Abstract:
An aircraft cargo deck is provided to receive loads stored in the cargo compartment. The aircraft comprises an outer skin to which longitudinal beams are secured, preferably via ribs attached to the outer skin. To simplify the construction and the assembly of the cargo deck, it is composed of a plurality of floor modules, which are fixed within the cargo compartment and which are mounted on the longitudinal beams.
Abstract:
Roller conveyors of an aircraft cargo deck, including rollers for transporting freight packages, particularly containers, and a channel with side walls and a base for the installation of locking bar elements to hold the freight packages, are provided. The side walls have reinforcing sections with recesses in which the rollers are installed, whereby axles on which the rollers are rotatably mounted are fixed in each of the side walls. This results in an extremely sturdy but nevertheless lightweight construction
Abstract:
There are known cargo decks for aircraft that comprise floor beams or an equivalent floor substructure and floor panels, ball mats, roller tracks, or other such transport devices connected thereto for conveying and fixing in position pallets, containers or similar objects. In order to create a tight seal between a cargo space above the cargo deck and a bilge space below the cargo deck, sealing devices are provided, so that the floor panels, ball mats, roller tracks, etc. can be replaced at any time with no need to seal them off.
Abstract:
A conveyor apparatus for use in an aircraft cargo hold a plurality of direction-independent conveyor elements such as ball elements or similar, on which an item of freight such as a container can be transported in a transport plane linearly and with a change of direction. In order to improve the handling of items of freight, in particular to avoid damage, the apparatus comprises at least one brake element, for example in a door region of the cargo hold, in order to brake movement of the item of freight with a predetermined, finite braking force while it is being transported into the cargo hold or out of the cargo hold.
Abstract:
A lock is proposed for securing containers or similar freight on a cargo bay floor of an aircraft in a vertical direction perpendicular to the cargo bay floor and in a transverse direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the aircraft. The locking element comprises at least one lock attached to a frame for securing containers or similar freight and with a claw in the transverse direction of the aircraft to surround and hold a part section of the container. At least one lock is arranged mobile and fixable in a guide of the frame in order to adapt the spacing of the locks to containers of different sizes.
Abstract:
A cargo gate for holding at least one cargo item at a predetermined position within a cargo hold of an aircraft comprising at least one retaining element at least one fastening device having at least one articulation for articulatedly fastening the retaining element to a cargo hold floor such that the retaining element can be pivoted from an operative position for holding the at least one cargo item into an inoperative position, wherein the retaining element can be traversed by the at least one cargo item in the inoperative position. The retaining element may be provided with a stop which can be operatively connected to a pivotable locking lug of a locking device such that the locking lug holds the retaining element in the operative position thereof.
Abstract:
A fastening device of a floor module in an aircraft hull is provided. The fastening device comprises an intermediate element that on one hand can be fastened to the aircraft hull using a joining device and on the other comprises a receiving device for a holding portion of the floor module. In this case the fastening device is designed in such a way that mobility of the holding portion relative to the aircraft is guaranteed in the aircraft's longitudinal direction by means of which it is possible to guarantee stress-free installation inside the aircraft hull.
Abstract:
A locking element is described for securing containers, pallets or similar freight items in the cargo bay of an aircraft, wherein a first and a second locking claw are mounted on a frame swivellable from a lowered loading position into a raised working position for securing containers. A remotely controllable adjustment device is provided to change and adjust the state of the locking claws between the loading state in which the locking claws are in the loading position, a holding state in which the locking claws are in the working position and fixed, and a trigger state in which the locking claws are in the working position but can be swivelled from the working position into the loading position if a force acting on the locking claws exceeds a predetermined amount.
Abstract:
A freight loading system may include: freight transport devices each with at least one roller for transporting freight items in a transport direction and each sensor for detecting the presence of a freight item, wherein the rollers of at least a first freight transport device are mounted rotationally mobile such that the transport direction of the first freight transport device is adjustable, and a control unit which receives signals from sensors of at least two freight transport devices in order to detect a movement, of a freight item, wherein the control unit is designed to calculate from the signals a relative movement of part of the freight item relative to the first freight transport device and align the at least one roller of the first freight transport device taking into account the relative movement of the part of the freight item.
Abstract:
In conventional aircraft cargo compartments panels or similar flat floor elements are fastened to floor beams or similar supporting elements that are installed in the body of the aircraft. Subsequently functional units such as roller elements latches or PDUs are mounted and connected to one another by way of appropriate control conductors. In the present invention it is proposed to fasten the floor elements permanently to the supporting beams so as to form prefabricated floor modules and to install these floor modules in the aircraft.