Loading platform for carrying a truck or a goods container with adapting means for road, rail and oversea transport

摘要

The carrying platform includes means for adapting it to railway bogies, a tracked road bogie or a support structure in a boat for transporting the van by railway, road or sea. The platform comprises a frame having two parallel side-members 100 each of which has an inverted U-shaped cross-section, the branches 101 of which are extended, except adjacent the ends of the side-members, by lateral wings 102 so that each side-member has in the part thereof provided with the wings an omega type of cross-section. Cross-members 600 interconnect the side-members 100 in the regions thereof provided with the wings 102. The end parts of the side-members 100 outside the wings 102 are assembled by plate structures 400 for bearing on a support such as a railway bogie 39. Rolling devices 151 having free rollers 152 are connected to the ends of the side-members 100. A retractable set of road wheels 17, 18, 19 is connected to the platform and hydraulic prop structures 32, 150 are provided and have sufficient travel to raise the carrying platform 37 so that the rolling devices 151 can bear against railway bogies 39, tracked road bogies 9 or a support structure 72, 74, 75 in a boat.