Material or article handling – Plural – static structures for supporting discrete loads and... – Load-underlying members
Patent
1998-09-23
2000-12-19
Bratlie, Steven A.
Material or article handling
Plural, static structures for supporting discrete loads and...
Load-underlying members
277284, 277264, B63C 1500, E04H 618
Patent
active
061620033
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to installations for the storage of objects, in particular for boats. Installations for the storage of boats are known from documents U.S. Pat. No. 4,640,214 and DE 39 37 097 A1. However, the present invention shows significant advantages in comparison to the inventions described in the above mentioned documents, these advantages are described in the following description; especially the movable storage elements.
Such installations serve for example for the storage of boats, such as sailing yachts, motor boats or similar. For example in autumn the boat is removed from the water with a trailer and is transported into a hall or a similar place of storage and left there for storage over the winter. In such halls or places of storage, the boats can be maintained, repaired and refurbished.
The disadvantage of this practice is that the trailer with which the boats are transported and stored takes up very much space in the hall. For this reason, it is common practice today for yachts when being stored in halls to be taken from their trailer, placed on their keels and to be supported using lateral supports in order to accommodate the maximum number of boats in the hall.
Boat builders and boat wharves in particular have major problems with storage space as they are often located close to the water. They have far too little space, for example, when the boats are removed from the water over winter and are stored to be able to easily carry out repairs. It is also disadvantageous that if work is carried out in the boat storage halls, then the other yachts become significantly dirty. For this reason, they must be specially covered.
The present invention is based on the problem of solving the above mentioned disadvantages and on creating an installation with which numerous boats, but also other objects can be stored quickly, and most importantly, requiring little space. Easy access to the stored boats or the stored objects should be possible.
This problem is solved by arranging numerous cells in a honeycomb fashion next to and/or above each other.
The present invention permits numerous boats to be stored preferably in hexagonal cells which are stacked in a honeycomb fashion next to and above each other. The individual cells are hereby formed in any desired length, such that when necessary, two boats can be inserted into the tubular cells using the appropriate storage trolleys. Also an arrangement of the cells in many levels of the individual cells stacked upon each other is desirable.
In the individual cells, storage trolleys are mounted which are fitted with slots and guide rails, into which the storage trolleys can be driven. These storage trolleys serve the support and easy handling of objects, in particular boats.
In order to support the boat in position, lateral brackets with arms connected to them are mounted on to a base plate on the storage trolley, which support the boat using so called adjustable supports. These supports are held by adjustable struts, so that an exact positioning of the supports on the hull of the boat is possible. To ensure that the surface of the hull is not damaged, padded blocks are provided on the ends of the supports that support the boat. In the case of a sailing yacht, the keel stands preferably on the base plate of the storage trolley, so that most of the weight, respectively the centre of gravity is carried by the base plate. In order to accommodate the mast and the boom on the storage trolley, mounting blocks or similar are provided if necessary.
To extract a boat out of such a cell, an appropriate lifting device is provided which is fitted with a lift suitable for receiving the storage trolley. This lifting device is raised to the height of the cell so that the storage trolley complete with the boat can be driven onto the lifting device, which then transports the storage trolley and the boat to the working area. Here, it is also conceivable that a crane lift the boat on the storage trolley from the lifting device onto a trailer.
That the individual cells can be
REFERENCES:
patent: 4640214 (1987-02-01), Bruns
Bratlie Steven A.
Reid John S.
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