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US 5,332,280 AGranted
Demountable deflector for shipping containers and the like
OwnerDuPont, deceased Jacques, by Alain DuPont, legal representativeinventors
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Abstract
A air deflector for a shipping container comprises a plurality of panels and a supporting frame member, and interconnecting hooks. The panels are mountable onto, and demountable from the container easily by one person without necessitating the use of tools and when demounted are storable in a two dimensional arrangement.
Claims14
An air deflector for a shipping container or the like having a fixed face and opposed upper corners thereto with openings therein;
- said air deflector being demountable from said container for storage in a generally two dimensional condition and comprising;
- a first, planar isosceles triangular panel having a base, two equal sides, and apex;
- hook means located adjacent opposed ends of said base for engaging said corner openings for suspending said triangular panel therefrom;
- a frame including a strut portion releasably couplable to said triangular panel to depend downwardly therefrom in oblique relationship;
- said frame including at least one portion for bearing on said fixed face to retain said strut portion in spaced apart relationship from said fixed face;
- second and third similar planar panels each having at least three sides, a first side thereof having a length generally identical one of the sides of said first triangular panel;
- cooperating hook means on said first triangular panel and each of said second and third panels for releasably connecting each of said second and third panels to said first triangular panel when suspended with said one side of each of said second and third panels contiguous to respective ones of the sides of said first triangular panel;
- said second and third panels being proportioned such that when a second side of each of said second and third panels when connected to said first triangular panel is contiguous with said fixed face to said container, third sides of each of said second and third panels are adjacent along the length thereof and reside in a vertical plane containing the apex of said first triangular panel,
- and means for releasably retaining said third sides in adjacent relationship.
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