Tote releasably attachable to a rail
Assignee1257425 B.C. Ltd.
InventorTyler H Zieske
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus, releasably attachable to a rail, having a holder and a receptacle for receiving and releasably attaching to the rail to support the holder on the rail, wherein the holder includes an outboard portion and an inboard portion, wherein the outboard portion lies beyond the rail and the inboard portion lies within the rail, when the holder is supported on the rail, and wherein the outboard portion is lighter than the inboard portion, so that the apparatus is weight-biased within the rail, such that the apparatus is adapted to resist dislodgement by outboard forces and to tend to dislodge in an inboard direction.
Claims19
A storage apparatus, releasably attachable to a rail having an inboard side and an outboard side, the apparatus comprising:
- a) a holder body (102) being formed of a top panel (101) and three side panels (103) each having a top end and bottom end, wherein the three side panels include two opposing side panels and a third side panel extending between respective outboard edges of the two side panels,
- the opposing side panels each having an opening (104) extending from the bottom end towards the top end, the opening being configured to receive the rail, and the third side panel being configured to be located at the outboard side of the rail;
- the top panel and the three side panels together define an upper portion (105), an outboard portion (106) and an inboard portion (108), the outboard portion and the inboard portion each having a rail facing side, and forming a channel (104) extending between the openings (104a) of the opposing side panels, to support the holder on the rail and to releasably attach the apparatus to the rail, such that the outboard portion is on the outboard side of the rail and the inboard portion is on the inboard side of the rail when the holder body is supported on the rail, and
- b) a clamping mechanism (166) deployable against the rail,
- wherein the clamping mechanism is deployable through the third panel of the holder body against the outboard side of the rail to urge the rail facing side of the inboard portion of the holder to contact the inboard side of the rail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.