Corner piece for forming a corner of a container, container provided with such corner piece, and gripper arm and gripper which can cooperate with such corner pieces
AssigneeCaming Solutions Bvba
InventorTim Vancampen
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Abstract
A corner piece for forming a corner of a container, with a hold which can be grabbed by external gripping device, stacking elements in the shape of a solid protrusion and coupling elements which can be activated and deactivated and which includes a movable coupling element which can be moved between an activated position and a deactivated position, as well as an activator mechanism for activating and deactivating the coupling elements, which activator mechanism can be coupled to external driving elements.
Claims18
An improved corner piece for forming a corner of a container, which corner piece comprises:
- a body to be provided between ribs of a container, having a corner piece comprising at least the following elements:
- a hold opening formed in the body having a shape which can be grabbed by an external gripping means;
- stacking means containing a fixed part protruding from the body along a vertical axis A′ so as to form a static protrusion adjacent to and parallel the hold opening;
- coupling means which can be activated and deactivated and which includes a movable coupling element which can be moved relative to the stacking means between an activated position and a deactivated position;
- and
- an activator mechanism for activating and deactivating the movable coupling element of the coupling means, which activator mechanism can be coupled to external driving means.
An improved corner piece for forming a corner of a container, which corner piece comprises a body designed to be provided between ribs of the container, wherein the corner piece additionally contains at least the following elements:
- a hold having a shape which can be grabbed by external gripping means;
- stacking means containing a fixed part protruding from the body so as to form a static protrusion;
- and,
- coupling means which can be activated and deactivated and which contain a movable coupling element which can be moved between an activated position and a deactivated position, as well as an activator mechanism for activating and deactivating the coupling means, which activator mechanism can be coupled to external driving means;
- wherein the coupling element can be moved between an activated, extended position, whereby the coupling element extends at least partly over a certain height from the body, and a deactivated, retracted position, whereby the coupling element is at least partly retracted within the contours of the body in relation to the activated position.
The container comprising at least a bottom framework, a roof framework and at least four corner posts, which corner posts reach as of the roof framework to the bottom framework, and whereby every corner post is provided with a roof corner piece on one of its far ends which is part of the roof framework, and with a bottom corner piece on the other far end which is part of the bottom framework, wherein the four roof corner pieces comprises a body designed to be provided between ribs of the container, wherein the corner piece additionally contains at least the following elements:
- a hold opening having a shape which can be grabbed by external gripping means;
- stacking means containing a fixed part protruding from the body so as to form a static protrusion;
- and,
- coupling means which can be activated and deactivated and which contain a movable coupling element which can be moved between an activated position and a deactivated position, as well as an activator mechanism for activating and deactivating the coupling means, which activator mechanism can be coupled to external driving means;
- wherein the coupling element of the coupling means is provided with a longitudinal protrusion with which the actual coupling can be performed, having a free far end provided with a laterally protruding part forming a nose, whereby the coupling element can be moved up and down in the body of the corner piece between an activated, upright position, whereby the longitudinal protrusion forms an upright portion on the body of the corner piece, and a deactivated, retracted position, whereby the longitudinal protrusion is entirely retracted within the body of the corner piece;
- wherein the two laterally protruding noses on the coupling elements of the roof corner pieces on a first end face of the container are both directed in a first given direction and the two laterally protruding noses on the coupling elements of the roof corner pieces on the opposite end face of the container are both directed in an opposite direction.
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