DE69906495T2 - Bearing bracket for barrels - Google Patents

Description

AIM OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates on a support system for barrels for special application in large Wineries that allow their laterally stable accumulation without that the weight of the over it stored barrels must be worn because the edition is modular and essential designed for it to carry a pair of barrels stored side by side, with only the In their stacked coupling, the weight overlying them carry and the barrels just their own weight.

The purpose of the invention is to stack the barrels in these editions in a five-point arrangement to achieve and with each barrel for cleaning or for transfer allow better access to the content without moving it Need to become and also to achieve a substantial improvement in aesthetics Aspect of the winery with a distribution that is conventional Wineries resemble.

PREHISTORY THE INVENTION

Wine aging in barrels in large wineries by accumulating or stacking them in a side position achieved, that is, with their base in a vertical position so that the lower one Level of barrels between appropriately shaped, parallel pairs of supports is carried, which prevent the movement of the barrels and thereby their Stabilize positions.

The following barrel layers are covered by their stacking, this means, in five-point arrangement achieved, always held by wedges and stacked to the required height, the logical limit being imposed by the height of the winery.

This stacking system used in large wineries usually used for wine ripening has the following series of problems and disadvantages on:

• - Inadequate Security in stability the barrels, which is only achieved by the wedges. But if these are their purpose could miss this logically for rolling the barrels or rather to collapse the Pile and therefore next to the financial costs to the risk of injury for who work in the winery.
• - If the barrels Forming levels and one supporting the other are difficult to do handle.
• - The Barrels on the lowest levels must have the weight of all those above wear. A barrel is obviously taken into account the function made for which it is intended for and the weight it contains when it is is full. barrels are therefore usually not designed to higher Endure weights. When stacking, they can therefore be due to the previously cited Facts are deformed or even damaged.

To fix this problem is this applicant owns the Spanish utility model number U9801070 (publication number 1040068), which consists of a support for barrels in the form of a rectangular structure is built on the basis of longitudinal and cross members, on which rods for holding the barrels are inserted. From the structure go stand or pillars that form the base of the support and its vertices are assigned, which are the separating elements for carrying the platform or structure and when necessary stacking the pads and consequently the barrels the immediately above correspond to the lying edition.

According to the structure of this utility model they are one above the other corresponding stands or columns such as the barrels in lying supports arranged in a row. But now is an optimal use of space are achieved, they end one above the other lying barrels very close to each other, make access to them for cleaning or ordinary Refilling the wine in a barrel into an underlying barrel very difficult and access to their openings is due to this Close drastically limited. This means the barrels for satisfactory implementation such manipulations have to be stacked temporarily, what from an economic point of view on the corresponding negative effects leads.

DESCRIPTION THE INVENTION

The barrel support that this invention with a basic structure similar to utility model 9801070 to fix the above Series of problems improved considerably.

For this and for greater accuracy, the new edition, according to the patent claim, concentrates its features on the fact that in addition to the four stands or columns associated with the vertices of the basic construction, which can be removed or folded together, in order to minimize the millimeter-sized space that the edition has in its inoperative position or in storage, two additional intermediate stands are added, which are located in the middle of the two longest sides, which correspond to the front and back. The special thing about it is that, in addition to the means defined on the lower side of the basic structure for fastening the stands of the support immediately below, instead of being attached in association with the stands of the support even these are offset. This means more precisely, in relation to the center of the two halves defined by the intermediate columns, ie in relation to the pole area under the pair of barrels lying on the support.

Thanks to this special structure remains each overlay when assembled or stacked lengthways to the top and underlying requirements significantly offset, which ensures that the barrels a five-point arrangement ingest, that is, that the top pole area of each barrel occupies the area which is defined between the two barrels immediately above will, d. i. in an optimally accessible Position.

The special five-point arrangement makes it not only that the barrels resemble the classic arrangement, in which they are directly one above the other are stacked, but it also allows better accessibility to the full extent of each barrel for cleaning purposes or also for decanting the Content as mentioned before. The additional advantage is that the total height of the stands is also included due to this special distribution can be much lower and thus a much more effective use of the available space supplies.

DESCRIPTION THE DRAWINGS

To complete the description made and for better understanding the features of the invention will be according to the preferred example a set of drawings has been added to implement them, the integral Component forms and in the in the illustrative and not restrictive The following is presented to accompany this description:

1 shows the raised schematic representation of a drum support, which was produced according to the method forming the subject of this invention, on which two of the drums for which it was designed appear in broken lines.

2 shows the profile of the set shown in the previous figure.

3 shows a top view of the same set.

4 finally shows a raised schematic front view of a series of editions as in 1 which, when properly connected, form a stack of longitudinal rows.

PREFERABLY EXECUTION THE INVENTION

As can be seen in these figures, it can be seen that the drum support adopted by the invention consists of a basic structure ( 1 ), the longitudinal ( 2 ) and cross member ( 3 ), which form a kind of hollow platform, at the vertices of which vertical pipe elements ( 4 ) are installed at a low height, in which stands ( 5 ) are coupled, which form separations when stacked between supports, these stands ( 5 ) to reduce the space required by the support in its operating position instead of being collapsible.

The edition focuses its features according to the invention on the inclusion of a pair of intermediate stands ( 5 ' ), the two support areas for barrel spaces ( 6 ) limit the collaboration of properly designed crossbars ( 7 ) is held on the basic structure to stabilize the said barrels.

To complete the described structure, the basic structure ( 1 ) pivot on its lower surface ( 8th ) or instead slots for spring coupling of the upper end of the rods ( 5 - 5 ' ) of the requirements on a lower level. The peculiarity is, as in 1 can be seen in the fact that these spring-loaded coupling elements ( 8th ) regarding the stands ( 5 - 5 ' ) of the support itself, are more precisely located in the middle area, between each pair of adjoining stands ( 5 - 5 ' ) is defined, whereby when stacking these editions, especially in 4 a five-point arrangement is achieved and as a result that the barrels have the same configuration ( 6 ) accept.

Like when looking at 4 it can also be ascertained that this particular distribution of the barrels derived also from the special design of the edition of the invention entails that the upper and lower outer regions of each barrel are maximally offset with respect to the adjacent barrels, so that the accessibility to each of these Barrels ( 6 ) for cleaning or also for decanting the contents of which is optimal. Since two barrels ( 6 ) never on top of each other, but rather completely offset, the stands ( 5 - 5 ' ) besides, as previously mentioned, be considerably shorter than in the opposite case, which reduces the height of the support in its set and consequently the volume that this has in the arrangement as in 4 and allow a more economical use of the space available in the winery.

Claims (1)

A support system for barrels ( 6 ) for special use in large wineries for carrying barrels of maturing wine that have a basic structure ( 1 ), which consists of a rectangular platform of sufficient size to hold two barrels, which according to its apex with stands or columns ( 5 ) is equipped, which act as separations of the stack between the pads and are preferably removable or foldable. The whole thing is characterized by the fact that the said structure ( 1 ) two more stands ( 5 ' ) which contains the mentioned, are located in the middle of its two longest sides, correspond to its front and rear sides and are also preferably removable or foldable and by the fact that to stabilize the stacking between the supports, spring-loaded connecting means ( 8th ) for the stands regarding the stands ( 5 . 5 ' ) of the support are offset and more precisely in the stand between each pair ( 5 . 5 ' ) defined central area, so that the supports are stacked lengthways in stacked rows, whereby the barrels ( 6 ) adopt a five-point arrangement with easy access to their entire circumference when they are set up.