Freight accommodation on freight carrier – Load bearer accommodation – Wall-to-wall socket-entering load bearer
Patent
1998-04-09
2000-05-16
Gordon, Stephen T.
Freight accommodation on freight carrier
Load bearer accommodation
Wall-to-wall socket-entering load bearer
410143, 410145, 410146, 410150, B60P 708
Patent
active
060627808
ABSTRACT:
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided an improved adjustable and vertically lockable decking system for use in supporting freight in a cargo vessel wherein the vessel has opposing side walls. The system includes at least one pair of elongated strips, each of the pair adapted to be mounted vertically on each of the opposing walls. Each of the strips comprises a plurality of vertically spaced apertures. There is also provided a horizontally oriented support assembly being horizontally adjustable in length so as to span a width of the vessel between the opposing side walls. The assembly is pivotally connected at opposing ends thereof to a latching assembly. The latching assembly comprises a body member, a locking member constructed so as to be moveable between a locked position in which the locking member mateably engages one of the apertures in the strip so as to releasably lock the support assembly in one of a plurality of vertical positions relative to and between the elongated strips and an unlocked position in which the support assembly is moveable to another of the vertical positions, and a biasing member to urge the locking member into the aperture. In use, the locking member may only be released from the locked position by means of force exerted directly upon the locking member.
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Costellia Jeffrey L.
Gordon Stephen T.
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