Self-lifting/lowering transport container

Abstract

A self-lifting / lowering transport container according to the present invention includes: a container body (10); and at least two supporting members (23) arranged at opposite sides of the container body and configured to be extendable to lift the container body and to be contractible to lower the container body substantially along a vertical direction of the container body.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]The present application is based on and claims priority benefit from Japanese Patent Application No. 2005-257981, filed, Sep. 6, 2005, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The present invention relates to a transport container used when cargos are transported by utilizing a ship, a train, a trailer, a truck or the like for example.BACKGROUND ART[0003]At the present day, a container for transportation, which is standardized in a certain size, is utilized to comprehensively transport a large amount of cargos.[0004]Such a transport container includes a rectangular-solid container body for storing the cargos as an object to be transported. The container body is transported by being loaded on a ship, a train, a trailer, a truck or the like (for reference, see JP2004-161318A).[0005]In the transport container, however, a crane, a forklift or the like is used to unload the containe...

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Benefits of technology

[0013]Accordingly, the self-lifting/lowering transport container of the present invention at least has the following advantages:

[0014]1. Each of the supporting members arranged at the sides of the container body loaded on a truck bed (placing portion) of a truck is configured to be extendable to lift the container body and contractible to lower the container body. Alternatively, each of the supporting members is extended in the state that each of the supporting members is protruded from the storage depression provided in the side surfaces of the container body loaded, for example, on the truck bed (placing portion) of the truck. By the extended supporting members, it is possible to support the container body with a state that the container body is lifted or suspended from the truck bed of the truck for example.

[0015]When the truck is moved in the state that the container body is supported by the supporting members, only the container body remains on-site, and thereby the truck and the container body are separated from each other. Hence, easy unloading of the container body from, for example, the truck is achieved by contracting the supporting members.

[0016]In addition, when loading the container body on the truck for example, each of the supporting members is protruded from the storage depression beforehand, and each of the supporting members is extended such that a bo

Problems solved by technology

The use of the crane and so on is troublesome, and thus a problem occurs that operating efficiency is decreased.

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