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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1997
Joachim Kroll, Juchen, DE;
Hermann Franzen, Monchengladbach, DE;
Mannesmann Aktiengesellschaft, Dusseldorf, DE;
Abstract
A locking device for standardized transport vessels, such as containers, interchangeable containers or the like, on loading surfaces of transporting devices includes clamping pins which are at least partially movable upward out of the loading surface from their rest positions below the loading surface into vertical working positions and which are lockable in this position by their clamping pin heads, which are provided at their free ends, in openings in the corner regions of the transport vessels. For this purpose, every clamping pin is part of a vertically acting piston-cylinder unit which is fastened below the loading surface to the frame of the transporting device. The vertical stroke of every piston-cylinder unit corresponds to the outward path traveled by the clamping pin with the clamping pin head upward out of the loading surface. The clamping pin head is designed as a hammer head, and a motor acts at the circumference of the clamping pin. The motor rotates the clamping pin with the clamping pin head by 90.degree. around its vertical axis.