FR2497168A1 - VEHICLE FOR CARRYING GOODS - Google Patents

Abstract

THE INVENTION CONCERNS A VEHICLE, SUCH AS A SEMI-TRAILER, FOR TRANSPORTING PRODUCTS LOADED ON PALLETS OR TROLLEYS WITH RIDELLES. ACCORDING TO THE INVENTION, THE SEMI-TRAILER 10 INCLUDES TWO SUPERIMPOSED LOADING LEVELS 15 AND 17, AS WELL AS REFRIGERATED COMPARTMENTS 18 AT THE FRONT PART OF THE LOWER LEVEL 15 ABOVE THE GOOSE NECK 11. THE INVENTION APPLIES TO VEHICLES FOR THE TRANSPORT OF PRODUCTS FOR THE SUPPLY OF STORES SUCH AS SUPERMARKETS.

Description

The invention relates to a transport vehicle of

  products or goods, in particular for the supply of

  shops such as supermarkets or similar.

  It is known that products or goods destined for supermarkets are loaded either on pallets or on forklift trucks or in containers and are delivered by truck to the recipient stores. This mode of loading or packaging of the products prohibits for their transport to superpose the pallets or the forklift trucks, which are

  therefore simply deposited next to each other on the plane.

  expensive transport vehicle (which can be a truck, a

  semi-trailer or trailer) and occupy only a small part of the

  load volume, the rest of this volume being unable to

  to be used, which affects the profitability of transport.

  The subject of the invention is a vehicle for transporting

  goods not having this disadvantage.

  To this end, it proposes a transport vehicle, in particular products loaded on shovels, trolleys or containers for the supply of shops such as supermarkets, characterized in that its loading surface is formed from

minus two superimposed levels.

  This characteristic of the invention allows at least to double the loading surface of the vehicle and therefore the

quantity of products transported.

  According to another characteristic of the invention, the vehicle is a semi-trailer comprising a front part made of

  gooseneck, and the front part of the lower level of charge-

  corresponding to the gooseneck, has at least one chamber

  or a refrigerated compartment.

  In this way, the profitability of the transport is further improved by using the front part of the lower level of loading, located above the gooseneck, and the height of which would not allow the loading of pallets or side carriages. In another aspect, the invention proposes, starting from appropriate chassis, to perform on these an extremely simple transformation which adapts them especially to the transport of

  pallets, pallets and containers previously loaded and

  can only double the carrying capacity of such a

vehicle.

  It has been found that, in view of the

  dimensions of conventional semi-trailers and also

  With the help of the simple laying of a trailer in a semi-trailer, the mid-author has two floors, each of which is of sufficient height to receive pay and / or

  classic carts loaded with products.

  In addition, this division of the semitrailer household, in its part in cervical, a lower floor of lower height than the lower floor of the body of the semitrailer, 1C but which is adapted to receive products which, by nature, are not intended to be loaded on pallets or trolleys, an example of such products being fresh or frozen products which must be kept refrigerated, the

  part of low height of the lower stage then being

  ganized in refrigerated compartment.

  The following description, given by way of example,

  reference is made to the attached figure which is a diagrammatic view

  side of a transport vehicle according to the invention.

  The vehicle represented in the drawing is a semitrailer 10, having a gooseneck front portion 11 for its

  hitch on a tractor 12, in the conventional manner.

  The rear part of the semi-trailer 10 is equipped

  a double door 13 or a curtain door, extends

  substantially across the full height and width of the semitrailer 10, as well as a lift and stacker liftgate 14 allowing the vertical movement of the pallets or side carriages between the ground level and the two levels.

  loaded in the semitrailer 10.

  The lower loading level is formed by the floor of the semitrailer 10 and extends from the rear part of the semitrailer to the vicinity of the gooseneck portion 11. The width of this loading surface 15 is slightly reduced at the level of the wheel housings 16. A second level of loading 17, or higher level, is formed at the semi-trailer of the semi-trailer, over the entire length thereof. The front part of the semi-remoraue, located between the upper level 17 of loading the front part 11 in the neck of

  swan, is arranged in such a way as to form compartments

  managed 18, for example three in number, for the transport

  frozen products or fresh products to keep cold.

  These refrigerated compartments 18 are accessible from each side

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  of the trailer by two doors 19 with double leaf.

  A refrigerant group 20 is mounted on the front of the

  semi-trailer 10, substantially at the level of the compartments re-

  18 and be supplied with energy, either by the engine of the tractor 12, or by a generator 21 also carried by the front end of the semitrailer 10. It can also be provided that the refrigerant group 20 is fed directly

by the sector.

  Similarly, if desired, the liftgate 14 may be powered by the generator 21 or by

any other appropriate means.

  The loading surfaces 15 and 17 are formed by steel plates and are framed by sheet steel rails over a certain height from the surface of the steel plate.

  loading. Threads with rollers or skates cut

  Smoothers connected to straps and locking systems of these rollers or pads are advantageously provided on the inner faces of the vertical side walls of the semitrailer 10

  and form means for securing the transported load.

  By way of example, and to fix ideas, we indicate

  that the semitrailer 10 can have a total load weight of 32 tons, a total length of about 13 meters, and that the height of each load volume determined by the levels 15 and 17 is about 1.75 meters and therefore allows the

moving a man standing.

  It is understood that the invention makes it possible, thanks to a modification

  the simple structure of a semi-trailer,

  the weight of goods loaded on pallets or side-carriages by a coefficient of not less than two, which results in a corresponding increase in the profitability of the transport of goods intended for supermarkets or the like. 1. Transport vehicle, in particular palletized or palletized vehicles, for the supply of stores such as supermarkets, characterized in that its loading surface is formed from minus two superimposed levels. 2. Vehicle according to claim 1, forming a semitrailer with a front part in gooseneck, characterized in that the front part of the lower load level, corresponding to the gooseneck, comprises at least

  a refrigerated room or compartment.

  Vehicle according to claim 1 or 2, characterized

  in that the lower level and the higher level of charge-

  have the same height.

  4. Vehicle according to one of the preceding claims,

  characterized in that it comprises means for securing the pro-

  transported goods, such as rails of these vertical side walls in which skates or connected rollers slide

to straps.

  Vehicle according to one of the preceding claims,

  characterized by having rear doors opening over the entire height of the cargo levels and a tailgate

forklift and stacker.

  Vehicle according to one of the preceding claims,

  characterized in that it results from the transformation of a vehicle by laying a floor at half height of the loading volume.