Patent ID: 6502729
Filing Date: 2003-01-07
Classification: B60R,Y10S

Abstract:
A vehicle-mounted load carrier confined to be fastened across a hatch closure member of the carrying vehicle, said load carrier comprising:a load-bearing frame and at least two gripping means disposed upon the load-bearing frame and intended to grip two substantially mutually opposite edges of the hatch closure member; tensioning means for tensioning the gripping means across the hatch closure member by the positive mutual relative displacement thereof towards each other; the load-bearing frame being divided into a main section bearing a gripping means for one edge of the hatch closure member, and at least one tensioning frame section disposed movably in relation to the main frame section and bearing a gripping means for an opposite edge of the hatch closure member; the main frame section and the tensioning frame section being connected to each other in a linearly displaceable fashion so that tensioning is achieved by bringing about the mutual linear displacement of the main and tensioning frame sections by means of the tensioning means; and wherein each tensioning means includes an operating means mounted rotatably about a shaft and has a surface that is eccentric in relation to the shaft; and a bearing surface on a fulcrum interacting with the eccentric surface of the operating means, the shaft and hence the operating means being united to one of the frame sections and the fulcrum being united to the other frame section so that the operating means, and hence the load carrier can be caused to assume an unfastened and a fastened position corresponding to the more or less centered position of the fulcrum in relation to the shaft and to corresponding relative displacements of the frame sections.