RU160914U1 - Dismountable CONTAINER FOR STORAGE AND TRANSPORT OF LIQUID AND BULK CARGOES - Google Patents

Abstract

1. A collapsible container for storing and transporting products, characterized in that it contains a pallet base consisting of segments, and side walls that are detachably fastened one to the other and with segments of the pallet base with the possibility of forming transport containers connected in single blocks .2. The container according to claim 1, characterized in that the assembled segments of the base pallet are made with the possibility of forming a common base pallet for transport containers. The container according to claim 1, characterized in that the side walls are detachably bonded to each other and to the segments of the base-pallets by means of connecting elements. The container according to claim 1, characterized in that it is additionally equipped with built-in valves for loading and draining the product. The container according to claim 1, characterized in that it is additionally equipped with sensors for volume, pressure, temperature and for monitoring the load and condition. The container according to claim 1, characterized in that it further comprises a lid.

Description

Dismountable CONTAINER FOR STORAGE AND TRANSPORT OF LIQUID AND BULK CARGOES

The utility model relates to containers for placement, storage and transportation of products for various purposes, is a collapsible container for storage and transportation of liquid and bulk cargoes, and can be used in any industry using liquid and bulk cargoes for storage and transportation.

The prior art knows a large number of all kinds of containers for storage and transportation of industrial liquid and bulk cargo.

Currently, barrels (200-220 liters), Eurocubes (1000 liters), tanks or flexitanks (more than 1000 liters) are most often used as containers for industrial liquid cargoes. The proposed container is designed to eliminate the shortcomings of these types, and above all barrels and eurocubes. Their main disadvantages include the fixed volumetric design, which occupies empty storage bins and creates, in most cases, the economic inexpediency of reuse, due to the cost of the return transportation to the loading points.

Also, each of the considered containers has the following disadvantages:

- Steel barrel (210-220 liters), the most common in the industry. According to statistics, up to 30% of new barrels require disposal or repair after the first unloading. The main reasons are hull deformations with loss of cargo protection from the environment, loss of presentation, corrosion. Work with barrels requires special handling equipment.

- Plastic barrels (210-240 liters). They have significant load restrictions, limiting transportation in 1 row, storage in no more than 2 rows in height, which significantly limits their use. In addition, the storage of barrels in the open air dramatically reduces their reliability and shelf life.

In addition, the organization of high-tech production of liquid cargoes requires additional palletizers to form standard pallets with cargo. Such equipment occupies production facilities and increases the cost of production.

Disposal of damaged and non-returnable containers is also costly and detrimental to the environment.

- Eurocubes (1000 liters) are significantly limited in application, as create additional difficulties for goods required in smaller quantities.

Known reinforced double-walled collapsible container containing a pallet base, two vertical side walls and two vertical end walls. A pair of side walls are rigidly attached to a pallet base. The end walls are fixed on a pallet base by means of a tongue and groove (US 6631821, 10/14/2003).

The disadvantages of this design are its specialized purpose (warehousing and transportation of small piece products with a large weight), restrictions on the sides of the access of the handling equipment and the fixation of containers during vertical storage in several rows, the technological complexity of manufacturing, the inability to connect containers into blocks.

A collapsible container is known comprising a pallet — a bottom plate, side plates and a top cover, the side plates being connected together by a pair of hinges, and the side plates are attached to the pallet by a pair of parts interacting with corresponding pairs of parts located at the bottom of the side plates (US 6216899, 04.17.2001).

The disadvantages are the large weight, the difficulty of disassembling after a long transportation, unsuitability in a humid climate and during temperature changes.

Known folding container with a pallet containing a base, a pair of side walls and the first and second end walls. A pair of side walls is detachably connected to the base by a sliding movement from a first position to an intermediate position, and then to an end position. The side walls are detachably connected to the first and second end walls (US 5597084, 01/28/1997). This source can be adopted as a prototype.

The disadvantage of the above container is its large size (the dimensions of this container, for mechanized processing, have a capacity of at least 0.6 cubic meters, i.e. it is ineffective for transporting smaller volumes of cargo), a large number of protruding fasteners increase the risk of damage during transportation the disassembled state and the large volume of the container in the disassembled state, and also require special solutions for the safety of parts, technological complexity in manufacturing, unreliability of the structure under dynamic their loads.

The task to which the proposed utility model is directed is to create a collapsible container (packaging) for storage and transportation of products (goods), which would eliminate the above disadvantages.

The technical result achieved by the implementation of this utility model is as follows:

- providing disassembly into standard flat and / or non-closed volumetric elements that allow one-to-another storage, and thus reduce the occupied volume when empty.

- combining the assembled loaded containers into single blocks to create a rigid structure, which allows optimizing storage and transportation costs during storage and handling;

- reduction of occupied warehouse space, savings in storage, transportation by reducing the volume of empty containers, after dismantling them into simple components;

- reduction of technological costs during operation due to the possibility of assembling different groupage cargoes into single transport blocks;

- optimization of warehouse and logistics operations;

- the creation of economic feasibility of organizing the turnover of containers, by significantly reducing its transportation;

- reduction of utilization costs;

- improving the environment by ensuring the multi-turn of containers, which also allows to reduce the cost of transported goods.

The specified technical result is achieved in the proposed collapsible container for storage and transportation of products containing side walls, with a detachable connection between each other and the bottom, which is also the top panel of the pallet. Separately assembled containers have a pallet base for mechanized processing separately and can also be combined into single (transport) blocks.

The choice of the type of connection of the elements is practically unlimited and depends only on the characteristics of the material, technological and economic capabilities and requirements.

Some possible connection options:

1. Standard fasteners using threaded or cotter pins, spike groove, dovetail, etc. for the side walls between each other and with the bottom,

2. The same, through the corner support racks, while part of the walls can be inseparably combined with the racks,

3. The use of molded flat and smooth or cellular elements with knots,

4. Similarly, for non-flat structural elements (to reduce the number of prefabricated elements, for example, for a local container turnover), etc.

The joints can be sealed or sealed to ensure tightness of the interior.

The container may be made of polyethylene, polypropylene, other polymers and structural materials, or a combination thereof. It can additionally be equipped with built-in valves for loading and draining the product, sensors for volume, pressure, temperature, etc. to monitor the load and condition of the product.

The lid of the container provides increased rigidity of the upper part of the container, and also fixes the container mounted on top from longitudinal displacement.

The claimed design of the utility model provides for the integration of several elements (containers) into a single transport blocks (multiple, for example, 4 containers). The total size of such transport blocks is limited only by the technological characteristics and features of the warehouses and handling equipment and can be approximated to standard pallets (Euro or FIN) used in industry.

Since it is considered primarily an alternative to traditional barrels, the claimed design has repeatedly (5-10 years, instead of a single use of steel barrels) an increased service life due to:

Elimination of the need for contact of the handling equipment and equipment with the surface of the container, which is the main cause of damage.

- Use of non-corrosive plastics and polymers.

- Reducing the weight of the container and its optimal placement allows you to increase the allowable weight of transportation of the product itself and, accordingly, further reduce storage and logistics costs.

Using a collapsible design on flat segments / elements of the base-pallets and side walls allows you to:

- Significantly reduce unit costs for the return and transportation of containers.

- Reduce storage space.

- Reduce disposal costs.

- Improve the environment.

- To ensure multi-turn of containers, which actually allows to reduce raw material costs.

- To simplify the identification of raw materials and improve their marketing qualities through the use of colored plastics.

- To reduce costs from losses due to obtaining a more rigid, stable design during transportation and storage in assembled blocks.

The essence of the utility model is illustrated by drawings, on the example of a collapsible container in the form of a single unit, consisting of 4 transport containers, with unified side walls.

In FIG. 1 shows a general view of a transport block based on 4 containers; in FIG. 2 is a side view of a collapsible container for storing and transporting products; in FIG. 3 is a view A of FIG. 2; in FIG. 4 is a view B of FIG. 2; in FIG. 5 - one transport (separate) container formed by connecting the base-pallet segment and the side walls and the lid; in FIG. 6 is a view B of FIG. 5; in FIG. 7 is a view D of FIG. 5.

The collapsible container can be made of polyethylene, polypropylene, other polymers and structural materials, or a combination thereof and contains a pallet base 1 consisting of segments 2 (assembled segments 2 of the pallet base 1 form a common base for all containers), lid 4 and side walls 3, detachably fastened to one another and with segments 2 of the base-pallets 1 by means of connecting elements (for example, "dovetail", spike groove, etc.).

Thus, a collapsible container for storing and transporting products consists of separate collapsible containers, each of which contains as a bottom a segment 2 of a pallet base 1, side walls 3, which form an assembled rigid box and a lid 4, which the loaded state at the same time rigidly fixes the upper edge of the box and is a locking element for installed in the 2nd row of the container. In this case, the lid 4 can be made uniform for all containers or consisting, like a pallet base, of separate segments.

Each of the (individual) containers can be connected to 3 others, forming together a rigid single transport unit suitable for mechanized processing with standard equipment, both together and separately. The assembled blocks can be transported in 2 rows, stored in 3 rows in height. The dimensions of a block of 4 containers correspond to or are close to the dimensions of the most commonly used pallets in industry.

Such a layout of a collapsible container for storing and transporting products allows not only using it without any additional costs instead of barrels, but also creates the possibility of assembling different precast products / goods into single transport units.

When disassembled, each container occupies less than 10% of the volume of the loaded, which can dramatically reduce transport and storage costs.

The combination of pallets and containers into a single collapsible unit allows avoiding contact of the handling equipment and product walls (directly with the working surfaces of the container), which is the main cause of damage and increases the service life of containers / packaging.

The proposed design of a collapsible container is adapted for storage and transportation of liquid food products in the most commonly used 200 liter sealed aseptic bags.

The main structural materials are polyethylene, polypropylene, other polymers and structural materials, or a combination thereof. The use of certain types of polypropylene (with a food certificate, with various protective chemical characteristics), allows the use of a collapsible container for working with food or aggressive products without additional protective equipment. The design of a collapsible container can be made in a sealed version (using seals or sealants), equipped with built-in valves for loading and unloading cargo, sensors for volume, pressure, temperature, etc. to control the load and condition. The dimensions of a collapsible container, the materials used, the types of fasteners, the presence / absence of gaskets and sealants can be easily adapted to the requirements for products / cargo, technological conditions of production, transportation and storage.

Technologically, the manufacture of transport containers involves both the absence of the need for localization of production for the manufacture of small and medium lots near the places of production, and the use of molding, molding, etc. technologies to reduce the cost of large batches of containers and give them special characteristics.

The collapsible container for storing and transporting products has a simple design and assembly / disassembly scheme without the use of additional, specialized tools, which reduces the technological costs of cleaning, processing and repair.

Claims (6)

1. A collapsible container for storing and transporting products, characterized in that it contains a pallet base consisting of segments and side walls detachably fastened one to the other and with segments of the pallet base with the possibility of forming transport containers connected in single blocks . 2. The container according to claim 1, characterized in that the assembled segments of the base-pallets are made with the possibility of forming a common base-pallets for transport containers. 3. The container according to claim 1, characterized in that the side walls are detachably bonded to each other and to the segments of the base-pallets by means of connecting elements. 4. The container according to claim 1, characterized in that it is additionally equipped with built-in valves for loading and draining the product. 5. The container according to claim 1, characterized in that it is additionally equipped with sensors for volume, pressure, temperature and for monitoring the load and status. 6. The container according to claim 1, characterized in that it further comprises a lid.

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