Package and article carriers – Vehicle attached – Carrier associated with vehicle roof or trunk lid
Patent
1980-10-14
1982-07-13
Pollard, Steven M.
Package and article carriers
Vehicle attached
Carrier associated with vehicle roof or trunk lid
224917, 211 60R, B60R 904
Patent
active
043390641
ABSTRACT:
A carrier clamp for fire ladders of the folding type, is adapted to be mounted upon a fire truck or the like. A pair of the clamps, when so mounted, accommodate a folding ladder of the type in which the side rails are collapsed into longitudinally contacting engagement. The clamp includes a body having a ladder-receiving recess which may open either upwardly or laterally, depending upon which of two permitted mounting arrangements is selected. The ladder-receiving recess is normally closed by a spring-biased handle, which can be swiftly grasped and pivoted to an out-of-the-way position, to permit swift removal and setting up of the ladder under emergency conditions.
The clamp device incorporates removable spacers, to adjust the sides of the ladder-receiving recess to folded ladders of differing widths. In each case, the spacer block includes a cam surface adapted to bear against the ladder when the ladder is forced against the spacer block by the spring biased handle, to hold the ladder securely.
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Duo Safety Ladders, Catalog No. 678, p. 16.
Kane John J.
Pollard Steven M.
Sperry Albert
Zoda Frederick A.
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