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US 4,013,018 AGranted
Pneumatic shipping enclosures
AssigneeLibbey-Owens-Ford Co.
InventorsRalph C. Hansen, Ray P. Miles
Life of this patent
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Abstract
Air inflated covers for protecting merchandise, including glass, lumber and other building materials, during transportation on carriers such as open railroad cars and trucks; with means for connecting sections of the covers together and for anchoring the covers to the carrier.
Claims4
The combination:
- with a goods supporting structure including a goods supporting framework mounted on a vehicle;
- of a protective cover comprising two flexible sheets arranged in face to face relation and sealed together in selected areas to form substantially flat sealed marginal portions, upper and lower inflatable compartments within said marginal portions and between said sheets, an elongated sealed area separating said compartments and about which sealed separating area said compartments can be swung into and out of angular relationship with one another, means for securing the upper of said marginal portions of said cover to said framework to permit said compartments to be swung into angular relationship and to extend over and into covering relationship to goods supported on said framework, and means for securing the lower of said marginal portions of said cover to one side of said vehicle;
- and a similar cover with means for securing its upper marginal portion to said framework in overlapping relation to the upper marginal portion of said first mentioned cover and for securing its lower marginal portion to said vehicle at the opposite side thereof from said first mentioned cover.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.