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US 11,603,691 B2Granted
Door assembly for freight container
OwnerGeorge E. Kochanowskiinventor
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a hinge, a freight container that includes the hinge and a freight container that includes a locking rod and optionally the hinge. The hinge includes a locking pin, a first wing, a second wing and a first hinge pin that pivotally connects the first wing to the second wing. The hinge further includes a pair of hinge lugs each having a first set of surfaces defining openings through which a second hinge pin passes and at least one of the pair of hinge lugs having a surface defining an opening through which a locking pin reversibly travels.
Claims7
A freight container, comprising:
- a roof structure;
- a floor structure opposite the roof structure;
- sidewall structures between the floor structure and the roof structure;
- an end frame having a corner post, the end frame joined with the roof structure, the floor structure and the sidewall structures;
- a door joined to the corner post with a hinge, the hinge having a locking pin, a first wing, a first hinge pin, a second hinge pin, and a second wing, where the first wing is fastened to the corner post, the second wing has a first planar portion with a first end and a second end and a second planar portion that extends perpendicular from the first end of the first planar portion, where the first hinge pin pivotally connects the first wing fastened to the corner post to the second end of the first planar portion;
- a pair of hinge lugs extending from the second planar portion, the hinge lugs each having a first set of surfaces defining openings through which the second hinge pin passes, where the door pivots on the second hinge pin relative the pair of hinge lugs when the hinge lugs are locked to the corner post of the freight container with the locking pin to allow the door to extend adjacent the exterior surface of the sidewall structure, and where the door and the second wing pivot on the first hinge pin when the hinge lugs are un-locked to the corner post of the freight container to allow the door to travel into the volume of the freight container and extend adjacent the interior surface of the sidewall structure;
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- an anti-racking support including a first lug, a second lug and a mounting support fastened to the door, where the first lug and the second lug extend from the mounting support in a common direction to extend from a peripheral edge of the door.
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