Freight container and corner fitting therefor
AssigneeWesterwalder Eisenwerk Gerhard GmbH
InventorHelmut Gerhard
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Abstract
The corner portions of a small or medium freight container are formed by the respective three frame elements (31,32,33) of the container frame and by a corner fitting (30) welded thereto. The frame elements are hollow elements of essentially square cross-section. The corner fitting (30) is formed with a corner opening (24) which is dimensioned so that the clear cross-sections of the frame elements (31, 32, 33) are accessible as fork truck channels intended for the arms of a fork truck through the respective corner fitting. The edges of the corner fitting (30) and the frame elements (31, 32, 33) inserted into the edge regions of the corner fitting are formed with aligned corner holes (25, 26) used for insertion of a crane hook tip or for securing and latching of coupling or lashing elements.
Claims17
A corner fitting for a freight container comprising
- three mutually perpendicular wall members defining three sides of a cube corner,
- a corner opening means common to all three of said wall members for accommodating fork lift members for handling said container, and
- three edge hole means each being common to a pair of adjacent wall members for accommodating, in conjunction with said corner opening means, hooks for handling said container,
- said corner opening and said three edge holes being disposed substantially symmetrically to a container body diagonal extending through said corner opening.
A freight container comprising
- frame elements forming a container frame, at least one pair of said frame elements each having interior surfaces forming a fork lift channel engageable by fork lift means for handling said freight container, said interior surfaces being accessible through open ends of said frame elements,
- corner fittings joined to the ends of said frame elements, each corner fitting including three wall members defining the respective corner and commonly forming a corner opening which is dimensioned so as to leave freely accessible the open ends of each frame element having a fork-lift channel, each frame element terminating outside the extensions of said open ends of the respective other fork-lift channels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.