IP Library Granted Patent US 8,302,766
Granted Patent B2
US 8,302,766 · App. 13/198,543 · Granted Nov 6, 2012

Device for transporting freight

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Patent No.
US 8,302,766
App. No.
13/198,543
Granted
Nov 6, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A device for transporting freight, especially freight containers in the cargo compartments of aircraft, especially to a power drive unit (PDU) having a drive roller ( 3 ) received in a frame ( 1 ) wherein the at least one drive roller ( 3 ) carrying the drive roll ( 4 ) placed thereon is mounted so as to be pivoted relative to the frame for the purpose of replacing the drive roll ( 4 ).

Claims (11)

1. A device for transporting freight containers in freight compartments of aircraft, comprising: a power drive unit (PDU) having a drive cylinder ( 3 ) which is mounted in a frame ( 1 ), the drive cylinder ( 3 ) with an attached drive roller ( 4 ) is mounted so as to be pivotable with respect to the frame ( 1 ) for exchanging the drive roller ( 4 ), wherein the drive roller ( 4 ) is attached coaxially to the drive cylinder ( 3 ) in a releasable and rotationally fixed manner such that the drive roller ( 4 ) is removable independently of the drive unit.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the frame comprises a first lateral frame part ( 5 . 1 ) and an opposed lateral frame part ( 5 . 2 ), wherein the drive roller ( 4 ) is mounted in a swivelable fashion in a first lateral frame part ( 5 . 1 ) and in a releasable fashion in a bearing depression ( 10 ) in an opposed lateral frame part ( 5 . 2 ).

3. The device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein a bearing element ( 9 ) is provided on the end of the drive roller ( 4 ), the bearing element ( 9 ) engages in the bearing depression ( 10 ), wherein the bearing depression ( 10 ) is formed in a half-shell manner and is open in the upward direction.

4. The device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the drive roller ( 4 ) is seated in a rotationally fixed manner coaxially on the drive cylinder ( 3 ) and has, on an end, a bearing element ( 9 ) which engages into a corresponding support ( 11 ) of the opposed lateral frame part ( 5 . 2 ).

5. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the drive roller ( 4 ) is movable axially from the drive cylinder ( 3 ) when the drive roller is in a pivoted-out position.

6. The device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the drive cylinder ( 3 ) is pivotably mounted with the first lateral frame part ( 5 . 1 ) and the drive roller ( 4 ) is mounted, with the opposed lateral frame part ( 5 . 2 ) of the frame ( 1 ), in a rotatable manner in the support ( 11 ).

7. A device for transporting freight containers in freight compartments of aircraft, comprising: a power drive unit (PDU) having a drive cylinder ( 3 ) which is mounted in a frame ( 1 ), a drive cylinder ( 3 ) having a coaxially attached drive roller ( 4 ) pivotable out of a frame by means of an auxiliary frame ( 12 . 1 , 12 . 2 ), the drive roller ( 4 ) engages the drive cylinder ( 3 ) and is rotationally fixedly connected to the drive cylinder ( 3 ) and is mounted at an end in the further lateral auxiliary frame ( 12 . 2 ), and wherein, when the drive roller ( 4 ) is moved coaxially from the drive cylinder ( 3 ), a bearing receptacle ( 15 ) with bearing element ( 14 ) on the further lateral auxiliary frame ( 12 . 2 ) is pivotable and swivelable out of an axial region of the drive roller ( 4 ).

8. The device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the drive cylinder ( 3 ) is fixedly and rotatably mounted at one end on a first lateral auxiliary frame ( 12 . 1 ).

9. The device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the drive roller ( 4 ) is rotatably mounted at the end on a further lateral auxiliary frame ( 12 . 2 ).

10. The device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the drive cylinder ( 3 ) has an integrated unit composed of an electric drive.

11. The device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the bearing receptacle ( 15 ) is swivelable about an eccentric joint ( 16 ).

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 18, 2016
From: WITTENSTEIN AG
To: WITTENSTEIN SE
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