EP0607954B2 - Système de voie d'une installation de transport de sol - Google Patents

Système de voie d'une installation de transport de sol Download PDF

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EP0607954B2
EP0607954B2 EP94100762A EP94100762A EP0607954B2 EP 0607954 B2 EP0607954 B2 EP 0607954B2 EP 94100762 A EP94100762 A EP 94100762A EP 94100762 A EP94100762 A EP 94100762A EP 0607954 B2 EP0607954 B2 EP 0607954B2
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Manfred Geng
Andreas Dipl.-Ing. Wehrle (Fh)
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01B—PERMANENT WAY; PERMANENT-WAY TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING RAILWAYS OF ALL KINDS
    • E01B25/00—Tracks for special kinds of railways
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01B—PERMANENT WAY; PERMANENT-WAY TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING RAILWAYS OF ALL KINDS
    • E01B25/00—Tracks for special kinds of railways
    • E01B25/28—Rail tracks for guiding vehicles when running on road or similar surface

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  • the invention relates to a rail system for floor transport systems with at least two impellers Transport units.
  • Such rail systems especially for transport systems inside buildings, preferably Manufacturing and warehouses are known in which Guide rails in recesses in the corridor or floor level are embedded so that they are off the wheels non-rail-bound vehicles jerk and can be run over smoothly. It is also at such rail systems known, the conductor to supply the drive power in the area of this Arrange guide rails, as in EP 0 151 982 A3 can be seen, for example.
  • a generic training according to DE 41 10 381 Al shows parallel, spaced, with strip-like Wells provided recesses in the Corridor or floor level, one of which is more deep Guide channel for the guide elements of the transport units is formed, and vertically extending flat side guide surfaces and basically the recessed Guide channel a first conductor for feeding of the drive power, and at which in the second recess a second conductor for feeding the drive power with the corridor or floor level is finally let in.
  • Rail systems of this type are the invention based on the task of simpler training and to create more universal usability. This can be done by reducing wear and making it lighter Interchangeability of the rail elements enables and also simplified branch routes.
  • the prior art proposes that the recesses in a one-story, uniform material Molded body incorporated are made of an abrasion-resistant, low-wear There is plastic, and the built-in Final state with the corridor or floor level in an installation channel in the screed is arranged, and further that that in the bottom of the channel arranged conductors in both sides in the side guide surfaces of the molded body Undercuts.
  • Potting compounds are used to isolate live conductors against each other; they exist made of a pourable plastic that is separated the current conductor prevent a flashover should. Therefore, even after solidification, it is relatively sufficient soft materials meet these requirements. You point therefore only a low form and abrasion resistance and no favorable sliding properties. That is why special guard rails are provided in the prior art, which can also wear out. To exchange the entire rail block must first be removed detached or hewn out of the floor screed and then the actual rail block as well to be disassembled by destruction in order not to more closely recognizable guardrails remove and replace with new ones. These works cause long downtimes.
  • the one-piece according to the invention Moldings not by casting several Individual parts in a mold made into a block, but it consists of a uniform molded body, in which the wells are incorporated. He is also not in the floor screed when creating poured into the floor of the hall, but into a Screed existing - previously prepared - assembly channel used. In the event of an exchange, he can at any time without damaging the hall floor from the assembly channel be detached.
  • the invention remedies this and adjusts Rail system of this type ready, which is very cheap Installation and laying conditions enables one provides easy interchangeability, high operational reliability and permanent availability guaranteed and the risk of contamination of the guides largely avoids.
  • the distance between the channel and the embedded conductor was kept very small be, e.g. be between 10 and 15 mm. Thereby there is also a narrow construction of the whole Molded body made of a high-quality, largely abrasion-resistant Plastic with good sliding properties, in which the two busbars are embedded, and which is removably fastened in an assembly channel becomes.
  • This low-wear, abrasion-resistant plastic of the molded body also forms the vertical ones flat guide surfaces of the channel in which the guide elements of the transport units slide.
  • This compact design also enables small width of the molded body, approx. 100 to 120 mm, and also a thickness between 60 and 80 mm. For this also contributes to the fact that the channel (for the guide elements) only a width between 20 and at most 30 mm required.
  • each of the molded body sections electrical connected to the electrical conductors Has connection tabs, which from the side out the molded body and into a connection mounting recess lead in the screed and connect serve with the power supply cables.
  • the one according to the invention appears to be particularly advantageous Solution of the control of the route of the transport units and in connection with it the novel Solution of the design of the branch switches.
  • a branch switch piece intended which is essentially a floor plan triangular shaped body, embedded in the same a channel and a branch channel opening into this, and one spaced from the channel Current conductor, as well as a spaced apart from that Branch channel, however, end before the channel Has branch conductor.
  • This route control is absolutely operational and fail-safe in that by at least a rotating and / or side adjustable sliding in the channel Guide element of the transport unit this can be threaded into the branch duct.
  • the guide element of the transport unit is reached, that this is either in the channel Guide surface in one direction or to the other Management area in the other (branch) Rich creates and follows the respective leadership surface, at the under the effect of a low pressure force of the guide element rests.
  • the molded body contains 5 the channel 15, in the bottom of which a conductor 12 is attached, the channel 15 is from the two opposite Guide surfaces 11 limited.
  • the second conductor 13, as well as the first, strip-like and of rectangular cross-section, is in the recess 6 installed at a short distance from channel 15.
  • Connection tabs are located on the current conductors 12, 13 28, 29 for connection or screwing with the current conductors 12, 13 of the subsequent shaped bodies 5.
  • the molded body 5 in the screed 27 in the assembly channel 4 and if necessary can e.g. for repair or Overhaul work removed at any time or be replaced.
  • Fig. 1 can be seen that the current conductor 12 with its side faces on both sides engages in undercuts 16 in the molded body 5.
  • the view of the branch switch piece according to Fig. 2 shows that the current conductor 13 is straight through the turnout area is continued, while the branch conductor 13a spaced from the branch duct 15a is curved, but only up to the tail 26 and not connected to the current conductor 13, but isolated from this.
  • the centerpiece 26 of the switch is not with a switch tongue, but runs at an acute angle.
  • FIG. 3 shows a breakthrough 18, through which the conductor 12 is interrupted and which leaves a passage to a cavity 19, in which a receptacle 21 for impurities is used, which fall into the channel 15 from above or accumulate there. They are cleaning brushes 34 or the like. Dirt traps for the channel 15 provided on the underside of the transport units 30, through which these contaminants "swept together" and pushed to the openings 18 become.
  • connection tabs 22, 23 of the current conductors 12, 13 laterally passed through and out of the molded body 5 are where they are in a connector mounting recess 25 are connected to the power supply cables 24. This measure also serves to facilitate the Replacing the molded body 5.
  • Fig. 8 shows a schematic side view of a Floor assembly 36 of a transport unit 30.
  • the guide elements 31 run in channel 15, through which the route is specified.
  • At least one guide element 31 is remotely controllable in a manner not shown side steering or rotatable; thereby the Direction control with track switches.
  • the pantograph for the recessed Current conductor 12 is the pantograph for the current conductor laid on the corridor level 13 designated.
  • the current collectors 32, 33 are articulated arranged on the handlebar levers 35 and by a Spring arrangement not shown on the conductor pressed.
  • 34 denotes a cleaning brush, which runs in channel 15 and accumulates Contaminants sweep up and breakthroughs 18 feeds.

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  1. Système de voie pour une installation de transport au sol avec des unités de transport (30) présentant au moins deux roues de roulement et deux gorges (6, 7) parallèles dont la distance est maintenue par des pièces correspondantes, pourvues de conducteurs électriques en forme de barre (12, 13), lesdites gorges étant pratiquées dans le plan du sol ou du plancher (8), l'une ayant la forme d'un canal approfondi (15) servant à guider les éléments de guidage de l'unité de transport (30), ledit système présentant des surfaces verticales planes de guidage latéral (11) et, au fond du canal approfondi de guidage, un premier conducteur électrique (12) assurant l'alimentation d'entraínement, encastré à ras du plan du sol ou du plancher (8),
    caractérisé en ce que
    les gorges (6, 7) sont pratiquées dans un corps moulé (5) d'une seule pièce fait d'un matériau unique consistant en un matériel plastique résistant à la friction et à l'usure et qui, lorsqu'il est installé, se trouve à ras du plan du sol ou du plancher (8), dans un canal de montage (4) pratiqué dans la chape du sol, et en ce que les conducteurs électriques (12) situés au fond du canal de guidage (15) viennent s'engrener dans des contre-dépouilles (16) pratiquées dans les surfaces latérales de guidage du corps moulé (5).
  2. Système de voie selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la largeur du corps moulé est de 100 à 120 mm et son épaisseur de 60 à 80 mm.
  3. Système de voie selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la largeur du canal (15) est de 20 à 30 mm et la profondeur de 22 à 28 mm jusqu'à la face supérieure du conducteur électrique (12).
  4. Système de voie selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les corps moulés (5) sont subdivisés en sections de corps moulés (17) situés l'une à la suite de l'autre, les conducteurs électriques (12, 13) présentant des éclisses de raccord (28, 29) aux extrémités desdites sections.
  5. Système de voie selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que dans le canal (15), certaines ou toutes les sections de corps moulés (17) présentent des ajours (18) ouverts vers le bas dans le domaine desquels le conducteur électrique (12) est interrompu.
  6. Système de voie selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que vus du dessus, les ajours (18) présentent le contour d'un parallélogramme dont les côtés parallèles aux voies sont plus courts que les côtés formant un angle avec celles-ci.
  7. Système de voie selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que, pour chaque ajour (18), une cavité (19) prévue latéralement au canal de montage (4) est reliée à cet ajour, ladite cavité étant fermée au moyen d'une plaque de couverture (20) fermant à ras du plan du sol ou du plancher (8).
  8. Système de voie selon l'une des revendications 6 ou 7, caractérisé par la présence d'une cuvette d'accueil (21) pouvant être introduite dans la cavité (19) dans la zone des ajours (18) et s'étendant sous le canal (15), servant à recueillir les impuretés ramassées par des balais de nettoyage fixés aux unités de transport (30) et tombant à travers les ajours (18) du canal (15).
  9. Système de voie selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que chaque section de corps moulé (17) présente des éclisses de raccord (22, 23) raccordées aux conducteurs électriques (12, 13) conduisant latéralement hors du corps moulé (5) dans un creux de montage de raccord (25) situé dans la chape du sol (27) et servant à établir le raccord avec les câbles d'alimentation électrique (24).
  10. Système de voie selon une ou plusieurs des revendications 1 à 9, caractérisé par une pièce faisant aiguillage (W) présentant
    D.1
    un corps moulé (5) de plan essentiellement triangulaire,
    E.1
    un canal (15) encastré dans ladite pièce et un canal de dérivation (15a) débouchant dans ce dernier, et
    F.1
    un conducteur électrique (13) courant à une distance donnée du canal (15), ainsi que
    G.1
    un conducteur électrique de dérivation (13a) courant à une distance donnée du canal de dérivation (15a) et se terminant avant le canal (15).
  11. Système de voie avec unité de transport selon la revendication 10, caractérisé en ce que ladite unité de transport peut être enfilée dans le canal de dérivation (15a) au moyen d'au moins un élément de guidage (31) pivotant et/ou réglable latéralement, coulissant dans le canal (15).
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