Self-unloading container for the transport of cereals and oilseeds

Abstract

A container to be used with trucks, semitrailers, railway wagons and ships, so as to carry out a multimodal transport where the transport by land, railway and fluvial routes is combined as needed. The container has a metal parallelepiped structure which contains a truck bed receiving the material, and one end it is mounted over a hinging resource that allows its turn regarding a lower cross axis; and at another end it is connected with a hydraulic cylinder that is fixed over the basis of the mentioned metallic structure and has its end free of its piston linked to the upper and rear cross edge of the truck bed.

Claims

1. A self-unloading container for the transport of cereals and oilseeds, to be applied over trucks, semitrailers, railway wagons and ships, so that it is possible to carry out a multimodal transport where the transport by land, railway and fluvial routes is combined according to the needs of each case, comprising a metal parallelepiped structure, which contains a pivotable truck bed for receiving material wherein said truck bed is contained within said metal parallelepiped structure, wherein at one end it is mounted over a hinging resource that allows its turn regarding a lower cross axis; while over the other end it is associated to an hydraulic cylinder that is fixed over the basis of the metal parallelepiped structure and has a end free of a piston linked to an upper and rear cross edge of said truck bed, through which it is possible to overturn it to cause the unloading of transported material and wherein said truck bed pivots relative to said metal parallelepiped structure.

2. The self-unloading container for the transport of cereals and oilseeds, according to claim 1, wherein the parallelepiped metallic structure includes steel profiles that define corresponding side rails, studs and cross bars.

3. The self-unloading container for the transport of cereals and oilseeds, according to claim 1 wherein the hinging resource includes a pair of side hinges arranged in correspondence with lower and rear vertexes of the truck bed.

4. The self-unloading container for the transport of cereals and oilseeds, according to claim 1, wherein between a lower crossbar of the metal parallelepiped structure and an intermediate and external point of the basis of the truck bed there is a stabilizer that maintains the truck bed in an unloading position.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

(1) In order to realize the advantages herein superficially referred to, to which users and experts in the field can add many others, and in order to ease the understanding of the constructive, constituent and operative characteristics of the invented Mechanical Equipment, a preferred embodiment is described below that is illustrated schematically and without a determined scale, in the attached sheets, with the express clarification that, precisely, as it is an example, it does not correspond to assign it a limitative or exclusive character of the scope of protection of the present disclosure/utility model, but it simply has a merely explicative and illustrative purpose of the basic concept it is based on.

(2) FIG. 1 is a perspective view that shows the container of a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure.

(3) FIG. 2 is also a perspective view of the same container of FIG. 1 observed from an opposite side view to the one of FIG. 1.

(4) FIG. 3 is a perspective view that shows the container with a truck bed in an unloading position.

(5) FIG. 4 is a perspective view that shows the truck bed in the unloading position, observed from a lateral face.

(6) FIG. 5 is a perspective view that shows the container of the present disclosure arranged over a semitrailer truck.

(7) FIG. 6 is a perspective view that shows the container of the present disclosure over a semitrailer truck, with its truck bed in unloading position.

(8) FIG. 7 is a perspective view that shows the container of the present disclosure arranged over a railway wagon.

(9) FIG. 8 is a perspective view that represents the container of the present disclosure over a railway wagon, with its truck bed in an unloading position.

(10) FIG. 9 is a perspective view that shows two railway wagons carrying the respective containers in an unloading position.

(11) It is hereby clarified that in all the figures, equal reference numbers and letters correspond to the same or equivalent constituent elements or parts of the whole, according to the chosen example for the present explanation of the invented container.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DISCLOSURE

(12) As can be seen in FIG. 1, the container referred to in the present disclosure basically includes a main support external metallic structure (E), made up of side rails (1), studs (2) and cross bars (3), forming a parallelepiped body that meets the dimensions of a conventional maritime container.

(13) It can be seen that this structure (E) includes and hosts a truck bed (B) that forms the container that receives the material to be transported, that can be cereals, oilseeds and the like.

(14) Referring to FIG. 2, the container can be seen from another angle, allowing viewing the position of a hydraulic cylinder (4) in its rest position that has been planned to dump the truck bed (B) to the unloading position.

(15) Furthermore, FIG. 3 shows that with the actuation of the aforementioned hydraulic cylinder (4) the truck bed (B) elevation is reached carrying out an unloading operation.

(16) It can be seen that, while preserving the external structure (E) stable, the elevation of the inner truck bed (B) is allowed due to the actuation of the hydraulic cylinder (4).

(17) As can be seen especially in FIGS. 3 and 4, the mentioned inner truck bed (B) turns when pivoting over the hinges (5).

(18) FIG. 4 highlights the presence of the stabilizer (6) planned to ensure the stability during the unloading.

(19) In preferred embodiments the mentioned side rails (1), studs (2) and cross bars (3) that form the metallic structure (E) can be made of steel material or profiles that will support the inner truck bed (B) load and the actuation of the hydraulic cylinder (4).

(20) It is important to highlight that the metallic structure (E) has the same dimensional characteristics as a standard maritime container, which allows versatility of the equipment, as it can be mounted on trucks, semitrailers and railway wagons suitable for this type of containers observing weights and dimensions capable of being transported through railways and land routes.

(21) It was also highlighted that, in the preferred embodiments, the above-mentioned inner truck bed (B) has the same volumetric capacity as the conventional truck bed, observing maximum loads and its strong structure.

(22) Furthermore, the mentioned hydraulic cylinder (4) can be of the telescopic type, as the ones used by conventional truck beds, and that the energy source (hydraulic center) used for its actuation can be found in the same equipment or be stationary in the load unloading site.

(23) The disclosure enables that the container may come in different forms, designed to satisfy the same mentioned need, in which case the same operative results can be obtained.

(24) Referring now to FIGS. 5 and 6 the structure (E) and truck bed (B) invented arranged on a semitrailer (T).

(25) FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate the same equipment (E) and (B) arranged over a railway wagon (W), whilst FIG. 9 represents the example where the use of two faced containers (E) and truck beds (B) are used, arranged in two consecutive railway wagons (W), what can also be a bitren truck (a truck hauling two semitrailers), in which case the unloading capacity per unit of time is increased.