Railway rolling stock – Suspended
Patent
1997-10-03
1999-11-23
Morano, S. Joseph
Railway rolling stock
Suspended
104 89, B61B 300
Patent
active
059880724
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a product carrier for sensitive products or for products which easily become entangled in each other, which product carriers are intended to be suspended in a typical sloping track in the form of a rail, rod or the like. The products which are to be hung in the product carrier may be of any kind which is suspendable and they are not limited to any special field. The invention is particularly intended for sensitive products but also non-sensitive products can be hung in the product carrier.
PRIOR ART
When different products are produced it is usual that the product or parts thereof in a resulting end product are treated in different machines or at different working stations whereupon the treated object is hung in a product carrier which may slide, roll or be transported forward to a new working place or to a packing station. It is often so that the suspending track is slightly sloping down towards a working station and the articles will therefore be crushed against each other before the working station if several articles are present on the transport track, which is usual. Examples of such articles which may be hung in a product carrier of this kind are finished or semi-finished sewn items in the form of dresses, suits or the like, rolls of cable, car parts, etc., which are products of completely different kinds.
TECHNICAL PROBLEM
When the articles which are carried forward on a usually sloping track are held up, for example in front of a working station or a packing station, queues of the products are usually formed which will press against each other to a greater or lesser extent depending on their weight or the force in the transporting arrangement which pushes the products forward. This is a great disadvantage for sensitive products which cannot stand up to being pressed together. Another disadvantage besides that the article may be sensitive to being crushed, is that the transporting forward or the releasing of the first product article in the queue is obstructed when the articles behind are pressing on the article in question. Some articles also have a tendency to become entangled in each other if they come in touch with each other and hard products may damage each other if they bump against each other without any shock absorbant.
SOLUTION
It has, therefore, long been a desire to solve this problem in a simple way and on the one hand to be able to protect sensitive products, and on the other hand to facilitate the release or the transport forward of the first article in the row. Therefore, according to the present invention a product carrier for sensitive products has been brought about, which is intended to be suspended in a usually sloping track by means of a wheel arrangement or the like, which product carrier is characterized in that it comprises a plate on or in the vicinity of which the article is intended to be suspended and possibly one spacer on the plate preferably above the suspending point of the suspended article.
According to the invention, it is suitable that the product carrier comprises an uppermost part in contact with the wheel arrangement or the like, which uppermost part has the shape of a downward hanging rod which ends in a suspension arrangement, for example a hook at its lower end above or in which hook the plate and the spacer are fastened or suspended.
Further, according to the invention it is suitable that one or more hooks or the like are arranged on the plate having holes for further suspension of articles or clamping of, for instance, thread-shaped material. Hook and loop fastening may also occur.
The spacer may, according to the invention, suitably consist of, for example, foam plastics and it may be glued to the plate.
DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES
In the following the invention will be described more in detail in connection with the attached drawings where
FIG. 1 shows a side view of a row of product carriers suspended on a sloping rail and where
FIG. 2 shows a front view of three product carriers each carryin
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