EP2636569B1 - Container transport carriage for the railway transport of goods - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a container wagon for rail freight transport with a carriage frame, which is provided with a plurality of pairs of container pins for transporting standard and special containers, in combination with at least one loading frame with a dimensionally stable, rectangular frame with welded longitudinal and transverse beams made of steel profiles and the corner regions of the frame arranged upright, also made of steel sections stanchions, wherein the loading frame is positionable on at least one pair of container pin.

Container wagons are known in different designs. For example, 80ft container wagons will be made from two 40ft wagons to carry ISO containers, especially four 20ft ISO containers, two 40ft ISO containers or two 20ft ISO containers in combination with a 40ft ISO container. used. The well-known 80ft container wagons are provided with three biaxial bogies and are preferably used for container transport to and from ports. Also known are 60ft container wagons with two bogies or 2-axle wagons with 40ft loading length. Heavy goods from the machine and steel industries can not be transported with the familiar container wagons. For the transport of heavy goods of the machine and steel industry in particular 40ft flat cars are used with arranged on the car frame stanchions. Some of these flat wagons also have container spigots for container transport, but are hardly suitable for container transport due to their high dead weight.

A container wagon of the type mentioned is, for example, he EP 0 987 158 A1 known. This container wagon has a drive, a base and on both sides of the car arranged stanchions, which are adjustable over the length of the car. From the US 4,944,232 is a flat car for ice rink freight traffic known, which is intended for the transport of long round timbers and is provided for this purpose with inwardly rounded support blocks for round logs.

The invention has for its object to enable with a container wagon both the transport of heavy goods of the machinery and steel industry and a variable transport of containers of different sizes, especially of ISO containers.

The object is achieved according to the invention in that at the end portions of the cross member Runge shoes are welded, each having a stanchion profile adapted receptacle for each stanchion and project beyond the frame down, the loading frame with his Runge shoes on the carriage frame stands up and between the contact surfaces of the Runge shoes and the undersides of the side members and the cross member remains a free space, so that the loading frame by means of the forks of a forklift by inserting the forks in the space from the side of a longitudinal member is raised.

The inventive combination of a container wagon and removable and variably positionable on the provided container pin pairs loading racks allows the transport of heavy, especially elongated goods, e.g. of steel profiles or steel tubes of the machine and steel industry on one or more loading platforms. The container car is advantageously still used in a variable manner for the transport of standardized and non-standard containers.

The positioning of the loading platform on the container wagon is particularly simple and variable in that at least one pair of container pins can be positioned in holes of rows of holes arranged on the longitudinal members of the loading frame.

In a particularly advantageous embodiment of the invention, the rows of holes are formed in sheet steel strips, which are welded to the longitudinal members of the skid.

Easy handling and variable application possibilities provide loading trestles with a length between six feet and eight feet.

On container wagons, which are 40ft wagons, can therefore be positioned up to five loading platform.

The combination according to the invention is particularly advantageous when two 40ft container wagons are connected via a short coupling to an 80ft container wagon and when each of the two 40ft container wagons has two bogies. The high load capacity of such 80ft container wagons allows the transport of particularly heavy goods of the machine and steel industry.

• Fig. 1 eine Ansicht eines 80ft-Containertragwagens mit abnehmbaren Ladegestellen,
• Fig. 2 eine Schrägansicht eines Ladegestells,
• Fig. 3 die Frontansicht des Ladegestells aus Fig. 2,
• Fig. 3a ein Detail der Fig. 3,
• Fig. 4 die Seitenansicht des Ladegestells gemäß Fig. 2,
• Fig. 5 die Draufsicht auf das Ladegestell gemäß Fig. 2 und
• Fig. 6 eine Draufsicht auf einen Wagenrahmen.

Further features, advantages and details of the invention will now be described with reference to the schematic drawing illustrating exemplary embodiments. Show

• Fig. 1 a view of an 80ft container wagon with removable loaders,
• Fig. 2 an oblique view of a skid,
• Fig. 3 the front view of the loading frame off Fig. 2 .
• Fig. 3a a detail of Fig. 3 .
• Fig. 4 the side view of the skid according to Fig. 2 .
• Fig. 5 the top view of the skid according to Fig. 2 and
• Fig. 6 a plan view of a carriage frame.

The components of the loading frame which are referred to as "longitudinally" in the following description run, when the loading frame is mounted on a carriage, in the longitudinal direction thereof, the components of the loading frame in the transverse direction of the carriage designated "transversely".

Fig. 1 shows an 80ft container car, which consists of two 40ft container car 1 with four sets of wheels 2 and two bogies 3 known per se. The two 40ft carriages 1 are connected to each other by means of a short coupling 4, in particular a coupling rod, and thus form a firmly coupled unit. On the two bogies 3 of the 40ft carriage 1, a carriage frame 5 is arranged in each case.

As Fig. 6 shows the car frame 5 of each 40ft container car 1 with a variety of known, um- and folded up arranged container pin pairs 6, 6 ', 6 "and 6"' provided on which different sized containers in different Arrangement and loading dock 7, also in a different order, can be positioned. Fig. 6 shows a preferred arrangement of the pairwise symmetrically to the longitudinal axis of each carriage 1 arranged container pin 6, 6 ', 6 "and 6"'. In addition, the pairs of container pins 6, 6 ', 6 "and 6'" symmetrically arranged with respect to a transverse axis in the middle of the carriage 1, so that per carriage 1 two pairs of container pin 6, 6 ', 6 "and 6"' available.

That in the FIGS. 2 to 5 The loading frame 7 shown essentially consists of a rectangular frame 8 and four arranged at the corner regions and upright or vertical stanchions 9. The frame 8 has two cross members 10 and two side members 11, the latter being centrally connected to another cross member 12. All carriers 10, 11 and 12 are welded together steel profiles, wherein the ends of the cross member 10, 12 project beyond the side members 11 slightly. On the tops of the cross member 10 wood supports 10a are attached. On the outer sides of the longitudinal members 11 parallel to the frame 8 with the longitudinal beams 11 welded sheet steel strips 13, which are each provided with a number of holes 14, which receiving openings for the already mentioned container pins 6, 6 ', 6 "and 6'" are on the car 1. In particular, the number of holes 14 is between four and six, their mutual distance may or may not be the same. Two welded to the longitudinal members 11 and the cross members 10, 12 welded sheet metal plates 15 forms the closed bottom of the skid 7. At the end portions of the cross member 10 Runge shoes 16 are welded, which are designed such that they each adapted to the Rungenprofil recording for each stanchion. 9 have and used the stanchion 9, which is designed as a square steel profile, well supported at least on three of its outer surfaces. Like for example Fig. 3a shows, used in the stanchion shoe 16 stanchion 9 is fastened by means of a screw 17 on the stanchion shoe 16. The stakes 9 can therefore be replaced if necessary against stanchions other dimensions.

The stanchion shoes 16 are designed such that they project beyond the frame 8, so that the loading frame 7 rests with his Runge shoes 16 on the carriage frame 5 and between the footprints 16 a of the stanchion shoes 16 and the undersides of the side members 11 and the cross member 10 and 12 a space remains that allows the Loading platform 7 by means of the forks of a conventional forklift by inserting the forks in the free space from the side of a longitudinal member 11 to raise. The empty loader 7 can therefore be placed with a forklift on the car 1 or removed from it. As Fig. 3a shows, a lift-off 19 is arranged on each Runge shoe 16, which is screwed in a known manner on the carriage frame 5.

The loading platform 7 can be made in different lengths - extension in the car longitudinal direction -. Particularly advantageous for the transport of steel tubes and steel profiles are loading racks 7 with lengths between six feet (6ft) and eight feet (8ft).

At the one protruding end of the cross member 12, a tensioning winch 20 is arranged, which is provided in a conventional manner for winding and tensioning a load securing straps, which is not shown. At the second protruding end of the cross member 12 are eyelets 18 for fastening the belt.

The loading platform 7 can, depending on their positioning and depending on their dimensions on the carriage 1 either on a pair of container pin 6, 6 ', 6 "and 6"' or on two pairs of container pin 6, 6 ', 6 "and 6"'be set up. As Fig. 1 combined with Fig. 6 shows, for example, three loading racks 7 can be arranged on the carriage 1 such that the two outer loading racks 7 each on a pair of container pin 6 'and the middle loading frame 7 on two pairs container pin 6 "' is placed, if the mutual distance of the holes fourteenth The arrangement of the loading trough 7 and its number, in particular whether one, two or three loading tiers 7 are used per 40ft wagon 1, depends on the respective load.

In the Fig. 6 shown arrangement of the container pin 6, 6 ', 6 "and 6"' is such that according to ISO standardized containers, so-called ISO containers, but also not standardized containers can be transported on the container car 1. For example, per 40ft cart 1 a 40ft ISO container can be transported on the outer pairs of container pin 6. It is also possible to load each car 1 with two 20ft ISO containers on the container pin 6 and 6 "'and a load at a 30ft ISO container on the container pin 6 and 6"'. Of course, on a cart 1, even a single 20ft ISO container can be transported.

The loading racks 7 according to the invention allow the transport of heavy goods of the machine and steel industry, for example of short steel slabs with different unit weights, which require a variable number of loading racks 7 on the wagon.

The loading platform 7 are also used in container car other length, for example, in 60ft container car.

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Container wagon

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wheelset

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bogie

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close coupling

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container pins

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eyelet

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Claims (8)

1. Container car (1) for railway goods transport with a car frame (5), which is equipped with several pairs of container spigots (6, 6', 6", 6"') for transporting standard and special containers, in combination with at least one loading rack (7) with a dimensionally stable rectangular frame with welded longitudinal and transverse members (10, 11, 12) made of steel profiles and upright standing stanchions (9) arranged in the corner areas of the frame, also consisting of steel profiles, wherein the loading rack (7) can be positioned on at least one pair of container spigots (6, 6', 6", 6"'),
   characterised in that
   stanchion shoes (16) are welded to the end sections of the transverse members (10), which each have a take-up for each stanchion (9) adapted to the stanchion profile and protrude further than the frame (8) in a downward direction, wherein the loading rack (7) with its stanchion shoes (16) stands upright on the car frame (5) and a free space remains between the contact areas (16a) of the stanchion shoes (16) and the undersides of the longitudinal members (11) and the transverse members (10, 12), so that the loading rack (7) can be lifted by means of the forks of the fork-lift truck by inserting the forks into the free space from the side of a longitudinal member (11).
2. Combination according to claim 1, characterised in that at least one pair of container spigots (6, 6', 6", 6"') can be positioned in holes (14) of rows of holes arranged in the longitudinal members (11) of the loading rack (7).
3. Combination according to claim 2, characterised in that the rows of holes are formed in sheet metal strips (13), which are welded to the longitudinal members (10) of the loading rack (7).
4. Combination according to one of the claims 1 to 3, characterised in that the at least one loading rack (7) has a length of between six foot (6ft) and eight foot (8ft).
5. Combination according to one of the claims 1 to 4, characterised in that the container car is a 40ft car (1) on which up to five loading racks (7) are positioned.
6. Combination according to one of the claims 1 to 5, characterised in that all loading racks (7) positioned on a container car are of equal length.
7. Combination according to one of the claims 1 to 6, characterised in that two 40ft container cars (1) are connected with an 80ft container car via a close coupling.
8. Combination according to claim 7, characterised in that each of the 40ft container cars (1) has two rotating racks (3).

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