Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
  • B65D71/0088—Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
  • B65D71/0088—Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck
  • B65D71/0092—Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck provided with one or more rigid supports, at least one dimension of the supports corresponding to a dimension of the load, e.g. skids
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D2571/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans, pop bottles; Bales of material
  • B65D2571/00006—Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck
  • B65D2571/00012—Bundles surrounded by a film
  • B65D2571/00018—Bundles surrounded by a film under tension
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D2571/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans, pop bottles; Bales of material
  • B65D2571/00006—Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck
  • B65D2571/0008—Load supporting elements
  • B65D2571/00092—Load supporting elements formed by specially placed articles or parts thereof
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D2571/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans, pop bottles; Bales of material
  • B65D2571/00006—Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck
  • B65D2571/00098—Devices for transporting the load also from above
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
  • B65D85/30—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure
  • B65D85/46—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for bricks, tiles or building blocks

Definitions

• the invention relates to a transport unit for rock wool products, in particular rock wool insulation panels, arranged in a stack.
• Insulation panels of this kind are used in considerable quantities for the construction trade, in particular for roof insulation and facade insulation.
• rock wool insulation panels of this kind are arranged in a stack, in which the insulation panels are usually arranged superposed with respect to their principal surfaces.
• stacks of superposed insulation panels are very often covered with sheeting, which is provided both as weather protection and protection against damage during transport.
• the hot-melt adhesive usually used in this context can easily penetrate into the surface of the rock wool insulation panels, and as a result the properties of the in- 1 sulation product can be negatively affected, in particular in the event of excessive adhesive application. In particular, this is disadvantageous in the case of insulation panels for which particular fire resistance requirements must be observed.
• the application of the adhesive to insulation panels for the adhesive bonding is also subject to disadvantageous from the point of view of efficient production.
• the object of the invention is to provide a transport unit for rock wool products, in particular insulation panels, which is particularly well adapted to the criterion of handleability by means of mechanical transport means, main attention also being paid to the fact that as little waste material as possible ought to occur for environmental protection reasons. Furthermore, it is necessary for a transport unit developed in this manner to meet the latent cost pressure on the insulating materials industry, that is to say be comparatively uncomplicated in construction and inexpensive.
• This object is achieved according to the invention by the features contained in the characterising part of claim 1, expedient further developments being characterised by the features contained in the subclaims.
• receptacles for handling by mechanical transport means are provided, at least on one of the principal surfaces of the stack.
• receptacles may be designed in various ways. For example, particularly for transport in a harsh environment and in the case of voluminous stacks, in particular stacks of heavy weight, it is expedient to form the receptacles by means of recesses of a lamellar panel, which is arranged below the stack as support for the stack.
• the lamellar panel by virtue of the manufacture and because of the special fibre alignment essentially perpendicular to the principal surface, is characterised by elevated compressive strength, so that a support in the form of a lamellar panel is very suitable for the aforementioned application.
• such a support is also suitable for use as insulation material in situ, that is to say on the construction site. In this case, return as empty packaging is no longer necessary.
• a support which may in particular be constructed in the manner of a pallet, can also be used as a reusable means of transport and can accordingly be frequently used. In this case, it is of particular advantage that such a lamellar panel support can be wound to form a roll, which is again of advantage for return of the empty packaging.
• the receptacles within a lamellar panel can in this case be formed such that lamellar elements with different lamellar lengths can be used, so that hollows are formed by recesses, which form the receptacles for the means of transport.
• the stack is enveloped with a textile web, which is preferably designed so as to be tension resistant, for example as a polyethylene textile web, and in which the tabs forming the receptacles are realised.
• the design may be integral, i.e. the tabs can be formed of uniform material with the textile web. However, they may alterna- tively also be mounted on and welded, adhesively bonded or otherwise connected to the textile web.
• the tabs, which form the receptacles for the engagement of the mechanical means of transport may be stiffened to allow a simple access by the entering fork tines, without the tabs needing to be separately held open. A stiffening of this type may be carried out by embedding mesh-like stiffening nets and the like in the tabs.
• the tabs may be filled with strips of rock wool insulation material, which at the same time can be used a mould cores in the case of a single-part formation of the tabs with the textile web.
• rock wool insulation strips which can be removed from the tabs, can be used in situ as supports for the stack.
• the removable strips can be coated with a bonding agent or adhesive, which is covered with a peel film.
• the filling bodies, which fill the tabs can also be provided with a delayed activatable adhesive coat, which is in particular activated when these filling bodies are to be used as supports for the stack.
• the support is of identical material to that of the insulation wool of the stack
• the support is preferably itself formed as an insulating panel, which is expediently surrounded with a plastic sheeting for protection against the effects of weather.
• insulation panels for specific, applications are available in predetermined standard dimensions, in which, for example, the insulation materials are available with a uniform length in staged widths and thicknesses
• the support is preferably of the same standard type as the insulation panel, but with a smaller standard width, so that, with a central arrangement of the insulation panel, the recesses for the me- , chanical means of transport are laterally delimited.
• This embodiment is in particular suitable for pallet stacks for insulation of flat roofs.
• the transport units are hoisted by means of a lifting means onto the roof, where the insulation panels are then unpacked. Since the support originates from the same panel-type series as the insulation panel, the support can also be used on the roof for insulation purposes. In this case, the only pallet waste to be returned would be the sheeting envelope, which envelops the support in the form as an insulation panel, assuming it cannot itself be otherwise used on the construction site. With this concept, the transport unit can thus be processed in its entirety in situ on the construction site. Then, only the packaging envelopes of the stacks would need to be returned, which was already done anyway.
• the insulation panels originating from the same type series, which are used as supports can also be arranged in the vicinity of the stack edges, so that, depending on the offset arrangement, two lateral recesses toward the edges at the outside, and one, central recess between the two supports are produced for the engagement of the mechanical means of transport.
• an adhesive bond or adhesion bond is provided between the support and stack underside.
• This may be carried out by means of an ac- tivatable adhesive, for which purpose the sheeting envelope, surrounding the insulation panel, of the support is provided with an adhesive coat, which is covered with a peel film.' This ensures a firm bond between the support and stack and at the same time prevents the 1 adhesive affecting the insulation properties of the support, which after all can also be used for insulation purposes.
• the supports are bearing elements, which are formed from components inherent in the system, in particular a sheeting reel, wherein the sheeting is, for example, a waterproofing sheet, which can be used for waterproofing purposes.
• the' supports are also formed from packaging elements which receive other additional components, such as dowels, screws and the like, and are packaged tightly in such a way that the bearing elements are designed so as to be suitably compression resistant for their properties as supports of the panel stack.
• the advantage consist in the fact that the transport unit can be used as a whole on site, which leads to a significant waste reduction on the construction sites.
• the stack of the transport unit is received by comer profiles arranged at the four bottom comers, which form the supports and at the same time act as edge protection.
• These supports possess a reusable function and can thus be used as often as required.
• they are made of plastic, and are thus easy to produce and can be readily cleaned.
• the comer profiles can here be connected to one another crosswise by means of struts. If the crosswise-arranged struts are connected centrally to one another by means of a joint, the support device can be very readily collapsed in the manner of scissors for return, so that the transport volume can be considerably minimised for empty packaging return.
• Fig. 1 shows a side view of a stack of rock wool insulation panels on a pallet formed as a lamellar panel
• Fig. 2 shows a further embodiment, also in side view, in which two tabs are provided above a stack of rock wool insulation panels,
• Fig. 3 shows a side view of a further embodiment of a stack of insulation panels in two functional positions
• Fig. 4 shows the side view of a further embodiment with a support formed from a partial element of the insulation panels of the supported stack
• Fig. 5 shows an analogous embodiment to Figure 4,
• Fig. 6 shows an embodiment similar to Figures 4 and 5, in which the support arranged on the underside of the stack is formed from components inherent in the system,
• Fig. 7 shows a further embodiment of a transport unit, in which the stack of rock wool insulation panels is supported by plastic comer elements
• Fig. 8 shows a perspective view of the comer element, all figures being shown in purely schematic form.
• a stack of superposed rock wool insulation panels 2 is enveloped with a sheeting 3 and received on a support 4 designed in the manner of a pallet.
• the sheeting packaging of the stack according to Figure 1 only envelopes the stack of insulation panels 2 at four peripheral sides, but leaves the two end faces free, the front one of which is visible in this V ⁇ GW.
• a sheeting packaging can also alternatively be provided in which the end faces also can be completely, or where a shrink film is used only partially, covered in the outer regions.
• the sheeting used is in particular a plastic film, such as a heat-shrink film, a packaging of sheeting, however, also being expedient in which the ends are wrapped one over the other and joined by bonding, welding or the like.
• a plastic film such as a heat-shrink film
• a packaging of sheeting also being expedient in which the ends are wrapped one over the other and joined by bonding, welding or the like.
• the invention is not concerned with the type of enveloping per se, the various possibility for enveloping a stack with a sheeting, e.g. also with a sheetmg colour and the like, do not need to be discussed here.
• the object of enveloping is the confinement of the insulation panels superposed in the stack for transport and storage and as protection of the insulation panels against the effects of weather and against damage and the like. Furthermore, the modular envelopment of a stack of insulation panels also allows the superposition of several such stacks to obtain a so-called large bundle.
• the support 4 is constructed by a pallet-like construction of lamellar pieces with different lamellar length, so that receptacles 5 result, which can be used for the engagement of mechanical means of transport, in particular the tines of fork-lift trucks.
• the support 4 is, in the example, constructed from three lamellar elements 6 with the same lamellar length, between which lamellar elements 7 with shorter lamellar length are arranged. This results in corresponding recesses with respect to the base area of the longer lamellar elements 6, by means of which the hollows 5 for the engagement of the means of transport are delimited.
• the lamellar panels these are comparatively compression-resistant structures by virtue of the special fibre alignment. If, in the case of conventional insulation panels, the fibres are aligned essentially in the longitudinal direction of the two principal surfaces, principally by virtue of the production process of the rock wool insulation panels, the fibre orientation of the lamellar panels, which are known per se, is principally perpendicular to the two principal surfaces, which results in an increased compression resistance compared to the insulation panel with fibres aligned parallel to the principal surfaces.
• lamellar panels of this kind is carried out by cutting lamellar-like blocks of conventional insulation panels, which are then turned through 90° and fastened to a planar support material, such as aluminium foil or glass or plastics fabric by adhesive bonding to form the lamellar panel.
• a planar support material such as aluminium foil or glass or plastics fabric by adhesive bonding to form the lamellar panel.
• the lamination is designated 8 and consists of a fabric-reinforced aluminium foil. This forms, so to speak, the upper support surface of the support 4, on which the stack of insulation panels 2 is arranged, and simultaneously serves as barrier for possible rising moisture.
• the support 4 constructed of lamellar panels 6 and 7 is a compression-resistant pallet-like panel, after use it can be readily rolled up into a reel, facilitating the return of the empty pallet.
• the pallet-like support panel shown in Figure 1 from only two longer lamellar panels 6, which are arranged at the edges and between them form a hollow 5 by virtue of the recessed lamellar panel 7, which is used for access by the tines of the fork-lift truck.
• the central arrangement of the further lamellar panel 6 forms a more stable structure, which prevents sagging of the support panel 4 in the inner region. This is in particular expedient in the context of high stacks constructed from a multiplicity of superposed insulation panels, and for stacks with very large-area insulation panels.
• the pallet-like support 4 can be wrapped with a sheeting, so that even if the transport unit is placed on damp terrain or exposed to rain, a correspondingly long service life of the support 4, formed as a reusable pallet, is ensured. It is also possible, to treat the support 4 with water-repellent agents, so that it is resistant to water, which may occur in situ on the construction site in the form of puddles.
• the stack of superposed insulation panels 2 which is usually covered with a textile web, which is provided either only over the periphery or else covers the two exposed end faces.
• the textile web designated 9 is in this typical embodiment designed so as to have high tensile strength and preferably produced from poly- ethylene, since in this embodiment the receptacles 5 for the means of transport are formed by tabs 10 arranged above the stack, so that the forces occurring on lifting of the stack are introduced into the textile web 9 via the tabs 10.
• the tabs 10 may be elements that are produced separately and fastened on the upper cover surface of the fabric 9, for example by welding or adhesive bonding, expediently however the tabs 10 are designed integrally with the fabric web 9 and therefore also of identical material.
• the one-part production may for example be carried out in that, during enveloping of the stack with the fabric web 9, corresponding cores with the dimensions of the subsequent recesses 5 are mounted in order to shape the tabs 10. Then the cores can be removed again, so that the tabs 10 open at both sides remain for engagement of the tines of a fork lift truck.
• a correspondingly stiff design of the tabs 10 it is ensured that the tabs 10 remain dimensionally stable, that is to say do not collapse in the region of the recesses 5.
• FIG. 3 A modification of the embodiment according to Figure 2 is shown by Figure 3, two functional positions being reproduced here in one drawing.
• the stack is enveloped with a fabric web 9, specifically analogous to the embodiment according to Figure 2, tabs 10 again being provided in the upper region.
• the tabs 10 are filled with strips 11 of rock wool insulation material, which form, or can form, so to speak, the cores for forming the recesses 5 of the tabs 10.
• the strips 11 are made of the same material as the insulation panels, which offers the advantage that the strips can then also be used for insulation purposes, with the intended application of the insulation panels of the stack in situ, i.e. on the construction site,
• the insulation strips 11 only need to be removed on site.
• the insulation strips 11 also as a support 4, as is made clear in the lower functional representation in Figure 3, the support here being formed by the strips 11 of insulation material removed from the tabs 10.
• an adhesive bond 12 is provided between the top side of the insulation strips 11 and the underside of the panel stack. This adhesion bond may for example already be prepared by providing the insulation strips 11 mounted so to speak as cores within the tabs 10 with an adhesion layer, which are outwardly covered by a peelable film strip.
• the transport unit 1 comprises a stack of superposed insulation panels 2, which are enclosed by a sheeting envelope 3, the support 4 here being formed by two insulation panels 13, which are again expediently of identical material or uniform material to the insulation panels 2 within the stack.
• supports 4 are elements which like insulation panels 2 are also contained within the stack in standard dimensions.
• the stack of insulation panels 2 could also be formed with a length and width of 2000 x 1200 mm, however the insulation panels 13 are designed to a standard size of 625 x 1200, with the result that the insulation panels 13 can be aligned so as to be flush with the stack in their property as supports and, by virtue of the reduced dimensions, also delimit the desired recesses 5 as receptacles.
• receptacles 3 are identified purely schematically 3, this depending purely on the arrangement of insulation panels 13 below the stack.
• the insulation panels 13 can be offset to a greater or lesser extent with respect to the outer, lower edge of the stack designated 15.
• the insulation panels 13 serving as support are enveloped with a sheeting 14 taking into consideration weather protection, here, too, it being possible to provide an adhesion bond or adhesive bond analogous to the typical embodiment of Figure 3.
• This is designated with the same reference 12.
• An advantage of the embodiment of Figure 5 consists in the fact that the insulation panels 13, which are present in an adapted standard to the insulation panels located in the stack can advantageously be used in situ on the construction site along with the insulation panels for insulation purposes. Only the sheeting 14 provided in the case of protection against weather conditions needs to be removed., wherein this again should have a greater thickness than the sheeting envelope 3 in order to take account of the more difficult transport conditions in the base region.
• a stack, wrapped with a sheeting or the Hke, of superposed insulation panels is received on two supports 4 which are arranged below the stack and preferably fixed by an adhesion bond such that they inwardly or outwardly delimit corresponding receptacles 5 for the mechanical engagement of lifting elements of means of transport.
• the supports 4 are formed by components inherent in the system, which can expediently be used on the construction site in conjunction with the insulation panels supplied in the stack.
• the supports 4 are expediently formed by sheeting reels, in which plastic sheeting is wound around a sturdy core, such as a tube, it then being possible to use the sheeting as a roof insulation sheet or the like or as a cover sheet.
• an auxiliary which is required in any case for the laying of insulation panels, may be transported onto the roof together with the transport unit, so that the transport unit contains' the insulation panel as well as. the required sheeting web together in one package.
• the support 4 may be a structure produced, for example, from waterproofing sheets or packages which may contain the nails, screws or dowels and other additional components for the insulation purpose or construction purpose.
• the supports 4 may extend only over a partial section of the width of the stack, so that, for the possibility of access from both sides by a- means of transport, a total of 4 supports are arranged below the stack.
• the supports 4 can then, however, extend over the entire width of the stack, as is expedient in particular in the preceding embodiments, so that they terminate essentially flush with the stack edges.
• the supports are designed as comer elements 16, which are preferably made of plastic and thereby form reusable elements and at the same time serve as edge protection for the stack.
• comer elements 16 are preferably suitable as edge protection elements and supporting elements.
• the comer element 16 is designed with two lateral surfaces and one base surface, the base surface being provided with projec-' tions 16, which may be designed as lug-like projections or studs.
• the corner region of the stack, which is received by the comer protection element 16 is indicated in broken lines in schematic representation. Fixing of the corner protection elements may take place by means of an adhesion bond.
• the comer elements 16 are connected to one another by means of a crosswise support.
• the downwardly projecting lugs 17 in this case delimit an inner recess 5, which may also serve for the engagement of the means of transport.

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