Vehicle wheel chock for securing vehicles during transport

Transportation equipment having at least one deck for supporting and transporting four-wheel vehicles such as automobiles and trucks;

• at least one track secured to the deck;
• the track having a pair of substantially upwardly extending spaced apart surfaces;
• chock blocks for a vehicle transported on the deck to secure the vehicle against longitudinal movement;
• each chock block having a first member and a longitudinal second member;
• the first member nesting with the track and being quickly removable from such nesting arrangement by upward displacement;
• the second member being substantially horizontally positioned and permanently laterally joined to the first member;
• the second member having a sufficient length to extend along, and terminate beyond, the tread face of a tire of a vehicle located alongside the track;
• a pin on the chock block for removably securing the first member to the track, when in nesting position therewith, to prevent the first member and chock block from horizontal movement along the track and upward movement from the track;
• the pin having a forward end and the first member having a hole into which the pin forward end can extend through and into one of a plurality of horizontally disposed spaced apart holes in the track;
• the second member having a longitudinal center when viewed from the top;
• the pin having an axis located substantially along the longitudinal center of the second member when viewed from the top;
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• the pin having handle means observable and manually operable from both sides of the second member longitudinal center to withdraw the pin forward end from the track hole to remove the chock block from the track and to help position the pin forward end in a track hole.

A railroad car having at least one deck for supporting and transporting four-wheel vehicles such as automobiles and trucks;

• at least one track secured to the deck;
• the track having a pair of substantially upwardly extending spaced apart surfaces;
• chock blocks for a vehicle transported on the deck to secure the vehicle against longitudinal movement;
• each chock block having a first member and a longitudinal second member;
• the first member nesting with the track and being quickly removable from such nesting arrangement by upward displacement;
• the second member being substantially horizontally positioned and permanently laterally joined to the first member;
• the second member having a sufficient length to extend along, and terminate beyond, the treadface of a tire of a vehicle located alongside the track;
• a pin on the chock block for removably securing the first member to the track, when in nesting position therewith, to prevent the first member and chock block from horizontal movement along the track and upward movement from the track;
• the pin having a forward end and the first member having a hole into which the pin forward end can extend through and into one of a plurality of horizontally disposed spaced apart holes in the track;
• the second member having a longitudinal center when viewed from the top;
• the pin having an axis located substantially along the longitudinal center of the second member when viewed from the top;
• the pin having handle means observable and manually operable from both sides of the second member longitudinal center to withdraw the pin forward end from the track hole to remove the chock block from the track and to help position the pin forward end in a track hole;
• each chock block being essentially symmetrical about the second member longitudinal center;
• a first chock block positioned adjoining the tread face at the front of a tire on a wheel of a vehicle on the deck;
• a second chock block positioned adjoining the tread face at the rear of the same tire on said wheel;
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• the first and second chock blocks being removably secured to the track by the respective pin of each chock block.

A chock block for a vehicle transported on a deck to secure the vehicle against longitudinal movement;

• the chock block having a first member, a longitudinal second member, and means on the first member for removably securing the first member to a track on the deck;
• the first member being capable of nesting with the track and being quickly removable from such nesting arrangement by upward displacement;
• the second member being permanently laterally joined to the first member;
• the second member having a sufficient length to extend along, and terminate beyond, the tread face of a tire of a vehicle located alongside the track;
• securing means on the chock block for removably securing the first member to the track, when in nesting position therewith, to prevent the first member and chock block from horizontal movement along the track and upward movement from the track;
• the second member having a longitudinal center when viewed from the top;
• the securing means being located substantially along the longitudinal center of the second member when viewed from the top;
• and
• the securing means being observable and manually operable from opposite sides of the second member longitudinal center.

A chock block for a vehicle transported on a deck to secure the vehicle against longitudinal movement;

• the chock block having a first member and a longitudinal second member;
• the first member being capable of nesting with the track and being quickly removable from such nesting arrangement by upward displacement;
• the second member being substantially horizontally positioned and permanently laterally joined to the first member;
• the second member having a sufficient length to extend along, and terminate beyond, the tread face of a tire of a vehicle located alongside the track;
• a pin on the chock block for removably securing the first member to the track, when in nesting position therewith, to prevent the first member and chock block from horizontal movement along the track and upward movement from the track;
• the pin having a forward end which can extend through and into one of a plurality of horizontally disposed spaced apart holes in the track;
• the second member having a longitudinal center when viewed from the top;
• the pin having an axis located substantially along the longitudinal center of the second member when viewed from the top;
• the pin having handle means observable and manually operable from both sides of the second member longitudinal center to withdraw the pin forward end from a track hole to remove the chock block from the track and to help position the pin forward end in a track hole;
• and
• the chock block being essentially symmetrical about the second member longitudinal center.