B - Operations – Transporting – 63 – B
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
63
B
B63B 3/00 (2006.01) B63B 25/00 (2006.01) B63B 25/22 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2759287
The present invention has been developed to improve the way a payload support platform, such as a mole, is driven between one site and another, particularly when the second site is the interior of a Lift which interfaces with a Pallet Handling System (PHS) of a ship. In a first aspect the invention proposes that the driving means which drives the payload support platform along a rail (10) is also used to move that rail (10) relative to the payload support platform and a support rail (22) so that the position of the rail can be changed during the movement of the payload support platform between one site and another. The payload support platform is lockable to the support rail (22), such that the force which drives the payload support platform along the rail (10) changes to driving the rail (10) relative to the support rail (22). In a second independent aspect of the invention the movable rail (10) is mounted in the gap between ends of fixed rails (62, 82) and is movable along a support rail (22) on which it is mounted between a position in which one end of the movable rail (10) is adjacent an end of one of the fixed rails (62, 82) to another position in which the other end of the movable rail (10) is adjacent the end of the other fixed rail (62,82).
La présente invention vise à améliorer la façon dont une plateforme support de charge marchande, telle qu'une tour de palettes, est entraînée d'un site à un autre, en particulier lorsque le second site, en l'occurrence, l'intérieur d'un monte-charge, est en interface avec le système de manutention de palettes ou "PHS" (Pallet Handling System) d'un navire. Dans un premier aspect, l'invention propose que l'organe d'entraînement, qui déplace la plateforme support de charge marchande le long d'un rail (10), serve également à déplacer, d'une part ce rail (10) par rapport à la plateforme support de charge marchande, et d'autre part un rail support (22) de façon que la position du rail puisse être modifiée pendant le déplacement de la plateforme support de charge marchande d'un site à un autre. La plateforme support de charge marchande peut se bloquer sur le rail support (22)de façon à convertir la force de déplacement de la plateforme support de charge marchande le long du rail (10) en force d'entraînement du rail (10) par rapport au rail support (22). Dans un second aspect de l'invention, indépendant du premier, le rail mobile (10), monté dans l'intervalle délimité par les extrémités de rails fixes (62, 82), se déplace le long du rail support (22) sur lequel il est monté, entre une position dans laquelle une extrémité du rail mobile (10) est voisine d'une extrémité de l'un des rails fixes (62, 82), et une position dans laquelle l'autre extrémité du rail mobile (10) est voisine de l'extrémité de l'autre rail fixe (62, 82).
Evans Matthew
Wright David Scott
Babcock Integrated Technology Limited
Riches Mckenzie & Herbert Llp
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