Materials transport vehicle
AssigneeSaffelberg Investments NV
InventorMarc Deltomme
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Abstract
A vehicle on which a container (1) is mounted for transporting materials, said container comprising a movable partition (10) extending transversely inside the container. The vehicle comprises a motor (16) pulling on a pair of cables (14a, 14b), the front ends of which are connected to the partition (10) on either side, in order to pull the partition (10) towards the rear of the container so as to unload the materials. The cables run along the side walls (4a, 4b) of the container, at a distance from a bottom of the container. The side walls (4a, 4b) of the container have projections (24a, 24b) each extending towards the inside of the container and overhanging the cables so that said cables are protected from falling materials during loading of the container from above.
Claims15
Vehicle comprising a container for loading, transporting and unloading materials, said container extending longitudinally along a front-to-back axis of the vehicle and comprising:
- a left side wall and a right side wall,
- an opening rear wall for unloading said materials,
- a movable partition extending transversely inside the container,
- a first flexible mechanical connection, a first part of which is connected to a left end of the partition and extends first horizontally towards the back of the vehicle along an inner face of the left side wall, then upwards or downwards via at least one first pulley,
- a second flexible mechanical connection, a second part of which is connected to a right end of the partition and extends first horizontally towards the back of the vehicle along an inner face of the right side wall, then upwards or downwards via at least one second pulley,
- a motor assembly, the stator of which is fixed to the vehicle frame and the rotor of which is connected to a rear end of the first and second mechanical connection in order to pull them and thus draw the movable partition forcibly towards the rear of the container,
- wherein the first part of the first flexible mechanical connection is connected to the left end of the partition, at a height H1 of between 10% and 90% of a height H2 of the partition,
- wherein the second part of the second flexible mechanical connection is connected to the right end of the partition at the height H1,
- wherein the first flexible mechanical connection and the second flexible mechanical connection are forming a single continuous flexible mechanical connection, and
- wherein the first part and the second part of the single continuous flexible mechanical connection are freely linked to the movable partition such that the single continuous flexible mechanical connection is not fixedly connected to the partition and can move freely with respect to the partition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.