ANTI-TILTING DEVICE

Abstract

An anti-tilting device for releasably mounting on a transport pallet, such as a standardized transport pallet, such as a Euro pallet, is disclosed. The pallet-has a support side for placing the transport pallet on the ground and rest side opposite with respect to the support side, on which the transport goods are to be deposited and which is particularly formed by a plurality of parallel horizontal rest panels spaced apart from each other. The device includes a support pillar and a ground support connected with the support pillar, which extends along the transport pallet height downwards to the ground and which comprises a support end facing the ground for retaining on the ground, and a tine section fixedly connected with the support pillar and the ground support for reaching under the transport goods and particularly for engaging between the rest panels.

Claims

1. An anti-tilting device for releasable mounting on a transport pallet, the pallet comprising a support side for placing on the ground and a pressed side opposite with respect to the support side, on which the transport goods are to be deposited, the pressed side being formed by a plurality of parallel horizontal rest panels spaced apart from each other, the device comprising: a support pillar which extends from the rest side vertically upwards in an operation state with the transport pallet and a ground support connected with the support pillar, the ground support extending in the operation state along the transport length height downwards to the ground and comprises a support end facing the ground for supporting on the ground, and a tine section fixedly connected with the support pillar and the ground support for reaching under the transport goods and particularly for engaging between the rest panels.

2. The anti-tilting device according to claim 1, wherein the device accesses the transport pallet already occupied with the transport goods exclusively under the influence of the weight of the transport goods deposited on the transport pallet or the anti-tilting device having accessed the transport pallet is carried for further transportation, or that the tine section is dimensioned such that the transport goods deposited on the transport pallet tensions the tine section with the transport pallet such that the anti-tilting device is releasably mounted on the transport pallet or upon unloading the transport pallet is removable from the transport goods in particular without releasing further fastening devices from the transport pallet, or that in the accessing state of the anti-tilting device, the support end contacts or is spaced from the ground, such that upon tilting of the support pillar the supporting end contacting the ground forms a lever pivot bearing access in order to lift the tine section with an essentially vertical upswinging movement upon a tilting movement of the support pillar.

3. The anti-tilting device according to claim 1, wherein the tine section extends essentially in a horizontal direction perpendicularly from the support pillar and the ground support.

4. The anti-tilting device according to claim 1, wherein the tine section comprises a fork structure with at least two tines wherein the at least two tines extend parallel to each other from the support pillar and the ground support.

5. The anti-tilting device according to claim 1, wherein the tine section is spaced with regard to the support end in the vertical direction that upon engaging between the pressed panels by the tine section, the support end contacts or is spaced from the ground or that, in the direction of the pillar, a distance of the support end from the tine section extending essentially horizontally is as big as or slightly smaller than a pallet height from a ground side to the transport rest of the transport pallet.

6. The anti-tilting device according to claim 1, wherein the support pillar is formed by two vertical struts preferably arranged parallel with regard to each other, wherein at upper vertical strut ends, an upper reinforcement cross member 11 couples the two vertical struts, or the ground support is formed by two short vertical struts extending in parallel with regard to each other, wherein at lower short vertical strut ends, an upper reinforcement member couples the two short vertical struts, wherein the ground support is formed by a continuous strut extension of the vertical struts of the support pillar beyond the horizontal position of the tine section, wherein a reinforcement cross member for forming the support end is formed at the lower ends of the vertical struts, or the support pillar and the ground support are structured such that they thereby form a closed frame, wherein at a predetermined vertical height, the tine section perpendicularly extends away from the plane of the frame, wherein a further intermediate cross member connects the vertical struts at the vertical height of the tine section in the frame.

7. The anti-tilting device according to claim 6, wherein the predetermined vertical height of the tine section from the support end is between 100 mm and 140 mm, the tine section is particularly formed by one piece with the support pillar and the ground support.

8. The anti-tilting device according to claim 6, wherein the vertical struts or the cross members of the frame-like anti-tilting device comprise a continuously rectangular hollow bar-cross-section, wherein particularly the vertical struts are perpendicularly connected with the cross members.

9. The anti-tilting device according to claim 1, wherein the tines of the tine section comprise a constant cross-section along the tine section, wherein the tines are ramp- or wedge-shaped, wherein the angle between the ramp-shaped surface and the direction of extension of the tines is between 20 and 40, or the tines comprise a vertical height of at least 15 mm.

10. The anti-tilting device according to claim 1, wherein the support pillar comprises a total height of at least 150 mm and less than 1500 mm, and a width in the range of 165 mm to 225 mm, and wherein the tine section comprises a length in the direction of extension of at least 150 mm.

11. The anti-tilting device according to claim 1, wherein, at an upper section of the support pillar at least one through bores for mounting a handle are provided, wherein the handle is detachably attachable at a backside of the anti-tilting device by a fastener facing away from the transport pallet.

12. The anti-tilting device according to claim 1, wherein a support leg is arranged at the support end, which extends from the backside of the ground support for contacting the ground, wherein the support leg is formed as a thin-walled plate and extends horizontally from the support end.

Description

[0029] In the following, further characteristics, features and advantages of the invention become apparent by means of the description of preferred embodiments of the invention by means of the accompanying Figures, in which:

[0030] FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a support pillar according to the invention for releasably attaching to a standardized transport pallet; and

[0031] FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of a support pillar according to FIG. 1, wherein furthermore a handle and a support leg are provided on the support pillar.

[0032] In FIGS. 1 and 2 the anti-tilting device according to the invention is generally indicated with the reference sign 1. The anti-tilting device 1 is configured to be releasably attached to a standardized transport pallet (not shown). The anti-tilting device 1 comprises a support pillar of at least 30 mm essentially extending perpendicularly upwards from the transport pallet. In particular, the support pillar 3 extends exactly 880 mm from the transport pallet perpendicularly upwards. In the illustrated embodiments, the support pillar 3 comprises two vertical struts 5 arranged parallel with regard to each other, which essentially comprise the same geometric dimensions as well as the same cross-section. The illustrated vertical struts 5 comprise an essentially rectangular cross-section, wherein edges 7 of the vertical struts 5 are deburred or rounded. At an upper vertical strut end 9 the vertical struts 5 are connected with each other via an upper reinforcement cross member 11 also comprising an essentially rectangular cross-section, in particular except for deburred or rounded edges 7. Further, the reinforcement cross member 11 comprises a reinforcement cross member end 13 at both ends, wherein the reinforcement cross member ends 13 are aligned with respect to the vertical strut ends 9 such that the reinforcement cross member 11 extends essentially perpendicular with regard to both vertical struts 5 and that a protrusion-free passage is formed.

[0033] Further, the anti-tilting device 1 comprises a ground support 15 essentially extending perpendicularly downwards from the transport pallet, which is preferably formed by extending the vertical struts 5 downwards in the direction of the ground. Thus, in particular, the passages with regard to the geometry and the dimension of the vertical struts 5 of the support pillar 3 are analogously applicable to the ground support 15. At the lower ends of the vertical struts 5 of the ground support 15, lower vertical strut ends 17 are formed where a lower reinforcement cross member 19 for forming a support end 21 facing the ground is arranged. At the ends of the reinforcement cross member 19 reinforcement cross member ends 23 are provided which are lined with respect to the lower vertical strut ends in accordance with the reinforcement cross member ends 13 such that the reinforcement cross member 19 extends essentially perpendicularly with regard to both vertical struts 5 and a free passage is built. Thus, a closed, in particular rectangular, strut frame is formed.

[0034] The anti-tilting device 1 comprises also a tine section 25 for reaching under transport goods deposited on the transport pallet and for engaging between rest panels of the transport pallets arranged in a distance with regard to each other. The tine section 25 extends by forming an angle of around 90 from the support pillar section and the ground support section. In the illustrated embodiments, the tine section 25 is formed as a fork structure and comprises two parallel tines 27 extending from the support pillar section and the ground support section, wherein also more than two tines 27 may be provided. Up to a distal end 29 distant from support pillar 1 the tines 27 comprise an essentially constant, in particular rectangular cross-section, wherein the tine height is 15 mm. At the distal end 29 the tines 27 comprise a ramp-shaped surface 31 inclined about an angle of 30, which facilitates reaching under the pallet goods. The tine height is adjusted such that the tine section may be inserted into the rest panel spacing even when the transport goods, in particular the paper stack, is deposited on the rest panels. The tine height is dimensioned such that manually inserting is possible. However, the tine height is also to be adjusted such that a jamming of the tine section 25 is achieved because the formability of the paper stack is used to compensate a small oversize of the tine section height with regard to the rest panel spacing height as well as a vertical recess of the tine section 25 with regard to the rest panels of the rest panel spacing. It is, however, clear that further tine geometries are also suitable for the invention. A vertical height H of the tine section 25 comprises preferably 120 mm in order to be adapted to the standardized transport pallet. Thus, a reliable, without damaging the transport pallets, engaging of the tine section 25 between two rest panels of the transport pallets spaced with regard to each other is ensured. Further, at the predetermined vertical height H of the tine section 25 a further intermediate cross member 33 for connecting the two vertical struts 5 is provided, which comprises an analog geometry such as the vertical struts 5.

[0035] The illustrated anti-tilting device 1 is manufactured as a welded part, wherein two vertical struts 5 are welded together with the upper cross member 11, the lower cross member 19 and the intermediate cross member 33 for forming a closed strut frame. Further, the tines 27 forming the tine section 25 are welded together at the predetermined tine height H with the strut frame. A suitable material of the single components may for example be steel. Of course, further combinations of material and assembly processes on the anti-tilting device 1 are possible.

[0036] At the upper cross member 11 two through-bores 35 arranged in a distance with regard to each other for receiving and mounting a handle 37 are provided, wherein the distance between the two through-bores 35 in a preferred embodiment is 112 mm. The handle 37 may for example comprise two pins (not shown) which may be inserted into the through-bores 35 and may there be braced or tensioned complementary in shape. Also, it is possible to attach the handle 37 by means of a screwing at the upper cross member 11.

[0037] An additional support leg 39 may be arranged at the backside of the support pillar 1 for contacting ground. The support leg 39 may be formed as a thin-walled plate and extends essentially perpendicularly with regard to the ground support 15 away from the support end 21.

[0038] The features disclosed in the preceding description, the Figures and the claims may be relevant for the realization of the invention in its different embodiments alone or in any combination.

REFERENCE SIGN LIST

[0039] 1 anti-tilting device [0040] 3 support pillar [0041] 5 vertical strut [0042] 7 edge [0043] 9 vertical strut end [0044] 11 reinforcement cross member [0045] 13 reinforcement cross member end [0046] 15 ground support [0047] 17 vertical strut end [0048] 19 reinforcement cross member [0049] 21 support end [0050] 23 reinforcement cross member end [0051] 25 tine section [0052] 27 tine [0053] 29 distal end [0054] 31 ramp-shaped surface [0055] 33 intermediate cross member [0056] 35 through bore [0057] 37 handle [0058] 39 support leg