EP0513460B1 - Vorrichtungen für den Transport von leichten Lasten auf selbstfahrenden schienengebundenen Laufwerken - Google Patents

Vorrichtungen für den Transport von leichten Lasten auf selbstfahrenden schienengebundenen Laufwerken Download PDF

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EP0513460B1
EP0513460B1 EP91401279A EP91401279A EP0513460B1 EP 0513460 B1 EP0513460 B1 EP 0513460B1 EP 91401279 A EP91401279 A EP 91401279A EP 91401279 A EP91401279 A EP 91401279A EP 0513460 B1 EP0513460 B1 EP 0513460B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61C—LOCOMOTIVES; MOTOR RAILCARS
    • B61C13/00—Locomotives or motor railcars characterised by their application to special systems or purposes
    • B61C13/04—Locomotives or motor railcars characterised by their application to special systems or purposes for elevated railways with rigid rails
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61B—RAILWAY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B61B13/00—Other railway systems
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61B—RAILWAY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B61B5/00—Elevated railway systems without suspended vehicles
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  • the present invention relates to light load transport devices (10 to 15 kg) placed in containers carried by self-propelled carriages on rails.
  • the carriages can be equipped with mobile cursors memorizing the destination station.
  • the stations In order for these installations to function properly, the stations must have a certain number of carriages permanently allocated to them. To do this, the destination stations must imperatively return them to the sending station as soon as possible. This is a major drawback leading to the blocking of the installations if the operating rules are not respected.
  • a station wishing to make a shipment calls a self-propelled cart with an empty container and proceeds after loading to a shipment.
  • the destination station must empty the trolley as soon as possible and send it back to a trolley parking area with empty containers.
  • German patent DE-A-33 08 778 provides removable containers which can be locked on self-propelled carriages.
  • the drawback of this solution is that for the installation to function properly, the user must be present when the self-propelled trolley enters the station, either to load or unload it, and this so that it can be quickly reused for another mission.
  • GB-A-2 194 498 proposes an automatic loading / unloading installation in which the containers are engaged on the carriages transversely to their axis of movement.
  • this installation uses relatively complex and expensive loading / unloading stations.
  • the invention therefore more particularly aims to eliminate all these drawbacks.
  • this device is characterized in that said assembly means comprise at least one assembly profile axially parallel to the axis of movement of the carriage, and intended to cooperate with a corresponding assembly profile provided on the containers, so that the assembly or disassembly can be carried out at the end of a relative carriage / container translation carried out parallel to said axis of movement.
  • the motor force necessary to effect the translational movement is exerted by the carriage itself.
  • the loading stations must include means making it possible to place the containers in the assembly position, that is to say a position in which a trolley can engage itself by its assembly profile. on the container assembly profile.
  • the unloading stations must include in an unloading area extraction means acting on the containers, so as to keep them stationary during the disassembly phase, that is to say while the trolley performs the translation producing this disassembly .
  • these loading and / or unloading stations may include a dispenser allowing either to bring the containers into the loading area, or to remove the containers from the unloading area.
  • the container C shown in perspective has on each lateral flanks longitudinal bosses 1. These bosses 1 are found symmetrically in the upper and lower part of the container C. The bosses 1 have at each end inclined planes 2 facilitating their insertion into the slides 12 of the carriage shown in FIG. 2.
  • the cover 3 of the container C opens on the largest side and its parting line is identified by the reference 4.
  • the cover 3 of the container is equipped with a closure 5 on one of the smallest sides and d 'a hinge on the other side.
  • the closure 5 forms at the same time a hinge.
  • the small opposite sides of the container are equipped with the hinge closure 5. It is then possible to open the cover 3 either on any of the small faces, or even dismantle the cover by simultaneously actuating the two hinge closings 5 on the opposite sides.
  • the self-propelled carriage 11 is equipped with a slide module 12 axially parallel to the axis of movement XX '.
  • the slide assembly 12 comprises in its center an electrically controlled locking device 15 which comprises a retractable stud intended to engage in a cavity 6 provided in the container.
  • An electrical or electronic control 17 checks the correct position of the locking device 15.
  • FIG. 3 it can be understood that during its movement in the direction of the arrow, the slide 12 of the carriage 11 engages on the bosses 1 of the container C.
  • the locking device 15 makes the carriage 11 of the container integral when it accommodates the retractable stud in the cavity 6 of the container.
  • the sectional view along A (FIG. 4) of the carriage 11 of FIG. 2 shows how the locking device 15 makes the container C and its bosses 3 integral by means of the slide 12.
  • the slide assembly 2 has a substantially U-shaped cross section with the upper ends of the two vertical branches of the U folded inward.
  • the slide assembly could comprise, instead of a fixed structure, two parallel C-shaped profiled elements, 22, 22 ′, of concavity facing each other, these two elements 22, 22 ′ (which correspond to the vertical branches previously mentioned) being movable relative to each other, under the action of an actuation mechanism not shown so as to pass from an open position facilitating the insertion or extraction of the container C to a closed position in which they closely match the bosses 1 of the container C (position shown in Figure 6C).
  • the displacements of the profiled elements 22, 22 ′ can be carried out in translation, as shown in FIG. 6B or in tilting as illustrated in FIG. 6A.
  • the shape of the profiled elements could be designed so as to ensure, in addition to gripping the container C, effective locking of this container C on the self-propelled carriage 11, in particular during the journey between two stations.
  • FIG. 7 shows the structure of a loading and unloading station which is fitted to a main track 31.
  • This station includes a loading / unloading path 32 which follows a square or rectangular path, open at an angular region of the square or rectangle thus produced.
  • a conveyor 42 designed so as to come into engagement with the upper bosses 1 of the containers C brought by the self-propelled carriages 11 into the unloading area.
  • the container C remains suspended on the conveyor 42.
  • the latter can then have a slope so as to allow the container C to move under the effect of its own weight, up to a storage area.
  • the loading area 41 associated with the section 40 of the loading section comprises two successive loading zones Z1, Z2 on which containers C can be centered so as to be able to assemble automatically on the carriage 11 and lock therefrom. the way previously described.
  • both the loading station and the unloading station can be produced without the need for complex distributors.
  • the invention does not however exclude the use of dispensers.
  • the unloading station comprises, following the conveyor 42 described with reference to FIG. 7, a second inclined conveyor 44 on which the lower part of the containers C comes to bear.
  • the invention is also not limited to a specific shape of the assembly profile.
  • the container C could include prismatic concavities 144, for example of dovetail section as shown in FIG. 9.
  • the slides can be produced using a section of section 45 of substantially U-shaped section, the base of which is fixed to the carriage 11 and the vertical branches of which have ribs 46 of shape substantially complementary to that of prismatic concavities 144.
  • Figures 10 and 11 illustrate a particularly advantageous embodiment of a loading and / or unloading station.
  • the loading / unloading area 47 is situated in a horizontal plane perpendicular to the track 48. It consists of the plate of a belt conveyor 49 which extends on either side of the track 48 .
  • the carriage 11 / container C assembly is brought into the unloading station 47 until the front face of the container C comes to bear on the unloading area.
  • the carriage 11 comes to a standstill in this position, unlocks the container C, then sets off in reverse while disengaging from the container C.
  • the belt conveyor 49 is then actuated so as to bring the container C to a storage area located left or right of the lane.
  • the loading of a container can be carried out by a process which is strictly opposite to that of unloading.

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  1. Vorrichtung für den Lastentransport, die selbstfahrende, auf Schienen bewegliche Laufwerke (11) verwendet, mit Verbindemitteln, die abnehmbare Behälter (C) zeitweilig aufnehmen und halten, wobei das Beladen und Entladen dieser Behälter in automatischen Belade- und/oder Entladestationen stattfindet,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass besagte Verbindemittel mindestens ein Verbindeprofil (12) aufweisen, dessen Achse parallel zur Verschiebeachse des Laufwerkes (11) ausgerichtet ist und das mit einem entsprechenden Verbindeprofil (1) der Behälter (C) zusammenwirken kann, sodass das Verbinden oder Lösen der Behälter (C) nach einer relativen Verschiebung der Laufwerk/Behältereinheit parallel zur besagten Verschiebeachse stattfinden kann.
  2. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die für die Verschiebung notwendige Antriebskraft von den Laufwerken (11) selbst ausgeübt wird.
  3. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 und 2,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass besagte Beladestationen Mittel aufweisen, um die Behälter (C) in die Verbindestellung zu bringen, in der ein Laufwerk (11) sich selbsttätig mit seinem Verbindeprofil (12) in das Verbindeprofil (1) des Behälters (C) einfügt.
  4. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass besagte Entladestationen in einer Entladezone auf die Behälter (C) wirkende Abnahmemittel aufweisen, welche die Behälter unbeweglich halten, während das Laufwerk (11) die Verschiebung ausführt, welche die Trennung hervorruft.
  5. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verbindeprofil des Behälters (C) konvex ist, während das Verbindeprofil des Laufwerkes (11) konkav ist.
  6. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 5,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verbindeprofil des Behälters (C) von am oberen und unteren Teil der Seitenflanken des Behälters (C) vorgesehenen Längsbuckeln (1) gebildet wird und dass das Verbindeprofil (12) des Laufwerkes (11) von einer Längsschiene mit im wesentlichen U-förmigem Querschnitt gebildet wird, wobei die oberen Enden der beiden senkrechten Schenkel des Us nach innen abgebogen sind.
  7. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verbindeprofil des Behälters (C) eine prismatische Konkavform hat, während das Verbindeprofil des Laufwerkes (11) konvex ist.
  8. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 7,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Verbindeprofile des Behälters (C) eine schwalbenschwanzförmige konkave Form haben und dass das Verbindeprofil des Laufwerkes (11) aus einem U-förmigen, zu den prismatischen Konkavitäten komplementären Profilelement (45) besteht.
  9. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verbindeprofil des Laufwerkes aus zwei parallelen, unter dem Einfluss eines Betätigungsmechanismus im Verhältnis zueinander beweglichen Profilelementen (22, 22') besteht.
  10. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 9,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Profilelemente (22, 22') verschiebbar oder kippbar sind.
  11. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 9 und 10,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Profilelemente (22,22') so ausgelegt sind, dass sie die Behälter (C) blockieren.
  12. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Entladestationen einen Entladebahnabschnitt aufweisen, über dem ein Fördermittel (42) angeordnet ist, das die Behälter (C) an derem oberen Teil aufgehängt hält und sie zu einem Lagerbereich transportiert.
  13. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Beladestationen (43) ein Verteilermittel verwenden, das ein einfacher Schieber (43) ist, welcher es ermöglicht, einen Behälter in einen Beladebereich (Z') zu bringen und dort zu positionieren, wo dann dessen Verbindung mit einem selbstfahrenden Laufwerk automatisch erfolgen kann, wobei besagter Schieber (43) zwischen zwei Positionen beweglich ist :
    - einer Warteposition, in der er einen Behälter (C) aufnehmen kann, und
    - einer zeitweiligen Position, in der er den Behälter (C) im Beladebereich (Z') positioniert.
  14. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 12,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie mit einer Belade- und/oder Entladestation ausgerüstet ist, die einen, in einer waagerechten Ebene senkrecht zur Bahn (48) angeordneten Übergabebereich (47) aufweist, der aus der Grundplatte einer quer zur Bahn beweglichen Fördervorrichtung (49) besteht.
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EP91401279A EP0513460B1 (de) 1991-05-17 1991-05-17 Vorrichtungen für den Transport von leichten Lasten auf selbstfahrenden schienengebundenen Laufwerken
ES91401279T ES2071249T3 (es) 1991-05-17 1991-05-17 Aparatos de transporte de cargas ligeras por vagonetas automotoras sobre railes.
DE69108902T DE69108902T2 (de) 1991-05-17 1991-05-17 Vorrichtungen für den Transport von leichten Lasten auf selbstfahrenden schienengebundenen Laufwerken.
US07/704,487 US5183368A (en) 1991-05-17 1991-05-23 Apparatus for transporting light loads by means of self-propelled carriages on rails

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