JPH05116679A - Automobile storage device for car carrier - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To store a large number of vehicles easily and rapidly by moving each vehicle on an embarkation/disembarkation berth to a storage conveyor for storage either directly by elevating a movable floor or indirectly by elevating the movable floor and a lifter. CONSTITUTION:In order to store an automobile into a carrier, a driver drives a vehicle 11 to get on board from an embarkation opening 9 through a ramp way 4, and stops the vehicle 11 at an embarkation/disembarkation berth 5. A movable floor 7 is then lowered by a hydraulic device 6 so as to land the vehicle 11 on a longitudinally moving conveyor 5a and move it. The vehicle 11 is then landed on a storage conveyor 3 so as to be moved into a storage compartment 2. After being transferred to a lifter 1, the vehicle 11 is led into the upper layer deck or lower layer deck of an embarkation deck by the collaboration between the longitudinally moving conveyor 1a of the lifter 1 and the storage conveyor 3. All the vehicles 11 stored in order are supported at the body bottom faces thereof on the storage conveyor 3. A large number of vehicles 11 are thereby stored easily and rapidly.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a car storage device for a car carrier.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional car carrier, a car (hereinafter referred to as "vehicle") is self-propelled by a driver and gets into the ship.
After being rolled on to the predetermined loading position on each storage deck through the ramp way provided in the ship, the operator pushes the wheel stoppers in front and behind each wheel for each vehicle to put the vehicle on the storage deck. It is fixed.

[0003]

However, such means have the following problems. (1) Since the driver drives the vehicle to the storage location on the ship, a large number of drivers are required and it takes a considerable amount of time. (2) A skilled driver is required because the vehicle must be stopped accurately at a predetermined position. (3) For the same reason as (1), when a driver who has finished storing a vehicle walks inside the ship and returns to the quay, it is dangerous to encounter a vehicle traveling for storage. (4) For the same reason as in (1), vehicle exhaust gas accumulates in the ship, and the work environment inside the ship deteriorates. (5) It takes a lot of manpower and time to tie up the vehicles one by one.

The present invention has been proposed in view of the above circumstances, and is an economical vehicle storage device for a vehicle carrier that stores a plurality of vehicles on a storage deck quickly, reliably, and manpower saving and labor saving. The purpose is to provide.

[0005]

To this end, the present invention provides a horizontal rampway which is arranged along the ship width direction on a boarding deck of an automobile and has a walkway formed along one side thereof, and the horizontal passageway. A plurality of rectangular boarding and unloading berths, each of which is provided at equal intervals on a through rampway and has a vehicle vertical movement conveyor in the central part,
A plurality of vertical storage conveyors each of which has a narrow width and is slightly narrower than the inner rectangle of the front and rear wheels of the storage vehicle and extends parallel to the ship length direction along one side of the horizontal rampway and the other side of the rampway. A vehicle lifter with a vehicle vertical movement conveyor that moves up and down in a plurality of elevator shafts that are vertically spaced through the storage decks that are installed along the storage decks, and the vertical storage conveyors on the front and rear sides of each of the boarding / alighting berths. And a pair of movable floors, which are installed in parallel on both sides of each stowage position, and which move up and down at a height approximately equal to the radius of the wheels of the vehicle. It is characterized in that it is directly moved to and stored in the storage conveyor, or indirectly in the storage conveyor of each storage deck in the upper layer or the lower layer by elevating the movable floor thereof and elevating the vehicle lifter.

[0006]

With this structure, when loading the vehicle, the vehicle is put into the boat through the vehicle entrance, the vehicle is stopped at the berth, and when the driver leaves the vehicle, the tires on the berth are placed on the movable floor. Is sunk by the hydraulic system, and the vehicle moves in the captain's direction while being supported by the vertical conveyor of the boarding / alighting berth at the center of the bottom of the vehicle body, with the vehicle's tires floating from the movable floor in the air. Becomes Here, the vertical moving conveyor of the berth and the storage conveyor provided on the deck are connected in a straight line, and the vehicle moves in the captain direction with the tires floating in the air by both of these conveyors. In addition, since the vertical moving conveyor is laid in line with this vertical moving conveyor in the lifter adjacent to the boarding / alighting berth, the vehicle moves from the boarding / alighting berth into the lifter as necessary, and the upper and lower layers are lifted by lifting the lifter. Or, move to the lower storage deck, and in any case in the same manner as above with a predetermined storage deck, in the stored state, the tires will float in the air and will be placed on the storage conveyor on the bottom of the vehicle and moved and stored. , The grounding area is large and the staking is simple. When unloading the storage vehicle, move the storage conveyor and the vertical movement conveyor in the opposite direction one vehicle by one width at the same time, lower the movable floor to the boarding / alighting berth, and then use the hydraulic system to remove the submerged movable floor surface. The driver climbs up into the vehicle and drives out of the boat to carry it out.

[0007]

1 is a plan view showing a storage deck of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a side view of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a hull frame structure of a boarding / alighting berth of FIG. FIG. 4 is a perspective view, and FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line IV-IV of the boarding / alighting berth of FIG.

1 to 2, the vertical vehicle storage compartment 2 is formed by a plurality of layers of vehicle storage decks, and an elevator shaft is provided at one end of each storage deck so as to vertically pass therethrough. The vehicle lifter 1 can be moved up and down within the elevator shaft. Among the three-layer storage decks, the middle-layer storage deck 2a is provided with a boarding direction rampway 4 for getting in a vehicle, a boarding / alighting gate 9, a boarding / alighting berth 5, and a driver's walking path 8, and a lifter 1, a lifting berth 5 are respectively provided with conveyors 1a and 5a for vertical movement of the vehicle which are interlocked with each other.

In such a structure, at the time of loading,
The driver drives the vehicle 11, passes through the rampway 4, enters the ship through the entrance 9, and stops the vehicle 11 at a predetermined position on the boarding / alighting berth 5. At that time, the movable floor 7 of the boarding / alighting berth 5 is in the raised position as shown in FIG.
Since the tire of No. 1 is in contact with the movable floor 7, the driver gets out of the vehicle 11 and goes out of the boat through the walking passage 8. Next, as shown in FIG. 4 (B), since the movable floor 7 is sunk by the hydraulic device 6 to the lowered position, the vehicle 11 is bottomed on the vertical movement conveyor 5a at the bottom portion of the vehicle body and is fed in the vertical direction. Then, it is transferred to the bottom of the storage conveyor 3 and the tire is floated in the air. Then, the vehicle 11 moves in the ship length direction as shown in FIG. Here, if necessary, the vehicle 1 that has entered the lifter 1 in FIG.
1 is moved to the upper deck or the lower deck of the boarding deck by the vertical movement of the lifter 1, and the vertical movement conveyor 1a of the lifter and the storage conveyor 3 of the storage section 2 cooperate with each other in the same manner as above. It is also possible to move in the ship length direction in FIG. 2 and enter the upper deck or the lower deck. In either case, the movable floor 7 of the boarding / alighting berth 5 returns to the same level as the storage conveyor 3 (state of FIG. 4 (A)), and if the lifter 1 returns to the boarding deck level, the next vehicle 11 is moved to the boarding / alighting berth 5
You can get on. In this way, the vehicle 11 is sequentially moved to the back of the storage section 2 and stored.

After storing all the vehicles 11, each vehicle is mounted and supported on the storage conveyor 3 at the bottom surface of the vehicle body, the tires are separated from the deck, and the contact area between the storage conveyor 3 and the bottom surface portion of the vehicle body is large. Securing is a simple, conventional procedure. When unloading the storage vehicle, follow the reverse procedure above. That is, first, the movable floor 7 is lowered in advance by the storage conveyor 3 and the lifter 1 in the storage section 2 (see FIG. 4).
In the state (B), the vehicle 11 is moved to the boarding / alighting berth 5, and then the movable floor 7 is raised (state (A) in FIG. 4). Drive and move the vehicle 11 from the entrance 9 to the quay.

[0011]

According to such a structure, the following effects can be obtained. (1) The driver does not have to be an expert because he / she only has to drive the vehicle to the boarding / alighting berth, and the number of drivers may be small. Furthermore, a driver walking on board does not encounter a traveling vehicle. .. (2) If the front vehicle moves from the boarding / alighting berth and the floor surface of the boarding / alighting berth rises, the next vehicle can be boarded, so the loading time can be shortened. (3) Since the vehicle moves inside the ship by the horizontal movement device and the elevating device, exhaust gas does not collect in the ship. (4) Since the vehicle is bottomed on the conveyor at the bottom of the vehicle, the ground contact area is large and the tires are in the air.
Simple staking is enough.

[0012] In short, according to the present invention, a horizontal rampway in which a walkway is formed along one side of a boarding deck of an automobile along a ship width direction, the horizontal rampway, and the like. A plurality of rectangular loading / unloading berths provided at intervals in the center and each having a vehicle vertical movement conveyor, and extending in parallel in the ship length direction at equal intervals along one side of the above-mentioned transverse rampway, and inside the front and rear wheels of the storage vehicle. A plurality of vertical storage conveyors of a narrow width slightly narrower than a rectangle, and a vehicle vertical movement that moves up and down in a plurality of elevator shafts that are arranged at equal intervals along the other side of the ramp way and vertically penetrate each storage deck. A lifter for a vehicle with a conveyor and front and rear sides of each of the boarding / alighting berths are arranged side by side on both sides of each stowage position of the vertical storage conveyor, and ascend to a height approximately equal to the radius of the wheels of the vehicle. A pair of movable floors, and a vehicle on the boarding / alighting berth is directly stored in a conveyor by raising or lowering the movable floor, or indirectly stored in upper or lower layers by raising or lowering the movable floor and raising or lowering the vehicle lifter. The present invention provides an economical vehicle storage device for a vehicle carrier that moves and stores a plurality of vehicles on a storage deck on a deck quickly and reliably, and also on a storage deck in a labor-saving and labor-saving manner. It is extremely useful in industry.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of FIG.

3 is a perspective view showing a frame structure of a hull of the boarding / alighting berth of FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line IV-IV of the boarding / alighting berth of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Lifter 1a Conveyor for vertical movement 2 Storage compartment 2a Storage deck 3 Conveyor 4 Lampway 5 Ramp berth 5a Vertical conveyor 6 Hydraulic device 7 Movable floor 8 Walking passage 9 Pillar 11 Vehicle 12 Vertical bone 13 Horizontal frame

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A transverse rampway, which is arranged along a ship width direction on a boarding deck of an automobile and has a walkway formed along one side, and the transverse rampway provided at equal intervals, respectively. A plurality of rectangular boarding / alighting berths each having a vehicle longitudinal moving conveyor in the center, and extending in parallel in the ship length direction at equal intervals along one side of the transverse rampway, each of which is slightly narrower than the inner rectangle of the front and rear wheels of the storage vehicle. A plurality of vertical storage conveyors with a width, and a vehicle lifter with a vehicle vertical movement conveyor that moves up and down in a plurality of elevator shafts that are arranged at equal intervals along the other side of the ramp way and vertically penetrate each storage deck. And a pair of movable floors, which are arranged in parallel on both sides of each stowage position of the vertical storage conveyor on the front and rear sides of each of the boarding / alighting berths and which ascend to a height substantially equal to the radius of the wheels of the vehicle. Equipment The vehicle on the boarding / berthing berth is directly moved to and stored in the storage conveyor by raising or lowering the movable floor, or indirectly by raising or lowering the movable floor and raising or lowering the vehicle lifter in the storage conveyor of each upper or lower storage deck. An automobile storage device for an automobile carrier characterized by the above.