A high strength automotive cross bar cargo carrier comprising a plurality of:
- adjustable cross bar mounts, adjustable cross bars, cross bar alignment bushings, cross bar inserts and fasteners, wherein:
- the adjustable cross bar mounts each include a roof attachment section and a cross bar attachment section;
- the roof attachment section having an upper portion and a lower portion wherein;
- the lower portion of the roof attachment section is shaped and configured as a rectangular tab having a top surface, a bottom surface, a fore end, an aft end, an inboard end and an outboard end, the bottom surface of the lower portion is shaped and configured for placement upon the surface of a vehicle roof and includes at least two roof attachment bores;
- the upper portion of the roof attachment section is shaped and configured as a vertically disposed plate having an inboard surface, an outboard surface, a fore edge, an aft edge, a superior end, an inferior end and a width, the upper section including a longitudinal axis, the inboard and outboard surfaces of the upper portion having horizontal ribs and grooves formed thereupon running from the fore to aft edges, the upper portion also includes a vertical height adjustment slot located midway between the fore and aft edges thereof;
- the cross bar attachment section includes a roof attachment section capture flange and a cross bar support;
- wherein
- the roof attachment section capture flange includes an inboard plate and an outboard plate, both the inboard and outboard plates having an inboard surface, an outboard surface, an inferior end, a superior end, a fore edge and an aft edge, the inboard surface of the outboard plate and the outboard surface of the inboard plate having horizontally disposed ribs and grooves running from the fore edges to the aft edges thereof especially shaped and configured for engagement of the horizontal ribs and grooves formed on the inboard and outboard surfaces of the vertically disposed plate of the upper portion of the roof attachment section thereby enabling capture and retention of the vertically disposed plate within a roof engagement section capture slot at a selected height, the inboard and outboard plates each having assembly bores formed therethrough;
- the cross bar support is formed as a rectangular plate having a top surface, a bottom surface, an inboard end, an outboard end, a fore edge and an aft edge, the top surface of the cross bar support including two longitudinally aligned grooves running from the inboard end to the outboard end thereof, the cross bar support also including a cross bar attachment bore;
- each of the adjustable cross bars is formed in the shape of an elongated bar having a top surface, a bottom surface, a fore surface, an aft surface, a right end, a left end and a length, the bottom surface of the adjustable cross bar being concave and including a longitudinal adjustment slot running longitudinally and medially along the bottom surface that communicates with a cross bar insert channel formed within a lower portion of the cross bar, wherein positioning of each of the adjustable cross bars can be adjusted along a fore/aft arc and in an inboard/outboard direction;
- each of the cross bar alignment bushings are formed and shaped as a rectangular bar having a convex top surface, a flat bottom surface, an inboard end, an outboard end, a fore edge and an aft edge, the bottom surface including two longitudinally aligned ribs located adjacent the fore and aft edges thereof, each of the alignment bushings also including a bushing bore located centrally between the fore and aft edges thereof;
- each of the cross bar inserts are shaped and configured as a curved rectangular bar having a convex top surface, a concave bottom surface, a fore surface, an aft surface, an inboard end, an outboard end, a width and a longitudinal axis, wherein each of the cross bar inserts includes a threaded central bore.