Cargo shoring assembly for a freight transport vehicle

In a cargo-shoring assembly adapted to releasably engage opposing mounting members secured to a freight transport vehicle, said cargo-shoring assembly being provided with (a) an elongated hollow-form cargo-engaging member having opposing first and second ends;

• (b) first and second extenders slidably carried in the cargo-engaging member and respectively located at the first and second cargo-engaging member ends, each of said extenders having an outer end;
• and (c) first and second latch clips mounted, respectively, on the first and second extenders adjacent to the outer ends thereof, each of said latch clips having a body adapted to releasably engage one of the mounting members secured to the freight transport vehicle, that improvement which comprises:
• i) a pair of diametrically opposing latch clip-receiving slots projecting inwardly from each of the first and second ends of the cargo-engaging member a distance sufficient to permit the body of the respective latch clip to be removably and substantially fully received within the cargo-engaging member;
• ii) a pair of diametrically opposing latch clip-receiving notches projecting inwardly from the outer end of each of the extenders a distance sufficient to permit a portion of the body of the respective latch clip to be housed within the respective extender and to permit pivotal movement of said latch clip relative to said extender;
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• iii) a plurality of longitudinally coextensive protrusions on an outer surface of the cargo-engaging member.

A cargo-shoring assembly adapted to releasably engage a mounting member secured to a freight transport vehicle, said assembly comprising:

• i) an elongated hollow-form generally cylindrical cargo-engaging member having opposing first and second ends and a pair of diametrically opposing latch clip-receiving slots projecting inwardly from the first end;
• ii) an extender telescopically carried in the cargo-engaging member, said extender having an outer end, said outer end having a pair of diametrically opposing notches projecting inwardly therefrom;
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• iii) a latch clip pivotally mounted on the extender adjacent to the outer end thereof;
• said latch clip extending transversely to the cargo engaging member and adapted to releasably engage the diametrically opposing slots of the cargo-engaging member, said slots projecting inwardly a distance sufficient to permit the latch clip to be removably and substantially fully received within the cargo-engaging member with no portion of said latch clip extending axially beyond the first end of said cargo engaging member, said notches in the extender projecting inwardly a distance sufficient to permit a portion of the latch clip to be housed within the extender and to permit pivotal movement of said latch clip relative to said extender.

A cargo-shoring assembly adapted to releasably engage a mounting member secured to a freight transport vehicle, said assembly comprising:

• an elongated hollow-form cargo-engaging member having opposing first and second ends;
• an extender slidably carried in the cargo-engaging member, said extender having an outer end adjacent said first end;
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• a latch clip pivotally connected to the extender a fixed distance inwardly of the outer end thereof, said latch clip having a mounting member-engaging portion, said latch clip pivotable to extend the mounting member-engaging portion axially beyond the outer end and to retract the mounting member-engaging portion axially within the outer end;
• said cargo engaging member, said extender, and said latch clip being configured such that said latch clip, while axially retracted within said extender outer end, may be substantially and fully received within said cargo engaging member such that no portion of said latch clip extends axially beyond the first end of said cargo engaging member.