Special receptacle or package – For a building component
Patent
1992-12-14
1993-11-30
Price, William I.
Special receptacle or package
For a building component
206449, B65D 8500, B65D 8548
Patent
active
052657221
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
DESCRIPTION
This invention relates to a device for storing and transporting a plurality of painted doors or other plates, comprising substantially rectangular frames which are to be arranged in such a manner on the possibly beaded end faces of the plates that their longer midlines cover the longitudinal lines of the end faces and which are to be releasably attached to the end faces by means of screws or the like.
The only known device of this type on the whole comprises only the frames known as "door bearers" which are placed with their longer midline horizontally one above the other, not only for storing the painted doors but also for their transport, while the plates are placed horizontally. In this arrangement, neither of the two stacks of frames has any frame connections within itself, with the result that the frames are liable to slip out of place in relation to one another both transversely to the direction of travel when the vehicle transporting them is negotiating a curve and in the direction of transport during braking or acceleration of the vehicle, and these movements could only be completely prevented by holding the plates on all sides. This problem is dealt with by employing a person to accompany the transport, whose sole task is to prevent the vertically stacked horizontally placed plates from shifting out of the stack.
The known device therefore has the disadvantage that one must either accept the risk of the stack of plates slipping out of position, which may, for example, result in damage to the paintwork on the plates, or engage at least two handlers.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a device for the storage and transport of a plurality of plates, in particular of painted doors, which avoids this disadvantage and requires only one handler and yet ensures that the transported plates will arrive undamaged at their destination.
This problem is solved according to the invention in a device of the type described above by a tubular chassis comprising a plane rectangular basic frame composed of two pairs of parallel, optionally telescopic shanks; a supported post at each corner of the basic frame; and two parallel, optionally telescopic cross-members mounted on the upper ends of the posts, above the parallel transverse shanks of the basic frame, which shanks connect the longitudinal shanks; and by two vertical bars mounted on each cross-member to be displaceable and fixed thereon for clamping a horizontal row of frames which are attached to the plates and are placed upright on the cross-member.
The basic frame thus constructed provides the advantage that all the plates are now force-locked together by way of the frames which are screwed to the plates and clamped together on the tubular chassis by means of the bars, so that the stack of plates will always hold together even during transport.
In a preferred embodiment of the device according to the invention, the cross-members are longer than the transverse shanks of the basic frame and have free ends which may be arranged, for example, over wheel cases between which there is just sufficient room for the basic frame. Efficient use of space for the transport of the greatest possible number of plates can thus be achieved even if the space underneath the cross-members is restricted laterally.
In a further development of the preferred embodiment, in which not only the longitudinal shanks of the basic frame but also its transverse shanks and accordingly also the cross-members are telescopic, so that the basic surface of the device can be adapted to the space available on the floor of the transporting vehicle and the whole device together with the transported doors can thereby be prevented from slipping out of place, the transverse shanks and the cross-members consist each of two tubes, a first and a second of identical profile, and of a third tube of similar profile inserted in the aforesaid first and second tubes and arranged to be fixed in the first tube and longitudinally displaceable in the second tube; in addition, a
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