FR2610270A1 - TIMING AND TRANSPORT SUPPORT FOR CYLINDRICAL CONTAINERS, IN PARTICULAR DOMESTIC GAS BOTTLES - Google Patents

Abstract

SUPPORT FOR SETTING AND TRANSPORTING DOMESTIC GAS BOTTLES. SUPPORT CHARACTERIZED IN THAT IT CONSISTS OF A CRADLE 1 ENDED IN PART BOTTOM BY A UNDERCARRIAGE 2 CONNECTED BY A CARRIER CROSSBODY, CRADLE CONSISTING OF TWO TWIN UPRIGHTS PIVOTING BY A FIXING PLATE 3 COMING TO FIT ON THE NECK OF THE GAS BOTTLE, THE ASSEMBLY BEING COMPLETED BY A FOLDING GRIP ARM 4. THIS INVENTION IS INTERESTED IN INDUSTRIALS OF SMALL MANUAL HANDLING.

Description

The present invention relates to a support

  cradle-type wedging and transport

  cylindrical rods, especially domestic gas cylinders. The transport and handling of domestic gas cylinders by users require special efforts because of the cylindrical shape

  bottles but also their weight.

  Thus, the frequent impossibility of parking near the gas deposit forces the user to

some efforts.

  To these efforts are added the difficulties of stability of the bottle in the supine position, in which position it is during transport in the

  majority of passenger cars due to small

  the dimensions of the trunk that do not allow the trans-

port in another position.

  Of course, a variety of makeshift means have already been used to make the necessary setting of a domestic gas cylinder during transport, from newspaper packages, rags to

wooden wedges.

  Progress has been made by the use of a wedging cradle made from four wooden wedges joined together by wooden slats along the bottle. The frame thus manufactured receives the bottle lying and constitutes a support of calibration on

the bearing surface of the trunk.

  This means of improvised rigging is more a DIY than an industrial product. He can not give

  full satisfaction because impractical.

  Indeed, to play his role, it must be placed beforehand in the trunk at the desired location. So you have to put the bottle down and bring it

  in this position to the top of this cradle.

  The object of the invention is to remedy these di-

  disadvantages by proposing a calibration support and

  particularly easy to use.

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  For this purpose, the invention relates to a

  port of rigging and transport for home bottles

  gas ticks, characterized in that it consists of a frame forming a cradle consisting of two uprights, a lower crossbar receiving the body of the bottle in support and a mounting plate on which the ends of the uprights are pivotally mounted simultaneously with a gripping arm or handle by pivoting pins, the assembly being integral with a carrier train consisting of two wheels and being capable of folding movements on either side of the

  bottle around the axes carried by the platinum.

  The particularly practical nature of the invention and its low cost are its main advantages, to which are added, in a non-exhaustive manner, the following advantages: a single multipurpose assembly that can remain in place during the period of use of the bottle; it provides real assistance to the manipulation of the bottle, its extraction and its placement lying in the trunk; it allows a significant economy of efforts;

  it is transformed, by a simple movement, into a chain of

  riot for carrying the bottle; 25. small size and weight;

simplicity of manufacture.

  Technical characteristics and others

  advantages of the invention are recorded in the

  following description, made as a nonlimited example

  on one embodiment with reference to the

accompanying activities in which:

  FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the support

  the invention in its transport configuration

  with the enlarged representation of

  cularities of the improved variant, that is to say the upper bend provided for each amount and the fixing of the wheels;

  FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the support

  3- Ion the invention in its supine position; FIG. 3 is a profile view of the support loaded with a domestic gas cylinder in its rolling configuration with a bent variant of the support and in enlarging a roulette variant and its attachment; Figure 4 is a side view of the carrier loaded with a domestic gas cylinder in its configuration of wedging with enlargement on the wheel and its support showing another possible position of the wheel; FIG. 5 is a profile view of the support loaded with a domestic gas cylinder in its configuration according to an improved variant with bends and rollers each mounted on a transverse support; Figure 6 is a plan view of the carrier loaded with a domestic gas cylinder in wedging configuration; Figure 7 is a schematic perspective view of the mounting plate according to a variant with convergent median crosspieces; Figure 8 is a schematic perspective view of an attachment plate bent tubes; Figure 9 is a schematic perspective view of a type of connection between the wheel and the support;

  FIG. 10 is a side view illustrating the movement of

  folding the support from one stowage or transport position into the other; FIGS. 11 to 16 are illustrative diagrammatic views showing the positions of the support in each characteristic configuration: FIG. 11: horizontal support in staggered position; Figure 12: tilting of the bottle in vertical position and release of the support; FIG. 13: folding of the support in the transport position on the other side of the bottle;

  - figure 14: inclination of the bottle on the sup-

  port in transport position; - Figure 15: folding the support on the other side of the bottle; - Figure 16: rolling to the sleeping position;

  FIG. 17 is a perspective view of the support

  Ion the invention, according to a variant of a single piece fully bent, remaining mounted on the domestic gas cylinder in the use position; FIG. 18 is a side view of the support according to the variant of FIG. 17 in place on the bottle in

course of use.

  A single mode of realization will be described below.

  of the support according to the invention by evoking certain possible modifications, both in terms of

  techniques than materials. It is understood that from

  many modifications without inventive

  in the context of the present invention.

  The general inventive idea consists, from a single support pivot arm maneuvering and maintenance, to constitute in a position or configuration, a cradle movable wedging and immobilization for the bottle lying and, by a simple movement folding of the support around the bottle, to constitute a carrier carriage on wheels for easy movement of the bottle of a

point to another.

  We will now describe the means used to

  perform the duties set out generally in the following

  above. The setting and transport support according to the invention consists of a cradle 1, a rolling train 2 extending the cradle 1 in the lower part,

  a mounting plate 3 and an immobilizing arm

and grip or handle 4.

  According to the invention, the fixing plate 3 is articulated pivotably at the top -5-

from the cradle.

  More particularly, the cradle affects the general shape of a frame, consisting of two uprights 5

  and 6 joined at the bottom by a crossbar

  7 and twinned in the upper part by the plate 3.

  The amounts extend in part lower than

  re by legs 8 and 9 bent obliquely to the general direction of the amounts. The ends of

  legs 8 and 9 are equipped with wheels 10 and 11

  locating the running gear 2 itself.

  The inclination of the lugs 8 and 9 is such that the contact area of the tread of each wheel is in the extension of the bearing plane

from the cradle while lying down.

  The amounts 5 and 6 are formed from commercial profiles, for example of square section, suitably bent to delimit four sections, namely a lower section or leg 8 or 9, a main section 12 or 13 determining the general direction of the

  amount, an intermediate oblique section of

  14 or 15 and an end section 16 or 17 each carrying a pivot axis 18 or 19 with the plate of

fixing 3.

  The end sections 16 and 17 connected by the oblique intermediate portions 14 and 15 are

  bent so as to have a constant orientation

  to the main sections 12 and 13.

  Of course, for reasons of ease of manufacture, the intermediate sections can be made by appropriate bending to obtain by a right-angle bend 20 or 21 shown in Figures 3, 4 and 5, the same perpendicular orientation

sections.

  The fixing plate 3 has the general shape of a frame whose end crosspieces 22 and 23 are articulated to the end sections 16 and 17 by

the pivot axes 18 and 19.

  - 6 - The frame of the mounting plate 3 has in the central part two medial crosspieces 24 and 25 defining with the adjacent portions of the uprights a perimeter 26, for example square, for circumscribing a threaded projection 27 on which is screwed a cap protection 28 of a domestic bottle of

gas 29 with base 30.

  The support is supported by the upper end

  the bottom of the domestic gas cylinder by its plate 3 at the circumscribed perimeter 26. The maintenance and fixing are provided by the cap 28 which, screwed on the threaded projection 27, comes to bear by its base against the perimeter 26, and against the neck of the bottle

and therefore flatten it against it.

  For the sake of ease and economy of

  manufacture, it may be preferable to the

  bracket (Fig. 7) an oval-shaped version, shown in Fig. 8, in which the end cross-members 22 and 23 are

  replaced by bent ends 31 and 32.

  The pivot axes 18 and 19 pass through

  the same way the bent ends 31 and 32.

  The whole is completed by the prehearing arm

  4 pivotally articulated around the plate 3 and

  amounts 5 and 6. It presents two branches at

  mates bent forward 33 and 34 and an upper grip end 35 of slightly trapezoidal shape. This arm occupies a folded position against the

  body of the bottle in order to perfect its immobilisation

  tion and an operative position of carriage and

  lifting, in which its ends bent forward

  abut against the end rails of the frame,

the mounting plate.

  The gripping arm is preferably

  this in the form of a U-shaped iron rod whose ends 33 and 34 of the two branches are more in their end part bent each at right angles

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  -7 outwards to thus constitute the axes of

pivoting 18 and 19.

  The rollers 10 and 11 are mounted in the lower part of the support on the uprights 5 and 6 or on the crossbar 7 directly or via a

  stirrup 36 or 37 on bearing axes 38 and 39.

  FIG. 5 represents an improved variant according to which the carrier shaft 38 or 39 of each roller or 11 is mounted in a transverse support, for example a fork, made by the use of a U-shaped profiled stirrup attached to the end low of the upright or at the end of the crossbar 7 and the

show figures 1 and 9.

  According to this variant, the location of the wheel is such that it does not exceed the limit

  bottom of the bottle so as to keep the

  brazing of the support according to the invention in that of the domestic gas cylinder. This characteristic is also applied to the variant represented in

enlargement in Figure 4.

  Another improved variant concerns the fixing plate 3. According to this variant shown in FIG. 7, the median crosspieces 24 and 25 are convergently arranged so as to modify the shape of the perimeter 26 in a trapezoidal perimeter 40 making it possible to accept different diameters of threaded protrusions 27 equipping the neck bottles and power and

  immobilize different types of bottles.

  A last variant shown in Figures 17 and 18 relates to a variant of completely bent support. According to this variant, the body of the support, that is to say the uprights 5 and 6 and the crossbar 7 are made in one piece suitably bent along two lower elbows 41 and 42 at each end of the crossbar 7 completed by both

upper elbows 20 and 21.

  In this variant, it is preferable to use, in a non-exhaustive manner, a bent fixing plate 3, in accordance with the embodiment of the present invention.

shown in Figure 8.

  The stirrups 36 and 37 supporting the rollers and 11 are secured in the same way to the ends of the crossmember 7 or those of the uprights 5 and 6. We will now examine the various phases of operation and use of the support according to the invention with reference in FIGS. 4, 5 and 6 and, more particularly, in FIGS.

  the intermediate connection sections are replaced

  elbows according to the improved version.

  We will explain the use from a supine position, for example in the trunk of a

car (figure 11).

  As can be seen from the observation of Figures 4 and 6, the bottle is supported by its neck on the mounting plate 3 and by its base 30 on the crossbar or carrier 7. The support of the cradle on a surface plane, here the bottom of the trunk, is effected via the main sections 12 and 13 of the uprights 5 and 6. and by the contact zone of the tread of the rollers 10 and 11 defining the plane

  cradle support for the first variant.

  In the case of the improved variant with wheels on transverse support, these wheels stay up to maintain the size of the support in that of the domestic gas cylinder. In this case, the main sections cover all their

length.

  Taking the bottle at the bottom of the trunk is done by the gripping arm or handle 4. We pull the bottle to yourself. It rises slightly because the bottom of the chest is at a lower level than that of the grip. From the beginning of this rocking movement the whole is entirely carried by the wheels in the case of the first variant. The movement of approach for the extraction of the trunk is thus noticeably facilitated because the greater part of the weight is

postponed on the wheels.

  The bottle extracted from the chest is placed on the ground in vertical position after release of the support (Figure 12). This is tipped on the other side of the bottle by pivoting about the axes 18 and 19 (Figure 13). In the transport position, the gripping arm has, before its abutment against the connection plate, sufficient angular space for support by the hand, this because of the inclination of

  the bottle and, consequently, the mounting plate

  3 in its transport position (FIG. 14).

  Arrival at destination, the bottle is placed

  vertical in position of use, position in the

  which support comes automatically, lightly

  slightly swiveled, and can stay that way for the entire period of use (Figures 17

and 18).

  The support remains in its rolling configuration, ready to remove the bottle, to the trunk near which it is folded in the stall position

(Figure 15).

  The installation in the trunk is carried out in the same way by rolling on the carrying plane of the trunk

  using the rollers 10 and 11 (Figure 16).

  As indicated, the invention is in no way limited to the means described; on the contrary, various

  modifications, direct variants, substitutions, sup-

  pressures and additions without inventive

perfectly in its frame.

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Claims (10)

  1. Carrying and wedging carrier of the type   cradle for cylindrical containers, in particular bottles   domestic gas companies including a load-bearing frame   cradle, characterized in that the two uprights (5) and (6) of the support frame are connected at the bottom by a lower cross member (7) receiving the lower end of the body of the bottle and   upper part by a mounting plate (3) ori-   table, immobilized on the neck of the bottle, platinum at the ends of which are mounted pivoting the   ends of the uprights and those of a prehearing arm   or handle (4) by pivot pins (18) and (19), at the lower end of the frame being mounted a carrier train (2) consisting of two wheels (10) and (11) perpendicular to the frame plane , The assembly being capable of folding movements on either side of the bottle around the pivot axes (18) and (19) carried by the plate (3) and in that the upper ends of each frame upright are bent so as to allow the medial portions of the uprights to rest at the same time as the body   of the bottle when it is standing.   2. Support according to claim 1 characterized   in that the handle or gripping arm (4) is formed in a U-shaped continuous profiled element whose ends (33) and (34) of each branch are bent forwards then at right angles to outdoors in their terminal part.   3. Support according to claims 1 and 2   characterized in that the bent outward portions of the ends (33) and (34) of each branch of the handle or gripping arm constitute the pivot axes (18) and (19).   4. Support according to claim 1 characterized   in that the amounts (5) and (6) have   lower tremities or lugs (8) and (9) bent in - 11 -   oblique in relation to the general direction of tives.   5. Support according to claims 1 and 4   characterized in that the rollers (10) and (11) are   on transverse axes to the uprights.   6. Support according to the preceding claims   characterized in that the wheels are mounted on   stirrups, forks or the like, transverse, solid-   the ends of the uprights or the cross member (7).   7. Support according to claim 1 characterized   in that the amounts have a main section   pal (12) or (13) and an end section (16) and (17) perpendicular to each other, each connected by an oblique intermediate section (14) or (15) or by a elbow (20) or (21) at right angles.   8. Support according to claims 1 and 7   characterized in that the cradle is formed into a single   completely bent between the amounts and the   lower pour (7) with the elbows (20) and (21).   9. Support according to claim 1   characterized in that the connecting plate is a frame carrying the pivot axes (18) and (19) and in that it comprises two medial crosspieces (23) and (24)   arranged parallel or oblique delimiting between   the perimeter surrounding the threaded protrusion of the teille.   10. Support according to any one of the   previous indications, characterized in that the rou-   letters (10) and (11) are in the bulk of the teille.