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US 4,728,000 AGranted
Transport container
AssigneeWesterwaelder Eisenwerk Gerhard GmbH
InventorHelmut Gerhard
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Abstract
An end mounting between the tank (10) and an end frame (11) of a small or medium size container comprises four tubular sections (21) which are welded with their respective one end edge to the spherically curved main portion (13) of the tank end (12) and with their respective other end edge to a leg (23) of a diagonal strut (20) which is formed by an L-bar and bridges a respective corner of the end frame (11).
Claims10
A transport container comprising
- a cylindrical tank, the tank ends of which each include a spherically curved main portion,
- two rectangular end frames each having four diagonal struts for bridging the corners thereof, and
- mounting structures inserted between the spherical main portion of each tank end and the diagonal struts of the respective end frame,
- each mounting structure comprising four circular-cylindrical tubular sections each extending at an acute angle to the tank axis and being joined with its one cut edge to the main portion of the respective tank end and with its other cut edge to a diagonal strut of the respective end frame, each tubular section having a diameter which is smaller by a multiple than the diameter of the tank and a length which is substantially of the order of its diameter.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.