JPH1087010A - Container terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Problem] To improve the efficiency of container handling at a container terminal and save space. SOLUTION: A container three-dimensional storage building in which container storage shelves are arranged in a multi-stage and multi-row arrangement vertically and horizontally, and a stack for moving containers on and off the container storage shelves on a crane traversing rail provided on the roof of the storage building. Crane and
A traverser that traverses on a traverser traverse rail provided below the crane traverse rail, and travels on a trolley travel rail along the sea side surface of the storage building, and is loaded and unloaded with a container crane between a container ship and a container ship. And a trolley for receiving and transferring the container.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a container terminal installed in a harbor, and more particularly, to a container terminal having a three-dimensional container storage building.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 15 is a side view of a conventional cargo handling facility of a container terminal. The containers 13 loaded on the container ship 7 are unloaded by the quay container crane 8, placed on the container conveyor 11, and sent to the land side. At the land-side end, the container 13 is lifted by the yard bridge crane 9 and is loaded on the chassis (trailer) 14 or is loaded on the container yard 10. In addition,
12 is a quay.

The containers 13 stacked by the yard bridge crane 9 are sequentially transported outside from the container terminal. At this time, there is no problem if the containers 13 stacked on the upper side are sequentially transported, but if the containers 13 stacked on the lower side are to be shipped first, remove the container on the upper side. Therefore, it has to be shipped, which takes time and troubles the smoothness of the cargo handling work.
In order to solve such a problem, it has been studied to arrange storage shelves in which storage cells for storing containers one by one are formed in multiple stages so that the container 13 can be taken out from any storage cell when shipping. The present applicant has filed a patent application (Japanese Patent Application No. 8-69634 (not disclosed)) for a stack crane used in such a container terminal.

FIG. 9 is an overall plan view of such a container terminal disclosed in the above-mentioned application, and FIG. 10 is a side view thereof. In FIGS. 9 and 10, the same parts as those described with reference to FIG.
A duplicate description will be omitted. In the figure, A indicates a storage area for a 40 ft container, and B indicates a storage area for a 20 ft container. Reference numeral 1 denotes a crane travel path, which is 40 ft in the drawing.
Three rows of travel paths 1a for containers and two rows of crane travel paths 1b for 20 ft containers are provided. Reference numeral 2 denotes a container storage shelf, and the container storage shelf 2a for
There are four rows of 20ft container storage shelves 2b, one row on each side of the crane travel paths 1a, 1b. Reference numeral 3 denotes a stack crane, two of which are provided on each of the crane travel paths 1a and 1b, and 3a is 40 ft.
The container 3b is for a 20 ft container. The stack crane 3 travels on the crane travel path 1 and transfers the container 13 between the cart 4 and the storage shelf 2.

[0005] Reference numeral 4 denotes a bogie for carrying containers 13 by circulating between a quay container crane 8 and a container three-dimensional storage building (hereinafter referred to as a storage building) 6, and 5 denotes an elevated track of the bogie 4. Reference numeral 2i denotes a passage such as a trolley 4 provided on the container storage shelf 2, and reference numeral 14 denotes a chassis for loading containers and carrying them out.

FIG. 11 is a perspective view of a three-dimensional container storage facility. The stack crane 3 has a trolley 3c traveling on a crane traveling rail 15 provided on the roof above the container storage shelf 2. The traveling wheel 3g is provided at the four corners of the trolley 3c.
Driven by f. Reference numeral 3d denotes a guide post, which is provided hanging from the trolley 3c. An elevating frame 3e is adapted to move up and down along the guide post 3d.

FIG. 12 is a side view showing the vicinity of a portion D in FIG. As shown in the figure, the lifting frame 3e is composed of an upper triangular member 3h and a lower lower groove-shaped member 3i. The upper member 3h has a total of 4 on the front side and the back side.
A pair of rollers 3k is provided, and between the rollers 3k,
By sandwiching the vertical rail provided on the guide post 3d, it moves up and down while maintaining its posture. A pulley 3m is further attached to the upper member 3h, and a hoisting drum 3p (FIG. 1) provided on the trolley 3c via a wire 3n.
It moves up and down by 1). Lower member 3i
A pair of spreader running rails 3j are provided below the rails 3b.
6 runs.

FIG. 13 is an enlarged perspective view of a portion D in FIG. 11 and 13, reference numeral 16 denotes a spreader. The spreader 16 has running wheels 16a on the front and back. The running wheels 16a are driven by a drive motor 16b via a gear box 16c. 16d is a twist lock mechanism, which is provided at the four corners of the spreader 16, inserts the T-shaped tip into the long holes 17 provided at the four upper corners of the container 13, rotates it by approximately 90 °, The container 13 is gripped.

Next, the container storage shelf 2 will be described in detail. As shown in FIG. 11, the container storage shelf 2 is composed of a large number of container storage cells 2 by combining a large number of columns 2c and beams 2d.
h. The container storage cells 2h are arranged along the crane travel path 1 on both sides of the crane travel path 1 as shown in FIG. 9, and are provided in multiple stages in the height direction as shown in FIG. The depth of the container storage cell 2h from the crane travel path 1 matches the longitudinal direction of the container 13, and one container 1 is provided for each container storage cell 2h.
3 can be accommodated.

As shown in FIG. 11, a plurality of container storage cells 2h are removed from the container storage shelf 2, and a passage 2i of the truck 4 is formed in a tunnel shape.

FIG. 14 is an enlarged perspective view of a portion C in FIG.
As shown in the figure, a spreader traveling rail 2g is provided above the container storage cell 2h. That is, a bracket 2e is provided to protrude from a column 2c of the container storage shelf 2, a channel steel 2f is mounted on front and rear brackets 2e, and a square bar-shaped spreader traveling rail 2g is fixed thereon.

[0012]

As shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, the elevated track 5 is provided by erecting a stand on the ground and laying rails thereon. In addition, the bogie 4 needs a large curve radius to turn a corner. Accordingly, not only a large space is required outside the storage building 6, but also a large burden is imposed on costs such as a foundation work for erecting a gantry. Elevated track 5 on which truck 4 travels
Is very congested and difficult to control.
Passes through the storage building 6, the container storage shelves 2 must be removed to form the passage 2i, and the container storage capacity is reduced accordingly.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art. By providing a truck passage along the sea side of a storage building, it is possible to save space in a container yard and store containers. It is an object of the present invention to provide a container terminal capable of increasing the capacity and improving the cargo handling efficiency.

[0014]

In order to achieve the above object, a container terminal according to the present invention comprises a container three-dimensional storage building in which container storage shelves are arranged in multiple rows and columns vertically and horizontally, and a quay on the roof of the storage building. Traverses on crane traversing rails that are provided at right angles to each other and both ends of which protrude from the storage building, and put containers into and out of container storage shelves,
Two stacks on each crane traverse rail
A traverser that traverses a crane and a container that has been exchanged with a stack crane on a traverser traverse rail provided at one or more stages below the crane traverse rail along container storage shelves. A container terminal comprising: a bogie that travels on a bogie traveling rail along the seaside side surface of the storage building, and that receives and transfers containers unloaded by a container crane with a container ship, The bogie traveling rail is a seaside rail provided apart from the storage building on the sea side, a building side rail provided between the seaside rail and the storage building, and a bogie provided orthogonal to both rails and traversing. It consists of a rail for changing the route, the transfer of containers between the trolley and the container crane is performed on the seaside rail, and the container between the trolley and the stack crane Transfer is performed on the building side rails, the bogie is capable of running the traverse have a transverse wheels and road wheels.

The sea-side rail and the building-side rail may have one lane or two or more lanes. The rails for changing the route are preferably provided at both ends and an intermediate part of the sea side rail and the building side rail.

[0016] The bogie traveling rail is preferably of an elevated type provided on a shelf protruding from the storage building.

The trolley running on the truck running rails along the land side surface of the storage building and the rail extending from the land side surface of the storage building traverses, and the trolley and the chassis move between the trolley and the chassis. It has an overhead crane for transferring containers, and the bogie traveling rail of the land bogie is a land side rail provided apart from the storage building, and a building side rail and both rails provided between the land side rail and the storage building It is a rail for changing the route on which the land bogie traverses, and the transfer of containers between the land bogie and the stack crane is performed on the building side rail, and between the land bogie and the overhead crane. Transfer of containers is preferably performed on the land side rail. Here, the land side means the side opposite to the sea side. In addition, running refers to movement parallel to the quay, and traversing refers to movement perpendicular to the quay.

Next, the operation of the present invention will be described. When storing containers from a container ship in container storage shelves, provide a bogie traveling rail consisting of a seaside rail, a building side rail, and a route change rail along the seaside side of the storage building,
The trolley is circulated on the trolley traveling rail, and the container is exchanged between the trolley and the container crane on the sea-side rail, and the container is exchanged between the trolley and the sea-side stack crane on the building-side rail. I do. The seaside stack crane stays near the seaside side of the storage building and places the containers received from the trolley on the traverser. The traverser lands on the land side and hands over the container to the land side stack crane. The land-side stack crane stores containers received from the traverser in container storage shelves.

When containers are shipped by the chassis, the sea-side stack crane places the containers taken out of the container storage shelves on the traverser. The traverser travels to the land side, where it delivers the container to the land side stack crane that is waiting. The landside crane may load containers received from the traverser directly into the chassis. Also, on the side of the land side, there is a bogie traveling rail similar to that described above, and a land-side bogie is circulated on it, and an overhead crane is installed that traverses the rail protruding from the side of the storage building. Containers are exchanged between the stack crane and the trolley on the rail, and containers are exchanged between the trolley and the overhead crane on the land-side rail. The overhead crane loads the container received from the trolley into the chassis.

As described above, the trolley aisle is provided along the sea-side surface or both the sea-side and land-side surfaces of the storage building, and the trolley can be traversed by providing a route change rail. Yard space can be saved. Since there is no bogie passage in the storage building, the storage capacity of the container storage building can be increased, and the cargo handling of the container can be simplified to improve the operation efficiency. Also, a traverser will be provided so that the lateral movement of the container inside the storage building will be mainly performed by the traverser, and the stack crane will mainly transfer the container with the trolley and put it in and out of the container storage shelf. This has the effect of speeding up container handling.

[0021]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a plan view of the container terminal of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a side view of the same.
In these figures, the same parts as those described as the related art are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description will be omitted. In these drawings, the container storage shelves 2 are arranged in multiple rows and columns in the storage building 6 vertically and horizontally. In this embodiment, the storage shelf 2a for 40 ft is 1
Six rows of storage shelves 2b for 0 rows and 20 ft are provided. 1
Reference numeral 5 denotes a crane traverse rail provided on the roof 6a of the storage building 6, which is provided at right angles to the quay, and both ends 15a, 15a project from the storage building 6. 3
Is a stack crane. In this embodiment, there are 10 stack cranes 3a for 40ft, and a stack crane for 20ft.
Six cranes 3b are used. That is, two cranes are provided on each of the crane traverse rails 15. The stack crane 3 traverses on the crane traversing rail 15 and moves the container 13 into and out of the container storage shelf 2.

Reference numeral 40 denotes a traverser. Traverser 40
Is a container storage shelf 2 below each crane traversing rail 15.
Along the first stage (ground stage) and 4 as shown in FIG.
The container 13 exchanged with the stack crane 3 is placed and traversed on the traverser traversing rail 41 provided at the step. The traverser 40 will be described later in detail.

Reference numeral 20 denotes a trolley, which travels on a trolley travel rail 21 along the seaside side surface 6b of the storage building 6, and transfers containers 13 unloaded to and from the container ship 7 by the container crane 8. The bogie traveling rail 21 is a two-lane sea-side rail 21a provided on the sea side away from the storage building 6,
21a, two-lane building-side rails 21b, 21b provided between the sea-side rail 21a and the building, and both rails 21
a, 21b, which is provided orthogonal to the rails 21c and along which the truck 20 traverses. The transfer of the container 13 between the trolley 20 and the container crane 8 is performed by the sea-side rail 21a.
The transfer of the container 13 between the cart 20 and the stack crane 3 is performed on the building-side rail 21b. The rail 21c for the route change is composed of the sea side rail 21a and the building side rail 21b.
Are provided at one end at each end and two at the middle. The bogie traveling rail 21 is provided on a shelf 6d projecting from the storage building 6 as shown in FIG.

The bogie 20 can be operated unattended and will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. 3 is a plan view showing a wheel portion of the bogie 20, FIG. 4 is a view taken along the line AA of FIG. 3, and FIG.
FIG.

As shown in the figure, the truck 20 has four traveling wheels 20a and four traversing wheels 20b. One of the traveling wheels 20a is driven by a motor. That is, the traveling wheels 20a are attached to both ends of the axle 20c supported by the bearing 20f.
0c is driven by a motor 20e via a speed reducer 20d. The traversing wheel 20b is supported by two bearings 20f supported by a lifting jack 20p, and can be raised and lowered. 20g is the traversing wheel 20
b is a long shaft for driving, and the reduction gear 20
m. Chain sprockets 20j are provided at both ends of the long shaft 20g.
It is connected via 0k to a chain sprocket 20n provided coaxially with the traversing wheel 20b. In these figures, reference numeral 24 denotes a square bar-shaped rail, and reference numeral 25 denotes a stopper.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, reference numeral 26 denotes a land-side truck, which runs on a truck traveling rail 27 along the land-side side surface 6 c of the storage building 6. Land side 6c of storage building 6
A rail 28 is provided to project from
8, the overhead crane 29 runs across. Overhead crane 29
Has a spreader as a gripper, and transports the container 13 between the land vehicle 26 and the chassis 14. Land side trolley 2
The carriage traveling rail 27 is a land side rail 27a provided apart from the storage building 6, a building side rail 27b provided between the land side rail 27a and the storage building 6, and orthogonal to both rails 27a, 27b. It is provided with a rail 27c for changing the route on which the land-side cart 26 is provided. Land side cart 26
The container 13 is exchanged between the vehicle and the stack crane 3 on the rail 27b on the building side, and the container 13 is exchanged between the truck 26 and the overhead crane 29 on the rail 27a.
Have gone on. The overhead crane 29 loads the container 13 from the land cart 26 to the chassis 14. Note that the land-side truck 26 has the same structure as the truck 20, and a description thereof will be omitted.

FIG. 6 is a plan view of the traverser 40, FIG. 7 is a side view, and FIG. 8 is an enlarged side view of the traverser driving device.
As shown in the figure, the traverser 40 has a frame 40a in which square members are assembled in a rectangular shape, and has wheels 40d at four corners of the frame 40a. Of the four wheels, two wheels 40d on both sides in the longitudinal direction are driven by the traverser driving device 42. The traverser driving device 42 has a motor 40b and a speed reducer 40c, and an output shaft of the speed reducer 40c is connected to wheels 40d.

Reference numeral 41 denotes a traverser traversing rail, which is attached to the beam 2d of the container storage shelf 2. Reference numerals 40e denote container guides provided at the four corners of the frame 40a, which guide the alignment when the container 13 is placed on the traverser 40.

Next, the operation of the present embodiment will be described. A truck running rail 21 including a sea side rail 21a, a building side rail 21b, and a route changing rail 21c is provided along the sea side surface 6b of the storage building 6, and the truck 20 is indicated by an arrow 30 on the truck running rail 21. Circulate in the direction. When the container 13 is unloaded from the container ship and stored in the container storage shelf 2, the container 13 is exchanged between the trolley 20 and the container crane 8 on the sea-side rail 21a, and the trolley 20 is transferred on the building-side rail 21b. The container 13 is exchanged with the sea-side stack crane 3. The seaside stack crane 3 is the container 1 received from the bogie 20
3 is transferred onto the traverser 40. The traverser 40 traverses on the land side, and hands over the container to the stack crane 3 on the land side waiting at the position of the target container storage shelf 2. The land-side stack crane 3 stores the container 13 in the container storage shelf 2.

When the container 13 is shipped by the chassis, the sea-side stack crane 3 places the container 13 taken out of the container storage shelf 2 on the traverser 40. The traverser 40 transports the container to the land side surface 6c. The land-side stack crane 3 then loads the container 13 on the land-side truck 26 on the building-side rail 27b. The land-side truck 26 circulates and travels on the truck traveling rail 27 in the direction indicated by the arrow 30, and the overhead crane 2 moves on the land-side rail 27a.
By 9, the container 13 is lifted, loaded on the chassis 14 and carried out.

As described above, the bogie passages are provided along the sea-side side surface 6b and the land-side side surface 6c of the storage building 6, and the route changing rails 21c and 27c are provided so that the bogies 20 and 26 can be traversed. As a result, space in the container yard can be saved. In addition, since the crane traveling rail 15 is provided so as to protrude from the storage building 6, containers are exchanged between the stack crane 3 and the trolleys 20 and 26, and the trolley passage 2i is not provided in the storage building 6. Since the container storage capacity can be increased and the flow of the container 13 can be simplified, the cargo handling efficiency can be improved. In addition, the traverser 40
Since the containers are laterally moved by being provided on the steps and the stack crane 3 can concentrate on the transfer of the containers to and from the cart 20 and the storage in the container storage shelves 2, the speed of loading and unloading the containers can be increased.

The present invention is not limited to the embodiment described above, and various changes can be made without departing from the gist of the invention. For example, the bogie traveling rail 21 has been described as an elevated type, but may be a ground type or a land side 6c of the storage building 6.
In this case, the container 13 may be directly unloaded to the chassis 14 from the stack crane 3 without using the land-side cart 26.

[0033]

As described above, in the container terminal of the present invention, the end of the traveling rail of the stack crane is provided so as to protrude from the storage building, and the container is transferred between the stack crane and the bogie. Since the passage is not provided in the storage building, the storage capacity of the container can be increased. In addition, a route changing rail orthogonal to the truck traveling rail is provided so that the truck can traverse and change the route, so that space for the truck passage can be saved. In addition, lateral movement of containers in the storage building is mainly performed by traversers, and stack cranes can concentrate on transfer between containers and trolleys and storage in container storage shelves, so that loading and unloading can be speeded up. Has an excellent effect.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a container terminal of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the container terminal of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of a part of wheels of a truck.

FIG. 4 is a view as viewed in the direction of arrows AA in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a view taken in the direction of arrows BB in FIG. 3;

FIG. 6 is a plan view of the traverser.

FIG. 7 is a side view of the traverser.

FIG. 8 is an enlarged side view of the driving device of the traverser.

FIG. 9 is a plan view of a conventional container terminal.

FIG. 10 is a side view of a conventional container terminal.

FIG. 11 is a perspective view of a container three-dimensional storage facility.

FIG. 12 is a side view of a portion D in FIG. 11;

FIG. 13 is a perspective view of a part D in FIG. 11;

FIG. 14 is a perspective view of a portion C in FIG. 11;

FIG. 15 is a side view of a conventional container terminal.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 Container storage shelves 3 Stack crane 6 Container three-dimensional storage building 8 Container crane 15 Crane traversing rail 20 Truck 21 Truck traveling rail 21a Sea side rail 21b Building side rail 21c Route changing rail 26 Land side carriage 28 Rail 29 Overhead crane 40 Traversa 41 Traversa traversing rail

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A container three-dimensional storage building in which container storage shelves are arranged in a multi-stage and multi-row arrangement vertically and horizontally, and provided on the roof of the storage building in a direction perpendicular to the quay, and both ends projecting from the storage building. Traverse on the crane traverse rail,
Stack cranes, two containers on each crane traverse rail, with containers in and out of container storage shelves;
A traverser which traverses a traverser traversing rail provided at one or more stages along the container storage shelves under the crane traversing rail by placing a container exchanged with a stack crane; A trolley traveling along the seaside side surface of the storage building, and a trolley for receiving and transferring containers unloaded by a container crane with a container ship, the trolley travel rail comprising: A sea-side rail provided on the sea side apart from the storage building, a building-side rail provided between the sea-side rail and the storage building, and a route changing rail provided orthogonal to both rails and traversing a bogie. The transfer of containers between the trolley and the container crane is performed on the sea rail, and the transfer of containers between the trolley and the stack crane is on the building side. Is performed on Lumpur, container terminal, wherein the carriage is capable of traveling with the rampant have a transverse wheels and road wheels. 2. The rail according to claim 1, wherein the sea-side rail and the building-side rail are provided with one or two or more lanes, and the rails for changing the route are provided at both ends of the sea-side and building-side rails and at an intermediate part. Container terminal. 3. The container terminal according to claim 1, wherein the bogie traveling rail is of an elevated type provided on a shelf protruding from a storage building. 4. A trolley running on a trolley running rail along a land side surface of the storage building and a rail extending from the land side surface of the storage building, and traversing the trolley and the chassis. A overhead traveling crane for transferring containers between the trolleys, the trolley traveling rails of the land-side trolleys include land-side rails provided away from the storage building, and building-side rails provided between the land-side rails and the storage building. It consists of a route change rail that is provided orthogonal to both rails and traverses the land bogie.The transfer of containers between the land bogie and the stack crane is performed on the building rail, and the land bogie and the overhead crane 4. The container terminal according to claim 1, wherein the transfer of the container with the container terminal is performed on a land side rail.