Package and article carriers – Vehicle attached – Carrier associated with vehicle roof or trunk lid
Patent
1993-01-11
1994-06-14
Luebke, Renee S.
Package and article carriers
Vehicle attached
Carrier associated with vehicle roof or trunk lid
224326, 224329, B60R 9058
Patent
active
053202643
ABSTRACT:
A pair of like rails are secured to a vehicle roof regardless the curvature of the roof surface at the rails to the plane of the roof between the rails. Two pairs of stanchions to which a corresponding crossbar is secured are slidably secured to the rails and slid into the desired position along the rails. The stanchions have a groove and surface defining a space in which a rail tongue having a circular end surface and an opposing rail circular surface are located to form a pivot arrangement forming a stanchion-rail pivot axis. The stanchion is formed of two members which are pivotally secured about an axis spaced from the rail pivot axis with a clamping knob located between the spaced pivot axes. The knob urges the members together and to the rail to form a tight clamping action to preclude the stanchions from sliding along the rails in response to wind and cargo loads. A plurality of tie down eyelets are slidably secured to a mating trapezoidal groove in the rails and arranged so that the eyelets when under load are tightly secured in place by the load.
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Luebke Renee S.
Perrycraft, Inc.
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