Universal carrier attachment for pick-up vans

Details Universal carrier attachment for pick-up vans Universal carrier attachment for pick-up vans

1978-10-26

1981-05-19

Song, Robert R.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Convertible box

296 353, B60P 342

Patent

active

042680832

ABSTRACT:
A universal carrier attachment for pick-up vans is disclosed which may be readily mounted or dismounted from the cargo compartment of a pick-up van without requiring permanent fasteners. In one embodiment, the carrier includes a horizontal platform fitted within the cargo compartment, having first and second opposed vertical walls on which are mounted first and second horizontal lips, respectively. The horizontal lips rest on the top surfaces of the sidewalls of the cargo compartment and support the vertical wall and platform of the carrier so as to depend downwardly from the horizontal lips into the cargo compartment. The tailgate for the pick-up van then mechanically contacts the rear edge of the platform for the carrier when the tailgate is in its closed position so that the carrier is held in position in the cargo compartment and yet may be readily dismounted by merely lowering the tailgate and sliding the carrier out of the cargo compartment. In this manner, the carrier is held in position over the cargo compartment when the tailgate of the pick-up van is closed so as to mechanically contact the rear edge of the carrier assembly, permitting the carrier to be readily dismounted by merely lowering the tailgate and sliding the carrier off the top of the cargo compartment. In another alternate embodiment, a first horizontal dowel protruding from the forward portion of the carrier can slip into a perforation in the front wall of the cargo compartment and a second horizontal dowel in the rear portion of the carrier can slip into a perforation in the tailgate of the van to further secure the assembly.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2559029 (1951-07-01), Randolph
patent: 2788238 (1957-04-01), Baird
patent: 3995890 (1976-12-01), Fletcher

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