B - Operations – Transporting – 60 – R
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
60
R
B60R 9/045 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2192301
A vehicle article carrier having a pair of side rails and at least one adjustable cross bar. The adjustable cross bar includes a pair of bracket members at its outermost ends which are adjustably positionable along the side rails. Each bracket member includes a rotator having a circumferential camming surface which is in contact with a head portion of a locking member. When the rotator is rotated in a first direction, the camming surface urges the locking member out of clamping engagement with its associated side rail. When the rotator is urged rotationally in the opposite direction, a biasing member is allowed to urge the locking member into clamping engagement with the associated side rail. In a preferred embodiment, the locking member includes a pair of raised surfaces which cooperate with notches formed in overhanging ledge portions of a channel of the associated side rail to allow the locking member to be positively engaged with the side rail when the rotator is in the locked position. The rotator has the desirable feature of remaining substantially flush with the outer surface of its associated bracket member regardless if it is in its locked or unlocked positions.
Cucheran John S.
Potter Donald R.
Jac Products Inc.
Macrae & Co.
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