Patent ID: 9327654
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: B60R,E06C

Claim Text:
1. A ladder rack secured to a roof of a vehicle for supporting a ladder in a stowage position and moving the ladder between the stowage position and a loading/unloading position at which the ladder can be loaded onto the rack or unloaded from the rack, said ladder rack comprising: a frame assembly having at least two cross bows, wherein the at least two cross bows extend substantially parallel to one another across a roof of the vehicle and are secured thereto; a bed platform having an inboard side frame portion, an opposed outboard side frame portion, and a cross piece member joined to and transverse said inboard and outboard side frame portions; and opposing hinged guide assemblies having ladder grips having the same orientation as each other; interconnecting each of the opposite ends of the bed platform to a corresponding cross bow of the frame assembly, wherein an upper end of each of the hinged guide assemblies is fixedly and pivotally connected to an upper end of an arm, and a lower end of the arm is pivotally coupled to the at least two cross bows; said cross piece member equipped with a ladder grip in opposed engagement orientation to said hinge guide ladder grips; wherein at least one of the hinged guide assemblies is telescopically extendible in the loading/unloading position of the bed platform; and each of the hinged guide assemblies translate along the corresponding cross bow as the arm pivots inwardly in moving the bed platform between the loading/unloading position and the stowage position.