Strap locating arrangement
OwnerRalph Justin Aboodinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a strap locating arrangement, configured for allowing drivers of large vehicles to locate strapping over especially high loads on a vehicle load bed or to locate strapping through gaps between the top of their loads and the bottom of the vehicle roof, including a receiving arrangement configured for receiving at least part of a rolled up load securing strap; the receiving arrangement including a slot through which an un-rolled portion of the load securing strap is extendable in a direction extending tangentially outward from the rolled up strap; the receiving arrangement being attachable to an elongate extension member.
Claims19
A strap locating arrangement for locating a strap over a load on a vehicle load bed, the strap locating arrangement comprising
- a) a receiving arrangement configured for receiving at least part of a rolled up load securing strap, the receiving arrangement comprises an elongate and straight base wall having parallel opposed edges and a pair of side walls extending substantially upwardly from the elongate and straight base wall at the opposed edges, the elongate and straight base wall and the pair of side walls defining an elongate and straight channel to receive the rolled up load securing strap and guide rolling of the rolled up load securing strap on the elongate and straight base wall in operation;
- b) the receiving arrangement including a slot through which an un-rolled portion of the load securing strap is extendable in a direction extending tangentially outward from the rolled up strap;
- c) the receiving arrangement being attachable to an elongate extension member in a configuration so that when the elongate extension member is in a vertical position, the rolled up load securing strap will be prevented from falling out of the receiving arrangement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.