Device for emptying floating containers |
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| 申请号 | US3687307D | 申请日 | 1971-06-01 | 公开(公告)号 | US3687307A | 公开(公告)日 | 1972-08-29 |
| 申请人 | KRUPP GMBH; | 发明人 | MACRANDER KARL; KESSEL HEINRICH; | ||||
| 摘要 | The specification discloses a device for engaging containers floating in the water and for moving the containers from the water to a discharge station and for tilting the containers to discharge the contents thereof into the discharge station. The arrangement comprises a carriage and an inclined track arrangement on which the carriage is moveable from beneath the water up to the discharge station. The carriage supports a tiltable cradle engagement with a container from beneath and on one side. Adjacent the discharge station is a frame which engages the container on the other side and which also operatively engages the cradle and which frame is caused to rotate in response to movement of the carriage for the discharge station. When the frame is engaged with the container and cradle the container and cradle are caused to rotate with the frame and thereby tilt the container and discharge the contents therefrom into the discharge station. | ||||||
| 权利要求 | 1. In a device for emptying a container from which the contents can be discharged by tilting the container and which container is floatable in water; a slip carriage moveable along an inclined path extending from beneath the water in which the container is floating upwardly to a discharge station above he water, a cradle, supporting pivot shafts on the ends of said cradle engaging said carriage for tilting of the cradle about a tilt axis transverse to said path, said cradle having a bottom wall engageable with a floating container from beneath and a side wall on the side facing away from said discharge station and open on the other side, said tilt axis being on the discharge station side of the center of gravity of said cradle and a container thereon, a frame along said path adjacent said discharge station on the side toward the water and rotatable on a rotation axis parallel to said tilt axis and at the same elevation from said path as said tilt axis, recess means in the frame on said rotation axis operable to receive said pivot shafts when the carriage is moved toward said discharge station, and means operable upon further movement of said carriage toward said discharge station after said pivot shafts engage said recess means to cause rotation of said frame on said rotation axis, and means on said cradle and frame engageable with a container in the cradle operable to cause said container and cradle to rotate with said frame thereby to empty said container into said discharge station. 2. A device according to claim 1 which includes cooperating elements of abutment means on said cradle and carriage to stop said cradle when tilted in said carriage by gravity in such a position that the bottom wall of the cradle is substantially horizontal. 3. A device according to claim 1 in which said frame has a side wall opposed to said side wall of said cradle and said means engageable with said container comprises projections on said side walls engageable over the top of a said container in said cradle. 4. A device according to claim 1 in which said frame is counterweighted so as to be stable in the position in which the cradle is introduced into the frame, and abutment means on said frame and on a stationary point to stop said frame in cradle receiving position. 5. A device according to claim 1 in which said frame has circular sectors fixed thereto at the opposite ends outside the range of said carriage, supports on which the sectors rollingly rest, and cables stationarily anchored at one end and leading in opposite directions parallel to said path from the said one end to the bottom of said sectors and at least part way around the sectors and connected thereto whereby translation of said frame along said path will cause rotation of said sectors and frame. 6. A device according to claim 1 in which said carriage includes side walls in which said pivot shafts are journaled and from which said pivot shafts project outwardly for engagement in the said recesses of said frame, first arcuate projections on the outsides of said side walls concentric with and radially spaced from said pivot shafts, said frame also having side walls disposed immediately outwardly of the paths of the side walls of said carriage and in which said recesses are formed, and second arcuate projections on the insides of the side walls of said frame coaxial with said rotation axis and receivable inside said first projections for rotatably supporting said frame on said carriage as said frame rotates during movement of said carriage. 7. A device according to claim 6 in which said side walls of said frame are in the form of circular segments, and means engaging said circular segments and operable to cause rotation of said frame when the frame moves along said path with said carriage. 8. A devIce according to claim 7 in which said means engaging said circular segments comprise cable means attached to the segments at a point on the periphery thereof and leading about the segments and then in opposite directions from the bottom thereof parallel to said path to stationary anchor points. |
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