JP3327573B2 - Container handling and storage equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a container cargo handling / storage system, and more particularly to a container cargo handling / storage apparatus in which a truck and a freight train use the same container rack and integrate the cargo handling / storage. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional pallet automatic warehouse system, as shown in FIG. 8, a rack 2 in which a large number of mesh frames 1 are stacked vertically and horizontally is seen.
Is lifted and lowered between the support columns 4 by a known lifting device as a stacker crane, and is traversed on the rails 6 by a traversing device so as to be stored and taken out in a predetermined mesh frame. The movement of the load by the lifting device and the lateral movement device is controlled by the computer 5.

Further, in the invention of the railway freight station disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 47-40937, an elevated structure is constructed over a freight line and a road, and a loop-shaped rail conveyor is erected on the elevated structure. There is disclosed a system in which a large number of traveling vehicles hang containers on this rail conveyor and move in only one direction of a loop to load and unload containers from a freight car to a truck or from a truck to a freight car.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned automatic warehouse system according to the prior art, the load is moved by moving a fork in and out of a pallet on which the load is loaded. As described above, the transportation using a pallet is not suitable for those that travel by train or truck, and cannot be used. In addition, pallets are not actually used, and cargo handling between freight trains and trucks is performed by manned forks using a fork extraction port provided at the lower part of the container.

[0005] Also, the system disclosed in the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open Publication No. H11-163456 is a system in which a traveling bogie turns around a loop-shaped rail conveyor in one direction. There is no temporary storage area for
It is not enough as a storage system.

Therefore, in the present invention, a truck and a freight train are combined with a container rack, and a loading / unloading device in a truck stopping area and a loading / unloading device in a freight train stopping area are used to load and unload containers from the truck and the freight train. A container cargo handling / storage device is provided which automates the operation of the container and allows the container to be stored between the containers by a container rack.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and its gist is that the center is divided into upper and lower parts.
Move forward and backward between the rails and lift the container along the moving support
Arrange a stacker crane to descend, and
Yield the containers from the stacker crane on either side of the over emissions
Container rack with a large number of grids to be stored and stored
Along the outside of said one container rack
Above the truck stop area of the truck lane
Of the container to the truck stopped in the truck stop area
Unloading and loading, and left and right to the container rack
A loading / unloading device for moving the container, and the other container
A vehicle rack installed along the container rack at the bottom of the rack
A freight train stop area where vehicles run on
On the outside of the other container rack, there is a freight train
A container loading / unloading device at a predetermined location
The dismounting device can be moved along the freight train travel lane
A container cargo handling / storage device characterized by the above. Here, in the loading / unloading device, the container on the truck bed is grasped from above, or lifted by scooping up at the bottom, etc., and temporarily stored in a predetermined place of the container rack, or the stored thing is loaded on the bed. As a loading and unloading device, the container on the freight train was lifted by lateral transfer or hanging by a crane and temporarily stored in a container rack, or the stored thing was loaded on the vehicle. A device is conceivable. The gripping means in the loading / unloading device includes a gripping device that expands and contracts a hydraulic cylinder to grip the lower part of the container from both sides of the container, and a lifting device that lifts the container by an elevator or a lift. In the temporary storage area and the freight train area at the lower part, the fork may be slid sideways so that the container is delivered and the container is moved up and down together with the fork.

[0008]

According to the container handling and storage system of the present invention, a container is loaded or unloaded on a truck between a truck and a container rack, and the unloaded container is stored in a storage location of the container rack. The stored container is loaded on a truck or loaded on a freight train, and the container unloaded from the freight train is stored in a storage location of a container rack.

[0009]

[Embodiment] Next, the cargo handling and storage of the container according to the present invention.
An embodiment of the apparatus will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a front view of a container handling and storage device, FIG. 2 is a plan view of FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a left side view, and FIG. 4 is a right side view.

In the center, a traveling area 1 of a stacker crane
Forward and backward between the upper and lower rails 13 and 13 'laid in 6,
A stacker crane 14 having a fork that can move up and down along the back and forth moving supports 15 and 15 ′ and that can expand and contract to the left and right is arranged.
Container racks 11 and 12 provided with a large number of mesh frames 17 vertically and horizontally to store and store containers 18 along
Rows 11a, 11b and 11c and 12a, 12b and 12
It is arranged continuously with c. In addition, container rack 1
As for the containers 18 in the 1 and 12 grid frames 17, it is convenient for work operation to sequentially distinguish the waiting-for-delivery container 19, the arrival container 20, the arrival / departure container 21 on the day, and the storage container 22 from below to above. Further, the empty container 23 can be stored in any of the container racks 11 and 12.

On one outer side of the container rack 12 opposite to the stacker crane 14, a truck stop area for stopping a truck 26 is provided at a predetermined position on a truck running lane 24 provided along the rack 12 below. A retrieval device 25 is provided. By providing a plurality of the loading / unloading devices 25 at predetermined positions on the traveling lane 24, loading / unloading of the containers 18 to / from the container rack 12 can be efficiently performed. The configuration of the loading / unloading device 25 includes a gripping device 27 for gripping the container 18 with claws from both sides for loading and unloading the container 18 to and from the truck 26 in the bottomless frame 29, and moving the gripped container 18 up and down. Lifting device 2 such as a hydraulic cylinder suspended from the ceiling of the loading / unloading device 2
8 and a bottomed frame 30 adjacent to the bottomless frame 29 and horizontally moved to the container rack by a rolling device 31 at the bottom.

A lower part of the other container rack 11 is provided with a freight train stop area in which a vehicle 33 travels on a vehicle rail 32 from a drop line provided along the rack 11, and a freight train stop area is provided outside the container rack 11. A container loading / unloading device 35 is provided at a predetermined position of the traveling lane 34. By providing a plurality of the container loading / unloading devices 35 at predetermined positions on the traveling lane 34, the container 18 can be efficiently moved in and out of the container rack 11. The structure of the container loading / unloading device 35 is such that the main body can move along the traveling lane 34 on the rail 36, and the fork 38 which reciprocates the lifting device 37 and the container 18 between the lifting device and the container rack in the main body. Consists of

An embodiment of the container cargo handling / storage device of the present invention having the above-described configuration will be described below.

1. Containers 18 transported by truck
Is gripped by a gripping device 27 in a bottomless frame 29 as a loading / unloading device, lifted by a lifting / lowering device 28, and moving the lifting / lowering device 28 along the ceiling of the loading / unloading device 25 to the bottomed frame 30 to hold the gripping device. 27 is removed and the rollers of the rolling device 31 are moved to temporarily store the container 20 in the container rack 12 as the arrival container 20.

2. The arriving container 20 temporarily stored in the rack 12 is moved forward or backward by extending and retracting the fork of the stacker crane 14, moved to the stacker crane, stored in the mesh frame of the upper container rack, and Alternatively, if the temporarily stored arrival container 20 is immediately before shipment, the arriving container 20 is temporarily stored in the adjacent container rack 11 by the stacker crane 14 and
Is a delivery waiting container 19 immediately above.

3. The unloading standby container 19 is moved to the lifting / lowering device 37 by reciprocating a fork 38 serving as a container loading / unloading device 35, descends, and further moves to the fork 3.
8 is loaded on the vehicle 33.

4. Further, the container 18 carried by the vehicle 33 is stored in the mesh frame at the upper stage of the unloading standby container 19 in the above 2 to operate as the arrival container 20 by operating the container loading / unloading device 35, By the stacker crane 14, the upper storage container 22
Or it becomes the departure / arrival container 21 on the day.

5. Further, the arrival container 20 (or 21, 22) via the container loading / unloading device 35 from the vehicle 33
Is the stacker crane 1 according to the shipment of the truck 26
4, the container is carried to the entrance / exit device 25, and the truck is stopped at the truck stop area of the entrance / exit device to load the container.

The steps of loading and unloading and storing each container can be controlled and operated by a computer.

FIGS. 5 to 7 show application examples of the above-described basic container handling / storage device.

FIG. 5 shows that the cargo handling and storage devices of the two opposite containers are connected by a dome roof 39, and the space between the two devices is 1 from the bottom.
FIG. 6 is a front view of a second-floor platform 41 connected to the first-floor platform 40 by a slope from the ground on the first floor, and FIG.
FIG. 7 is a second floor plan view.

[0023]

As described above, in the present invention, a stacker crane is provided between at least two rows of container racks.
On one container rack side, a loading / unloading device with a truck stop area is installed to carry in and out, including temporary storage of containers from trucks, and on the other container rack side, a container loading / unloading area with a freight train stop area. The installation and unloading of vehicles, including temporary storage of containers from vehicles, and the organic placement of stacker cranes between container racks on both sides enables mechanization of large volumes of containers into trucks and vehicles. Containers can be stored and stored in the mesh frame of each container rack continuously and in an orderly manner, as well as outgoing.

Further, according to the present invention, the work efficiency can be improved by automating the container cargo handling work, and the three-dimensional container can be temporarily stored to reduce the work space and effectively use the freight station premises. As a result, it is possible to create surplus land that can be used for multiple purposes.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a container handling and storage device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view excluding a track of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a left side view of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a right side view of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a front view as an application example in which two of FIG. 1 to FIG. 4 are combined;

FIG. 6 is a first-floor plan view of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a plan view of the second floor of FIG. 5;

FIG. 8 is a schematic perspective view of a conventional stacker crane.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11, 12 container rack 14 stacker crane 17 container rack mesh frame 18 container 25 loading / unloading device 26 truck 33 vehicle 35 container loading / unloading device

──────────────────────────────────────────────────の Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Kimi Kayama 2-5-8 Kitaaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan (72) Inventor Koichi Matsumoto 2-5-8 Kitaaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo Mamagumi, Inc. ( 72) Inventor Masuo Funabiki 2-5-8 Kitaaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo Hazumi Corporation (56) References JP-A-51-147866 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB Name) B65G 63/00 B65G 1/04

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. The center is moved forward and backward between the upper and lower rails,
A stacker that lifts and lowers containers along moving columns
-Place a crane and place the stacker on both sides of the crane.
-Many mesh frames for storing and storing containers from cranes
A container rack equipped with
Truck running lane along the outside of the antenna rack
Above the truck stop area, stop at the truck stop area
Unloading / loading of containers into a truck
Entry / exit device that moves sideways to the container rack
And the container rack is located below the other container rack.
That the vehicle travels on the vehicle rails along the rack
A train stop area is provided, and the other container rack is provided.
Outside the freight train lane,
A loading / unloading device is deployed, and the loading / unloading device is
It can move along the line lane.
Container handling and storage equipment.