US3834319A - Conveyor installation with transport containers - Google Patents

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US3834319A
US3834319A US00322363A US32236373A US3834319A US 3834319 A US3834319 A US 3834319A US 00322363 A US00322363 A US 00322363A US 32236373 A US32236373 A US 32236373A US 3834319 A US3834319 A US 3834319A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61C—LOCOMOTIVES; MOTOR RAILCARS
    • B61C13/00—Locomotives or motor railcars characterised by their application to special systems or purposes
    • B61C13/04—Locomotives or motor railcars characterised by their application to special systems or purposes for elevated railways with rigid rails
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61B—RAILWAY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61C—LOCOMOTIVES; MOTOR RAILCARS
    • B61C11/00—Locomotives or motor railcars characterised by the type of means applying the tractive effort; Arrangement or disposition of running gear other than normal driving wheel

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  • ABSTRACT A conveyor installation with transport containers guided at a rail and each of which can be propelled by means of its own drive unit.
  • Each of the transport containers is supported at the associated rail through the agency of a respective pair of travelling wheels arranged in the direction of the transverse axis of the transport container and by means of guide wheels arranged in the lengthwise axis of the transport container.
  • the present invention relates to a new and improved construction of conveyor installation incorporating transport containers which are guided at a rail or track and each of which can be propelled by means of its own drive unit.
  • each of the transport containers is supported at the associated rail by means of a pair of travelling wheels arranged along the transverse axis of the transport container and by means of a pair of guide wheels arranged along the lengthwise axis of the transport container.
  • FIG. 1 schematically illustrates in side view the travelling carriage of a transport container according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the carriage depicted in FIG. 1, taken substantially along the line lI-II thereof;
  • FIG. 3 is a sectional view of the arrangement of FIG. 1, taken substantially along the line III-III thereof, and additionally showing a cross-section of the associated rail and schematically indicating the transport container which is placed upon the travelling carriage.
  • the travelling carriage generally designated by reference character 1
  • a balance beam or rocker 5 which is hingedly connected by means of a pivot shaft 4 to the carriage 1 carries a drive unit 6 equipped with a drive wheel 7.
  • This drive wheel 7 is coaxially arranged with respect to the transverse axis and laterally offset with respect to the lengthwise axis of the carriage 1.
  • a resilient element here in the form of a blade spring 8 (FIG. 1) which is anchored at its one end at location 9 at the carriage l and engages at its other end with the upper surface of the drive unit 6.
  • the degree of pivotability of the drive unit 6 and the balance beam or rocker 5 which carries such drive unit 6 and which is subjected to the action of its own weight and the spring force can be adjustably limited by a stop screw 10.
  • the carriage 1 carries a container 1 1 which is secured to its top surface.
  • the lateral guiding of the carriage l in the rail 9 of C-shaped cross-section is insured for by suitable sliding bodies or guiding element means 30 formed of a material poor in friction, preferably plastic, mounted at the side walls of the carriage at the terminal or end regions thereof, and which cooperate with the lateral flanges 13 of the rail 9.
  • the lateral flanges 13 of the rail 9 have inwardly directed marginal border or ledges 14 which engage over the travelling wheels 2 of the carriage 1 in order to guide such in the rail 9 in the vertical direction.
  • the carriage 1 bears by means of its four wheels, that is to say, by means of the pair of travelling wheels 2 and both of the guide wheels 3 at the central web 12 of the rail 9, wherein however the loading of the wheels 2 differs from one another since owing to the contact force of the friction wheel 7 at the rail, the travelling wheel 2 which is located at the region thereof (in FIG. 2 the lower situated travelling wheel) is considerably relieved of load, particularly then when such contact force is chosen to be relatively great in consideration of the desire to insure for the self-travelling capability of relatively large and therefore correspondingly loaded containers. Consequently, there occurs a certain relieving of the load acting upon both of the guide wheels 3, even if such is slight, or at least one such wheel.
  • the carriage itself will be less subjected to the load or stress of a twisted portion of the rail, something which likewise provides for constructional similification of the system.
  • the friction conditions generally, especially however in curves, are more favorable, so that in consideration thereof practically no limitations are imposed upon a reduction of the radius of the curves.
  • the holding ability of the carriage in the curves of the track system is already quite good owing to the described arrangement of the travelling wheels and guide wheels and is particularly then considerable if the curve radius is undertoken as a function of the track gauge.
  • the incrased steerability of the carriage which is inherently brought about by the wheel arrangement and also by the three-point support, also has the effect that the gliding bodies, which have the task of carrying out the lateral guiding of the carriage at the rail, are only slightly loaded in the curves as well as along the straight track sections.
  • Such gliding bodies can be replaced by guide rolls or even completely omitted if there is provided for the guidewheels a guide track, as schematically indicated at 40 in FIG. 3.
  • the current rail which has not been particularly illustrated in the drawing, and which in a practical construction of the equipment, would be arranged at the intermediate travelling web 12 of the rail 9 and would transmit the driving energy for the drive unit 6 through the agency of nonillustrated sliding contacts or equivalent structure.
  • the friction wheel 7 can be shifted more or less in offset relationship to one or the other side with respect to the lengthwise center line of the carriage.
  • Application of the friction wheel 7 against the travelling web 12 of the rail 9 could of course occur in a different manner than through the use of a resilient spring, such as the depicted blade spring; for instance it could occur in certain cases through the use of a mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, direct or indirect (for instance through the use of a spindle) operating contacting or applying means.
  • a conveyor installation comprising at least one transport container, a rail for guiding said transport container for movement therealong, said transport container having its own drive unit for propelling the transport container along the rail, said transport container having a transversely extending axis and a lengthwise extending axis, a pair of main load supporting traveling wheels arranged on the transversely extending axis and a pair of guide wheels arranged on the lengthwise extending axis at least one of said guide wheels lying remote from and to each side of said transversely extending axis, said transport container being supported by said wheels at said rail, the drive unit incorporating a drive wheel positioned intermediate the gauge of the pair of traveling wheels, the drive wheel downwardly shiftable relative to the pair of traveling wheels independently thereof.
  • the drive unit includes means for rotating a drive wheel, the drive wheel and the means for rotating the drive wheel being attached to a common frame member, the common frame member being pivotably hinged to the transport container whereby the combined weight of the drive wheel and the driving means bias the drive wheel downwardly.

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US5353887A (en) * 1993-02-04 1994-10-11 John Putnam Household trash delivery system
US6908373B1 (en) 2002-11-26 2005-06-21 Larry S. Ohman Shear blade sharpener method and apparatus
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US8997657B2 (en) 2011-11-07 2015-04-07 Trackmobile Llc Ballast load device and method
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US5353887A (en) * 1993-02-04 1994-10-11 John Putnam Household trash delivery system
US6908373B1 (en) 2002-11-26 2005-06-21 Larry S. Ohman Shear blade sharpener method and apparatus
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US20050281653A1 (en) * 2004-05-27 2005-12-22 Donald Channel Automated trash delivery system
US8997657B2 (en) 2011-11-07 2015-04-07 Trackmobile Llc Ballast load device and method
CN104843018A (zh) * 2015-05-06 2015-08-19 山西兰花科技创业股份有限公司 矿用风动牵引矿车头

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