Package and article carriers – Vehicle attached – For rim – tire – or wheel
Patent
1976-03-22
1978-02-07
Spar, Robert J.
Package and article carriers
Vehicle attached
For rim, tire, or wheel
214DIG10, 214451, 224 4223, B62D 4304
Patent
active
040722589
ABSTRACT:
An inverted U-shaped mounting bracket is bolted to the bottom of one pickup truck U-frame member at the rear of the truck and an inverted L-shaped mounting bracket is bolted to the bottom of the other truck U-frame member in laterally opposed position, pairs of forward and rear hanger arms are each pivoted at one end to said respective brackets and at their lower ends to the sides of a spare tire carrier rack to form a parallelogram arrangement for supporting a spare tire horizontally beneath the rear of the truck. A compact screw drive mechanism has its forward end respectively mounted to an extended outer wall of said inverted U-shaped mounting bracket and its rear end mounted to the same wall in the area of the pivot connections for the hanger arms to the U-shaped mounting bracket, and carries a screw rotatable about its axis and extending longitudinally along the U-shaped bracket which, in turn, carries a nut restrained from rotation but movable along the screw axis during screw rotation. A drive lever is pivoted at one end to the nut and at the other end to the adjacent rear hanger arm to cause the rack and the spare tire carried between the pairs of hanger arms and upon the rack to swing forwardly and upwardly in close proximity to the underbody of the truck, and vice versa.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1751480 (1930-03-01), Howell
patent: 2028945 (1936-01-01), Morrison
patent: 2587067 (1952-02-01), Sachtleber
patent: 3488066 (1970-01-01), Hansen
Douglas Winston H.
Spar Robert J.
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