SE9300086A0 - Cargo management system - Google Patents

Abstract

SUMMARY The present invention relates to a load handling system (1) for ships (2), comprising a number of tracks (3) extending along the ship (2) for receiving darts: having a callable load-bearing trolley (4). According to the invention, said carriage (1) is movable between a ship cargo ramp (10) and a ship cargo space (6) and comprises cargo lifting means (11) and that a movable car-receiving shift bar (13) provided with tracks (12) is movable. 3).

Description

SUMMARY The present invention relates to a load handling system (1) for ships (2), comprising a number of tracks (3) extending along the ship (2) for receiving darts: having a callable load-bearing trolley (4). According to the invention, said carriage (1) is movable between a ship cargo ramp (10) and a ship cargo space (6) and comprises cargo lifting means (11) and that a movable car-receiving shift bar (13) provided with tracks (12) is movable. 3). 1 The present invention relates to a cargo handling system for ships, comprising a number of tracks extending along the ship for receiving a cargo load-bearing trolley.

Cargo handling of cargo of various kinds to move the cargo between a loading area on land and ship can take place in a number of different ways. Common to the known cargo handling systems that exist is that they do not enable automated personal, property matters and environmentally friendly cargo handling of goods. The vessels referred to in the first instance are so-called RoRo vessels, in which a drop-off loading ramp is arranged at at least one of the vessel, which is used when passing between, for example, a quay and the vessel when loading and unloading the intended cargo, e.g. eg rolling carts or the like with different lengths. Tractors are normally used to haul the cargo between different intended locations between land and ship. In some cases, lifting means are also required to move the load between the truck / vehicle and the intended storage location. Furthermore, space has been required on board the ship in order to be able to maneuver said cargo truck and which has affected the ship's cargo reception capacity.

When loading on several levels on board the ship in question, crane tracks / ramps have been required in order to be able to transport the cargo to and from the intended loading places on board. This has also required space on board the ship.

Said cargo handling is also personnel-intensive and takes a relatively long time to implement and that no system for systematic handling including registration and sorting of intended desired cargoes on board the ship has existed.

The main object of the present invention is primarily to provide a load handling system of the type indicated, which, among other things, solves the above-mentioned problems.

Said objects are achieved by means of a cargo handling system according to the present invention, which is mainly characterized by said carriage being movable between a ship cargo ramp and a ship cargo space and comprising cargo lifting means and that a spare carriage receiving moving carriage bar is movable.

The invention is described in the following as a preferred embodiment, reference being made to the accompanying 2 the drawings, on which Fig. 1 shows a schematic perspective view of a ship with a cargo handling system applied there, Fig. 2 shows a perspective view of a ship with double cargo decks, Fig. 3 shows a hoisting stage of a shifting bar part of the invention with received load during hoisting stage, and Fig. 4 shows part of a trolley with associated load lifting means.

A cargo handling system 1 according to the present invention, which is intended to enable rational and things cargo handling in so-called RoRo vessels 2, comprises a number of tracks 3 extending along the vessel 2 for received cargo-loadable carriage carriage 4. Said carriage 4 preferably has said carriage spar 3 suitable wheels 5 and may comprise drive means for enabling the carriage 4 to itself be driven along said spar 3 on board the vessel 2 at its cargo space 6. Said spar 3 on the vessel 2 may extend substantially along the entire length of the vessel and may be arranged on several different loading planes 7, 8 and placed so that the load 9 placed above the spar 3 is packed sideways.

Said carriage 4 is movable between a ship cargo ramp 10 preferably mounted pivotally at one end of the ship 2A and a said ship cargo space 6. Furthermore, said carriage 4 comprises load lifting means 11, for example in the form of vertically acting lifting jacks of desired type, for example piston-cylinder device, screw device, screw device expandable lifting container etc.

The system 1 also comprises a small wobble bar 13 provided with rails 12, fitting to the wagon wheels 5, which is movable to be movable along said ship-supported wagon-intended rails 14. Preferably, the cargo handling system 1 is arranged so that intended cargo 9, e.g. containers, bales, barns, rollers, etc. are adapted to be received on load carriers 15, which can be lowered onto a suitable surface, such as ship decks 7, 8 and ground 16. Preferably, the load carriers 15 consist of so-called gear cassettes, which are provided with support members 17 at respective horns, for storage against substrates 7, 8; 15 and enable access to a space 18 under the load carrier 15, with a said spar-bound 3 trolley 4 or a ground-adapted cargo transport vehicle 19, which is also used in inventive cargo handling systems 1. The said ground-adapted cargo transport vehicle 19, which can also have hoisting devices 20 for the intended cargo 9 and loaders 15, or ship loading ramp 10 and possibly shifting bar part 13, it is possible to hoist the intended load carrier 15 up and down or graze between land 16 and ship 2 on ground-adapted wheels 21 or the like.

The said swivel bar part 13 preferably comprises a platform located at one end of the vessel 2A, which is arranged to bridge a current distance L between the spirits 3A of ship-mounted tracks 3 and the spirits 22A of loading ramp-mounted loading ramp 22.

Said platform 13 can be supported guided and drivable along a longitudinal path of stretching extending posts 23 and beams 24. For example, rolling means, such as wheels 25 and drive means, such as tow lines 26 may be provided and at least the platform 13 is movably driven in substantially horizontal direction 14, but suitably in the case several loading planes 7, 8 are arranged, the platform 13 is also movably driven and can be lifted in a substantially vertical direction 27, between said carriage tracks 3 covered on different planes 7, 8.

The shift bar part 13, which has a width extension transverse to 14 the longitudinal extension 28 of the ship, which is at least the width of the said lower cargo plane 7, has a number of grooves 12, which extend in common direction 28 with each other as with existing grooves 3 and 22 in the vessel ' cargo space 6 or on the ship's cargo ramp 10. Said lanes 3, 12, 22 suitably have the same saving width in relation to each other.

Thus, the number of fixed tracks 7 located side by side on a common plane 7 and 8 in the vessel 2, respectively, exceeds the number of movable tracks 12 on the switching bar part 13, which enables switching of cargo 9 and load carriers 15 laterally 14.

Steering hall means, which are not shown in the drawings, but which may consist of at least one ship's fixed track 3 coated base holding strips etc., are intended to enable steering of load carriers 15 to respective ship savings 3, as well as lateral stabilization of load carriers 15 at the intended parking place in 4 the vessel in order to make it possible to retain the load bars 15 lined up side by side along the vessel 2.

The said ship-adapted carriage 4 is submersible to a loading position I, see the empty carriage 4, which is located on the shift bar part 13. In said loading position I, the carriage 4 is made possible to drive under a moving load carrier 15, see the load carrier 15, which is unloaded on the ship's loading ramp 10 and is raised to a corberette displacement layer II, see the carriage 4, which is located on the shift bar part 13 in Fig. 3.

In order to be able to use one and the same trolley 4 for cargo 9 and loaders 15 of varying length, for example for containers of size 20 'or 40', a trolley may comprise a plurality of trolley chassis, which are preferably connectable to each other to the desired trolley length. to be suitable for supporting and supporting load carriers 15 and load 9 at the outer end portions 15A, 153 of load carriers 15 by means of the raised load lifting means 11. For example, a coupling rod 30 may be arranged to connect in a series of assembled car chassis.

The function of the system 1 according to the present invention should have appeared from the above described, but briefly the transfer of load carriers 15 with load-bearing load 9 will also be described.

Referring first to Fig. 1, a loader 15 and cargo is arranged by means of a land-based cargo transport vehicle 19 on the ship loading ramp 10 in the middle of a vacant pair of savers 22. Three pairs of savers 22 are shown and whose sawing width corresponds to the sawing width of savers 12 and the vessel's cargo space 6. One or more carriages 4 entering the system 1 may be arranged to, when loading the vessel 2, pick up cargo from the intended stowage place 31 on the shift bar part 10 and unload the cargo 9 to the intended desired stowage place 32 on board the ship 2, such as in the ship, at the bottom of the cargo hold, etc.

.Through the trolley 4 can load 9 and loaders crowned in elevated Transfer Act II. After displacing the swivel bar part 13 laterally 14 until the desired pair of savings 12 with carriage 4 of the swapping bar part 13 is located opposite the savings pair 22 on which the intended load 9 and load carrier 15 is arranged on top of the ramp 10, the carriage 4 is driven to be pushed under the load carrier 15, after which the load lifting means 1 are activated to lift the load carrier 15 and drop the resting load 9 from the ramp 10. Then the carriage 4 can be driven back onto the shifting bar part 13, but now with load 9 drop. Either the carriage 4 can now be driven straight over the swapping bar part 13 to the connecting pairs of spares 3 of the ship deck 7 located in common with the ramp 10, if it is convenient and inconvenient to fill the ship 2 with goods 9 on loaders 15, so that the ship 2 is gradually filled from spirit 2B of the vessel 2. If the said spar 3 is full or if you wish to load the cargo 9, 15 into the spar, you move the swivel bar part 13 sideways until the steering wheel spar-par 3, 12 is opposite each other and further grouting of cargo 9, 15 . When the load 9, 15 is placed in the right parking space, the carriage 4 is stopped, after which the load lifting means 11 are activated to lower the goods 9 and load carriers 15 to rest on the upper surface 7A of the roof 7, after which the carriage 4 is backed out.

If you want a load on the Overdacket 8, the swivel bar part 13 is lifted up to the right so that the level of the swivel bar part 13 and the upper part coincides with each other, after which the trolley of carriage 4 with load 9, 15 is leveled.

The entire loading and unloading can be computer-controlled similar to warehouse management to automatically control the loading and unloading. If there are several carriages 4 in the system, these can be controlled to pick up or drop off loads, so that the process works optimally with little waste of time as a result.

The trolleys can be arranged to be operated in an environmentally friendly and safe manner, for example via electricity from, for example, batteries, which can be rechargeable. Energy, which is transferred to the carriage 4 via means along the respective savings, can also occur.

However, the invention is not limited to the embodiment described above and the exemplary embodiment shown in the drawings, but can be varied within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit of the invention. For example, the spares can be single spares and that several swap bar parts can not exist in one and the same system.

Claims (10)

R15 P1SE LG / ELH Patent claim A cargo handling system for ships, comprising a number of tracks extending along the ship for receiving a cargo load-bearing trolley, characterized in that said carriage moves between a ship's cargo ramp and a ship's cargo space and comprises cargo lifting means and that said ship-supported wagon-intended spades. A cargo handling system according to claim 1, wherein cargo is adapted to be received on a surface, such as ship decks and land-loadable loaders, preferably so-called gear cassettes, characterized in that the gear bar part comprises a bridge between the ship's and cargo ramp shapes covered by the ship's spirit. Load handling system according to claim 2, characterized in that the platform is movably driven in a substantially horizontal direction. Cargo handling system according to any one of claims 2-3, characterized in that the platform is movably driven and can be lifted between tracks covered on different levels. Load handling system according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the swivel bar part has a number of grooves located laterally at a distance from each other. Cargo handling system according to claim 5, characterized in that a number of fixed tracks located laterally on a common plane in the ship exceeds the number of tracks on the shift bar part. Cargo handling system according to any one of the preceding claims 2-6, characterized in that the control hall means are lined between at least the ship's fixed tracks for guiding load carriers to the respective tracks and side stabilization of the load bars at the staging place in the ship. Load handling system according to any one of the preceding claims 2-7, characterized in that said trolley is submersible to a loading layer, which makes it possible to drive the trolley under the intended moving loader and raised to a corrugated moving layer. 2 Load handling system according to any one of claims 2-8, characterized in that a trolley comprises a plurality of trolley chassis, which are preferably connectable to each other to the desired trolley length. Cargo handling system according to any one of claims 2-9, characterized in that a ground-adapted cargo transport vehicle, which enables hoisting of the intended load carrier and cornering between land and ship-connected cargo ramp, enters the system. VZ3l'91d e 61 Li oz VL 91 01 ii_91 6 Si