US 4,805,859 AGranted

Apparatus for securing containers to moving platforms

OwnerDon Hudsoninventor

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Abstract

An attachment and means for anchoring a tackle box on a moving object, such as a boat, against the effects of heave and motion, has a frame upon which are two parallel interlocking rails which mate with corresponding interlocking grooves provided within the tackle box or within an attachment affixed to a tackle box's exterior surface. The design of the rail is particularly adapted to reduce the chance of injury to individuals working around the rails and to reduce the effect of impact and wear damage to the rails. The rails are of a substantially broad based inverted truncated prismoidal section, extending outward at an angle from a base of substantial width and having a substantially flat top. The edges of the rails are rounded to reduce the effects of wear and to eliminate the change of injury to a person contacting a rail while the tackle box is removed. Two forms of the rail are shown allowing for either horizontal or vertical mounting of a tackle box; a framework is shown for installing the rails against the sloping hull of a vessel to produce a horizontal or vertical mounting position.

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Dependent claims

Means for anchoring a box upon a surface of a moving support comprising:

a. a support plate adapted to fixed attachment to said surface;
b. two parallel rail members arising from said support plate, spaced a distance apart;
c. each of said rail members having a planar top face a spaced distance from said support plate;
d. said top face connecting to said support face along two inwardly sloping, planar side faces, said top face and said inwardly sloping side faces defining a truncated pyramidal cross section, defining a base width connection to said plate;
e. said base width having a width being a substantial function of said top face;
f. the intersection of said top face and said side faces being radiused;
g. said parallel rails interlocking with a box mounted base, said box mounted base comprising a pair of parallel first and second outwardly sloping inwardly projecting side faces, at an angle parallel to said inwardly sloping planar side faces, said outwardly sloping side faces defining an inward support face, said outwardly sloping side faces and said inward support face defining a second truncated pyramidal cross section equivalent in dimension to said first truncated pyramidal cross section.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.