JPS59115288A - Device for flowing gassy medium through container - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention can be arranged one above the other as stacked columns and can have a lower height or a higher height, each with an inlet for a conditioned gaseous medium. A device for flowing said medium through a parallelepiped container having an opening and an outlet opening for said medium, wherein said openings of all containers are located at the same vertical distance from each other and from the bottom of the container. , the apparatus also comprising a member for conditioning the medium, the member having an opening for supplying the medium to the inlet opening of the container and an opening for treating the medium coming from the outlet of the container. Regarding equipment.

A device of the above type is disclosed in British Patent No. 1.498 in which a fixed unit is arranged in front of each container in a stacking column for sucking the medium out of the container, conditioning it and pumping it back to the container. , No. 839.

The containers handled by the aforementioned units are typically
2.44, which only differ from each other depending on the height of the container.
m (8ft) or 2.5'9 in (8l/2f
t) have two different dimensions.

Since the units are arranged vertically at such a mutual distance, they can handle either stacks consisting only of small containers or stacks consisting only of large containers.

A device of the kind mentioned in the introduction is also disclosed in Swedish published patent application No. It is also well known by No. 7612243-1. The conduit has an opening disposed in some way substantially perpendicular to the front face of the container opening, and a rotational connection configured in some way connecting the conduit opening to the connector opening. Provided with pieces.

This connecting piece can be rotated in such a way that the conduit can serve either a stack consisting only of small containers or a stack consisting only of large containers.

Known devices have the disadvantage that they cannot supply conditioned media to a stack consisting of a mixture of large and small containers. An object of the present invention is to enable such mixing.

The purpose is to have a height equal to the height difference between a high height container and a low height container, and a container placed on top of said container of low height and a low height container. This is achieved in the device according to the invention by using spacing members arranged on the structure surrounding the stacked columns to serve as spacers between the stacked columns.

By placing a spacer at the top of each container at a low height, the openings of the containers in a stack of mixtures of large and small containers are separated from the openings located at a constant height of the medium conditioning member. It is possible to place it directly in front of the user.

Typically, the stacking column is surrounded by four vertical guides that surround the vertical edges of the container in individual L-shaped pockets.

Within these pockets the containers exhibit strong corner structures suitable for absorbing normal forces between the containers. According to a further development of the invention, the spacer between the two containers therefore consists of spacing elements that can each be inserted into one of the L-shaped pockets.

The guiding device provides an excellent mounting method for the spacing elements, and this should be utilized to hold the spacing elements. Furthermore, the spacing elements should take up little space outside the stack column when they are not used as spacers. According to a further development of the invention, the respective spacing element is therefore arranged in such a way that it can be inserted into the L-shaped pocket of the respective guiding device by rotation about the vertical axis of the connecting piece fixed to the guiding device. will be established.

When the spacing element is pivoted into the L-shaped pocket above the container, it must be ensured that the spacing element stays away from the container. This is a further development of the invention by holding the spacing element in a raised position by means of a spring when the spacing element is pivoted over a low height container and the container above it is removed. Secured by developmental stage.

Each spacing element must be able to be operated properly from a central position, and for this purpose, according to a further development of the invention, each spacing element must be able to move into and out of the stacking column. A motor is provided for this purpose.

Embodiments of the device according to the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which: FIG.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 4, the numeral 11 designates four guide devices having an L-shaped cross-section and arranged, for example, in a fixed position in the hold of a ship. This guide device forms the corner of the column 12, in which containers 13, 14 with the shape of a parallelepiped are guided by the guide device 11 and lowered one after the other.

The container can have two different dimensions, one with a low height H)'13 and one with a high height H)'14, and in more detail:
(h) is equal to 2.44 m (8 ft') and (H
) is equal to 2.59 m (81/2 ft). Inlet openings 15 and outlet openings 16 for conditioned, for example cooled, air to be circulated within the container are arranged in the end walls of each container 13, 14. In all containers 13.14 the opening 15
．． 16 are located at the same distance from each other (A) and at the same vertical distance from the bottom of the container (B) and (C), respectively.

A unit 17 is arranged outside each container 13 , 14 which sucks the medium from the container via an inlet opening 18 , conditions it and pumps the medium back into the container via an outlet opening 19 .

The openings 18 , 19 are located directly in front of the container openings 16 and directly in front of the container openings 15 when there is a stack of only containers 14 of high height H) in the column 12 . The opening 19 is located at a constant height above the bottom 20 of the column 12.

The openings 18,19 can for example be formed at the free end of a fitting 21, such as the fitting 5 disclosed in British Patent No. 1,498,839, which can expand towards the opening of the container. When the container is lowered into the pillar 12,
To prevent the coupling from being damaged by the container, the coupling is kept pulled out of the column 12 during the lowering operation and is only opened at the opening 15 of the container when the container is in position within the column 12. It is expanded towards 16.

A spacing element 22 is arranged on the guide device 11 so that the column 12 can also contain one or more containers 13 of low height h) and these can also be connected to the unit 17. These spacing elements having a height H-h)' are used when the column is filled only with containers 13 of a low height h) and a spacing element 22 is placed between all the containers 13. is placed at a height above the bottom of the column 12 on which the column 12 is positioned.

At each such height there are four spacing elements 22, each of which can be pivoted into an L-shaped pocket 23 (see FIG. 7) of the guiding device 11 that delimits the corner of the stacking column 12. .

The spacing element 22 comprises a cylindrical central part 23 to which a disk 24 is fixed at the end. The central part 23 is a sleeve 25
It is movably disposed within and supported by a spring 26. Sleeve 25 is fixedly connected to one end of an L-shaped arm 27 whose other end is fixedly connected to pin 28 . The pin 28 is attached at one end to a sleeve 29 about the axis 30.
It is rotatably supported inside by a bearing. Sleeve 29 is fixedly connected to guide device 11 . A large gear 31 is fixedly connected to the other end of the pin 28 . The big gear is cylinder 3
4, it operates in conjunction with a mechanism on a rod 32 connected to a movable piston 33. Piston 33 and cylinder 3
4 constitutes a motor for moving the spacing element 22 via the gearwheel 31 into or out of the pocket 23 to the position marked with a dash-dotted line.

The task of the spring 26 is to hold the spacing element in a raised position such that it is safely separated from and unhindered by the container 13 being pivoted up. , the stack of containers is 2
The container 13 has a low height h). According to the invention, spacing elements 22 are placed above all the containers in the stacking column 12 in order to enable them to be connected to the conditioning unit 17.

The distance D=HA in FIG. 2 is determined using FIGS. 5 and 6.

D=H-(A+B)+B-work I(-A-B+B=H-A

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 shows a stack of five containers in which the second and sixth containers from the bottom have a low height and a device for conditioning the medium circulated inside the containers is arranged in front of the containers. Figure 2 is a side view of the member for conditioning the medium as seen in the direction of arrows ■-■ in Figure 1, and Figure 6 is a stack of containers seen in the direction of arrows 1-I in Figure 1. Figure 4
The figures are a plan view of a stack of containers viewed in the direction of the arrow ■ in Figure 1, Figure 5 is an end view of a container with a low height, Figure 6 is a view of an end face of a container with a high height, and Figure 7 is a view of the end face of a container with a high height. The figure is a cross-sectional view of the L-shaped guiding device included in the device in which the motor-driven spacing element is rotated into the L-shaped pocket, and FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view along the line v - ■ in FIG. be. 11: Guide device 19: Opening 12: Stacking column 22: Spacing member 13: Container 23: L-shaped pocket 13/14: Container 26: Spring 14: Container 29: Joint member 15: Inlet opening 30: Vertical axis 16 : Outlet opening 33: Motor (piston) 17: Condition adjustment member 34: Motor (cylinder) 18: Opening

Claims (1)

Claims: (1) Arranged one above the other as stacked columns (12), each having a lower height (h) or a higher height (H), each containing a conditioned gaseous medium; an inlet opening (15) for the medium and an outlet opening (15) for said medium (
16) and parallelepiped containers (13) and (1
4) in which the openings of all containers are located at the same vertical distance from each other (A), from the bottom of the container (B), (C'), and in which the device It also comprises a medium conditioning member (17), said member treating the medium coming from the opening (19) supplying the medium to the inlet opening (15) of the container and the outlet opening (16) of the container. an opening (18) with a height H-h) equal to the height difference between the container (14) of high height H) and the container 13 of low height h); a container (13) of low height and a container (13/14) placed on top of said container (13) of low height;
), said spacing member (22) being arranged on the surrounding structure (11) of the stacked column (12). (2>! In the device according to claim 1, the structure surrounding the stacked columns each includes an L-shaped pocket (23
) surrounding the vertical edges of the container (1
1), characterized in that the spacer between the two containers consists of a spacing element (22) which can be inserted into each of the L-shaped recesses (23). (3) A device according to claim 2, in which each spacing element (22) extends around the vertical axis (30) of the joint groove (29) attached to the guide device (11). By rotating the L-shaped pocket of each guide device) (
23) A device characterized in that it is arranged such that it can be inserted into the device. (4) In the device according to claim 6, the spacing element (22) is rotated above the container (13) of a low height, and the container (13/14) located above it is removed. A device characterized in that, when removed, the spacing element (22) is held in the raised position by a cover spring (26). (5) A device according to claim 6 or 4, in which a motor (33) is attached to each spacer for moving the spacing element (22) inwardly or outwardly of the stacking column (12). , (34).