Means and method for hanging a load chart on a delivery vehicle
OwnerJay M. Kelleyinventor
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Abstract
A hanger for hanging a load chart on a delivery vehicle includes a hanging bracket and a self-balancing mounting arm. The hanging bracket has a hooked upper end and a lower end formed into an eye that the self-balancing mounting arm slides through. The mounting arm has a central portion and opposite hooked lower ends adapted to be removably inserted into holes in the load chart, the hooked lower ends each extending from the central portion in a direction that is generally opposite from the hooked upper end of the first rod. The hanger provides a unique method of hanging a load chart on a vehicle.
Claims13
An apparatus for hanging a load chart on a delivery vehicle comprising:
- a hanging bracket including an elongated first rod with a hooked upper end and a lower end formed into an eye, the hooked upper end and the eye being coplanar;
- a self-balancing mounting arm including an elongated second rod with a central portion pivotally and slidably mounted to the eye of the first rod and opposite hooked lower ends adapted to be removably inserted into holes in a load chart, the hooked lower ends each extending from the central portion in a direction that is generally opposite from the hooked upper end of the first rod;
- wherein the central portion of the second rod is elevated above the hooked lower ends and has an inverted V shape defined by a pair of legs joined together at an apex, each leg of the pair of legs terminating at one of the hooked lower ends
- each of the lower ends bending forwardly then upwardly and backwardly in a plane that fully includes its respective leg so that each of the lower hooked ends is coplanar with its respective leg and nonparallel and nonperpendicular to the plane that includes the hooked upper and the eye of the first rod.
A method of hanging a load chart on a delivery vehicle comprising:
- providing a support member on the vehicle;
- providing a load chart hanger that includes a hanging bracket comprising an elongated first rod with a hooked upper end and a lower end formed into an eye, the hooked upper end and the eye being coplanar;
- pivotally mounting a self-balancing mounting arm through the eye of the hanging bracket, the mounting arm including an elongated second rod with a central portion pivotally and slidably mounted in the eye of the first rod, and a pair of legs extending in generally opposite direction from the central portion, the legs respectively including hooked lower ends that bend forwardly then upwardly and backwardly in a plane that includes its respective leg so that each of the lower hooked ends is coplanar with its respective leg and nonparallel and nonperpendicular to the plane that includes the hooked upper end and the eye of the first rod;
- hanging the hanging bracket from the support member on the vehicle;
- providing a load chart with a pair of horizontally spaced mounting holes therein;
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- inserting the hooked lower ends of the mounting arm respectively into the mounting holes in the load chart to detachably mount the load chart to the mounting arm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.