SYSTEM FOR HANDLING GOODS ON CARRIERS FOR COMBINED RAILWAY AND OVERLAND TRANSPORTATION

摘要

1522751 Transferring containers between vehicles LINJEGODS A/S and LAGAHOLM AB 23 March 1976 [24 March 1975] 11717/76 Heading B8Q One or more containers 3 or other goods carriers are transferred to or from the side of a rail car 1, Fig. 1, in the longitudinal direction of a truck 8 having a load platform 9 which is raisable to the level of the rail car load platform. In a detailed example, Fig. 7, the truck 16 has a load platform 20 connected to the vehicle frame 17 by pivoted rods 21-25 so as to be controllably raisable by rams 26-29. The platform 20 has outward side extensions at both ends provided with fastenings to lock in fittings such as 98-101, Fig. 15, in the underside of a container. The containers are moved by a sled 65 actuated by a long ram 76 to enter a recess 13 under the container 3 to engage holes 81-84 by pegs 77, 78. The sled runs by wheels 66, 67 on longitudinal I beams of the platform 20. The rail car 1 may have removable guides which engage the recess 13 as the container is moved across the car which may also have an angle member attachable to its side against which the truck can be backed to position it correctly. The container 3 may have legs 94-97 which after the platform 20 has been raised can be let down so that on lowering the platform the container is supported thereby on the ground.