Land vehicles – Wheeled – Body with bracketed-type or nonsuspended axles
Patent
1995-08-04
1997-09-02
Camby, Richard M.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Body with bracketed-type or nonsuspended axles
B62B 302
Patent
active
056623437
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention concerns a base frame adapted to be built together with et least one upper part, said base comprising a rectangular frame structure which is essentially horizontal in use and has hollow profile pipes serving as guide and fixing elements for the upper part in the mounting thereof.
Such container bases are widely used in connection with carriage bottoms whose corners are adapted to receive side-boards. Containers of this type are known in many versions fur the transport, possibly also for the display of various goods, e.g. boxes, flowers, clothing end food products. So far, a container base end associated side-boards have been designed for a specific use, and the use has decided whether the side-boards are fitted by vertical or horizontal mounting on the container base.
EP-A-366 773 discloses a container base on which side members may be mounted, since the container base is provided with horizontal pipe parts for receiving end retaining locking parts mounted on the side members. It will not be directly possible to use the container base in connection with other kinds of upper frame constructions.
The object of the invention is to provide a container base which can serve to fix several types of side-boards.
This object is achieved in that the container base is constructed as stated in the characterizing portion of claim 1. This structure ensures that the coupling means of the side-boards can be inserted both in a vertical direction end in two mutually horizontal directions, which results in a more flexible container base.
The container base is therefore particularly expedient for multi-purpose use, so that a single type of container base is now sufficient for the retailers, on which several types of side-boards may be mounted, depending upon the commodity to be transported in the container. For multi-purpose use it is expedient to provide the rim of the container base with some upwardly extending flaps which can control goods on the container, without there being provided separate side-boards.
The invention is thus characterized in that none of the profile pipes at the corners of the container base prevents insertion of fasteners for a side-board into the end of one of the other profile pipes in the corner. It is not necessary that a coupling means of a side-board fills the profile pipe completely, which, however, is a preferred embodiment, as stated in claim 2. Claim 2 moreover states the presence of a stiffening element which, in combination with the features stated in claim 3, provides a very stiff corner structure.
Claim 4 defines a preferred embodiment of the stiffening element, while claims 5 and 6 define further features of the stiffening element.
Claim 7 defines an embodiment for the fixing of a side-board when this is introduced from the side.
It will be readily appreciated how side-boards can be fixed by vertical mounting, i.e. in that the side-boards have some downwardly extending pins to be received in the substantially vertical profile pipes of the container base.
Claim 8 defines a preferred embodiment, while claims 9 and 10 define a preferred use of the container base according to the invention.
The invention will be explained more fully below in connection with preferred embodiments and with reference to the drawings, in which
FIG. 1 is a sectional view of a preferred embodiment of a container base according to the invention,
FIG. 2 is a plan view of the container base shown in FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 is a detailed view of a corner area of the container base shown in FIGS. 1 and 2,
FIG. 4 is a top view of the corner structure on a container base according to the invention,
FIG. 5 is a lateral view of the corner structure shown in FIG. 4,
FIG. 6 shows a corner structure according to the invention in connection with a detachable side-board,
FIG. 7 shows a second view of a corner structure according to the invention in connection with a detachable side-board;
FIG. 8 shows a corner structure according to the invention in connection with a corner column or pipe member on which shelves may be pl
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Ingvartsen Peder Hans
Jensen Berno Holmgaard
Mogensen Erling Kristen
S.o slashed.rensen Kent Weel
Camby Richard M.
Container Centralen A/S
Vanaman Frank
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