Package and article carriers – Carried by animate bearer – Article held by receiver
Patent
1976-06-01
1978-04-25
Hoffman, Drayton E.
Package and article carriers
Carried by animate bearer
Article held by receiver
224 421H, B60R 900
Patent
active
040858596
ABSTRACT:
A retrofit car-top boat loader for loading a boat on a car already fitted with a car-top carrier of the type including at least front and rear spaced carrier bars, fixedly supported on the car top parallel to each other and transversely with respect to the longitudinal centerline of the car, the carrier bars extending generally out to the sides of the car, the loader comprising an elongated member, such as a pipe or tube, having a length preferably exceeding the maximum width at the gunwales of the boat to be transported and the distance between the opposite outer edges of the carrier bars, whichever is greater, the loader having a yoke member mounted thereon near one end thereof, the yoke opening in a direction away from its mounting and being pivotable about its mounting axis, and means for securing the elongated member to the tops of the front and rear carrier bars, parallel to the side of the car and with the yoke mounting axis being disposed vertically.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2613020 (1952-10-01), Berry
patent: 3155257 (1964-11-01), Showler
patent: 3830389 (1974-08-01), Van Acker
patent: 3837514 (1974-09-01), Barnes
Hoffman Drayton E.
Weaver Ross
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