Trunk-lid tie-down
OwnerThomas J. Mattimoreinventor
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Abstract
A Trunk-lid Tie-down arrangement holds a car trunk lid or hatch lift-gate at a partly open position for transporting an oversize package or other large cargo piece. One component is an insert plate formed stainless steel or another suitably strong rigid material, with a pair of eye openings. The second component is a length of a cordage or rope, favorably ten feet long. One of the eye opening is inserted into the vehicle's latch for the lid or lift gate and is held there. The cordage extends from the other eye opening and can be tied to the hasp for the locking latch. At the delivery destination, the insert plate is removed by unlocking the lid or hatch gate, and the package can be removed.
Claims13
A trunk-lid hold-down for a motor vehicle, the trunk-lid hold-down comprising
- a rigid metal insert plate in the form of a blade member formed as a rigid metallic flat bar of a suitable steel or, or the like, with the insert plate having a length direction and a width direction, the bar having a thickness of up to substantially an eighth inch, a length of three to four inches, and a width of up to substantially one inch, and being provided with a pair of eye-hole openings at opposite ends of said blade member, each eye-hole opening being oblong in the length direction of the bar, and up to substantially one inch long, up to a half-inch wide, and with edges of the eye hole openings and edges of the rigid metal flat bar being blunt and not sharp;
- with each of said eye-hole openings being configured to receive therein a latch member of an associated trunk lid;
- a length of sturdy, flexible cordage having an end secured to one of said eye-hole openings, and said cordage having another end configured to be secured to a hasp of a trunk-lid of the motor vehicle.
A trunk-lid hold-down for a motor vehicle comprising in combination,
- a rigid metal blade member formed as a rigid metal flat bar of a suitable steel or equivalent sturdy rigid material, having a thickness of substantially one-eighth inch, a length of substantially three to four inches and a width of substantially one inch, and being provided with a pair of eye-hole openings at opposite ends of said blade member, each said eye-hole opening being elongated along the length of the flat bar and substantially five-eighths inch to one inch long and substantially three-eighths inches in width, wherein edges of the eye hole openings and edges of the rigid metal flat bar being blunt and not sharp;
- each of said eye-hole openings being configured to receive therein a latch member of an associated trunk lid, and
- a length of a sturdy, flexible cording of substantially one-eighth inch diameter, said cording having an end being secured to one of said eye-hole openings, and said cording having another end configured to be secure to a hasp of a trunk-lid of the motor vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.