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US 4,058,243 AGranted
Car top load carrier
OwnerLeonard E. Tappaninventor
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Abstract
A car top load carrier characterized by a rigid sectional support frame adapted to be mounted on the top of a vehicle and having spaced roller retaining tracks and means releasably interconnecting the frame sections, and a rigid load carrying member having a sectional frame journaling a plurality of track engaging rollers spaced along the length thereof and supporting wheels journaled at one end thereof.
Claims6
A car top load carrier comprising
- a rigid elongated support frame having multiple prefabricated sections, means for detachably and telescopically connecting adjacent said frame sections in longitudinal alignment and end abutment,
- means for removably mounting at least some of said support frame sections on the top of a vehicle and cooperating with said frame connecting means to position said frame sections in frame-defining assembled load-bearing relation,
- laterally spaced parallel tracks of C-shaped cross section attached to each section of said support frame at their bottom bent marginal sections and each track abutting and longitudinally aligned with an adjacent track of an adjacent frame section when said sections are connected,
- an elongated load carrying member,
- wheels journaled at one end of said load carrying member,
- a plurality of laterally spaced sets of rollers journaled at spaced intervals along the length of said load carrying member and adapted to traverse said tracks, said tracks retaining said rollers against release transversely from said support frame, and
- means for securing said load carrying member in operative position on said support frame.
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