Special receptacle or package – With pallet feature – Binder wrap for content
Patent
1991-04-02
1992-11-10
Sewell, Paul T.
Special receptacle or package
With pallet feature
Binder wrap for content
206600, 220 92, 220404, 426393, 426396, 53399, 53440, 53469, B65B 2500
Patent
active
051616939
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a carcass carrying cargo unit and a method of transporting carcasses using said unit.
Australia exports a large volume of carcasses, mutton, lamb and beef, and beef fore and hind quarters. The existing methods of storage and handling have involved a high degree of "manhandling" of the carcasses.
After the animal is processed at the meat works, the soft carcasses are hung in frames and transported to the coldstore blastfreezers where they are deep frozen. After blastfreezing, the deepfrozen carcasses are removed by hand and stacked in open ended frames, in which the carcasses are stored until loading on the ships for export.
The carcasses are then transported in the said frames by refrigerated truck to the ship for loading where the carcass loaded frames are loaded aboard the ship where the carcasses are removed from the frames and hand stowed and the frames dismantled and returned ashore for return to the coldstore.
When the ship reaches its destination the carcasses have to be loaded by hand into a sling or a similar frame unit for transportation ashore. The present invention seeks to lessen the manhandling of the carcasses by providing an improved carcass cargo unit.
In one broad form the invention comprises a carcass carrying cargo unit comprising: opening between the end frames facing to one side of the frame structure, and where the carcasses are loaded into said bag onto said base frame to the approximate height of the side frames, the opening of the bag is drawn tight and the strapping means engaged around the thus loaded bag to secure the carcasses in the bag.
Preferably the bag unit has lifting sling means fixed thereto, and is of total dimensions so as to be held in a standard loading frame unit.
In another form the invention comprises a method of handling carcasses, comprising the steps of: which is demountable or pivotally connected to the base frame, a bag having its open mouth facing to the side of the jig with the top edges of the bag supported from the jig; comprising a base member and two upright end members; approximate height of the upright end members; therein, wherein the bag can be lifted by crane or forklift.
In a further form the invention comprises a jig for holding a carcass cargo unit which comprises an open bag with a stiffening frame comprising a base and two upright members.
Preferably the bag is of dimensions to be held by a standard loading frame unit.
The invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 illustrates a jig for holding the bag and frame structure of the cargo unit in one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 illustrates one embodiment of the frame structure of the carcass cargo carrying unit of the present invention with the bag unit shown in broken lines;
FIG. 3 shows the position of one embodiment of the carcass cargo unit positioned lin the jig illustraged in FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 shows the fully loaded carcass cargo unit in the holding jig with the envelopping bands secured in position around the bag and its contents;
FIG. 5 illustrates schematically six loaded bags being lifted from a common lifting bar arrangement after having been tilted.
A jig 1 for loading of carcasses is shown in FIG. 1. This comprises a lower frame 2 consisting of two elongated members 3 connected to each other by transverse profiles 4 and having elongated members 5 telescopically movable in the ends thereof. The elongated members 5 may be hingedly connected to a pair of uprights 6 at one end but such uprights may also be rigidly connected to both ends of such members. Connectable to the jig 1 is a planar end members door like member 7 arranged as a rear abutment surface at the jig 1.
The transverse support profiles 4 connected to the elongated members 3 form openings allowing the insertion of a fork of a forklift above the lower frame members to engage and lift a loaded carcass cargo units from the jig. Further the jig 1 has forklift loops located below the elongated members 3 to assist in
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Ackun Jr. Jacob K.
Cool Carriers Svenska AB
Sewell Paul T.
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