Vehicle load carrier
AssigneeThule Sweden AB
InventorVictor Millberg
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Abstract
A vehicle load carrier includes a load carrying bar. The load carrying bar has a height, a width, and a length and includes a channel having a width, a height, and a length. The channel has a channel floor portion, first and second channel walls, an opening, and a cover arranged to seal a portion of said opening. The channel further includes a first entrance for introducing a fastening member of a load carrying bar accessory. The vehicle load carrier further includes a first end piece arranged to seal said first entrance of said channel. The vehicle load carrier has a tapered lead-in portion at said first entrance to facilitate entry of said fastening member into said channel.
Claims15
A vehicle load carrier comprising:
- a load carrying bar, said load carrying bar having a height, a width, and a length, said load carrying bar comprising:
- a channel having a width, a height, and a length, said channel having a floor portion, first and second channel walls, an opening, and a cover arranged to seal a portion of said opening, said channel further comprising an entrance for introducing a fastening member of a load carrying bar accessory;
- and
- an end piece arranged to seal said entrance of said channel,
- wherein said vehicle load carrier has a tapered lead-in portion at said entrance to facilitate entry of said fastening member into said channel, and
- wherein said tapered lead-in portion narrows in width, in height, or both in a direction toward said channel.
A system comprising:
- a vehicle load carrier comprising:
- a load carrying bar, said load carrying bar having a height, a width, and a length, said load carrying bar comprising:
- a channel having a width, a height, and a length, said channel having a floor portion, first and second channel walls, an opening, and a cover arranged to seal a portion of said opening, said channel further comprising an entrance for introducing a fastening member of a load carrying bar accessory;
- and
- an end piece arranged to seal said entrance of said channel;
- and
- a tapered lead-in portion at said entrance to facilitate entry of said fastening member into said channel, wherein said tapered lead-in portion narrows in width, in height, or both in a direction toward said channel;
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- said fastening member having a base and a stem, said stem having at a free end a threaded portion, said base arranged to fit in said channel and said stem in said opening of said channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.