Freight accommodation on freight carrier – Load bracing means – Brace bar – wall-to-wall
Patent
1989-12-04
1991-08-06
Spar, Robert J.
Freight accommodation on freight carrier
Load bracing means
Brace bar, wall-to-wall
410152, 410144, 410 34, 403325, 403327, B61D 4500
Patent
active
050372564
ABSTRACT:
A bar lock arrangement that includes a bar having a rectangular cross section and a lateral opening in one side of the bar adjacent to the end of the bar. A saddle has a base and parallel sidewalls spaced from each other to receive the bar end on the base between the sidewalls. An L-shaped latch has a base positioned beneath the saddle base, a leg that extends upwardly from the saddle base adjacent to the saddle sidewalls, and a finger overlying and spaced from the saddle base by a distance corresponding to the cross sectional dimension of the bar end. The latch is pivotally mounted to the saddle beneath the saddle base, and a coil spring is captured between the saddle and latch bases for urging the latch finger to the position overlying the saddle base. The bar end engages a camming surface on the latch finger for pivoting the latch with respect to the saddle against force of the spring so that the bar end is received within the saddle, with a locating pin on the saddle base received within the opening at the bar end. The bar end is thus locked in position beneath the latch finger and between the saddle sidewalls.
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Photographs submitted by applicant of previously marketed Dunnage Bar Assembly filed 10/29/90.
Dinicola Brian K.
Spar Robert J.
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