Patent ID: 6471299
Filing Date: 2002-10-29
Classification: B60P

Abstract:
A mooring device for maintaining a dump body of a truck in a raised position, said truck having a chassis with said dump body being pivotally mounted on said chassis about a transverse pivot axis for movement between a lowered position and a raised position, said mooring device comprising:a pair of laterally spaced apart and generally parallel tension members, each tension member being attached between one of a first set of mooring points on said chassis and one of a second set of mooring points on said dump body and each tension member being capable of carrying a high tensile load sufficient to maintain said dump body in its raised position; and a load distribution mechanism containing one of said first and second sets of mooring points, said load distribution mechanism being constructed with a capacity to accommodate a sufficient amount of dimensional variation to ensure that the tension members are equally loaded when said mooring device is being employed so as to prevent one of said tension members from carrying a substantially greater tensile load than the other tension member.