Cargo carrier

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1997-11-25

1998-12-29

Young, Karen M.

Material or article handling

Vehicle attached auxiliary carriers

224505, 224504, B60R 906

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058532781

ABSTRACT:
A cargo carrier having a torque bar assembly that attaches to a female trailer hitch adapter provided on a rear end of a vehicle. The cargo carrier is provided with a platform that attaches on one of its ends to one end of the torque bar assembly by means of a unique double slanted axis. The other end of the platform releasably latches to an opposite end of the torque bar assembly. The double slanted axis causes a rear end of the platform to be elevated above horizontal when the platform is unloaded and latched to the torque bar assembly and causes the platform to swing slightly uphill when it is unloaded and unlatched on one end from the torque bar assembly and is swung away from the vehicle by means of a speed controlling safety device provided attached to the platform and to the torque bar assembly. An alternate embodiment cargo carrier is electrically operated and provides for reversibly lowering one end of the platform to the ground for loading a wheelchair thereon.

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