JPH0455951B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention can be arranged one above the other as stacked columns and can have a lower height or a higher height, each with an inlet for a conditioned gaseous medium. A device for flowing said medium through a parallelepiped container having an opening and an outlet opening for said medium, wherein said openings of all containers are located at the same vertical distance from each other and from the bottom of the container. , the apparatus also comprising a member for conditioning the medium, the member having an opening for supplying the medium to the inlet opening of the container and an opening for treating the medium coming from the outlet of the container. Regarding equipment.

A device of the above type is disclosed in the British Patent No. 1, in which a fixed unit for sucking the medium out of the container, conditioning it and pumping it back to the container is arranged over each container in the stacking column.
It is well known by No. 1498839.

Containers handled by the aforementioned units typically have two different dimensions, 8 ft (2.44 m) or 8 1/2 ft (2.59 m), which differ from each other only by the height of the container.

Since the units are arranged vertically at such a mutual distance, they can handle either stacks consisting only of small containers or stacks consisting only of large containers.

A device of the type mentioned in the introduction is also disclosed in Swedish published patent application no.
It is also well known by No. 7612243-1. The conduit has an opening disposed in some way substantially perpendicular to the front face of the container opening and is provided with a rotating coupling piece configured in some way to connect the opening of the conduit to the opening of the connector. It will be done.

This connecting piece can be rotated in such a way that the conduit can serve either a stack consisting only of small containers or a stack consisting only of large containers.

Known devices have the disadvantage that they cannot supply a stacked conditioned medium consisting of a mixture of large and small containers. The purpose of the present invention is to
The purpose is to enable such mixing.

This objective has a height equal to the height difference between the high height container and the low height container,
By using a spacing member disposed in the structure surrounding the stacking column to serve as a spacer between a container of lower height and a container placed on top of said container of lower height, the present invention This is accomplished with a device made by

By placing a spacer at the top of each container at a low height, the openings of the containers in a stack of mixtures of large and small containers are separated from the openings located at a constant height of the medium conditioning member. It is possible to place it directly in front of the user.

Typically, the stacking column is surrounded by four vertical guides that surround the vertical edges of the container in individual L-shaped pockets. Within these pockets the containers exhibit strong corner structures suitable for accommodating verticals between the containers. According to a further development of the invention, the spacer between the two containers therefore consists of a spacing element, each of which can be inserted into one of the L-shaped pockets.

The guiding device should be utilized to hold the spacing elements since they provide an excellent method of mounting the spacing elements. Furthermore, the spacing elements should take up little space outside the stacking columns when they are not used as spacers. According to a further development of the invention, the respective spacing element can therefore be inserted into the L-shaped pocket of the respective guide device by rotation about the vertical axis of the connecting member fixed to the guide device. It is arranged like this.

When the spacing element is pivoted into the L-shaped pocket above the container, it must be ensured that the spacing element remains clear of the container. This is a further advantage of the invention by holding the spacing element in the raised position by means of a spring when the spacing element is pivoted over a container of low height and the container above it is removed. ensured by an advanced stage of development.

Each spacing element must be able to be operated properly from a central position, and for this purpose, according to a further development of the invention, each spacing element is provided with a spacing element in a stacked column. A motor is provided to move it in and out.

Embodiments of the device according to the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which: FIG.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 4, the numeral 11 designates four guiding devices having an L-shaped cross-section and arranged, for example, in a fixed position in the hold of a ship. This guide device forms the corner of the column 12, in which containers 13, 14 having the shape of a parallelepiped are guided by the guide device 11 and lowered one after the other.

13, one of the containers has a low height h;
It can have two different dimensions, one with a high height H, 14, and more specifically, h equals 2.44 m (8 ft) and H equals 2.59 m.
(8 1/2ft). each container 13,
An inlet opening 15 and an outlet opening 16 are arranged in one end wall of 14 for conditioned, e.g. cooled, air to be circulated within the container. In all containers 13, 14, the openings 15, 16 are located at the same distance A from each other and at the same vertical distance B, C from the container bottom, respectively.

A unit 17 is arranged on the outside of each container 13, 14 which sucks the medium from the container via an inlet opening 18, conditions it and pumps the medium back to the container via an outlet opening 19.

The openings 18 and 19 are connected to the container 1 having a high height H.
If only a stack of 4 is present in the column 12, the column 12 is placed in such a way that the opening 18 is located directly in front of the container opening 16 and the opening 19 is located directly in front of the container opening 15. It is placed at a constant height above the bottom 20.

The openings 18, 19 can be expanded towards the opening of the container, for example as described in British Patent No.
Coupling 2, such as coupling 5 disclosed in No. 1498839
These can be constructed with one free end. In order to prevent the joint from being damaged by the container when the container is lowered into the pillar 12, the joint is pulled out and held outside the pillar 12 during the lowering operation, so that the container is not fixed in the pillar 12. It is only inflated towards the openings 15, 16 of the container when in position.

One or more containers 13 of height h with low columns 12
unit 1, and these can also include unit 1
7, so that the interval element 22
is arranged on the guide device 11. These spacing elements with height (H-h) are the same as they are when the columns are filled only with containers 13 of low height h and spacing elements 22 are placed between all containers 13. It is placed at a height above the bottom of the pillar 12 being positioned.

At each such height, an L-shaped pocket 23 of the guiding device 11 defining the corner of the stacking column 12 is provided.
There are four spacing elements 22, each of which can rotate (see FIG. 7).

The spacing element 22 comprises a cylindrical central part 23 to which a disk 24 is fixed at the end. central part 23
is movably disposed within the sleeve 25, and the spring 2
It is supported by this via 6. sleeve 25
is fixedly connected to one end of an L-shaped arm 27 whose other end is fixedly connected to a pin 28. pin 2
8 is rotatably supported at one end in a sleeve 29 about an axis 30 in a bearing. Sleeve 29 is fixedly connected to guide device 11 . A large gear 31 is fixedly connected to the other end of the pin 28 . The gearwheel operates in conjunction with a mechanism on a rod 32 which is connected by a cylinder 34 to a movable piston 33. The piston 33 and the cylinder 34 move into the pocket 23 or out of the pocket 23 to the position marked with a dash-dotted line via the gearwheel 31.
Configure a motor to move 2.

The task of the spring 26 is to hold the spacing element in a raised position such that it can safely separate from and be unprotected by the container 13 being pivoted up.

1 and 3, the stack of containers includes two containers 13 of low height h, and according to the invention all containers in the stacking column 12 are connected to a conditioning unit 17. Spacing elements 22 are placed above these containers to allow for.

The distance D=HA in FIG. 2 is determined using FIGS. 5 and 6.

D=H-(A+B)+B=H-A-B+B=H-A

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 shows a stack of five containers in which the second and third containers from the bottom have a low height and a device for conditioning the medium circulated in the containers is arranged in front of the containers. side view, second
The figure is a diagram of the member for conditioning the medium seen in the direction of the arrow - in Figure 1, and Figure 3 is a diagram of the member that adjusts the condition of the medium as seen in the direction of the arrow - in Figure 1.
FIG. 4 is a plan view of the container stack viewed in the direction of the arrow in FIG. 1, FIG. 5 is an end view of a low-height container, and FIG. 7 is a sectional view of the L-shaped guiding device included in the device with the motor-driven spacing element pivoted into the L-shaped pocket; FIG. FIG. 3 is a sectional view along the line - in the figure. 11: Guide device, 12: Stacking column, 13: Container, 13/14: Container, 14: Container,
15: Inlet opening, 16: Outlet opening, 17: Conditioning member, 18: Opening, 19: Opening, 2
2: spacing member, 23: L-shaped pocket, 26: spring, 29: joining member, 30: vertical axis, 33: motor (piston), 34: (cylinder).

Claims (1)

Claims: 1. Arranged one above the other as stacked columns 12, which can have a certain low height h or a certain high height H, each inlet opening 15 for the conditioned gaseous medium. and a parallelepiped container 13 having an outlet opening 16 for said medium,
14, in which the openings of all containers are located at the same vertical distance A from each other, B, C from the bottom of the container, and the device has a member 17 for conditioning the medium. also comprising an opening 19 for supplying the medium to the inlet opening 15 of the container and an outlet opening 1 of the container.
6, with a height H-h equal to the height difference between the container 14 of higher height H and the container 13 of lower height h. a container 13/1 of low height and a container 13/1 placed on top of said container 13 of low height, comprising a spacing member 22 having
4. A device characterized in that said spacing member 22 is arranged in a structure 11 surrounding a stacked column 12 so as to serve as a spacer between the stacked columns 12. 2. A device according to claim 1, in which the structure surrounding the stacking column comprises four vertical guide devices 11 each surrounding a vertical edge of the container with an L-shaped pocket 23. In,
Spacer between two containers is L-shaped pocket 2
3. A device characterized in that it consists of a spacing element 22 which can be inserted into each of the three spaces. 3. The device according to claim 2, in which the respective spacing element 22 is adapted to adjust the L-shape of the respective guiding device by rotation about the vertical axis 30 of the connecting member 29 attached to the guiding device 11. A device characterized in that it is arranged such that it can be inserted into a pocket 23. 4. The device according to claim 3, in which the spacing element 2 is placed above the container 13 of low height.
A device characterized in that the spacing element 22 is held in the raised position by a spring 26 when the container 22 is rotated and the container 13/14 lying above it is removed. 5. The device according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that each spacer is provided with a motor 33, 34 for moving the spacing element 22 inwardly or outwardly of the stacking column 12. device to do.