WO2023101651A2

WO2023101651A2 - Method for transferring cargo containers

Info

Publication number: WO2023101651A2
Application number: PCT/UA2022/000069
Authority: WO
Inventors: Борис Антонович ГАНАЙЛЮК
Original assignee: Борис Антонович ГАНАЙЛЮК
Priority date: 2021-12-01
Filing date: 2022-11-24
Publication date: 2023-06-08
Also published as: WO2023101651A3

Abstract

A method for transferring cargo containers using lifting equipment by moving a cargo container sideways in a straight horizontal movement on skids, for example sleds, along standardized vehicle surfaces and/or along stationary or movable container ramps, using lateral force to overcome resistance to the horizontal movement of the cargo container along or at the end of the transfer path, wherein bulk cargoes can be unloaded from the container through cargo hatches in the bottom of the container in gaps between the skids.

Description

Way of transshipment of cargo containers

Technical field

The present invention relates to the intermodal movement of goods by land transport using standardized packaging - cargo containers or swap bodies.

Prior Art

Currently, most operations for the transport of goods are carried out in containers. Such containers are box-shaped containers of standard sizes, 6.058 m long (20-foot container), 12.192 m (40-foot container) or 13.716 m (45-foot container), width 2.5-2.6 m, and a height of 2.6m-2.9m.

Widely known methods of reloading cargo containers "in the air" using lifting equipment on the "P" - a similar trajectory - with a sequence of sections (actions) "lift, move (unload) - deliver". A list of known patents on reloading in the air is published in the international search report, for example: US 7775571 B2, 08/17/2010. US 200020001515 A1, 01/03/2002. US 4381839 A1, 05/03/1983. DE 2439667 A, 03/04/1976. US 2009159550 A1, 06/25/2009. US 5839874 A, 24.1 1.1998. SU 1794859 A2, February 15, 1993. RU 2352516 C1, 20.04.2009. The described technologies carry out operations /work/ for reloading containers by:

(1) a grip to hold the container at least at one point;

(2) lifting the container to the desired height;

(3) moving in a raised state (or unloading bulk cargo);

(4) placing the container in a new location and releasing it from the grip.

These operations are described, for example, in patents RU 2 559 838 (201 1) RU 2 600 974 838 (2012) RU 2 644 568 (2012) and include lifting and moving containers in the mentioned sequence.

The closest analogue to the claimed method is patent RU 2 600 974 IPC V66S 13/46, where the lifting and moving of the load is carried out using a lifting mechanism containing gripping means to hold the load at least at one attachment point.

When reloading containers between vehicles, they must be installed side by side, parallel to each other, strictly horizontally with the same platform height.

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SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) Therefore, when containers and vehicles are involved in intermodal transport, standardized means of transport are logically required to transfer the resistance of the weight of the container from fixed stops to rails with little resistance to horizontal movement.

The above does not prevent the wide use of the method for the transportation of containers by road and rail, which makes up the vast majority of transportation operations, and the low cost of creating transshipment points and the ease of transshipment allows expanding the geography and share of intermodal transportation in the total volume of cargo transportation. These operations are described in patents RU 2 559 838 (2011) RU 2 600 974 838 (2012) RU 2 644 568 (2012).

At the same time, the problem of increasing the share of combined container transportation by road and rail with different track widths and reducing the time and cost of reloading, the simplicity and availability of the reloading method, saving energy resources is being solved.

Disclosure of invention

The technical objective of the invention is to speed up and facilitate reloading operations while saving costs due to the rejection of lifting and lowering operations.

The low cost of creating transshipment points and the ease of transshipment on skids allows saving energy costs, expanding the geography of combined (intermodal) transportation in the total volume of cargo transportation.

The task of the invention is achieved in that the cargo container is reloaded by a horizontal-lateral shift, by direct horizontal movement of the cargo container on skids /for example, sleds/, to the side, along standardized planes, and/or stationary or mobile ramps of container trains that overcome the resistance to the horizontal movement of the cargo container by lateral force, at the end of the reloading path, while unloading bulk cargo from the container can be done through the cargo hatches located in the bottom of the container in the intervals between the sliding ones.

At the same time, bulk cargo is unloaded into open hatches under its own weight. The method is explained in the figures, the scheme of method 1 and comparison with existing ones.

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SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) Brief description of the drawings of the invention

The essence of the invention is explained in the figures, Scheme 1 and comparison with existing ones.

Principal Diagram 1. Comparison of the method of reloading cargo containers by crane installations and reloading by the method of horizontal - lateral shift, where:

1 - the vehicle from which the container is moving;

2- vehicle on which the container moves;

3- container position before moving

4-position of the container after the completion of the movement;

5- "P" - a similar trajectory of movement of overload by crane installations;

6-trajectory of container movement horizontally - by lateral shift;

7-force of lifting equipment to lift the container up, move to a new installation site and brake when lowering;

8 - horizontal force to overcome the shear resistance force;

9- emphasis to which the container is shifted;

10- bearings (guides with a low coefficient of resistance to side shift).

The proposed method involves moving a cargo container -3 in a horizontal plane to a new position - 4 without lifting and lowering it from a solid support along standardized platforms formed by sliding guides - 10, under the action of an effort to overcome the resistance to lateral movement - 8, which correlates with the weight of the container and is a derivative of the design of guides (sliders) along which the container moves.

Embodiment of the invention

As can be seen from Scheme 1, the vehicle - 1, supplying the cargo-container A, is aligned with the vehicle - 2, receiving the cargo / container A, and along the trajectory of the container movement with a horizontal-lateral shift -6 moves on sliders - 10 by pushing force, for example, hydraulic technology - 8, so as to reach the position of the container - 4 on the vehicle receiving the load -2,

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SUBSTITUTE SHEET (RULE 26) until the completion of the transshipment path, for example, before the load rests against stop-9 of the vehicle 2.

The implementation of the proposed method is planned in the 2nd quarter of 2022 at the industrial sites of the Lviv branch of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia railway of Ukraine together with manufacturing enterprises manufacturing rolling stock and containers in the Lviv region, Germany, Poland and China.

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Claims

Formula

1. The method of reloading cargo containers by lifting equipment by moving cargo through the air, characterized in that the reloading is carried out horizontally - lateral shift, by direct horizontal movement of the cargo container on skids / for example, sledges /, to the side, along standardized planes of vehicles and / or mobile ramps of container trains by lateral force, which overcomes the resistance to the horizontal movement of the cargo container before the completion of the reloading path, at the end of the reloading path, while unloading bulk cargo from the container can be carried out through cargo hatches located in the bottom of the container in the intervals between the sliders.

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