Material or article handling – Wheeled – load-transporting type vehicles and means for... – With means on each vehicle cooperating to effect – or...
Patent
1982-09-15
1985-06-11
Valenza, Joseph E.
Material or article handling
Wheeled, load-transporting type vehicles and means for...
With means on each vehicle cooperating to effect, or...
104 48, 414401, B65G 6700
Patent
active
045225460
ABSTRACT:
A railroad station with at least two main tracks for freight trains with container-carrying flatcars has several pairs of ancillary tracks each flanking a respective main track, the ancillary tracks being used by respective sets of self-propelled transfer vehicles each having a length substantially corresponding to that of a flatcar. Each transfer vehicle is divided into four identical sections having respective pairs of transport arms which are laterally extendable in either direction to support containers of full or fractional lengths to be moved from or onto a flatcar, another transfer vehicle or a road vehicle aligned therewith. The spacing of the transport arms of each pair differs between vehicles on neighboring ancillary tracks to enable their extension into an interleaved position for a transfer of a container therebetween. Vehicles on an ancillary track adjoining a roadway have adjustable mountings enabling an orientation of the container axis parallel to the axis of a juxtaposed truck which is not entirely parallel to the tracks; precise alignment of a transfer vehicle with a flatcar, another transfer vehicle or a track is controlled by a vehicle-borne microprocessor responsive to signals from associated position sensors. A computer with information regarding the destination of containers to be transferred to different trains determines the order in which containers loaded on vehicles of one set are shifted to vehicles of an adjacent set preparatorily to their reloading onto respecive flatcars.
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Dubno Herbert
Millman Stuart J.
Ross Karl F.
Valenza Joseph E.
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