Pressure Container for a Transport Container Arrangement

Abstract

The present invention concerns a pressure container ( 1 ) with a jacket comprising partial cylindrical jacket shells ( 2, 4 ) that are located parallel next to each other and define a bead ( 8, 10 ) in the longitudinal direction. The end faces thereof are closed off by a curved bottom ( 16, 18 ), wherein between the partial cylindrical shells ( 2, 4 ) a tractive element designed in particular as a flat wall ( 6; 6 a , 6 b ) is arranged, the upper or lower edge ( 12, 14 ) of which extends into or penetrates the upper or lower bead region ( 8, 10 ). There is furthermore provided a shell element ( 42 ) running in the longitudinal direction and connecting the jacket shells ( 2, 4 ) and the tractive element ( 6 ), being firmly connected at least in sections to the jacket shells ( 2, 4 ) and to the particularly beveled edge ( 12, 12 a ; 14, 14 a ) of the tractive element ( 6 ), so that a girder structure is formed in the bead region ( 8, 10 ). The invention further relates to a transport container arrangement, particularly a tank container unit ( 100 ) having a pressure container ( 1 ) according to the invention.

1 . Pressure container with a jacket comprising partial cylindrical jacket shells that are located parallel next to each other and define a bead in the longitudinal direction, whose end faces are closed off by a curved bottom, and between the partial cylindrical shells a tractive element designed in particular as a flat wall is arranged, the upper or lower edge of which extends into or penetrates the upper or lower bead region ( 8 ,  10 ), characterized in that there is provided a shell element running in the longitudinal direction and connecting the jacket shells and the tractive element, being firmly connected at least in sections to the jacket shells and to the particularly beveled edge of the tractive element, so that a girder structure is formed in the bead region. 
     
     
         2 . Pressure container according to  claim 1 , in which the shell element is part of an outer jacket at least partially surrounding the jacket and tightly joined to this. 
     
     
         3 . Pressure container according to  claim 1 , in which the shell element has a camber or edge running in the lengthwise direction. 
     
     
         4 . Pressure container according to  claim 2 , in which an opening contour of the curved bottoms has a different course in the bead region than that of the jacket shells and the region so defined is closed by means of a flat spandrel element running perpendicular to the lengthwise axis of the tank. 
     
     
         5 . Pressure container according to  claim 4 , in which the spandrel element is firmly joined to one end face of the tractive element and the shell element. 
     
     
         6 . Pressure container according to  claim 4 , in which the spandrel element has an outer contour region, which follows the inner peripheral contour of the cambered bottom in the bead region, and an inner contour region that runs inside the peripheral contour of the jacket shell in the bead region, while the two contour regions meet at ends lying in the apex and base region and basically make an acute angle. 
     
     
         7 . Pressure container according to  claim 4 , in which the ends of the spandrel element have a riblike extension, which follow the common peripheral contour of bottom and jacket shell and go beyond the apex or base region. 
     
     
         8 . Pressure container according to  claim 1 , in which at least one jacket shell has circumferential segments of different curvature, in particular, one circumferential segment in the upper and lower bead region and one circumferential segment between an apex and a base region, while the circumferential segment between apex and base region is more curved than a circumferential segment in the upper and lower bead region and/or the circumferential segment in the upper bead region is more/less curved than that in the lower bead region. 
     
     
         9 . Pressure container according to  claim 8 , in which sections of the circumference are provided with different wall thicknesses. 
     
     
         10 . Transport container arrangement, particularly a tank container unit having a pressure container according to  claim 1 . 
     
     
         11 . Pressure container according to  claim 3 , in which an opening contour of the curved bottoms has a different course in the bead region than that of the jacket shells and the region so defined is closed by means of a flat spandrel element running perpendicular to the lengthwise axis of the tank. 
     
     
         12 . Pressure container according to  claim 11 , in which the spandrel element is firmly joined to one end face of the tractive element and the shell element. 
     
     
         13 . Pressure container according to  claim 11 , in which the spandrel element has an outer contour region, which follows the inner peripheral contour of the cambered bottom in the bead region, and an inner contour region that runs inside the peripheral contour of the jacket shell in the bead region, while the two contour regions meet at ends lying in the apex and base region and basically make an acute angle. 
     
     
         14 . Pressure container according to  claim 11 , in which the ends of the spandrel element have a riblike extension, which follow the common peripheral contour of bottom and jacket shell and go beyond the apex or base region.