GB2281551A - Apparatus for loading and holding rolled cargoes within a container and assistance apparatus for conveying cargoes - Google Patents

Abstract

Longitudinally extending guiding members (34) each made of a V- or L-shaped section steel beam are provided on a floor face of a dry-container. Rollers (33) engage respective inclined faces of the guides and are provided on a bottom face of a supporting member (35) which supports the rolled cargo so that the rolled cargo is easily loaded within the dry container (1). Assistance apparatus Fig. 16 for conveying cargoes is also provided, comprising rotation smoothing mechanisms (32) at a predetermined position of a frame body (31 Fig. 15) which is provided at a lower predetermined position of a cargo supporting member, wherein the rotation smoothing mechanisms include an upper casing (32b) which has a cylindrical shape and surrounds an outer face of a central shaft (32a) of column shape and auxilliary shafts (32c) each having a diameter corresponding to the difference between the outer diameter of the central shaft and inner diameter of the outer casing extending over the entire space between the central shaft and the outer casing. <IMAGE>

Description

Specification Title of The Invention Apparatus for Loading and Holding Rolled Cargos Within A Container and Assistance Apparatus for Conveying Cargos Background of The Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for loading and holding rolled cargos within a container, and an assistance apparatus for conveying cargos. More particularly, the present invention relates to an apparatus for loading and holding cargos which apparatus enables easily loading and holding of rolled cargos within a container, and an assistance apparatus for conveying cargos which is preferable to loading or unloading of heavy weight cargos within or from a container.

Related Arts From the past years, containers are generally used when cargos are transported by land or by sea.

Meanwhile, containers having various arrangement, such as dry-containers, freezing or refrigerating-containers, tank-containers, bulk-containers, open-top-containers, flat-rack-containers and the like, are supplied and used. When rolled cargos are transported, open-topcontainers or flat-rack-containers are used, or a bed of freight cars or a hold of cargo boats is used as it is or in a condition that holding members such as wedges and the like are interposed between the cargos and the bed or hold.

More particularly, the rolled cargos are loaded or unloaded by lifting up or lifting down using a crane loading. Therefore, loading or unloading of rolled cargos is easily performed, to or from the open-topcontainers which have an opened top face or the flatrack containers which are mostly constituted only a floor member. Also, loading or unloading of rolled cargos is easily performed by a similar way, to or from the bed of freight cars or the hold of cargo boats.

Occupation rate of the dry-containers in cargo transportation is the greatest among the above-mentioned various containers, and the occupation rate is more than about 90 Ó. The open-top-containers and the flat-rackcontainers are suitable to the transportation of rolled cargos. But, occupation rate of the open-top-containers and the flat-rack-containers in cargo transportation is extremely small, therefore it is remarkably difficult that necessary number of open-top-containers and flatrack-containers is prepared at a transportation timing of cargos.

Further, when rolled cargos are loaded directly on a bed of freight cars or a hold of cargo boats, exessive lashing and the like is necessary for preventing getting out of position, crumbling and the like of rolled cargos, thereby efficiency of loading and unloading operation is extremely lowered. Furthermore, when exessive lashing is applied, crumbling of rolled cargos is highly possibly generated caused by acceleration of starting and stopping, centrifugal force generated by varying a course, rolling, pitching and the like.

Further, destination of rolled cargos is greatly limited because it is necessary for the destination that loading and unloading using a crane loading is possible, that is necessary equipments are provided.

Further, from the past years, forklift car loading or crane loading is employed when cargos are loaded in a container or are unloaded from a container.

When the cargos are not too heavy and are not too bulky, the cargos can be loaded within a container or can be unloaded from a contaier usig a forklift car. On the contrary, when the cargos are too heavy or are too bulky, the cargos can be loaded within a container or can be unloaded from a contaier using a crane. Of course, crane loading can be applied to the former loading.

When the forklift car loading is employed, cargos can be loaded within a dry-container or can be unloaded from a dry-container, but when the crane loading is employed, cargos cannot be loaded within a dry-container or cannot be unloaded from a drycontainer, and cargos can be loaded within an open-topcontainer and the like which can be opened its top face or can be unloaded within an open-top-container and the like.

But, maintaining safety of cargos during transportating thereof, temporaly safekeeping of cargos after transportation thereof are strongly demanded, and species of cargos which should satisfy the demand is increasing. It is preferable that a dry-container is employed which has remarkably higher air tightness, and has higher cargo proyection effect against wind and rain and the like in comparison to an open-top-container, and which can easily loaded in piled up manner. Therefore, cargos which is heavy or bulky are preferable to be loaded within a dry-container, but these cargos are almost impossible to be loaded within a dry-container as is described earlier.

More particularly, when forklift car loading is carried out, cargos are lifted by a forklift car to some degree, and in this condition, the forklift car should be moved within a dry-container. Therefore, only cargos can be loaded which has a height lower to some degree than a interior height of the dry-container. Further, holding of lifted condition of cargos by a forklift car inevitably be overhung and held condition, therefore when a total length of a cargo is too long, holding of lifted condition by a forklift car becomes impossible.

Furthermore, a forklift car is previously determined a maximum lifting weight, a cargo of which weight exceeds the maximum lifting weight cannot be lifted by a forklift car.

As a result, cargos other than cargos which satisfy all limitations above-mentioned are impossible to be loaded using a forklift car.

Further, a part of the limitations similarly occurs when cargos are loaded within an objected position (for example, safekeeping position and the like in a warehouse and the like) other than a container.

The present invention was made to solve the above-mentioned problems.

It is an object of the present invention to supply an apparatus for loading and holding rolled cargos within a container which apparatus enables easily loading of rolled cargos within a dry-container.

It is another object of the present invention to supply an assistance apparatus for conveying cargos which apparatus remarkably increases species of cargos which can.be loaded within a dry-container using a forklift car.

An apparatus for loading and holding rolled cargos within a container comprises, long sized guiding members each having a top face which has inclined faces having reversed inclination to one another, the long sized guiding members being disposed in parallel to one another on predetermined positions of a floor face of the container, a supporting member for supporting a rolled cargo, and rotating engaging members for rotatingly engaging each inclined face of the long sized guiding member1 the rotating engaging member being disposed at predetermined bottom position of the supporting member, and wherein the supporting member is determined its size to be a size which enables housing of the supporting member within the container and the supporting member has a pair of rolled cargo receiving members for engaging a lower predetermined position of the rolled cargo so as to stably support the rolled cargo.

As to the apparatus, the rolled cargo may be supported by the supporting member using a crane loading under a condition that the supporting member is moved to the exterior of the container using auxiliary guiding members and the like. The rolled cargo is then stably supported by the pair of rolled cargo receiving members.

Thereafter, the rolled cargo may be loaded within the container by only moving the supporting member horizontally by a forklift car and the like. After the rolled cargo is loaded within the container, the rolled cargo may be stably held by preventing movement of the rotating engaging members using wedge members, chock members and the like. Further, when the rolled cargo is in held condition, the load of the rolled cargo may be dispersed nearly uniformly to the entire extent of the long sized guiding members. Therefore, a disadvantage is prevented from occurring that a great load is locally applied so that the container is destroyed in the worst case. When the rolled cargo is stably loaded and held within the container, loading rolled cargos in piled up manner can be easily performed by piling up the containers each holding the rolled cargo within.

The apparatus may employ the pair of rolled cargo receiving members which are provided to the supporting member in a distance adjustable manner between the both rolled cargo receiving members.

As to the apparatus, a rolled cargo having an arbitrary diameter between a large diameter and a small diameter can be stably supported by varying the distance between the rolled cargo receiving members.

The apparatus may employ the rolled cargo receiving member which includes guiding members for recovery at predetermined positions of an upper face thereof, each position opposing vertically to the rotating receiving member.

As to the apparatus, plural supporting members can be recovered in a condition that the plural supporting members are housed within one container.

The apparatus may employ the rotating engaging member which includes a casing, a large-diametered ball which is housed in the casing and a part of which is exposed to outward through an opening which is formed at a predetermined position of the casing, and plural smalldiametered balls which are housed in the casing and which support non-exposure portion of the largediametered ball.

As to the apparatus, even ;-;hen the load received by the large-diametered ball is great, the load received by each small-diametered ball is reduced to be fairly small. And, frictional resistances are extremely small between the large-diametered ball and the smalldismetered ball and between the small-dismetered ball and the casing. Therefore, smoothly rotating movement of the large-diametered ball is securely maintained.

That is, a force necessary for loading the rolled cargo supported by the supporting member, within the container can be reduced to be extremely small force in comparison to the loading using a crane loading and the like.

The apparatus may employ the plural rotating engaging members which are disposed in parallel to the long sized guiding member, each of the rotating engaging member rotatably engaging with each inclined face of the long sized guiding member.

As to the apparatus, the load of the rolled cargo can be dispersed to the plural rotating engaging members so that the supporting member is more smoothly moved.

The apparatus may employ a dry-container for holding the rolled cargo.

As to the apparatus, dry-containers can easily prepared at a transportation timing of the rolled cargos.

An assistance apparatus for conveying cargos comprises, a rotation smoothing mechanism provided at a predetermined position of a frame body which is provided at a lower predetermined position of a cargo supporting member, wherein the rotation smoothing mechanism includes an outer casing which has a cylindrical shape of a predetermined length and surrounds a predetermined extent of an outer face of a central shaft which has a column shape, and auxiliary shaftes each having a diameter corresponding to a difference between an outer diameter of the central shaft and an inner diameter of the outer casing, are provided in an entire extent of a space between the central shaft and the outer casing.

As to the apparatus, load caused by a weight of cargos and a weight of the cargo supporting member is dispersed to an extent of total length of plural auxiliary shafts, and smooth rotation of the outer casing with respect to the central shaft is performed.

Therefore, cargos can be conveyed with the cargo supporting member by applying nearly horizontal outer force to the cargo supporting member or one our more cargos. Especislly, when cargos should be conveyed within a dry-container, cargos can be moved nearly horizontal direction with scarcely lifted condition, therefore species of cargos applicable to loading within a dry-container can be remarkably increased in comparison to a case in which a forklift car is employed. Further, a cargo having a remarkably heavy weight can easily loaded within a dry-container without using a crane.

The assistance apparatus may employ an arrangement in which the central shaft of a part of the rotation smoothing mechanisms are horizontally positioned and the central shaft of the rest of the rotation smoothing mechanism are inclinedly positioned so as to engage the rotation smoothing mechanisms with a guide rail having inclined faces each having a reversed inclination to one another.

As to the assistance apparatus, smoothly conveying of cargos along guide rails is performed.

Especially, load is dispersed to an extent of total length of all the outer casings and are received by guide rails, intrusion of the outer casings to the guide rails scarcely occurs even when a weight of a cargo is remarkably great, therefore smoothly conveying of cargos is preformed. When cargos should be conveyed within a dry-container, load is dispersed by guide rails and is received by plural reinforcement members of a drycontainer, therefore a dry-container is not needed to reinforce especially.

The assistance apparatus may employ an arrangement that a part of the rotation smoothing mechanisms and the rest of the rotation smoothing mechanisms are offset to one another.

As to the assistance apparatus, smoothly conveying of a cargo is performed by slightly increasing the outer force even when a stepped portion and the like exists in a midportion of the guide rail.

The assistance apparatus may employ an arrangement that a disposition interval of a part of the rotation smoothing mechanisms is determined to be smaller than a disposition interval of the rest of the rotation smoothing mechanisms.

As to the assistance apparatus, smoothly conveying of a cargo is performed and the cargo is securely positioned along the guide rail.

The assistance apparatus may employ the frame body which is removably provided to the lower predetermined position of the cargo supporting member.

As to the assistance apparatus, the frame body can be removed from the cargo supporting member and can be provided to another cargo supporting member after cargos are transported to a destination, therefore a rate of the frame bodies to the total number of the cargo supporting members can be decreased.

Brief Description of The Drawings Figure 1 is a side view of an apparatus for loading and holding a rolled cargo of an embodiment according to the present invention; Figure 2 is a front view of the same; Figure 3 is a plan view of the same; Figure 4 is a front view of a supporting member; Figure 5 is an enlarged front view illustrating a main portion of the supporting member with a long sized guiding member; Figure 6 is a cross sectional view taken along a line VI-VI; Figure 7 is a plan view illustrating an arrangement of a base member; Figure 8 is a side view illustrating a side edge face shape of a rolled cargo receiving member; Figure 9 is a front view illustrating a shape of an engaging pin; Figure 10 is a vertical cross sectional view illustrating an example of a condition in which rolled cargos are loaded in a dry-container;; Figure 11 is a front view illustrating a condition that a rolled cargo is loaded in a drycontainer, the rolled cargo is directed in a longitudinal direction of the dry-container; Figure 12 is a schematic view illustrating a recovering condition of apparatus for loading a rolled cargo according to a modified example; Figure 13 is a front view of an assistance apparatus for conveying cargos of an embodiment according to the present invention; Figure 14 is a side view of the same; Figure 15 is a bottom view of the same; Figure 16 is a plan view of a rotation smoothing mechanism; Figure 17 is a cross sectional view taken along a line XVII-XVII; Figure 18 is a schematic view illustrating a cargo conveying condition;; Figure 19 is a schematic view illustrating a specific example in which the assistance apparatus according to the present invention is applied to loading of long sized cargos within a dry-container; and Figure 20 is a front view of an assistance apparatus of another embodiment according to the present invent ion.

Detailed Description of The Preferred Embodiments Hereinafter, referring to the attached drawings, we explain the present invention in detail.

Figure 1 is a side view of an apparatus for loading and holding a rolled cargo of an embodiment according to the present invention, Figure 2 is a front view of the same, and Figure 3 is a plan view of the same. And, figs. 1 and 2 illustrate a condition in which a rolled cargo R is housed within a dry-container 1 by an apparatus for loading and holding a rolled cargo according to the present invention.

As is illustrated in these figures, a pair of long sized guiding members 2 are provided at predetermined positions of a top face of a bottom frame member la of the dry-container 1, and the pair of long sized guiding members 2 are parallel to a side frame member Ib of the dry-container 1. And, the rolled cargo R is supported by a supporting member 6 which is supported by the both long sized guiding members 2.

1 Figure 4 is a front view of the supporting member 6, Figure 5 is an enlarged front view illustrating a main portion of the supporting member with a long sized guiding member, and Figure 6 is a cross sectional view taken along a line VI-VI.

The supporting member 6 includes a base member Ga which is constituted by an I-shaped section steel and receiving frame members 6c which is constituted by a gate-shaped section steel. The receiving frame members 6c are fixed to bottom faces at both edge portions of the base member 6a and are elongated in a direction which is at right angle to the base member 6a. The base member 6a is formed in a rectangular frame shape as is illustrated in Fig. 7. And, holding members 6d for holding a rolled cargo receiving member 6b are provided on top faces at both edge portions of the base members 6a. A pair of through holes 6e are formed in each holding member 6d so as to position and hold the rolled cargo receiving members 6b each of which is disposed between the both holding members 6d.

In each of a pair of corner sections of the receiving frame member 6c, five rotating engaging members 4 are provided in a condition that all of the rotating engaging members 4 are inclined by 45 degrees with respect to a top face plate of the receiving frame member 6c. And, the rotating engaging members 4 are engaged with inclined faces 2a which have reversed inclination to one another of the long sized guiding members 2 which are provided on the bottom frame member la in a condition that the long sized guiding member 2 made of an L-shaped section steel is laid to position its ridgeline in an uppermost position. Further, the rotating engaging member 4 includes a casing 4a in which an opening is formed at a predetermined position, and includes one large-diametered ball 4b and plural smalldiametered balls 4c which are housed within the casing 4a.The large-diametered ball 4b is disposed in the casing 4a so as to expose its part to outward through the opening. The small-diametered balls 4c are disposed at the innermost portion of the casing 4a so as to prevent the direct contact of the rest part of the largediametered ball 4b and the casing 4a. Consequently, the large-diametered ball 4b smoothly rotates on its own axis by being applied a scarce force.

Figure 8 is a side view illustrating a side edge face shape of a rolled cargo receiving member 6b, and Figure 9 is a front view illustrating a shape of an engaging pin.

The engaging pin 6f has a projecting section 6fl at a predetermined position thereof. And, the rolled cargo receiving member 6b has an opening 6bl in its edge face, the opening 6bl matches to a shape of .he engaging pin 6f including the projecting section 6fl. Further, in an interior portion of the rolled cargo receiving section Sb, a housing space (not shown) is formed which has a size to allow free rotating of the engaging pin 6f on its own axis. Of course, the shape of the through hole 6e of. the holding member 6d is nearly equal to the shape of the opening 6bl.

Function of the apparatus for loading and holding a rolled cargo having the above-mentioned arrangement is as follows.

At first, door members ic of the dry-container 1 are opened, and each of a pair of long sized auxiliary guiding member (not shown) is disposed to position on an extension of each long sized guiding member 2. Then, the supporting member 6 is moved to a predetermined position (outward predetermined position of the drycontainer 1) on the long sized auxiliary guiding members. And, in this condition, a rolled cargo R is loaded on the supporting member 6 using a crane loading and the like. Thereafter, the rolled cargo R is easily loaded interior the dry-container 1 by pressing an edge section of the rolled cargo R or an edge section of the supporting member 6 with a forklift car F and the like.

In this case, loading of the rolled cargo R within the dry-container 1 is performed with scarce force because frictional resistance of the rotating engaging member 4 is remarkably small. Also, loading of the rolled cargo R within the dry-container 1 is performed with scarce destroying of a type of packing of the rolled cargo R even when the pressing force is applied to only a part of the rolled cargos R or a part of the rolled cargo R.

Further, chocking members are previously provided in the innermost portion of the dry-container 1, and chocking members are provided in a portion which is near the door members ic after the above-mentioned loading operation is finished, so as to prevent the moving of the supporting member 6 which is in loaded condition.

Thereby, the rolled cargo R is positioned and held within the dry-container 1. Of course, the long sized auxiliary guiding members are removed prior to providing the chocking members in a portion which is near the door members ic.

As is apparent from the foregoing description, though the rolled cargo R is impossible to be loaded within the dry-container 1 using a crane loading, The rolled cargo R is easily loaded within the dry-container 1 by carrying out the simple series of operations. And, the load of the rolled cargo R is dispersed to several cross sectional strength supporting members of the drycontainer 1 by the long sized guiding members 2 so that a condition is prevented from occurring that a great load is locally applied.

Further, plural rolled cargos R can be loaded in the dry-container 1 as is illustrated in Fig. 10 by repetitively carrying out the loading operation within the dry-container 1 by moving the supporting member 6 on which the rolled cargo R is supported along the long sized guiding members 2 by plural number of times. In Fig. 10, a large-diametered rolled cargo R and two smalldiametered rolled cargo R exist. Varous diametered rolled cargo R can stably be loaded by varying the position of the rolled cargo receiving members 6b so as to match the diameter of the rolled cargo R. Of course, packings (not shown) and the like may be interposed in necessary portions depending upon the position of the rolled cargo receiving members 6b.Though the shape of the holding member 6d is different from the shape of the supporting member 6, the similar function can be performed.

Figure 11 is a front view illustrating a condition that a rolled cargo is loaded in a drycontainer, the rolled cargo is directed in a longitudinal direction of the dry-container.

Pairs of receiving frame members 6b are disposed in a longitudinal direction of the dry-container 1. Of course, paires of long sized guiding members 2 are also disposed.

Therefore, loading of the rolled cargo R within the dry-container 1 is easily performed in this case.

In this case, the diameter of the rolled cargo R must be shorter than a length of an edge of the door section of the dry-container 1. Otherwise, the rolled cargo R sould be loaded in the direction of the above-mentioned embodiment.

Figure 12 illustrates a case for recovering apparatus for loading a rolled cargo.

The apparatus illustrated in Fig. 12 is different from the apparatus above-mentioned in that guiding members 2' for recovery are provided at predetermined positions of the top face of the supporting member 6 (specifically, predetermined positions of the upper edge portion of the rolled cargo receiving members 6b), and the guiding members 2' are positioned to oppose to the rotating engaging members 4.

Therefore, other supporting members 6 can sequentially be loaded on previously loaded supporting member 6 after the transportation of the rolled cargo R is finished. That is, plural supporting members 6 can be recovered by housing these supporting members 6 within one dry-container 1. In this case, a plurality of dry-containers 1 become freed condition when the supporting members 6 are recovered because one drycontainer 1 and plural supporting members 6 correspond by a previously determined rate when rolled cargos R are transported. But, no disadvantage arises even when a plurality of dry-containers 1 become freed condition because dry-container is the most popular container and is applicable to various cargo transportation.

Figure 13 is a front view of an assistance apparatus for conveying cargos of an embodiment according to the present invention, Figure 14 is a side view of the same, and Figure 15 is a bottom view of the same.

The assistance apparatus for conveying cargos includes plural rotation smoothing mechanisms 32 which are mounted horozontally and plural rotation smoothing mechanisms 33 which are mounted inclined condition, interior a frame body 31 which is opened at least its bottom face. The frame body 31 includes a horizontal section 31a which extends in a longitudinal direction in a central portion of a width direction, and inclined sections 31b which are almost continuous to the horizontal section 31a and have reversed inclination to one another. As is illustrated in Figs. 16 and 17, the rotation smoothing mechanism 32 includes a central shaft 32a, cylindrical body 32b, plural auxiliary shafts 32c, a pair of central shaft supporting bodies 32d and a pair of preventing members 32e for preventing the auxiliary shafts from being pulled out.The auxiliary shafts 32c are housed in a entire extent of a gap between the central shaft 32a and the cylindrical body 32b, and are prevented from being pulled out from the gap by the pair of preventing members 32e which are provided at predetermined positions of the central shaft 32a.

Further, each of both edge portions of the central shaft 32a is made in one body with a predetermined position of corresponding central shaft supporting body 32d by welding and the like in a penetrated through condition.

The central shaft supporting body 32d is provided in one body at a predetermined position of the horizontal section 31a. Though, an arrangement fo the rotation smoothing mechanism 33 is similar to that of the rotation smoothing mechanism 32, detailed description of the rotation smoothing mechanism 33 is omitted.

Further, the rotation smoothing mechanisms 32 receive most of load while the rotation smoothing mechanisms 33 receive load to some degree and prevent shifting, therefore a disposition interval of the former is determined to be smaller than that of the latter.

Furthermore, both rotation smoothing mechanisms 32 and 33 are disposed in offset condition so as to sufficiently function both rotation smoothing mechanisms 32 and 33.

Operation of the assistance apparatus for conveying cargos having the arrangement above-mentioned is as follows.

As is illustrated in Fig. 18, when a cargo 35 is conveyed along guide rails 34 which has inclined faces each having a reversed inclination to one another (refer to dot-and-dash line in Fig. 18), the frame body 31 is positioned so that the rotation smoothing mechanisms 32 engage a ridgeline of the guide rail 34 and the rotation smoothing mechanisms 33 engage corresponding inclined face of the guide rail 34, and the cargo 35 is supported on the frame body 31. And in this condition, an outer force in a direction which is parallel to the guide rail 34 is applied directly or indirectly to the cargo 35.

The cargo 35 is smoothly moved by applying a remarkably small outer force to the cargo 35.

Further, even when the guide rail 34 has a stepped portion, barrier portion and the like, smooth movement of the cargo 35 is performed by easily riding over the stepped portion, barrier portion and the like, because the rotation smoothing mechanisms 32 engage the ridgeline, the rotation smoothing mechanisms 33 engage corresponding inlined face of the guide rail 34, and both rotation smoothing mechanisms 32 and 33 are disposed in offset condition.

Figure 19 is a schematic view illustrating a specific example in which the assistance apparatus according to the present invention is applied to loading of long sized cargos within a dry-container.

In this example, a pair of guide rails 34 are provided at predetermined positions on a floor face of a dry-container 36, and guide rails 34' are disposed exterior the dry-container 36. The guide rail 34' is disposed in an extended condition with respect to the guide rail 34. And, assistance apparatus for conveying cargos 40 having the above-mentioned arrangement are mounted at lower predetermined positions of cargo supporting members 37 each of which supports edgeward predetermined position of long sized cargos 38 such as pipe and the like.

In this specific example, an outer force in a direction which is parallel to the guide rail 34 is applied directly or indirectly to the long sized cargos 38. The long sized cargos 38 are smoothly moved so that the long sized cargos 38 are smoothly loaded within the dry-container 36 or unloaded from the dry-container 36.

The long sized cargos 38 are preferable to be fastened to the cargo supporting members 37 when loading or unloading is performed. But, when the fastening of the long sized cargos 38 are omitted, a disadvantage is prevented form occurring that the long sized cargos 38 are shifted with respect to the cargo supporting members 37, because movement of the cargo supporting members 40 with respect to the guide rails 34 is extremely smooth.

In the foregoing, only loading, unloading of the long sized cargos 38 are described as the specific example, it is applicable to loading, unloading of rolled cargos, various machinery apparatus, rocks for ornament, working and the like, automobiles and the like.

Further, as a mounting mechanism of the assistance apparatus 40 for conveying cargos to the lower predetermined position of the cargo supporting member 37, it is preferable that an engagement concave portion which has the similar shape as an engagement concave portion of a corner metal member of a container is formed at a predetermined position of one of the both (the assistance apparatus 40 and the cargo supporting member 37), and that a connecting metal member which has the similar arrangement as a connecting metal member for interconnecting containers is provided at a predetermined position of the other of the both. When the arrangement is employed, securely connecting condition of the assistance apparatus 40 to the cargo supporting member 37 is performed, and the assistance apparatus 40 is easily removed from the cargo supporting member 37.

Figure 20 is a front view of an assistance apparatus of another embodiment according to the present invention The assistance apparatus differs from the assistance apparatus illustrated in Fig. 13 in that inclined sections 31b of the frame body 31 are omitted and that the rotation smoothing sections 33 are omitted.

In this embodiment, as is illustrated with a dotand-dash line in Fig. 20, cargos are smoothly conveyed in a desired direction with small outer force by employing guide rails 39 each having a flat top face with a large width.

Further, when skirt sections of the frame body 1 are omitted and a guiding face member is employed instead of the guide rails 39, cargos are smoothly moved in a desired direction on the guiding face member Furthermore, it is preferable that the assistance apparatus 40 are pivotally mounted to the cargo supporting member 37 so that the moving direction of the cargos is freely varied.

While the invention has been described with reference to a specific embodiment the description is illustrative of the invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention. Various modifications and applications may occur to those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims (14)

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for loading and holding rolled cargos within a container comprising; long sized guiding members each having a top face which has inclined faces having reversed inclination to one another, said long sized guiding members being disposed in parallel to one another on predetermined positions of a floor face of said container, a supporting member for supporting a rolled cargo, and rotating engaging members for rotatingly engaging each inclined face of said long sized guiding member, said rotating engaging member being disposed at predetermined bottom position of said supporting member, and wherein said supporting member is determined its size to be a size which enables housing of said supporting member within the container and said supporting member has a pair of rolled cargo receiving members for engaging a lower predetermined position of the rolled cargo so as to stably support the rolled cargo.

2. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein said pair of rolled cargo receiving members are provided to said supporting member in a distance adjustable manner between said both rolled cargo receiving members.

3. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein said rolled cargo receiving member-includes guiding members for recovery at predetermined positions of an upper face thereof, each position opposing vertically to said rotating receiving member.

4. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein said rotating engaging member includes a casing, a large-diametered ball which is housed in said casing and a part of which is exposed to outward through an opening which is formed at a predetermined position of said casing, and plural small-diametered balls which are housed in said casing and which support non-exposure portion of said large-diametered ball.

5. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein said plural rotating engaging members are disposed in parallel to said long sized guiding member, each of said rotating engaging member rotatably engaging with each inclined face of said long sized guiding member.

6. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein a dry-container is employed as said container.

7. An assistance apparatus for conveying cargos comprising: a rotation smoothing mechanism provided at a predetermined position of a frame body which is provided at a lower predetermined position of a cargo supporting member, wherein said rotation smoothing mechanism includes an outer casing which has a cylindrical shape of a predetermined length and surrounds a predetermined extent of an outer face of a central shaft which has a column shape, and auxiliary shaftes each having a diameter corresponding to a difference between an outer diameter of said central shaft and an inner diameter of said outer casing, are provided in an entire extent of a space between said central shaft and said outer casing.

8. An assistance apparatus as set forth in claim 7, wherein said central shaft of a part of said rotation smoothing mechanisms are horizontally positioned and said central shaft of the rest of said rotation smoothing mechanism are inclinedly positioned so as to engage aid rotation smoothing mechanisms with a guide rail having inclined faces each having a reversed inclination to one another.

9. An assistance apparatus as set forth in claim 7, wherein a part of said rotation smoothing mecilanisms and the rest of said rotation smoothing iechanisis are offset to one another.

10. An assistance apparatus as set forth in claim 7, wherein a disposition interval of a part of said rotation smoothing mechanisms is determined to be smaller than a disposition interval of the rest of said rotation smoothing mechanisms.

11. An assistance apparatus as set forth in claim 7, wherein said frame body is removably provided to said lower predetermined position of said cargo supporting member.

12. An apparatus for loading and holding roll able cargoes within a container, comprising: longitudinally extending guiding members each having a top face which has inclined faces having reversed inclination to one another, said guiding members being disposed in parallel to one another on predetermined positions of a floor face of said container, a supporting member for supporting a rollable cargo, and rotatable engaging members for rotatably engaging respective inclined faces of said guiding members, said rotatable engaging members being disposed at a bottom position of said supporting member, wherein said supporting member is of a size which enables housing of said supporting member within the container and said supporting member has a pair of rollable cargo receiving members for engaging a lower predetermined position of the roll able cargo so as to stably support the roll able cargo.

13. An apparatus for loading and holding rollable cargoes within a container, substantially as herein described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

14. An apparatus for assisting the conveying of cargoes, substantially as herein described with reference to figures 13 to 20 of the accompanying drawings.