Transport container, vehicle, traction group, method for loading a transport container, and method for transporting bulk material

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9580084-B2
Application number	US-201314388997-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 26, 2013
Priority date	Mar 29, 2012
Publication date	Feb 28, 2017
Grant date	Feb 28, 2017

Abstract

A transport container, in particular as a component part of a rail vehicle, having a transportation space for receiving goods to be transported, which on its upper side includes at least one opening, wherein the transport container includes a grate which at least in part covers the opening.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A transport container, the transport container comprising: a bulk material car body having a longitudinally extending transportation space for receiving goods to be transported, which on its upper side includes at least one opening, wherein the transport container includes a grate which at least in part covers the at least one opening, and the grate includes a plurality of transverse stays which extend substantially transversely to the direction of longitudinal extent, wherein the spacing D of the transverse stays between one another is 0.8≦D/H≦1.2, where H is the height of the transverse stays.

2. The transport container as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said transport container includes side walls which laterally delimit the transportation space and between which the grate is disposed.

3. The transport container as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the grate is connected in a mechanically fixed manner to at least one side wall.

4. The transport container as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the grate bears on at least two side walls and/or is connected in a form-fitting manner to two side walls.

5. The transport container as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the grate includes only the transverse stays.

6. The transport container as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the grate includes transverse stays which extend substantially transversely to the direction of longitudinal extent, and includes longitudinal stays which extend substantially in the direction of longitudinal extent.

7. The transport container as claimed in claim 1 , wherein D≦0.75 m.

8. The transport container as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said transport container comprises an emptying unit, by way of which unloading of the goods to be transported is implementable through an opening other than the opening provided with the grate.

9. A vehicle comprising a transport container as claimed in claim 1 .

10. The vehicle as claimed in claim 9 , wherein said vehicle is a bulk material car.

11. The transport container as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the transport container is a component part of a rail vehicle.

12. A method for loading a transport container, comprising:
providing a transport container having a bulk material car body having a longitudinally extending transportation space for receiving goods to be transported, which on its upper side includes at least one opening, wherein the transport container includes a grate which at least in part covers the opening, and the grate includes transverse stays which extend substantially transversely to the direction of longitudinal extent, with grate openings there between, wherein the spacing D of the transverse stays between one another has the following ratio to the height H of the stays: 0.8≦D/H≦1.2; and
pouring bulk material, into the transportation space via the grate openings.

13. A method for transporting bulk material, comprising:
providing a transport container having a bulk material car body having a longitudinally extending transportation space for receiving goods to be transported, which on its upper side includes at least one opening, wherein the transport container includes a grate which at least in part covers the opening, and the grate includes transverse stays which extend substantially transversely to the direction of longitudinal extent, with grate openings there between, wherein the spacing D of the transverse stays between one another has the following ratio to the height H of the stays: 0.8≦D/H≦1.2;
providing an emptying unit, by way of which unloading of the goods to be transported is implementable through an opening other than the opening provided with the grate;
pouring bulk material, into the transportation space via the grate openings; and
unloading of the bulk material through the emptying unit.

Assignees

• Univ Berlin Tech
• Havellaendische Eisenbahn Ag

Inventors

• Hecht Markus
• Maengel Christian
• Jakatt Harald
• Nayeri Christian
• Shoeib Ramy
• Alsdorf Guenther
• Wullstein Uwe

Classifications

• B65D90/00

  Component parts, details or accessories for large containers (B65D88/34 - B65D88/78 take precedence) · CPC title

• B61D7/00 Primary

  Hopper cars (flat bottomed cars convertible into hoppers B61D3/06) · CPC title

• B61C13/00

  Locomotives or motor railcars characterised by their application to special systems or purposes (B61C11/00 takes precedence; self-propelled scaffold cars, break-down cranes, inspection trolleys B61D15/00; general design of track recording vehicles B61K9/00) · CPC title

• B65D88/123

  open top · CPC title

• B61C17/02

  Bunkers; Tanks; Tenders (coachwork B61D); Water or fuel pick-up or scoop apparatus; Water or fuel supply fittings (trackside installations, e.g. bunkers, tanks, for filling locomotives with sand or water B61K11/00) · CPC title