Portal trailer for a tugger train

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9290214-B2
Application number	US-201414317653-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 27, 2014
Priority date	Jun 28, 2013
Publication date	Mar 22, 2016
Grant date	Mar 22, 2016

Abstract

A portal trailer for a tugger train, consisting of a front, rear and middle trailer section, between which respectively a receiving area for a dolly to be carried along is provided, wherein the front is connected with the middle and the middle with the rear trailer section each via a portal-shaped arch and the middle trailer section has a pair of rollers or wheels.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A portal trailer for a tugger train, consisting of a front, rear and middle trailer section, between which respectively a receiving area for a dolly to be carried along is provided, wherein the front is connected with the middle and the middle with the rear trailer section each via a portal-shaped arch and the middle trailer section has a pair of rollers or wheels; wherein the front, rear, and middle trailer sections are fixedly arranged along a trailer longitudinal direction, and wherein the middle trailer section has a lifting apparatus, with which the middle trailer section and also the front and rear trailer section via the arches are raised.

2. The portal trailer according to claim 1 , wherein the rollers or wheels are rigidly arranged on the middle trailer section with their rotational axis perpendicular to the trailer longitudinal direction.

3. The portal trailer according to claim 1 , wherein in the raised state the front and the rear trailer sections have no ground contact.

4. The portal trailer according to claim 3 , wherein a holding apparatus for the dolly is provided in the receiving area, which has a profile rail, on which the dolly to be transported rests during transport.

5. The portal trailer according to claim 1 , wherein each trailer section has one portal brace each on opposite-lying sides with respect to the vehicle longitudinal direction, which is connected with a portal brace of a neighboring trailer section via the portal arch.

6. The portal trailer according to claim 1 , wherein at least the front or rear trailer section has a towing drawbar.

7. The portal trailer according to claim 1 , wherein at least the front or rear trailer section has a trailer coupling.

8. The portal trailer according to claim 1 , wherein at least the front or rear trailer section has additional rollers.

9. The portal trailer according to claim 8 , wherein the additional rollers are steering rollers.

10. The portal trailer according to claim 1 , wherein the distance from the rear trailer section to the front trailer section is fixed.

Assignees

• Jungheinrich Ag

Inventors

• Badura Klaus-Peter
• Krasse Arne
• Ziemann Jörg

Classifications

• B62B2202/90

  Vehicles · CPC title

• B62D53/005

  Combinations with at least three axles and comprising two or more articulated parts (articulated buses B62D47/025) · CPC title

• B62B5/0079

  Towing by connecting to another vehicle · CPC title

• B62D53/00 Primary

  Tractor-trailer combinations; Road trains (traction couplings other than fifth wheel coupling B60D {; tracked vehicles comprising at least two articulated parts B62D55/0655}) · CPC title

• B66F9/06 Primary

  movable, with their loads, on wheels or the like, e.g. fork-lift trucks (vehicle aspects B60 - B62; vehicles predominantly for transporting loads and modified to facilitate loading or unloading B60P1/00; low-lift hand trucks for transporting goods B62B3/06) · CPC title