Package and article carriers – Vehicle attached – Carrier associated with vehicle roof or trunk lid
Patent
1981-12-10
1983-11-22
Price, William
Package and article carriers
Vehicle attached
Carrier associated with vehicle roof or trunk lid
224315, 224322, 224324, 224325, B60R 904
Patent
active
044164068
ABSTRACT:
Improvements are provided in a vehicle having a luggage carrier connected to a luggage supporting surface. The improvements comprise a luggage rack assembly having a spaced parallel pair of horizontally attending raised side rails slideably disposed in parallel rail tracks secured to the luggage supporting surface. The assembly also has a spaced parallel pair of horizontally extending rack sub assemblies disposed between the side rails. Each sub assembly has an elongated horizontal rack track and an elongated horizontal luggage retainer keyed to the track and moveable between a flat, collapsed horizontal storage position and an operative raised luggage engirdling position spaced above the track. The luggage retainer is slideably secured to the rack track and includes a first portion having a plurality of hingedly interconnected longitudinally extending plates, including a telescoping middle plate and two end plates, one of which is hinged or otherwise secured to track or a fixed second portion of the retainer. The first portion may be releasably locked to the second portion. When unlocked, it can be swung into an inverted U-shape extending around luggage above the second portion and with the unhinged free end thereof locked to the second portion. In one embodiment, one end of the interconnected plates can be pivoted horizontally so that the plates can be swung to bridge the space between the two rack tracks and interconnect the same.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3542264 (1970-11-01), Meyer
patent: 4222508 (1980-09-01), Bott
patent: 4295587 (1981-10-01), Bott
patent: 4358037 (1982-11-01), Heideman
Elkins Gary E.
Posta Jr. John J.
Price William
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