Package and article carriers – Vehicle attached – Carrier associated with vehicle roof or trunk lid
Patent
1995-11-09
1998-05-19
Luebke, Renee S.
Package and article carriers
Vehicle attached
Carrier associated with vehicle roof or trunk lid
211209, B60R 9045
Patent
active
057526354
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle article carrier having at least one lateral cross rail selectively positionable along a pair of longitudinally extending side rails. A drive member in the form of a loop is movably mounted about rotatable members at opposite ends of each side rail. A shuttle cleat is slidably mounted in each side rail and coupled to the drive member in each side rail. An output shaft of a electric drive motor is coupled to at least one of the rotatable members for adjustably positioning the movable cross rail along the side rails. Alternately, a separate electric drive motor rotates one rotatable member in each side rail. In an alternate embodiment, a toothed rack or a series of spaced apertures is carried in each side rail and engaged by complementary shaped toothed rotatable members mounted at opposite ends of the movable cross rail. A rotatable crank or power tool engagable with at least one of the toothed rotatable members imparts rotation to the rotatable member to reposition the movable cross rail along the side rails.
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