Container for transporting long objects, especially rolls for papermaking machines
AssigneeMecania AB
InventorsEsbjorn Stake, Lennart Magnusson
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Abstract
A container (1) for transporting, for example, the rolls of papermaking machines comprises an outer supporting rigid metal frame (3) and a nonsupporting casing (4) protecting the roll, said metal frame comprising an end frame member (5) at each short end of the container, and a side frame member (6) arranged along each of the container long sides and connected to said end frame members (5). The frame is preferably provided with lifting lugs (10) and recesses (8) for the fork arms of a fork-lift truck or the like. The casing comprises a semicylindrical bottom part (14) and one or more top parts (15) which also are semicylindrical and detachably connected to said bottom part (14).
Claims8
A container for transporting long, preferably cylindrical objects (2), especially rolls for papermaking machines, comprising on the one hand an outer supporting rigid metal frame (3) and, on the other hand, a nonsupporting casing (4) protecting the object, characterising in that the frame (3) comprises end frame members (5) at each short end of the container and side frame members (6) arranged along each of the container long sides and connected to said end frame members (5), and that the casing (4) comprises both a preferable semicylindrical continuous bottom part (14) which is suspended in the side frame members (6), and one or more, preferably semicylindrical top parts (15) detachably connected to the bottom part (14), and that there are provided within said casing (4) at least two devices (25) secured to said side frame members and adapted to fix the object (2) in transport position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.