Package and article carriers – Vehicle attached – Carrier attached to special purpose vehicle
Patent
1997-02-11
1998-03-10
Recla, Henry J.
Package and article carriers
Vehicle attached
Carrier attached to special purpose vehicle
296 3, 211206, B60R 900
Patent
active
057251371
ABSTRACT:
A carrier rack and rack retainer for use with a pickup truck includes a rack having an assemblable set of at least two rack segments each having a transverse bridge and two columnar bridge support struts, each strut having offset, i.e. parallel but non-collinear, upper end and lower end portions. The upper end portion of each strut mates with a discrete end of the bridge of a discrete rack segment in at least two discrete rotated positions of the strut about the longitudinal axis of the upper end portion of the strut, thereby providing a rack segment with selectable spacing between the lower end portions of the struts. The rack retainer provides at least two pairs of columnar pillars mountable adjacent side walls of the pickup truck cargo area. The spacing between the lower end portions of the struts of each assembled rack segment may be selected to be approximately equal to the spacing between the pillars of a discrete pair of mounted pillars. Each mounted pillar mates with the lower end portion of a discrete one of the struts of a discrete assembled rack segment with the strut in any of its rotated positions.
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Recla Henry J.
Vidovich Gregory M.
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