Freight accommodation on freight carrier – Yieldable brace – Panel
Patent
1989-05-10
1990-10-23
Butler, Douglas C.
Freight accommodation on freight carrier
Yieldable brace
Panel
410 96, 410103, B61D 4500
Patent
active
049647717
ABSTRACT:
A cargo restrainer for restraining cargo carried in a vehicle compartment having walls, such as the bed of a pick-up truck, the cargo restrainer including a generally rectangular panel of flexible material having sleeves extending along its opposing edges. A plurality of anchors are mounted at spaced apart locations on at least one wall of the vehicle comaprtment and cords extend through the sleeves of the panel and engage the anchors at their spaced apart locations to suspend the panel between the anchors with the panel opposing a wall of the vehicle compartment such that cargo may be placed between the wall and the panel for restraint of the cargo during transport. A locking member for holding the cords at a predetermined tension receives end portions of the cords through it, and a lever associated with the locking member may be moved from a first position in which the end portions are free of engagement by the lever such that the tension in the cords and thus the restraining force applied by the panel to the cargo may be adjusted by varying the length of the end portions extending through the locking member, and a second position in which the lever engages the end portions for releasably locking the end portions in the locking member to hold the tension applied to the cords.
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