DEVICE FOR RELOADING OF UNIT LOADS IN FORM OF SHIPMENT PACKAGES Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: materials handling equipment; reloading of unit loads from/to road and rail vehicles using lifting cranes movable longitudinal direction of track. SUBSTANCE: device has inlet and outlet storehouses 6 or 9 arranged at different sides of rail track whose sides farthest from rail track are arranged near lanes of motor roads 4, 5 or 10, 11 used for loading and unloading of cargoes. Each storehouse has several lifting cranes 26 and 27 movable in longitudinal direction by means of which shipment packages can be conveyed outside rail track 7, 8 between unloading or loading lane of motor road 4, 5 or 10, 11 and neighbor or outlet storehouses 6 or 9. Reloading cranes 28 are installed over railway track. They are movable in longitudinal direction. Reach of cranes extends sideways from railway track in direction of both storehouses 6 or 9. Reloading conveyors are installed at sides of railway track 7, 8. Conveyors overlap separated areas of action of loading and unloading cranes 26 and 27 by means of which shipment packages can be transported across railway tracks 7, 8. EFFECT: enlarged operating capabilities. 12 cl, 11 dwg