Freight accommodation on freight carrier – Particular article accommodation – Grouped
Patent
1995-03-10
1996-12-10
Merritt, Karen B.
Freight accommodation on freight carrier
Particular article accommodation
Grouped
410144, 410 43, 211 41, B60P 715, B61D 4500
Patent
active
055824951
ABSTRACT:
A frame assembly for shipment of dunnage that includes a generally rectangular frame having spaced side bars, support rails for vertically supporting dunnage, and a bar and lock arrangement mounted on the frame for locking the dunnage against the support rails. The bar and lock arrangement features a bar having latches at opposed ends of the bar for releasably securing each bar end to an opposed striker mounted on the frame. A pair of swing arms respectively extend from each end of the bar, and are pivotally mounted to an adjacent side bar of the frame so that the swing arms and bar are pivotable as a unit with respect to the frame through an arc between a lowered position remote from the dunnage in the frame upwardly and then downwardly to a second position in which the bar vertically engages the dunnage to lock the dunnage within the frame. Strikers are affixed to the frame for releasably locking the bar in both of the first and second positions. Each latch bolt has a spherical end face that cams over the opposing strikers and helps eliminate alignment problems between the locking bar and the strikers.
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Photocopies of photographs that illustrate a previously marketed prior art dunnage bar lock (filed & cited in Schroeder 5,037,256).
Gordon Stephen
Merritt Karen B.
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