Transloading apparatus for transcontainers
First Claim
1. A transloading apparatus for containers comprising:
- a horizontally displaceable support spaced above a container to be transloaded and including at least one crane trolley;
two horizontally spaced vertically elongated rigid lifting structures on said support;
means on said support for vertically displacing said lifting structures on said support;
a respective pendulum structure on each of said rigid lifting structures and having lower ends swingable relative to said lifting structures, each of said pendulum structures including a pendulum rod and means for cardanically mounting the respective pendulum rod at an upper end of the respective lifting structure;
load receiving means connected cardanically to said lower ends of said pendulum structures and provided with formations for engagement with said container and affixing said container detachably to said apparatus; and
selectively operable arresting means for preventing swinging movement of said pendulum structures relative to said lifting structures.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a transloading apparatus for transcontainers such as freight containers, interchangeable containers and semi-trailers including a crane trolley adapted to travel on a crane or portal, to which, by way of a lifting means, a load receiving means is fitted in a manner for raising and lowering.
In order to enable the load receiving means to be guided and aligned more accurately in relation to the transcontainer, provision is made to connect to the load receiving apparatus two horizontally movable columns or lifting structures at a distance from one another which is fixed or can be adjusted in a defined manner and to reader these vertically displaceable. Preferably each of the columns or each of the two lifting structures can be connected by way of a pendulum suspension to the load receiving means.
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17 Claims
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1. A transloading apparatus for containers comprising:
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a horizontally displaceable support spaced above a container to be transloaded and including at least one crane trolley; two horizontally spaced vertically elongated rigid lifting structures on said support; means on said support for vertically displacing said lifting structures on said support; a respective pendulum structure on each of said rigid lifting structures and having lower ends swingable relative to said lifting structures, each of said pendulum structures including a pendulum rod and means for cardanically mounting the respective pendulum rod at an upper end of the respective lifting structure; load receiving means connected cardanically to said lower ends of said pendulum structures and provided with formations for engagement with said container and affixing said container detachably to said apparatus; and selectively operable arresting means for preventing swinging movement of said pendulum structures relative to said lifting structures. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A transloading apparatus for containers comprising:
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a horizontally displaceable support spaced above a container to be transloaded and including at lest one crane trolley; two vertically elongated rigid lifting structures on said support; means on said support for vertically displacing said lifting structures on said support a respective pendulum structure on each of said rigid lifting structures and having lower ends swingable relative to said lifting structures, each of said pendulum structures including a pendulum rod and means for cardanically mounting the respective pendulum rod at an upper end of the respective lifting structure; load receiving means connected cardanically to said lower ends of said pendulum structures and provided with formations for engagement with said container and affixing said container detachably to said apparatus; and selectively operable arresting means for preventing swinging movement of said pendulum structures relative to said lifting structures, wherein in lower areas close to the load receiving means the pendulum structures are guided by adjusting units forming said arresting means, four of said pendulum rods being provided, each coupled to a respective one of said adjusting units whereby at least two of the adjusting units are arranged perpendicularly with respect to said other when considered in a plan view, each of said rods having ball-joints at upper and lower ends thereof.
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