Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Body securing device
Patent
1976-09-28
1978-05-30
Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Body securing device
105366B, 248503, B62D 2300
Patent
active
040920402
ABSTRACT:
Adjustable twist lock assembly for locking containers in position on the deck of a flatbed vehicle in which the vehicle has a C-channel extending along each side and opening toward the outside, and the top flange of the channel is at deck level. Each channel has openings in its top flange to accommodate a twist lock to be extended above floor level through a selected opening to enter a container fitting and thereby accommodate the twist lock to containers of varying lengths. The twist lock assembly includes a framework conforming to the inside of the channel and slidable therealong and having an open top to accommodate extension of the twist lock above the channel. The twist lock has an elongated locking head with a depending stud pivotally carried in a lock housing, guided for vertical movement along the framework. A camming member is transversely pivoted to the stud, and a handle, accessible through the C-channel and an opening in the framework, extends from the camming member for manually moving the camming member to cam the lock housing and stud vertically and then turn the camming member and stud at least 90.degree. to lockingly engage the locking head of the twist lock with a container fitting.
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patent: 3989294 (1976-11-01), Carr
Carroll John A.
Peters Jr. Joseph F.
Portec Inc.
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