Patent ID: 8960709
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: B60D

Abstract:
1. An insert bar assembly for a hitch-rack load carrier comprising a securement pin having a tip-fixed position in a pin-secured configuration, the insert bar assembly comprising: an elongate hitch-attachment bar comprising a hitch-receiver insert portion located at an insertable end of the bar; and a rigid securement pin resiliently joined to the bar at a fixed distance from an engagement end of the pin thereby accommodating repetitive, same location positioning of the engagement end of the pin in the pin-secured configuration of the insert bar assembly, wherein an elongate body of the securement pin has a substantially uniform cross-sectional area taken perpendicular to a lengthwise axis thereof between the engagement end of the pin and the location at which the pin is resiliently joined to the bar, and the elongate body of the securement pin has a non-straight lengthwise shape taken along that lengthwise axis.