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Apparatus for on-loading and/or off-loading a vehicle on a vehicle carrier and releaseably latching the vehicle thereto
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Inventors: Collins, Joe H.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Gordon; Stephen T.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Cassidy; J. Robert
A system for latching a vehicle to a flatbed carrier including: at least one latch assembly mounted on the carrier outboard of respective ones of at least one of the vehicle's wheels; each latch assembly including a box-like bracket having longitudinally extending, vertically spaced, co-planar flanges defining a longitudinally extending vertical gap, at least one plate-like safety latch mounted for movement about a vertical pivot axis towards and away from the flanges, a biasing mechanism for urging each safety latch about its pivot axis towards the co-planar flanges, and a fixed stop mounted adjacent the forward end of the gap, a wheel latch flange mounted on each vehicle wheel disposed inboard of each latch assembly when the vehicle is loaded on the carrier; each wheel latch flange including a laterally extending stub shaft having an enlarged protuberance on its outboard end with a diameter greater than the height of the gap and an inboard portion with a diameter less than the height of the gap, whereupon when the vehicle is loaded on the carrier, each wheel latch flange is received within respective ones of each latch assembly with the co-planar flanges being disposed inboard of the protuberance so that the stub shaft shifts the safety latch laterally against the biasing force during vehicle on-loading with the safety latch shifting back into its biased latch-engaged position when the vehicle is loaded to latch the vehicle to the carrier. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION Turning now to the drawings, and directing attention first to FIG.
1, it will be noted that a vehicle carrier system, generally indicated at 50, has been illustrated which here includes a trailer, generally indicated at 51, having a single axle 52, left and right wheels 54, 55, a pair of left and right channel-shaped tracks or ramps, generally indicated at 56, 58, and a tow bar 59 of generally conventional construction for hitching the trailer 51 to a suitable tow vehicle such, for example, as a pick-up truck of the type illustrated fragmentarily at 60.
As will be apparent upon inspection of FIG.
1, the exemplary vehicle carrier system 50 is here shown as transporting a conventional 4-wheeled automobile 61 having left and right front wheels 62, 64 and left and right rear wheels 65, 66, with the left front and rear wheels 62,65 supported on the left C-shaped track 56 and the right front and rear wheels 64, 66 supported on the right C-shaped track 58.
As the ensuing description proceeds, it will become apparent that during transportation, the vehicle 61 is fixedly, yet releaseably, secured to the trailer 51 by left front and right rear latch assemblies, generally indicated at 68, 69, which are made and operate in accordance with the present invention as hereinafter described in greater detail in conjunction with FIGS.
4, 5 and 8 through 16.
Referring next to FIGS.
2, 3, 6 and 7 conjointly, details of the exemplary trailer 51 will be described in somewhat greater detail.
However, as the ensuing description proceeds, it is to be understood that while the illustrative and purely exemplary vehicle carrying system 50 (FIG.
1) has herein been depicted in conjunction with a generally conventional tiltable towable vehicle trailer 51 and finds particularly advantageous use with such a trailer, in its broadest aspects the invention can be used with a wide range of other conventional vehicle carrier systems (not shown) which may or may not include tiltable ground-engageable ramps for on-loading and/or off-loading the vehicle to be transported
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