Clamp-on material carrier for a panel truck
OwnerZbigniew Jozef Adamczewski, Ruth Esther Goseyinventors
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Abstract
A panel truck provides a material carrier made up of a fixed frame clamped the a rain gutter of the truck and a movable frame that is able to be drawn toward the fixed frame to clamp panels between the frames. The fixed frame is further secured to the truck by a clamp leg that may be drawn toward an interior panel of the truck so as to apply clamping action between the fixed frame against the exterior panel of the truck and the clamp leg against the interior panel. Therefore, the material carrier is easily mounted on the truck and easily removed therefrom without any modification to the truck.
Claims7
A material carrier for mounting on a vehicle having an exterior and an interior approximately vertical side panels, the material carrier capable of supporting goods during transport, the material carrier comprising:
- a fixed frame and a movable frame oriented in near vertical and mutually approximately parallel adjacent alignment;
- a drive bar fixed to the movable frame, and slidingly extensive through a strut mount tube of the fixed frame, and terminating within a compression tube positioned below the vehicle;
- a rigid compression leg fixed to the compression tube and positioned at an angle relative to the drive bar and the compression tube for contacting the internal side panel of the vehicle;
- a compression drive engaged between the fixed frame and the compression tube, the compression drive enabling the compression tube to move toward the fixed frame for pressing the compression leg against the interior side panel of the vehicle thereby enabling the fixed frame for moving toward the exterior side panel;
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- a frame drive positioned within the drive bar and enabled for moving the drive bar to change spacing between the fixed and movable frames while maintaining parallel positions therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.