 of the wall belonging to the first pair 5. More precisely, the first side 20 is connected to a wall belonging to the first pair of walls 5 opposed to a corresponding peripheral portion 52.
  • the second side 21 of each upright is instead placed in contact with a wall belonging to the second pair of walls 6, preferably at a respective side edge 65.
  • Each first side 20 can have a shelf extending moving away from the first side 20 with direction of extension substantially parallel to the second side 21.
  • Each shelf is adapted to rest on the step profile 60 when the load-bearing frame 14 and the reversible connecting means 15 are mounted between the lower box-like body 2 and the upper box-like body 7.
  • First and second through holes 53, 23 are engaged to the reversible connecting means 15.
  • Said reversible connecting means 15 comprises a connecting screw 150 and a clamping nut 151, screwed onto said connecting screw 150.
  • the connecting screw 150 is fitted on first and second through holes 23, 53 and has a head 152 clamped in abutment against the first side 20 of each upright 16-19, and a shank 153 passing through said first and second through holes 23, 53.
  • the clamping nut 151 screwed onto the shank 153, is clamped in abutment on the peripheral portion 52 of each wall belonging to the first pair of walls 5.
  • the reversible connecting means 15 is always accessible from outside the modular cabinet 1.
  • the present invention is capable of overcoming the drawbacks which have emerged from the prior art.
  • the modular cabinet 1 allows to assume a particularly compact packaging configuration that allows to ship the cabinet in a partially dismounted configuration.
  • the overall dimensions of the cabinet 1 in the packaging configuration by reducing the overall dimensions with respect to an assembled configuration, downsizes the volumes and consequently shipping costs.
  • the possibility of nesting all the components of the upper box-like body 7, together with the load-bearing frame 14, inside the first compartment V defined by the lower box-like body 2, allows to reduce the packaging costs since the lower box-like body 2 assumes a protective function of the packaging.
  • the modular cabinet 1 has a high flexibility of use since it is possible to convert it from tank into cabinet and vice versa at any time and in a reversible way.
  • the coupling between the first and second pair of walls 5,6 and the particular convergent conformation of the second pair of walls 6 that leaves the reversible connecting means 15 outside the compartments V, V', allows to obtain other advantages.
  • the reversible connecting means 15 external to the first and second compartments V, V' is not subject to corrosive actions of substances contained in the containers C and is therefore protected from possible damage.
  • V Its placement outside the first and second compartments V, V allows the upper box-like body 7 to be dismounted from the lower box-like body without having to remove the grid 13 and the containers C resting thereon.
  • the placement of the reversible connecting means 15 simplifies the mounting of the upper box-like body 7 to the lower box-like body 2 for easy access thereof.
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