Receiving-and-dispatching station

• US 3,885,757 A
• Filed: 07/24/1974
• Issued: 05/27/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Adolf Moritsovich Alexandrov, Avtandil Semenovich Kakhniashvili, Dmitry Rudolfovich Gun, Ilya Solomonovich Kantor, Ippolit Davidovich Suladze, Jury Abramovich Tsimbler, Jury Arnoldovich Topolyansky, Vladimir Efimovich Aglitsky
• Original Assignee: Adolf Moritsovich Alexandrov, Avtandil Semenovich Kakhniashvili, Dmitry Rudolfovich Gun, Ilya Solomonovich Kantor, Ippolit Davidovich Suladze, Jury Abramovich Tsimbler, Jury Arnoldovich Topolyansky, Vladimir Efimovich Aglitsky
• Inventors: Alexandrov, Adolf Moritsovich, Aglitsky, Vladimir Efimovich, Kantor, Ilya Solomonovich, Kakhniashvili, Avtandil Semenovich, Topolyansky, Jury Arnoldovich, Suladze, Ippolit Davidovich, Tsimbler, Jury Abramovich, Gun, Dmitry Rudolfovich
• Primary Examiner(s): Schacher, Richard A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rowland, James L.
• Application Number:
  US05/491,517
• Time in Patent Office: 307 Days
• Field of Search: 243/1,19,20,21,22,23,24,29,30,31,38
• US Class Current: 406/74
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 51/20 Braking arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 51/32 for despatch, delivery, and transit

Abstract

The station comprises a loading-and-unloading chamber and an adjoining pipe section, both installed between any adjacent sections of a pipeline, said pipe section being secured on a carriage parallel to another pipe section secured on the same carriage, the length and inside diameter of said second pipe section being practically equal to the length and inside diameter of the first pipe section while the carriage is installed with a provision for reciprocating across the geometrical axes of the pipe sections for placing the latter alternately between the loading-and-unloading chamber and the pipeline sections, coaxially with them, thereby either moving the containers through the loading-and-unloading chamber or stopping them.

Claims

1. A receiving-and-dispatching station of the installation for pneumatic transportation of containerized cargoes located between any adjacent sections of a pipeline and comprising:

a loadingand-unloading chamber one end of which adjoins one of said pipeline sections;

a carriage installed between the other end of said loading-and-unloading chamber and the other one of said pipeline sections;

a pipe section whose inside diameter is approximately the same as the inside diameter of said pipeline sections and which is secured on said carriage so that one of its ends adjoins the other end of said loading-and-unloading chamber while its other end adjoins the other one of said pipeline sections;

a device for braking the containers and pushing them into said loading-and-unloading chamber, located in said pipe section;

another pipe section whose length and inside diameter are practically equal to the length and inside diameter of said first pipe section and which is secured on said carriage parallel to said first pipe section;

a drive of said carriage providing for its reciprocating motion across the geometrical axes of said pipe sections for placing them alternately between said loadingand-unloading chamber and the other pipeline section so that, when said first pipe section is set coaxially with the loadingand-unloading chamber, said containers are stopped and moved into said loading and unloading chamber while after placing said other pipe section coaxially with the loading-and-unloading chamber, said containers pass through said loading-and-unloading chamber.

2. A receiving-and-dispatching station of the installation for pneumatic transportation of containerized cargoes located between any adjacent sections of a pipeline and comprising:

a loading-and-unloading chamber one end of which adjoins one of said pipeline sections;

a carriage installed between the other end of said loading-and-unloading chamber and the other one of said pipeline sections;

a pipe section whose inside diameter is approximately the same as the inside diameter of said pipeline sections and which is secured on said carriage so that one of its ends adjoins the other end of said loading-and-unloading chamber while its other end adjoins the other one of said pipeline sections;

a device for braking the containers and pushing them into said loading-and-unloading chamber, located in said pipe section and comprising;

a pusher installed in said pipe section with a provision for moving along its axis, a hydraulic cylinder installed at one of the ends of said pusher;

the rod of said hydraulic cylinder, a grip mounted on the free end of said rod, a pumping plant mounted on the other side of said pusher and communicating with said hydraulic cylinder and grip, a hydraulic motor mounted on said pumping plant and communicating with it, a drum mounted on said pumping plant, an overrunning clutch connecting said hydraulic motor and drum, a cable one end of which is secured on said drum and the other, end, on said pipe section;

said hydraulic motor, overruning clutch and drum with the cable constitute the drive of the pusher for transferring the containers into said loading-and-unloading chamber;

another pipe section whose length and inside diameter are practically equal to the length and inside diameter of said first section and which is secured on said carriage parallel to said first pipe section, a drive of said carriage ensuring its reciprocating motion across the geometrical axes of said pipe sections for placing them alternately between said loading-and-unloading chamber and the other pipe section so that after placing the first section coaxially with the loading-and-unloading chamber the containers are stopped and then pushed into said loading-and-unloading chamber while after placing said other pipe section coaxially with the loading-and-unloading chamber, said containers pass through said loading-and-unloading chamber.