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US 4,057,286 AGranted
Retaining member for vehicle chassis
AssigneeRauma-Repola Oy
InventorKunto Elonen
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Abstract
This invention relates to an improved vehicle retaining means comprising a plurality of retaining members, each of said retaining members being rotatably journalled in a bearing, each of said bearings being located proximate a side of a vehicle chassis, each of said bearings being tilted outwardly with respect to a perpendicular line to the plane of the chassis.
Claims4
In a vehicle adapted to transport a commodity and having means for retaining the commodity on the chassis of the vehicle, the improvement comprising:
- a. a bearing mounted on said chassis, said bearing having a longitudinal axis tilted upwardly and outwardly with respect to a line perpendicular to said chassis, and
- b. a rigid retaining member having a first portion thereof rotatably journalled in said bearing, a second portion extending generally horizontally outward from said journalled first portion, and a third portion extending generally vertically upward from said second portion, the longitudinal axis of said bearing being tilted sufficiently from the perpendicular to the chassis and the three portions of said retaining member being joined to each other at such respective angles that, when said retaining member is permitted to rotate under the influence of gravity, said second portion assumes an upward and outward extension away from the chassis and said third portion assumes a position generally perpendicular to the chassis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.