EP0131984B1 - Verriegelungsvorrichtung, um Behälter oder ähnliche auf Eisenbahnflachwagen zu befestigen - Google Patents
Verriegelungsvorrichtung, um Behälter oder ähnliche auf Eisenbahnflachwagen zu befestigen Download PDFInfo
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- the present invention relates to a coupling device-intended for locking, on standard railway-trucks, containers and the like, i.e. standard containers as well as special mobile boxes usually intended to be carried by road-trailer-trucks or conveyors so as to allow the so called "inter- modal" traffic, whereby goods are transported partially by road and partially by rail.
- the present invention relates to a new special coupling device to be mounted on standard railway-trucks and so realised as to ensure not only the transport of containers and the like having a standard flat bottom, but also the transport of that special mobile boxes of the so called "type or group 4" i.e. having 40 feet of length and presently forseen for being transported by road only by suitable road-trailer-trucks.
- Said special mobile boxes of the type 4 show a larger height and a larger volume of the glove box, thus a larger loading capability.
- the so called "tunnel" bottom is defined by the fact that said special mobile boxes have a main frame structure whereby two longitudinal main frame members protrude from the bottom of said mobile boxes providing a suitable loading and resting surface when said boxes have' to be transported by said road-trailer-trucks.
- Said two longitudinal main frame members define the so called "tunnel” i.e. a longitudinal tunnel-shaped volume on the bottom of said special mobile boxes.
- the conventional devices for coupling containers and the like on to railway-trucks also known as locking devices, consist in four stop-pins having a vertical axis, also known as studs or dowels, for each container or the like to be coupled on to said trucks.
- Said stop-pins are suitably located along the longitudinal edges of the loading platform of the railway-trucks and provide for stopping and retaining the containers on said railway-trucks by cooperating with housings, also having a vertical axis, which are provided along the edges of the bottom surface of said containers having a flat bottom.
- Such conventional locking devices usually fixed, necessitate the container or the like to be supported at least along the whole perimetral edge of the loading platform and hence they may and do not have a supporting but only a retaining function.
- level of the loading platform in conventional containers-carrying railway-trucks and in freight-cars in general is largely dependent upon the height of the bumpers and of the couplers which must be the same for all the railroad-cars, the passenger-cars being included, so as to allow an easy mutual coupling.
- level of the loading platform it is meant the vertical distance between the plane where said loading platform lies and the plane of both the rails of the railway-line.
- the displacement of the loading platform to a lower level could in fact be obtained by reducing the diameter of the wheels which would cause for various grounds, and mainly on account of the increased stresses on the rails, a reduction of the van tonnage.
- said displacement of said loading platform level might be obtained by means of a longitudinal tank-structure which would not allow to exploit, for supporting purposes, both the regions corresponding to the van's extremities i.e. the regions corresponding to the wheels-axles viz. to the bogies.
- the present invention has the aim of remediating the hereabove mentioned drawback of the locking devices according to the prior art.
- a new locking device for railway-trucks having thus a two-levels supporting function, i.e. a supporting function at a lower level for the containers and the like having a "tunnel type" bottom providing a lower level supporting platform for them, and respectively a supporting function at an higher level for the containers and the like having a flat bottom providing a supporting platform for these later at a standard level.
- Said new locking device is conceived as specially adapted for mounting on the railway-trucks whereby the main frame members, constituting the longitudinal supporting structure, show a transversal floor-space less than the width of the volume of the "tunnel" according to which the bottom of said "type 4" special mobile boxes is shaped.
- Said new locking device is thus such to allow the "tunnel" to be housed when the special mobile box rests on the lower level supporting platform provided by said locking device.
- the locking device shown in Fig. 1 comprises a cylindrical supporting member (1).
- Said cylindrical supporting member (1) may be either a steel pipe or a massive steel shaft having a suitable mechanical strength.
- Said cylindrical supporting element (1), as well as the supporting shaft (10) described hereafter, are intended to be overhanging connected and fastened parallel to the longitudinal framework of a standard railway-truck by means of means of supporting brackets (12).
- Said fixed supporting plate (2) is provided with fastening means which allow a mobile plate (4), carrying a dowel (5) which is integral part of said mobile plate (4), to be fastened in a position where said mobile plate (4), and consequently said mobile dowel (5), overlap said fixed plate (2) and consequently said fixed dowel (3).
- the surface (2a) of the plate (2) supporting the fixed dowel 3 (Fig. 1c.) is at a lower level than the surface (4a) of the mobile plate (4) supporting the dowel (5).
- Said surfaces (2a) and (4a) provide respectively the surfaces of the two loading platforms whose levels differ, from each other, by nearly 170 mm.
- the loading platform defined by the surfaces (2a) of the fixed plates (2) is intended for carrying the special boxes with a "tunnel" bottom and has a lower level (see Fig. 8) while the loading platform defined by the surfaces (4a) of the mobile plates (4) is intended for carrying the standard flat bottom containers and has an higher level over the plane where both the rails of the railway-line lie.
- Said protruding nose (6a) is intended to cooperate with an opening (2C) (Figs. 1 d-2b) forseen for this purpose in the body of said fixed plate (2).
- the reciprocal interlocking of the mobile plate (4) on the fixed plate (2) is completed, on the other side, by means of a gib (7) (Figs. 1c and 1d) against which abouts a stop-peg (4c) at the opposite end of said same mobile plate (4).
- the fixed plate (2) further shows a horizontal edge (2d), contacting said supporting shaft (1), which is so shaped as:
- said mobile plate (4) When not mounted in said working position where it overlaps said fixed plate (2), said mobile plate (4) is sliding fitted to said supporting cylindrical shaft (1) as described hereafter.
- the mobile plate (4) when unclamped from the fixed supporting plate (2), may slide on the shaft (1) and assume a new working position non-overlapping that of the fixed plate (2) (Figs. 3a and 3c) and may be there fastened by means of a first gib (7) similar to hereabove mentioned one, against which abouts the same stop-peg (4c), and of a second gib (9) so shaped as to have simultaneously a supporting function for the stiffening webs (4e) of said mobile plate (4) and a locking function when cooperating with the protruding nose (6a) of the handle (6).
- the gib (7) has a length d such that it may be inserted between the laterally extending bosses (4f) of the stop-peg (4c) (Fig. 3d).
- said shaft (10) is provided with suitable means to allow the supporting mobile plates (4) of the mobile dowels (5) to be tilted (Figs. 4a and 4c), avoiding thus that said supporting plates (4) may prevent the containers to rest upon, as well the flat bottom containers as the containers both with flat bottom or with "tunnel" bottom, but having a length exceeding one half ofthe length of the truck, i.e. a length exceeding 20 feets and anyway a maximum length of 40 feets.
- Said means for allowing the supporting plates (4) of the mobile dowels (5) to be tilted by pivoting around said supporting shaft (10) consist in the gibs (11) against which abouts the edge (4g) of the mobile plate (4) when this later is pivoted around said supporting shaft (10) into the tilted position.
- a cam-like piece (8), pivotably hinged at the end (4d) of the mobile plate (4) on a hinge-pin or bolt (8a) (Figs. 3c and 3d), has the function of allowing said mobile plate 4 and said cylindrical supporting shaft 1 or 10 to be received and housed within each other and simultaneously of ensuring a stable sliding-fitting of said mobile plate (4) on said shaft (1 or 10), once they are housed within each other.
- Said mobile plate (4) (Figs. 1c and 3c) in fact forms forthis purpose a collar (4b) having the form of a nearly half-cylindrical housing in which, between the closest points, there is a distance C1 exceeding the external diameter 01 of the shaft or pipe (1 or 10) so as to allow it to be received and housed inside said nearly half-cylindrical housing (4b).
- the suppporting mobile plate 4 on account of its nearly half-cylindrical housing (4b), may either be housed around said supporting shaft (1 or 10) and there fastened when said cam-like piece (8) is in active position, or withdrawn from said shaft (1 or 10) when said cam-like piece (8) is in non-active position.
- the mobile plate (4) will be, in any case, fastened and even not fastened in that tilted, retained around said supporting shaft (1 or 10).
- said mobile boxes with a "tunnel" bottom may support themselves on a loading platform formed by the surfaces (2a) of said fixed plates (2) and which is located at a level, over the plane where the rails lie, which is reduced by 170 mm over the standard known level in railway traffic and which is thus nearly at a distance of 1000 mm from the surface of the rails instead of 1170 mm.
- Fig. 8 the difference between the supporting levels H1 of the fixed dowels and H of the mobile dowels is clearly pointed out, i.e. the difference between the level H of the loading surface where the containers with a flat bottom have to lie and the level H1 of the loading surface where the containers with a tunnel bottom have to lie in order to be both inside the maximum allowed standard height in the railway traffic.
- FIG. 7 which is to be read according to the explaining table there joined, there are shown the transport facilities of one of the modules of a multipletruck having (5) modules and (6) bogies, said truck being particularly specialized and optimized for transporting mobile boxes and containers in the inter-modal returns.
- the complete locking devices i.e. having a fixed (2) and a mobile plate (4) with the corresponding dowels, are mounted per pairs only on both the extremities of the truck so as to allow the transport of mobile boxes with a "tunnel" bottom or with a flat bottom both of the type 4: the distance (marked with a D) between the fixed plates (2), i.e. between the corresponding dowels, is of 11.985 ⁇ 5 m.
- the position of the locking device on the supporting cylindrical shaft (1) must be such that the fixed plate (2) and the corresponding dowel will be on that side which is the nearest to the middle of the truck so as to al low, when necessary, the mobile plate (4) and the corresponding dowel to be glided only towards the corresponding extremities of the truck.
- pairs of shafts (1) supporting the complete locking devices showing both the fixed and the mobile plates and dowels have to be mounted at a distance from each other such as required by the length of the mobile boxes with a "tunnel" bottom.
- the new locking device provides for further economical and technical advantages when used with the modular railway-truck expressly developed by the Applicants for the intermodal uses.
- the sliding fitting between the mobile plate (4) and the cylindrical supporting shaft (1 or 10) may be realised also when the nearly half-cylindrical housing 4b surrounds the external surface of said cylindrical shaft (1 or 10) along a sector of circle subtended by an angle at the center exceeding 180°.
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Priority Applications (1)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| AT84200889T ATE31168T1 (de) | 1983-06-20 | 1984-06-20 | Verriegelungsvorrichtung, um behaelter oder aehnliche auf eisenbahnflachwagen zu befestigen. |
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| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| IT211583 | 1983-06-20 | ||
| IT02115/83A IT1172512B (it) | 1983-06-20 | 1983-06-20 | Dispositivo per l'ancoraggio di containers e/o casse mobili su carri ferroviari |
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| EP0131984A2 EP0131984A2 (de) | 1985-01-23 |
| EP0131984A3 EP0131984A3 (en) | 1985-12-11 |
| EP0131984B1 true EP0131984B1 (de) | 1987-12-02 |
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| EP84200889A Expired EP0131984B1 (de) | 1983-06-20 | 1984-06-20 | Verriegelungsvorrichtung, um Behälter oder ähnliche auf Eisenbahnflachwagen zu befestigen |
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| EP (1) | EP0131984B1 (de) |
| AT (1) | ATE31168T1 (de) |
| DE (1) | DE3467871D1 (de) |
| IT (1) | IT1172512B (de) |
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| FR2615462B1 (fr) * | 1987-05-22 | 1989-08-18 | Arbel Fauvet Rail Sa | Dispositif d'immobilisation de conteneurs sur une plateforme de chargement d'un vehicule et plateforme pourvue d'un tel dispositif |
| FR2653416B1 (fr) * | 1989-10-24 | 1994-01-28 | Sncf | Installation et procede de manutention automatique de boites transportees par wagons de chemins de fer. |
| DE9207500U1 (de) * | 1992-06-03 | 1992-07-30 | Waggonfabrik Talbot, 5100 Aachen | Eisenbahngüterwagen |
| DE4309683C2 (de) * | 1993-03-25 | 1995-11-09 | Talbot Waggonfab | Festlegevorrichtung für Wechselaufbauten und/oder Container |
| DE4315974A1 (de) * | 1993-05-08 | 1994-11-10 | Aeg Westinghouse Transport | Anordnung an Kombilifterfahrzeugen |
| DE4318373C2 (de) * | 1993-05-08 | 1999-01-07 | Aeg Westinghouse Transport | Anordnung an Kombilifterfahrzeugen |
| DE4411368A1 (de) * | 1994-02-02 | 1995-08-03 | Graaff Gmbh | Vorrichtung zum Festlegen eines quaderförmigen Behälters auf einem Behältertragwagen mit einer solchen Vorrichtung |
| DE19507603C2 (de) * | 1995-03-04 | 2002-10-24 | Manfred Bowmann | Befestigungsvorrichtung zum Sichern von Transportbehältern |
| CN110884517B (zh) * | 2019-12-03 | 2021-03-02 | 中车齐齐哈尔车辆有限公司 | 集装箱锁定装置和驮背运输车 |
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| US3272150A (en) * | 1965-08-18 | 1966-09-13 | Dempster Brothers Inc | Freight transportation system |
| US4163425A (en) * | 1977-10-31 | 1979-08-07 | Victor Bedard | Load anchoring systems for flatbed |
| FR2504484A1 (fr) * | 1981-04-28 | 1982-10-29 | Anf Ind | Wagon pour le transport de conteneurs et de caisses mobiles |
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| IT1172512B (it) | 1987-06-18 |
| DE3467871D1 (en) | 1988-01-14 |
| ATE31168T1 (de) | 1987-12-15 |
| IT8302115A0 (it) | 1983-06-20 |
| EP0131984A3 (en) | 1985-12-11 |
| EP0131984A2 (de) | 1985-01-23 |
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