WO2012136184A1

WO2012136184A1 - Automatic fitting machine for a lashing platform and system comprising the same

Info

Publication number: WO2012136184A1
Application number: PCT/DE2012/000284
Authority: WO
Inventors: Rainer Kapelski
Original assignee: Rainer Kapelski
Priority date: 2011-04-07
Filing date: 2012-03-19
Publication date: 2012-10-11
Also published as: SG193968A1; DE102011016369B3; EP2694406A1; EP2694406B1

Abstract

Apparatus (10) by means of which a lashing platform having a lashing-platform magazine is fitted with twistlocks (TL) and/or stackers, characterized by a transporting magazine (20) which can be inserted into the apparatus (10), and removed from the apparatus (10), and has at least one pallet which consists of a plurality of parallel rails and is intended for accommodating twistlocks (TL) and/or stackers, by a transporting arrangement (30) for displacing the pallet and/or the transporting magazine (20) transversely to the longitudinal axis of the rails, and by a transfer arrangement (40) for transferring the twistlocks and/or stackers from the transporting magazine into the lashing-platform magazine and vice versa.

Description

FITTING MACHINE FOR A LASH PLATFORM AND SYSTEM THEREWITH

The invention relates to a device for equipping a lashing platform with twistlocks and / or stackers.

For container handling in the port, i. When loading and unloading ships, various lashing platforms in various designs have already been proposed, which should accelerate the handling and improve the safety at the port area. A particularly advantageously designed lashing platform is known, for example, from DE 10 2009 031 272 B3.

This well-known automatic lashing platform (ALP) has its own magazine for storing twist locks removed from containers or for inserting twistlocks into containers set down on the lashing platform. Such an internal magazine can be constructed, for example, as known from DE 10 2008 061 204 B3.

In particular, an advantageously designed lashing platform can have an internal magazine in which the twistlocks or stackers are suspended between adjacent rails.

Although this lashing platform has already shown in tests that the deletion process can be considerably accelerated and the safety of the port personnel improved compared with the manual insertion and removal of the twistlocks, the problem arises with the integration of the automatic lashing platform into the working processes in the port area in that the twist locks removed from the containers or inserted in the containers must always remain with the ship due to certifications and certain classifications.

| Confirmation copy | In other words, twistlocks to be placed in containers must first be provided by the vessel carrying the container and manually fed to the internal magazine of the lashing platform before they can be inserted into the containers to be transported by the ship. Conversely, the unloaded from the containers after unloading from the containers and supplied to the internal magazine Twistlocks must be removed again before the departure of the ship the internal magazine of the lashing platform and brought on board.

For this reason, container ships carry boxes mounted on flatracks, from which twistlocks and stackers can be taken by hand, collected in these and transported by ship. During handling, these boxes must be unloaded and manually fed to the (internal) magazine of the lashing platform by suitably trained port personnel. Before dropping the ship, excess twistlocks are collected back into the boxes and taken on board.

The disadvantage of this approach is that the twistlocks in the boxes transported completely disordered and can be damaged by (this) improper treatment. In addition, a lot of time and effort is required to remove the twistlocks from the boxes and feed them to the lashing platform or to remove the lashing platform and place it in the boxes (if possible without damaging the twistlocks).

The object of the invention is therefore to further simplify the unloading and loading of container ships, in particular to accelerate, and to treat the twistlocks gently.

This object is achieved by the device having the features of claim 1. The subclaims reflect advantageous embodiments of the invention. i

The basic idea of the invention is to provide a device with which (automatic) lashing platforms with twistlocks and / or stackers can be equipped largely automatically. Specifically, it is provided according to a particularly preferred embodiment that instead a simple box a portable magazine can be carried along with the ship in which the twistlocks are mounted between (clamping) rails, so that the twistlocks (and stackers) by simply moving the twistlocks of the transport magzine into the lashing platform or preferably the Laschplattformmagazin and vice versa can be transferred.

The invention will be explained with reference to a particularly preferred embodiment shown in the attached drawings. 1 is a first perspective view of the device according to the invention;

Fig. 2 is a second perspective view of the device according to the invention;

Fig. 3 is a front view of the device according to the invention; and

Fig. 4 is a side view of the device according to the invention.

Fig. 1 shows a perspective view of a particularly preferred device designed for equipping a lashing platform with ^twistlocks' (TL) and / or stackers. The device 10 has a twistlock TL vorhaltendes transport magazine 20. The transport magazine 20 may have a frame construction in which a plurality of compartments is provided for sorting the twistlocks. In particular, the compartments can be provided for receiving pallet-like structures, these pallets having a frame with a plurality of rails arranged in parallel, between which the twistlocks TL are suspended. Specifically, the rails are designed as clamping rails, so that the twist locks TL can not slip by lateral tilting of the magazine 20.

The magazine 20 is designed so that this can be inserted into the device 10 and removed from the device 10 and lifted, for example by means of appropriate fittings by a crane from the mole to the ship and vice versa. In addition are prefers forklift pockets to accommodate the forks of a forklift so that the magazine can be transported in the port area without the help of a crane. In particular, the magazine 20 should be designed so that this can be mounted on flatracks and transported safely on the ship. The pallets are designed such that they are secured in the magazine by means suitable means against slipping out, but if necessary, for example, with a forklift, can be completely removed from the magazine 20.

In this case, the device 10 is specially designed so that above the magazine 20 a transport device 30 is provided on which a pallet can be deposited, wherein the arrangement of the pallet to the transport device 30 is such that the transport device 30 a movement transverse to the longitudinal axis pallet or whose rails run. This movement of the transport device 30 is necessary so that a preferably above the transport device 30 fixed (namely on the harbor area) arranged transfer device 40 has access to the spaces formed by the parallel rails of the pallet. Alternatively, the conveyor 30 may also displace the entire magazine 20 to allow the transfer device 40 access to the spaces formed by the parallel rails of the pallet.

If the transfer device 40 is preferably designed as a rake, which performs a movement along the longitudinal axis of the pallet or the rails of the pallet, the use is advantageous for a particularly preferred lashing platform with an internal magazine formed from rails. For this purpose, the position of the transport device 30 and the transfer device 40 is to be set up so that the rails of the magazine of the lashing platform and the rails of the (transport) magazine of the device are aligned at a height, so that at least one space formed by rails of the (transport) Magazine of the device 10 aligned with one of rails of the magazine of the lashing platform Gap adjoins. For example, the transfer device 40 embodied as a rake can push the twistlocks TL and / or stackers, which are present in the magazine 20 of the device, into the magazine of the lashing platform. Conversely, the transfer device 40 can push the twistlocks TL and / or stackers out of the lashing platform magazine into the transport magazine of the device 10. There is no need for manual intervention by port personnel.

FIG. 2 illustrates, in a further perspective view, the motion sequences as an example on a pallet resting on the transport device 30. The pallet can be set up such that the intermediate spaces formed by rails are laterally closed on one side of the pallet so that the twistlocks TL and / or stackers can only be removed from one side of the pallet.

For example, if the uppermost pallet shown in FIG. 2 is emptied and the twistlocks TL mounted in the pallet are transferred to the magazine of a lashing platform, the pallet can remain on the transport device for receiving twistlocks TL and / or stackers. Alternatively, the now empty palette, e.g. by means of a forklift, are exchanged for a full range, the lashing platform should be supplied with more twistlocks TL and / or stackers.

Fig. 3 shows the device 10 in a frontal view, in which one can clearly see the pallets-filled compartments of the magazine 20. The magazine 20 is arranged between two preferably mounted on the harbor area next to an automatic lashing platform columns on which the transfer device 40 is mounted. This allows the transfer device 40 of the device 10 can be fixedly positioned on the container terminal next to the lashing platform and the transport magazine 20 can be easily inserted between the columns. Thus, by means of the transfer device 10 according to the invention, there is only a small additional space required for the lashing platform. Finally, FIG. 4 shows a side view of the device 10, in which, in connection with FIG. 3, it can be clearly seen that in a very simple embodiment of the invention Transfer device only a linear movement of the rake is necessary to transfer Twistlocks TL from the magazine pallets in the Laschplattformmagazin.

Claims

CLAIMS 1. Apparatus (10) for populating a lashing platform magazine

Lashing platform with twistlocks (TL) and / or stackers, characterized by an insertable into the device (10) or from the device (10)

removable transport magazine (20) with at least one of a plurality of parallel rails existing pallet for receiving twist locks (TL) and / or stackers, a transport device (30) for moving the pallet and / or

Transport magazine (20) transversely to the longitudinal axis of the rails, and a transfer device (40) for transferring the twistlocks and / or stackers from the transport magazine in the Laschplattformmagazin and vice versa.

2. Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the transfer device (40) is a movable in the longitudinal direction of the rails rake.

3. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the transport magazine (20) has a plurality of compartments for receiving a plurality of pallets.

4. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the transport magazine (20), the transport device (30) and the

Transfer device (40) are releasably connected together.

5. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the transport magazine (20) have forklift pockets.

6. System with

- A lashing platform, which has at least one Laschplattformmagazin with a plurality of two mutually parallel rails for receiving a plurality of twist locks (TL) or stackers; and

- A device according to one of the preceding claims,

wherein at least two rails of the lashing platform magazine and two rails of the transporting hopper are aligned adjacent to one another and in alignment at the transfer of twistlocks (TL) or stackers from the device to the lashing platform and / or at a height.