US1857653A - Shipping container or freight car body section - Google Patents

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US1857653A
US1857653A US530510A US53051031A US1857653A US 1857653 A US1857653 A US 1857653A US 530510 A US530510 A US 530510A US 53051031 A US53051031 A US 53051031A US 1857653 A US1857653 A US 1857653A
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George R Meyercord
Olin H Basquin
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D90/00—Component parts, details or accessories for large containers
    • B65D90/12—Supports
    • B65D90/18—Castors, rolls, or the like; e.g. detachable

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  • the object of the present invention is to produce a sectional car body which shall be of simple, rugged and durable construction
  • the actual bottom walls of the containers must stand high above the floor of the car, even when the containers rest directly on the car. Furthermore, where sup-porting trucks are employed, the bottom walls of the containers can never rest on a flat surface, but the entire weight of the containers and their contents must at all titres be borne from a few diswhich may transmitthe load, over their entire areas if desired, directly to the floor or bed of the car. The containers may, therefore, be comparatively light.
  • the rolling supports for our containers are small and compact devices mounted in small rugged housings built into the bottoms of the containers and taking upvery little room ⁇ therespace for goods within the containers.
  • rolling supports are disappearing, in the sense that they may be brought into idle po-' sitions withintheir housings and thus permit the contairgars to rest on their own bottomson the cars or wherever they ⁇ may happen. to be; but, when it is desired to; move a container, it is jacked up, as it were, so as to transfer its weight and the weight of its contents to the rolling supports. If it be on a car, the container need only be rolled off onto a truck brought alongside the car: There are available trucks with lifting and tilting platforms.
  • a container When such a truck is run beside a car and its platform inclined slightly, a container may easily be rolled from the car upon the same; After being transferred-to the truck, the container may be lowered, so as again to rest on its own bottom, or'it maybe lowered at one end only and be permitted to rest on its rolling supports at the other end. By meansof the truck, the container may be carried to its final destination.
  • acontainer may be filled in a warehouse, or elsewhere, and be broughtto 100 verse dimension of the car. Under the congrammatic, of the top of a flat car, looking I at one end, having thereon one of our improved containers in the lowered and raised positions, respectively; Fig. 3 is a view show-.
  • FIG. 6 is a horizontal section, through one of our improved containers, looking downward;
  • Fig. 7 is a section, on an enlarged scale, taken approximately on line 7-7 of Fig. 6;
  • Fig. 8 is a section on line 88 .of Fig. 6, the scale being the same as that of Fig. 7
  • Figs. 9 and 10 are views similar to Figs. 7 and 8, respectively, showing a modification;
  • Fig. 11' is a section on line 1111 of Fig. 10, the body rtion of the container being omitted; and
  • Fig. 12 is a diagrammatic view showing a modified arrangement for raising and lowering the containers.
  • a tall, box-like container short enough to permit it to be transported while extending transversely across the topB of a flat car, and long enough to permit a maximum use to be made of the available transtainer are a series of wheels 1, or other rolling supports, shown as being placed at the corners.
  • the container is mounted on these wheels in such a manner that it may be raised and lowered bodily between a position in which its bottom wall rests on the car top or other surface, as shown in Fig. 1, and a position, as shown in Fig. 2, in which the weight is borne by the wheels, and the container may, therefore, be rolled from one place to another.
  • One way of removing a con-tainer from the car is to run alongside .of the car a truck having tiltable top 0.
  • the container can easily be rol ed upon the same from the car.
  • the container may then be lowered bodily on the wheels so as to rest at its base on the truck, or one end ma be lowered, as shown in Fig. 3, while the ot er end remains up.
  • the con tainers may have doors in one or both ends, so that access to the interior may be had from one or both sides of the car, such a door being shown at D, in Fig. 4.
  • angle irons 5, 5 are tted over the outer corners at. the bottom; these. latter angle irons extending throughout the length and width of the container.
  • Vertical angle irons 6, 6 are placed in-the four corners between the vertical walls. zontal flanges of the angle irons 5, 5 lie underneath the bottom wall of the container, as shown-,strips, such as show at 3a, should be secured to the under side of the bottom wall so as to bring the effective under surface of the i latterflush with'the under faces of these flanges. In any event, it is the effective under surface of the bottom wall itself, no matter how it is produced, that constitutes the normal supporting base for the container. In this way, we produce a construction that is strong and rugged and yet is comparatively light.
  • rollers mounted so as to be movable into and out of small, rugged housings 7, 7 of which there is one fixed in each cornerat the bottom of the container.
  • the floor is cut away to pro- In the angles between the bottom When the horivide openings in which the housings set while engaged with the two adjacent vertical walls of the container.
  • Each housing has at the bottom outwardly projecting flanges 8 and 9 which underlie the bottom or floor beside the corresponding opening in the latter; the floor being counter sunk from the under side so that the lower faces of tliese flanges will be flush with the under side of the floor.
  • Suitable rivets 10, 10 pass through the floor and the flanges 8 and 9, respectively.
  • the angle irons 4, 4 are cut oif at the ends so as to abut against the-sides of the housings.
  • the ver* tical angles 6 are cut offat their lower ends so as to cause them to rest on top of the housings.
  • the yoke has an up-' wardly extending screw-threaded. stem or shaft 13 passing through a nut 14 rotatable in the upper wall of the housing; there being an anti-friction thrust bar 15interposed between a part of the nut and the top wall of the housing.
  • On thelower end of the nut is a bevel gear 16.
  • the antifriction bar lies between this gear and the top wall of the housing.
  • a short shaft 17 extends inwardly from the. exterior of the contaner through the corresponding end wall and into the housing.
  • a pinion 18 meshing with the gear wheel
  • the outer end of theshaft 17 is shaped, as m dicated at 19, to receive a crank or other tool for turning the same.
  • the parts are so proportioned that, when the shaft 17 is turned far enough in'one direction, the container is lowered soas to rest on its own base or bottom, independently of the roller which is then completely enclosed in the housing, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8.
  • the container or rather the corresponding corner thereof, is gradually raised, until its weight is transferred to the roller. Therefore, when all of the raising and lowering devices have been operated so as to set the container down on the car top, or other platform, it will rest there just as would any other heavy box-like structure However, when the container is raised at all four corners, it may be rolled about.
  • the housing 20 is in the form of a vertical cylinder in which thereis slidable a piston 21 from which depend arms 22, 22 between which the roller is ournalled.
  • a passage 23 leading to a point above the top of the-piston. This passage has an inlet or pipe connection 24 leading to. the exterior of the container.
  • meshing -with the .corresponding worm shipping container adapted normally to rest raise and lower all of the corners simultaneously, corresponding ends of the shafts may be connected by a suitable drive, conveniently a sprocket chain drive 33. Therefore, upon turning either shaft from either end, the container will be raised or lowered bodily in a single movement.
  • sald housings being deep enough to' permit said members to be adjusted to cause the said rolling supports to be projected below the same and thus raise the container bodily from the floor.
  • the bottom wall of the container being adapted normally to rest on the car, rolling supports for the container, and connecting means between the supports and the container ineluding devices to lower the container thereon until it rests on the car floor independently of'said rolling supports or to raise it high enough with respect to said rolling supports to lift it bodily above the car floor.
  • roller elements in said chambers and adapted to be completely housed therein when said member is resting on its own bottom, and

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DEM119255D DE603548C (de) 1931-04-16 1932-03-25 Behaelter
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US2503388A (en) * 1948-01-12 1950-04-11 Hedlund Carl Leonard Door hanger and trolley
US2729352A (en) * 1949-10-31 1956-01-03 Hodges Res & Dev Co Track engaging apparatus for moving transferable containers
US2873502A (en) * 1949-10-31 1959-02-17 Hodges Res & Dev Co System and apparatus for handling transportable containers
US2956699A (en) * 1957-08-02 1960-10-18 Charles F Paync Transportation container
US3095100A (en) * 1957-03-29 1963-06-25 Ira B Russell Can handling process
US3231107A (en) * 1964-03-09 1966-01-25 Auto Pak Company Apparatus for the compaction and disposal of refuse
US3685851A (en) * 1970-04-27 1972-08-22 Sheldon & Co E H Mobile cabinet
US3917304A (en) * 1971-08-27 1975-11-04 Frances E Mautz Loading container means
USRE30191E (en) * 1971-08-27 1980-01-15 Loading container means
US5046750A (en) * 1987-07-07 1991-09-10 Ulrike Heubl Rolling coaster for small children
NO20190805A1 (en) * 2019-06-27 2020-12-28 Wheel Me As Roller device with eccentric wheel axle
NO20190806A1 (en) * 2019-06-27 2020-12-28 Wheel Me As Wormscrew for displacement of wheel

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DE1117490B (de) * 1956-07-19 1961-11-16 Jean Lion Fahrbarer Behaelter mit aus- und einfahrbaren Beinen
NL9000455A (nl) * 1990-02-26 1991-09-16 Nch Hydraul Systemen Bv Opneeminrichting voor lasten.

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2503388A (en) * 1948-01-12 1950-04-11 Hedlund Carl Leonard Door hanger and trolley
US2729352A (en) * 1949-10-31 1956-01-03 Hodges Res & Dev Co Track engaging apparatus for moving transferable containers
US2873502A (en) * 1949-10-31 1959-02-17 Hodges Res & Dev Co System and apparatus for handling transportable containers
US3095100A (en) * 1957-03-29 1963-06-25 Ira B Russell Can handling process
US2956699A (en) * 1957-08-02 1960-10-18 Charles F Paync Transportation container
US3231107A (en) * 1964-03-09 1966-01-25 Auto Pak Company Apparatus for the compaction and disposal of refuse
US3685851A (en) * 1970-04-27 1972-08-22 Sheldon & Co E H Mobile cabinet
US3917304A (en) * 1971-08-27 1975-11-04 Frances E Mautz Loading container means
USRE30191E (en) * 1971-08-27 1980-01-15 Loading container means
US5046750A (en) * 1987-07-07 1991-09-10 Ulrike Heubl Rolling coaster for small children
NO20190805A1 (en) * 2019-06-27 2020-12-28 Wheel Me As Roller device with eccentric wheel axle
NO20190806A1 (en) * 2019-06-27 2020-12-28 Wheel Me As Wormscrew for displacement of wheel
NO345499B1 (en) * 2019-06-27 2021-03-08 Wheel Me As Roller device with eccentric wheel axle
NO345547B1 (en) * 2019-06-27 2021-04-12 Wheel Me As Wormscrew for displacement of wheel

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