Abstract: The present invention relates to a truck chassis for carrying an automobile body and various specially-equipped devices as loads, and more specifically to a truck chassis for carrying an automobile body and various specially-equipped devices as loads, which is configured to enable various types of cargo boxes (load sides) intended to carry cargos or people and various types of special equipment designed to be suitable for the transportation of a special cargo or a special purpose to be conveniently and replaceably loaded, and thus enables a single chassis to be used for various purposes, thereby improving cost reduction, convenience functionality, and maintenance, and which, in particular, provides excellent coupling force and also allows a coupling location to be varied according to the type or center of gravity of a load, thereby enabling stable loading.

Abstract: A vehicle for use with a plurality of interchangeable truck beds, i.e., functional units. The vehicle includes a chassis and an engine and cab mounted on the chassis. The chassis extends rearwardly from the cab from a first location to a second location at the rear end of the chassis. A first mounting interface is disposed near the first location and a second mounting interface is disposed near the second location. The mounting interfaces each include a substantially horizontal support surface and a guide member. The interchangeable truck beds include mounting structures that are secured to the mounting interfaces on the chassis. The guide members on the mounting interfaces are used to properly position the mounting structures on the chassis. The truck bed may be a dump truck bed that includes a hydraulic ram having a base structure that is secured to the first mounting interface and a hinge structure that is secured to the second mounting interface.

Abstract: A transportation platform is provided for using in the stern berth of a container ship to stack nonstandard containers/combined containers. The transportation platform includes a frame with a width corresponding to the ISO standard container width, at least one fixing corner fitting group arranged on the bottom surface of the frame, in which each fixing corner fitting group includes four bottom corner fittings which are arranged according to the corner fitting arrangement for the ISO standard containers, a plurality of top corner fittings arranged on the top surface of the frame, which can be combined into at least one stacking corner fitting group, each stacking corner fitting group has four 2×2 arrayed top corner fittings with a predefined space between each other in length direction, corresponding to the corner fitting space in length direction for the stacked nonstandard containers or combined containers.

Abstract: A corner fitting and a method of forming a corner fitting including steps of providing a flat woven fabric including a first woven portion having first and second direction woven fibers, a second woven portion adjacent the first woven portion having first direction fibers and sacrificial second direction fibers and a third semi-woven portion having first direction fibers selectively engaged by the sacrificial second direction yarns. The method further comprising steps of folding the flat woven fabric in at least one direction, and removing the sacrificial second direction fibers, wherein during removal, the sacrificial second direction fibers are replaced in the second woven portion by the first direction fibers of the third semi-woven portion and form a corner fitting having continuous fibers connecting all sides.

Abstract: A cargo transportation system comprising secure (fully closeable and lockable), sealable, stackable, trackable, universal, auto-latching “pallet boxes” that may be used in two main ways: 1) secured to the undercarriage transverse I-beams of over-the-road semi-trailers by means of loading alignment and hanger assemblies that provide positive locking-in-place; and 2) stackable, up to three or more high, inside the trailer bodies. The inventive pallet boxes are designed to be secured by auto-latching hanger assemblies that are retrofittable on individual types of semi-trailer undercarriages, both US and metric (European, Central and South American, and Asian) standard dimensions. The pallet boxes include vertical sidewall load-bearing channel members permitting stacking fully-loaded pallet boxes three or more high. The pallet boxes may be refrigerated, insulated, or atmospherically controlled, e.g., chargeable with preservative, security or disinfecting gases, during shipping.

Abstract: A movable container lock slides into and out of position laterally and is held in a secure position by the combination of longitudinal and lateral stop blocks coacting with a gravity lock and is further tethered to be moved from one selected position of a vehicle to another so that the need for multiple locks can be minimized and flexibility in selection of containers sizes for lading can be maximized.

Abstract: A locking cone chassis and several use methods to eliminate double and triple handling of shipping freight containers. The chassis device comprises two parallel I-beam main rails, a plurality of transverse ribs, a forward cone receiver formed from steel square tubing affixed to a forward end of the main rails, and a similar rear cone receiver affixed to the rear end of the main rails, the only essential difference between the receivers being that the forward cone receiver has an upper flange to guide and to stop a freight container. Each receiver has two box-shaped end portions, which operate like the corner pockets of a freight container—that is, each box-shaped end portion receives a locking cone through an upper surface cone receiving aperture. Each end portion also has access apertures for manually unlocking a cone.

Abstract: A combination shipping container, shipping container locking device and a door blocking apparatus inhibits access to the interior of the shipping container while it is being shipped. The blocking apparatus comprises a pair of legs joined to form a generally L-shaped, elongate member, wherein one of the legs provides a pair of spaced apart apertures, with each of the apertures fitted over the container locking device and locked in place adjacent to a set of closed doors of the shipping container. The other of the legs of the elongate member extends upwardly from the first leg in a position for blocking the doors of the shipping container from being opened.

Abstract: A track fitting assembly for removably securing a seat through a swivel bearing to a generally channel-shaped track secured to the fuselage of an aircraft. The track fitting assembly includes a forged body member having spaced track lugs projecting laterally from a narrow finger portion. The body member has a socket which receives a threaded shear plunger adjusting screw such that a head on the adjusting screw moves into the socket to indicate when the shear plunger is properly seated to lock the track lugs in the track.

Abstract: Discloses is a castable, pedestal-type support apparatus to support a cargo shipping container on a transportation vehicle in a position to be secured thereto by a particular style locking mechanism. The apparatus includes an elongated body portion with a pivot pin receiving portion and a counterweight portion at one end, and a cargo shipping container engaging apparatus at the other end. The cargo shipping container engaging apparatus includes a three-sided rectangular cavity against a rectangular floor wall portion with a four-sided rectangular opening thereto at the outermost end.

Abstract: An improved articulated railway spine car unit for carrying highway truck trailers and/or containers has a center sill which extends substantially the entire length of the car unit. The center sill has end portions with upper surfaces depressed with respect to the upper surface of a longitudinally extended center portion. A retractable fifth wheel or trailer hitch is located on the upper surface of at least one end portion of the center sill. The upper surface of the trailer hitch, when retracted onto the center sill, is at substantially the same level as the center portion of the center sill. The raised center sill center portion both provides backup support for the floors of containers carried on the car unit, and also increases the center sill's structural rigidity and resistance to bending deflection.

Abstract: The present invention provides a weldable cast insert that enables a particular style locking mechanism to be used in securing a container to a support pedestal on a transportation vehicle. Such cast insert includes a plate-like portion having at least one lug-like portion extending outwardly from an outer edge of the plate-like portion and at least one leg-like portion which depends from a first surface of the plate-like portion at least one aperture having a predetermined configuration is formed through a predetermined portion of the plate-like portion and at least one cut-out portion and such at least one leg portion adjacent a predetermined surface thereof.

Abstract: Container securing device that permits containers of any length to be carried by an integral or intermodal train including the feature of a container spanning the connection of two adjacent cores. The device is implemented in a two-part structure of an upper and a lower member. The lower member is adapted for fastening at any point along the car deck. The upper member has a pair of spaced corner members for receiving two corners of a container. An interconnecting means is arranged to connect the upper and lower members so that the upper member swivels with respect to the lower member and the car deck when the train rounds a curb and further provides for a longitudinal force dampening effect.

Abstract: A railroad car for transporting double stacked shipping containers capable of supporting top containers of at least two different lengths against longitudinal and lateral movement comprising a car which supports a lower container, each end of the car body having a bulkhead structure which includes a lateral end wall and a pair of side walls extending longitudinally inwardly from the end wall, each side wall of a pair of such walls having a container restraining member mounted for rotation about a vertical axis from a stored position where it does not reduce the clearance between opposing side walls to an operating position where it at least projects laterally inwardly of the side wall to be positioned adjacent a vertical end corner of a top container, a rotatable shaft extending laterally across the car body and having a handle at each end for manual rotation of the shaft from about track grade, and drive means interconnecting the shaft and a container restraining member on each side wall whereby rotation of

Abstract: A corner fitting is disclosed for freight containers, particularly for small and medium size containers. The corner fitting includes three mutually perpendicular side walls connected to one another to form a section of a corner of a cube having its apex pointing outwardly from a freight container when in an in-use position. Container handling openings are provided in at least one of the sidewalls and in an oblique triangular surface extending transverse to a diagonal through the corner apex. Particularly preferred embodiments of the corner fitting are formed from sheet metal blanks which are cut and bent along fold lines to form the sidewalls.